My physical recording chain isn't worth mentioning.

However, as soon as I get the vocal in my DAW, I'll manually slice up the phrases/words/syllables (depending on what it needs) and normalize everything.

I'll also go through and slice up sibilants and plosives, and fix them, as well as removing all breaths and such.

Other stuff, I'm still experimenting. But I find it much easier to start cleaning the vocal up manually, instead of leaving it to the compressor or de-esser.


-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?