neverending mix #2

[hummingbird]

Quote:Quote:whoa! all feedback is welcome....I asked what mic might fit Enya or Loreena because my voice is very sweet and silvery a...Yes Vikki!That's why I came up with the BLUE's Blueberry mic experience I made. I hope you'll find YOUR tool.gunter I heard you! As soon as I saw your post I looked up this mic and read its specs. Sounded promising. I checked, the local music store doesn't carry it, so it would be hard for me to try it out before buying....

[ernstinen]

Quote:Bonnie Raitt is known to insist upon SM57's for all her studio and live sessions (though I'm "Shure" there are exceptions to this).Yea, she's an example of a husky, smokey female voice. Whatever works is my motto ---- Phil Collins has been know for using a Beyer dynamic mic for his vocals. Whatever w----- oops, I just said that! My prized Sennheizer K2-U sounds great on my vocals, and it's a small diaphragm condenser. If someone wants to give me a U-87, that would be O.K., though. Ern

[grandmatarkin]

Yes I would say that no matter what mic you had, you would first have to fix issues with mixing, etc. The one thing that stood out to me (that was pretty much already mentioned) is...... watch the tuning on foreground and background vocals. Bad tuning can stick out like a sore thumb. In my opinion, you could have the best produced song brought down by poor tuning/intonation. I mean, the vocals (in most songs) are the focal point, so any problems here are naturally going to stand out. You have a great voice though, so that's a huge plus right there Overall, the problems that you're dealing with could be easily fixed with a relatively small amount of effort. And, if your experience matches mine, you will get much better at this mixing/production business quickly. (forgive me if I mentioned this before somewhere... I have the feeling I did, but try downloading a spectrum analyzer to get a visual idea of what's going on in your tracks... With this tool you'll be able to much more easily track down unwanted clashes and overlapping instruments in your mixes.)The one I use is Voxengo Span... it's free and purty. Here's the link:http://www.voxengo.com/product/SPANI found it quite useful to study some professionally produced tracks with it and see what the spectrum looks like. Eventually your ears should start to "match up" what you see with what you are hearing.Best of luck!Dave