How to Get Pro Quality Results When Recording Hip Hop Vocals in a Home Studio

This is some great information on recording vocals.

The now very affordable home studio recording setups have made it
possible for anybody with a computer to record and post songs online
to display to the world. The problem that has came to pass because of
this is massive amounts of songs(mostly hip hop) with poor vocal
performances captured and/or bad mixes where often time the vocal is
way too high in the mix or way too low in the mix and many times the
entire mix is distorted.

The reason for this comes down to a few things that this writing is
proud to offer solutions to. The first issue is the aspiring rappers
are buying the beats then recording the songs without any input from a
producer, not to be confused with the beat maker which is many times
referred to as a producer. A producer does produce the music a lot of
times however the main job of the producer is to coach the rapper in
order to get the very best performance out of them & captured as a
recording. The Producer lends another set of unbiased ears and a total
vision for the finished song and is like a guide through the recording
process.

The second issue that the aspiring rapper & home recording artist
fall victim to comes From not knowing how to capture the best vocal
recordings on their mic. The rapper should try to keep the microphone
about 3 to 6 inches from their mouth during recording and always do a
mic level check & adjust the mic input gain (in pro tools the
mbox) so that the recording input never hit's the red on the meter and
averages about the middle of the meter. This will ensure that the
vocal recording is loud enough without any distortion.

The Home recording rapper should record their vocals in a room with
little or no hint of echo or zing... a garage is not a good place to
record vocals, you DO NOT want the room sound in your vocal recording.
Blankets can be placed on walls around where the mic is to kill any
echo zing from the room & will improve the vocal recording. The
artist should always memorize the song before recording so that they
can record the performance with confidence & swagger rather than
the "reading from paper" vocal performance.

When recording vocals, the rapper should capture at least 1 flawless
take of each verse that can stand on it's own with every word
pronounced and clear before adding any overdubbed adlibs which should
be used to accent key phrases not to fix badly pronounced words.

When putting together the vocal mix over the beat keep the main vocal
tracks panned in the center, then pan accent adlibs slightly off
center left & right, then any additional adlibs/reaction words
(whether done by the rapper or a girl or a different person) pan those
further left & right . On all vocals put a high pass eq filter on
the vocal channels set at 80db. This will keep out any of the rumble
from the mic stand & generally will clean it up a bit. Start using
these tips right away & you will notice an instant improvement in
your finished songs. You can start using these tips right
away in order to obtain recording results comparable with real
(commercial)studio recordings.

FOR FREE MIXTAPE DOWNLOADS VISIT US @ SLAPSIDEENT.COM