Hello all

I've been quite busy lately recording and mixing songs I'm preparing for future playing. I've done a fare few recordings to get a good idea of what I can achieve. As a beginner i'm quite happy with what i've been able to achieve so far, I think it's brilliant and in such a short amount of time as well, but that said and being a perfectionist i'm not completely happy with my vocals. I'm not the best of singers and not everyone's going to like my voice, but that said I have something I can work with. However my vocals, with the tedious of mixes just comes out a bit raw sounding and not smooth like you'd expect from CDs. I know my budget recording is never going to sound as good as a multimillion recording studio but can anyone offer an tips or point me in the right direction to improve vocals and make them sound great.

I'm using a dynamic mic, not a condenser mic so this could be part of the problem?

I've tried mixing different ways, compression, no compression, EQ, no EQ, different reverbs but my voice still sounds ok ish and a bit raw (in your face and not smooth)

I'm using my computer HiFi, VRM Box and HD280 headphones to mix with. My mixes seem ok but not quite there yet. They sound great in my headphones but when listening through HiFi speakers my vocals sound wanting -I've just listened to my recordings from sound cloud on my iPhone connected to my Apple HiFi speaker and the sound was lacking depth and the vocals seem too loud for example. Check out my songs if you will below.

SoundCloud.com

I appreciate I'm on a journey here but if anyone has some golden nuggets of advise then I'm all ears!

Thanks
Paul

Last edited by PaulH; 02/17/13 03:39 PM.