After my experience in that other thread I linked here, I think that's all it is. Few people here on these forums can be considered professional vocalists with years of vocal coach training and experience recording in studios. The trick is to control your voice so you're NOT moving in and out from the mic. A little bit yes but not too much.

Singing is pure emotion or should be. Certain words are sung softly and others can be belted out. It's that dynamic range that causes the problem because the loud parts can't clip so you must turn down the input gain to avoid that. But, the soft parts are now recorded so low as to be almost inaudible. A trained singer is able to get the full emotion out of the loud parts without actually belting it out thereby lowering those peaks and to also sing a bit louder on the softer parts but still keep the emotion.

That's the difference between pro and amateur. Singing the quiet parts a bit louder and the louder parts a bit softer results is you being able to turn up the input gain. Or like Rharv said, we can use the Input Monitoring function and insert a compressor onto the vocal track while we're recording it. My issue with that is most vocalists including my sister like to have some verb in their monitor mix and that will also get recorded onto the track and I don't want that. I need full control of the verb later during mixdown.

Obviously this is where us putting on the recording engineer hat have to work with what we got. You can't try to give singing lessons in the middle of a recording session. Once I realized what what was happening based on the discussion in my other thread it's really not that big of a deal. My signal chain is very quiet, it's no problem to put the compressor on the vocal track after it's been recorded and to also lower all the other tracks and then start mixing.

Bob

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