Back in the analogue days I had an arsenal of high end condenser mics for recording mostly acoustic instruments and vocals. Added to this was a host of effects units, etc. My setup looked liked a 747 cockpit. After my wife and I left our Bluegrass band 8 years ago we pretty much dropped out of the entire music scene and settled into retirement and our love of the outdoors and travel. Last year after stumbling across BIAB we decided, what the heck, let's record again.

With a less complicated life comes a less complicated approach to recording. Our recording room is neither live or dead. I do have a antique quilt hanging on one wall and I position my wife's mic about three feet from it with her facing the wall. I use a pop screen 1" from the mike and she sits on a stool singing about 3" from the filter. Keeping things simple I use an inexpensive Blue USB mic straight into GarageBand running on my iMac. I use very slight compression, reverb and an EQ configuration that I came up with for her voice years ago. Now it's a saved configuration that I apply to all her vocals with one click. And FWIW just about every tune we've done over the past year, around 30, was completed with one vocal take. With the exception of a no brainier flub, I feel that each take chips away and the core of the original vibe.

Yup. I could do a lot more but the best way to get a good vocal is to have a great vocalist and I''m married to one!

Last edited by Mootsman; 11/11/12 07:01 AM.