Recording Vocals

[GuitarsAndTacos]

How do you guys do this? I record my guitar by hooking my amp's headphone/line out into my computer's line-in but I've figured out that vocals don't work the same way.

[3fingers]

I think what you are getting if you try and do vocals that way is a speaker emulation geared towards guitar. What i have done is sing through a v-amp2 on "tube-preamp" setting...using a LowZ to highZ impedence converter on an SM-57. Since I just sold the v-amp2, i use that i do when I mic my amp live (a small 4 channel mixer with lowZ impedence inputs so nothing is lost in the conversion and the same SM-57. I line out to the input on the soundcard, and do post effect with Cool Edit Pro. It's really clean and quiet. I miss the warmth of the vamp2. I am sure there are many other ways. Just giving you how I do mine. it's cheap too. used vamp2 should be about $75 and the mixer cost me $100 2 yrs ago. The mic you can talk down to $80 with chord if you tell the salesperson they look like "someone famous." [img]images/smilies/icon_thumb.gif[/img] Good luck with it!!

[wahwah]

Only tried it once thru the Pod XT...am gonna look for a cheap mic preamp and just use the Pod as the input with nothing on effect wise. I'll keep you posted if I ever get round to it!

[stingx]

The M-Audio Firewire 410 interface I record EVERYTHING through has 2 sweet as balls preamps that will take either XLR or 1/4" inputs. Edirol makes a similar, cheaper interface but I am not sure how the pres sound on it. The PODxt (or your modeller of choice) plus a few very good mics, plus an interface of extremely low latency like the FW410, plus good DAW software on a peppy system is all you really need to work by yourself and crank out outstanding sounding musical pieces.

Whats the problem? Get a microphone and sing into it! Its as simple as that. Why would you use a pod for vocals? All you need is a mic, and whatever else your going through to record (preamps, digital interface, etc)

[thefallenangel]

i record everything with my mic, just plug into mic input on soundcard

[VHF]

You can just get some adaptors and plug mics into soundcards (I did it that way for a long time)....but some type of preamp helps a lot (I use a Tascam US-122). Without it your frequency response will roll off on both the high and low end....and the dynamic range will suffer. Your noise floor will be much higher also.

I have also used the Vamp2 on the tube preamp setting and it worked great.....but the noise floor is a bit higher than my current mic preamp. That M-audio 410 is a nice one....but it's designed to do a lot more that a single mic at a time and costs $$$.

[Jeffery Bravo]

a good mic with a mic preamp, i have a cheap ART one. I also just got a Delta interface which allows full inputs, instead of a crappy headphone input into the soundcard. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!