Singers and volume control

[THE KAMEN BIZ]

Heres the thing...

I record alot of singers and i always have trouble with controling their volume... when they go to hit a higher note it sounds kind of muffled and starts sounding like the person is yelling... Im not sure if i should try adjusting my preamp or protools....

My chain goes - AT4040 mic -> Summit audio B221 pre amp -> Protools Mbox2 pro.... and the plugins I have are Waves Musicians 2

any suggestions

[djkiller]

are you using any compression on vocal tracks?

[RiF]

does your recording room sound good? do you leave enough headroom for the pre/PT?

[albee1952]

How is the Summit patched into the interface?

[THE KAMEN BIZ]

Originally Posted by djkiller

are you using any compression on vocal tracks?

RENASANCE compressor from waves musician 2 sometimes.... I havent mastered how to use it yet

[THE KAMEN BIZ]

Originally Posted by RiF

does your recording room sound good? do you leave enough headroom for the pre/PT?

I definately do...

[THE KAMEN BIZ]

Originally Posted by albee1952

How is the Summit patched into the interface?

Going from the XLR output of the Summit audio to the XLR input on the Mbox 2 pro

[paulreed]

you should be going from the summit audio XLR>Balanced input 3 or 4.
you are going through the good (summit) pre and the digi also (booo).
GET A MOGAMI XLR > BALANCED 1/4 and you will be much happier

[rudyrhythmz]

try this
set up an mono aux track
pick your mic input and on that aux track put your compressor
now bus that aux (pick a mono bus out then on the audio track make that bus the input)track to a audio track this way you can use your internal compressor to control your input signal this will work best with a very low buffer like 128 or 64 that should help i hope.

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by THE KAMEN BIZ

Going from the XLR output of the Summit audio to the XLR input on the Mbox 2 pro

Paulreed is correct. What you are doing is preamping twice here. The Summit should be plugged into a LINE input.