Hey Sly, you're loving it and you're having fun and that's the whole point. No problem at all my friend.

As for my background, no I'm not a pro level recording engineer but back in the day I did three studio albums and a half dozen singles. Before I got married I was roomies with the engineer at the studio so I have an idea how this stuff works.

The first things about getting a good vocal track are the mics and preamps. If you're using a $100 mic going into a basic computer interface then all the plugins in the world are not going to make your vocals sound like a commercial recording where they used a thousand dollar mic going into a two thousand dollar preamp. It's the SOURCE that makes oh say 90% of the difference in sound quality. People like us doing home or live band recordings (I've done a ton of those) don't have to spend quite that much to get good results maybe $3-400 for a good condenser mic and a higher quality audio/midi interface with decent pre's with phantom power.

Do you know what those terms mean?

Anyway, continue to have fun and I'll answer your questions and try to help you out when I can.

Bob

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