AA 2 Week 2 Vocal Recording

Pop filter!! As i was setting up i went to storage and to my shock there was no pop filter!! I forgive the plosives and other horrible vocal noises that could be avoided by using this. If it weren't for the fact that this task was already way overdue, i would have been much more picky about this. The three recordings i have selected are all using the U87 and were in the dead room. I asked my performer, Amy, to sing two songs in different styles and the third recording an excerpt from my Mus Ed course reader to demonstrate the different techniques used. The first is an Indie style vocal song, I compressed her voice to facilitate a pop band, i.e. fair compression. And i added an EQ, dropping the low end, taking a chunk out of the 1K (this softened many pops and clicks) and boosted the high end to add a certain presence to her voice. I used a very similar EQ setup for the Autumn Leaves sample. The compression on this was considerably different however. I left the compression as natural as possible without taking away from the overall sound. Finally the Vocal Speech was heavily compressed with lots of gain, emphasis on mouth noises and constant volume makes it appear much more urgent and important that what the performance really was.

My sound files and other screen dumps are in the box widget.

References:

Grice, David. Lecture. Adelaide University. 11/3/08.

Anon. 2004, Recording Background Vocals, viewed 05/19/2006
http://www.eqmag.com/story.asp?sectioncode=41&storycode=4716.

White, Paul 1998, 20 TIPS ON.. Recording Vocals, Sound on Sound, viewed 12/1 2007,
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct98/articles/20tips.html?print=yes.

White, Paul 1994, WORD UP: Recording the spoken word, Sound on Sound, viewed 12/1 2007,
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/jun94/spokenword.html?print=yes