Lead vocal question

[richie rich]

I apologize for this rookie question but I couldn't find it in the online guide and I did a search and couldn't find anything. Should lead vocals be recorded on a mono or stereo track? If stereo, how can I get the track to play both sides of the stereo track with one mic. When I was checking levels & it only showed movement on the left side.

[mjames08]

When you are only using one mic, you would record a mono track. Personally, I double all my vocals - record two seperate takes and blend them together, both on seperate mono tracks.

[dodo]

yep. mono

[where02190]

Stereo is two sources, left and right. You cannot record sa stero track with a single mic and have any stereo imaging. the only thing you can do is split the mic to both inputs, but the result would be the same as a mono track, since both the left and right are identical.

Unless you purposely want a doubling effect, a single mono track of vocal is all that is necessary.

Hope this is helpful.

[alonzoslefthand]

try getting all of your instruments recorded and mixed and then bounce it to disk...

take that bounced stereo mix and import it into a new session giving you all kinds of room for vocals.

you can quadruple all of you parts (leads and harmonies...) and it's quite fun... just a thought

[where02190]

Originally posted by alonzoslefthand:
try getting all of your instruments recorded and mixed and then bounce it to disk...

take that bounced stereo mix and import it into a new session giving you all kinds of room for vocals.

you can quadruple all of you parts (leads and harmonies...) and it's quite fun... just a thought

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Someone needs to read the question again I think....

Hope this is helpful.