≫ How can you support singers in recording vocals?
André / What you should never forget is that the best miking is useless if the vocals themselves leave something to be desired. It is very important that the artists hear themselves and the playback well. He or she must feel comfortable singing. Good headphones are a must, such as the RØDE NTH-100, designed specifically for studio musicians. And you should take enough time to adjust the headphone mix perfectly. And another special case: There are≫ indeed good, experienced live singers who find it difficult to use a condenser microphone in the studio - simply because it is unfamiliar. It often helps to hand them a dynamic vocal microphone and let them sing as if they were on stage. Ideal for this is the RØDE M1, which sounds surprisingly „hi-fi“.
≫ How do you get the best results when recording vocals?
/ That‘s almost a banal question! Just the way you know it and have seen it many times before: A large-diaphragm microphone on a tripod, a pop filter in front of it, and you‘re ready to go, right? That‘s true, of course, but you should still rethink the whole thing. What does close miking - we‘re talking about a distance to the microphone of 5 cm to 10 cm - look like in practice? The fact is that close miking causes a lot of problems. The first is the crashing explosive consonants, mainly the
