This might seem to most of you like a very very obvious question, and yeah,
I know ultimately at the end of the day, probably what it's gonna boil down
to is, "Just listen and use your ears," but I have a song I'm going to be
recording. It really doesn't have much dynamic volume changes in the lead
vocal. Don't get me wrong, there is! a climax to the song, but pretty much,
for what it's worth, the song stays fairly close to the same level
throughout.
If it helps, so you all can listen to it on Youtube or something, the song
is called Mercy Said No, and it's by Greg Long.
Anyway, I don't want to clip during my recording, and obviously I want
enough wiggleroom before applying any compression, or the like to that vocal
track. I want to come in probably notch peek around -12DB, no more than -10
pushing it. That said, seeing this song really doesn't seem to change much
in dynamics, again, it does, but not very much... what is therefore probably
the best way of doing a sound check? I know how to look at my meters, and
yes, I do have them set to infinity, so that they hold at the peek until I
reset them, but what I'm saying more is, how do I determine what part of the
song is probably the loudest, as I hear that is really when setting mike
levels where you want to aim. I hear you really want to sing the part of
the song where you feel you're going to spike the highest level. But if the
song doesn't have much dynamics, then do I just shoot over all for -12, or
is there a little trick to this. What my fear is, is that I'm gonna not
strain, but seeing the chorus does get ever so slightly high for me, I'm
gonna have to push a bit. Also to get the emotion I need, I'll have to
push. Again, I did, not! say strain, big difference! It's perfectly within
my range. Anyway, my fear is that even with a compressor going, which I
really don't wanna apply until the vocal track is actually totally done, I'm
going to hit some of the higher notes a little too hard, and therefore spike
to the point of clipping, and that's what I'm desperetly trying to avoid.
Is there a sure! fire way to make double dawg sure? I don't clip, or is it
gonna be best really in this situation to just really really use my ears and
pay very close attention.
Chris.
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