The Audio Chain...from your mic to the Mixer.

[J-malice]

we all know that in order to get the best track after mixing, that you have to have the best recording possible to start with, ot before mixng. so im lucky enough that my dad's a dj and he had a compressor (so i took that off his hands) so i run my mic thru the compressor, and from the compressor into my pc. now i know for a fact that, that is a good thing. but today i was looking thru tha attic and i found that my dad also has an old exciter, digital delay, reverb, and expander.

i would like to know if i should run the vocals thru any of these in order to get a good initial vocal track? thanx

im thinkin that maybe runnin it thru the exciter to the compressor into the either reverb or delay (just a little bit) would be a good chain. not to sure about the expander

 

[jnxe]

damn...i would love to have old gear such as those 2 run my drums through...don't crazy on the vocal effects...reverb may be nice...the rest isnt really fit for vocals unless ur trying 2 get a wierd effect

 

[Shonsteez]

yeah no doubt...Im jealous J!
If i had a dad who was a dj id be stoked as a muthacrunka!!....My dads cool though, hes a musician so hes a hip dude, he just dont like rap music really which sucks even though he likes my music.LOL

I say go ahead and see what happens with tha exciter!
Just fuck with it and see if you like tha end result thats tha best way to find out.

Tell me how it goes malice and slide me some of yer pops vynil when you get board of it.hahahaha jus kidding..

 

[J-malice]

yea aight i was thinkin about the same thing with the exciter and reverb.
for those that dont know an exciter is a good thing to use on vocal tracks because it adds harmonics to the high frequencies that you cant get from EQin'...i was just wonderin if i should run the vocals thru it for the initial vocal recordin.

and yea homeboy's got an easy thousand old records thats just layin around.60's-99 2000ish

 

[nas2000xl]

i would go with the compressor, expander & maybe the exciter, other than that i would lay my tracks dry.so save the reverb & delays for after laying the tracks.

 

[J-malice]

would the expander set the vocals off center?