Apologies in advance as I realize the following doesn’t address the OP’s question - it just started some musing. I’m a lucky guy when it comes to engineering vocals. Janice never says let’s record until she’s happy with what she’s been hearing in her head. All her lead & BGVs are one take all the way through after recording one scratch vocal to listen to on the monitors. We never cut and paste and I don’t volume shape them. And we have never done any pitch editing. We have a quilted table runner hanging down the front of a file cabinet. She faces that and sings through an old pop filter and a Rodes mic we’ve used for 10 years. I add slight EQ, very light old school compression, a tad of tape sat and a touch of EMT 140 Plate reverb via a sim. The room is our office and recoding area. Carpeted, four windows with soothing views of our forest. So, vocal engineering is a small percentage of our mix time. As mentioned l’m lucky and in many, many more ways with Janice. Oh, I started recording garage bands in the 60’s in a real studio. Now that was tedious.

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