help please...
 

is there a way to turn up my vocals without turning up the static or hissing in the background. cuz i know i can reduce the hissing but that takes a lot away from my vocals at the same time. i just want my words to be loud with out the hissing. i been tryin forever and it comin to me. plz help

It's easier if you record louder and lower the volume. It makes the final product sound better.....or to make it easier, just lower the beat instead of raising the vocals :thumbup:

^^^ yeah i been doin that, then my last song sounded to quiet... im thinkin now my shit is too bassy. not that i have a real low voice but when i hear it, it seem like all my vocals are hittin the base on the speaker and not fadin in with the beat. is that eq'n? if so what would i do to fix that.

to start you don't use any bulshit "de esser" you learn how to mix and strip it out manually. That hiss is ALWAYS gonna be on your vocals though, its stuck "inside" your highs.

a good fix is a noise gate when you record, a better fix is to get a mic that's actually worth a damn. the best fix is to have a professional mix your vocals.

de esser in the directx... ya i had that at first. whats wrong w/ that and whats strip out manually... and no i dont have money to pay for u to fix my stuff, just help a brotha out

you want to know what's wrong with a de esser? you already said it: "i know i can reduce the hissing but that takes a lot away from my vocals at the same time". Once you said that I already knew you were using a de-esser. Personally, I never have and never will use a de esser. Noise gates. Volume envelopes. Equalizers. These are the tools i use to extract hiss out of a vocal with surgical precision. "Presets" butcher the sound. Everything I use is custom made. I can't think of one tool i use that's fresh out the box.


im not suggesting you spend money because i want you to spend money. im suggesting you spend money because what you want to do is not do-able on your budget. With Cooledit and "presets" you're trying to get an Escort to run like a Ferrari. "champagne tastes on beer money" is fitting.

beer taste better then some champanges

that's an oxymoron lol. nah furreal man I'd be here all day if i broke down why you can't sound pro via cooledit but the #1 handicap is its sample rate. cool edit is hobby grade man, its like you doing graphics on MS Paint. best way to get studio quality out of cooledit, my bad, best way to TRY to get studio quality out of cooledit, is to record your session and export it into an entry level Pro grade program like Nuendo or Cubase. or even better, just flat out record it in a better program with a real sample rate like nuendo or cubase.

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^lol these cats dont have logic pro money. or logic pro skills, logic is definitely what i'd call "advanced" on both the pocket and the ability. besides, you know my chant is DP anyway lol.

El Rey, a noise gate should trim some of that hiss off and you still want to set the mic input gain at an acceptable level where you're not clipping where you record. to get the left chanel back to center set the recording chanel input from Stereo to the Left chanel. as for tuts, i dont know of any. i dont know of any tuts for any programs specifically champ i don use em and i dont need em. what i do need is to find out how to get my damn input how to read in DP and still send to the default out. but that's another topic.

shit take so long to do manually, other than settin your own presets to speed up the process can u set a preset with all your presets? so i dont have to go through each one individually each time for each track. if i could just hit one preset for all my presets, for each track that would be dope. if not is mixin all the vocals down to one track then mixin'em all at the same time take a lot from the quality? cuz that would be one way i know to speed it up.
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either way my biggest deal is distortion now wit the co1u. i got the hissin to a respectable level but i can't do anything to the distortion. should i spit further away, is there any way to do my set up to cut down on distortion? or is it an effect i can play with?
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and also is there any link to those cool edit replacements that are free like cool edit? i had acid pro, dude told me that was better but shit wasn't workin right for me. should i try that agian or can someon hook me up wit somein else? if i gotta spend money dont worry about it

if you expect there to be a "quick way" to do something right in mixing, there isn't. i mix all day and even my "quick ways" are the exact same processes as "the long way", just done faster thanks to DP's Window Templates (which go from my Sequencing arrangement to my Mixing arangement in one step rather than 20), quicker interchanges that load the files exactly where and how i want them to, no exporting, etc. so make no mistake about it, there's no shortcut to good quality man. I can mix a track to "good" status in under an hour. But If you knew how long it took to mix a track to perfection you'd be surprised.

for distortion, step the hell back. you should be recording at least 4" away from your mic. recording with your lips on the mic is that made for TV or live performance shit.

and the only program you can get that'll be a substantial improvement to cooledit without being a brainraping program for a beginner is Cubase or Nuendo. i dunno if you can get it free or not, but El Rey did. Audition, Audacity and the like are all in the same hobby grade category and basically a paralell step to cooledit..

el rey holla at me, i got u on myspace, im mark schafer :thumbup: and i been spittin at least 4'' away i been more like 6'' or more cuz i been tryin to fix it. but my shit seems to change randomly wit quality from each time i move my mic or anything around and turn off the comp. but yeah, all that i can get up to my standards, but i dont have any way to rid the distortion yet, i'll be foolin wit it but i'ze lookin (tryin to be quicker) if anyone had the problem before and knows how to fix the co1u distortion.

post up a sample since theres 5000 kinds of distortion

could try Nuendo and see if it doens't try to finger your other steinberg programs. if not for cubase/nuendo, really your only step forward is acid in my personal experience. aint much else in the Hobby grade. everything above these are basically Protools category.

and you're asking what I use? I use Digital Performer :heart: with a pinch of Garage Band and Bias Peak Pro depending on my needs.

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its called "gone unfinished appex distortion" i got just the vocals above it. and below it is a song i recorded with the recording thing lower cuz a friend told me that would help with the distortion, but idk if it did.
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and el rey, i just added u

^that's not distortion dude that's a problem called extremely shitty mic. to get closer to sounding better your mids which is the only thing your mic is good at need to be turned DOWN, that's why it sounds like a clock radio. your highs need to be turned up and your lows need to be cut into 1000 little pieces to have the good ones turned up and the bad ones turned down. and that's before we begin to talk about that lack of volume.

I listened to your track and fucked with it a little and this is closer to what it should sound like: http://www.sendspace.com/file/s42asp

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if its cuz my mic is so shitty why everyone talkin it up on here. the co1u usb mic is like all people talk about on here. theres gotta be a way to make it sound respectable. but i'mma mess wit them highs mids and lows.... but how can i " cut the lows into 1000 pieces?" idk know what thats all about. but thnx

^^^apexx means equalizing the vocals finely. when you use more bands you can pinpoint where your shit needs to get cut and boosted more precisely

and fyi just because "everyone" on this site is talking up a sub par microphone doesn't magically make it a good microphone

and to be honest not everyone is even talking about that mic anymore...go around the site asking audio heads what they use....

the world is bigger than the co1u....a lot bigger

^said it so i didn't have to.

also you gotta keep in mind cheap mics are cheap because the production tolerances are hella wide which to you means no 2 mics are the same. that means one C01U could be relatively clear and the other could sound like muddled shit. guess which one of these two could apply to you?

but straight up you just sound like a cheap motherfucker who expects miracles from monkeyshit. tryin to squeeze blood from a stone and wondering why you aint' gettin nowhere. like i told you at the start of this thread, you want quality? it costs money. period. there's no way around it cuz to make somethin better costs money.

why you think a Ferrari don't cost what a camry costs?


now i wasted enough of my time and money talkin to you bout bullshit so


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