can somebody help plzzzzz

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can somebody help plzzzzz

im having so much trouble recording in logic pro x , i need help bad !!!!!

everything i record is very low even with phantom power on and with my gain turned up also the instrumental always over powers my vocals regardless of mixing or not , i have two mics im using and they both are going threw the same thing i was using a blu spark with scarlett 2i2 now i switched back to my mxl 990 to see if its the same problem and it is

do i have to bus my vocals ?

its kinda of hard for me to describe whats wrong because im kind of a newbie to this , sorry but if you can help that would be amazing

Posted on Apr 20, 2016 6:29 PM

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Answer 1

grownhorse Author

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Apr 20, 2016 6:34 PM in response to grownhorse

my vocals are at the bottom and the instrumental is at the top , my vocals stay at that level and my instrumental is loud , when i turn down the instrumental

my vocals still sound low idk whats up with this

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Pancenter

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Apr 20, 2016 7:07 PM in response to grownhorse

When you say you're bringing up the Gain, you do mean the gain on the Interface (Record Level) correct? Your vocals could definitely be recorded a little hotter.

No.1 It's a matter of knowing how to mix.

To deal with what you have there, put a compressor on the vocals, bring down the instrumental bring up the vocals then adjust the master (stereo out) level

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EdHart

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Apr 20, 2016 11:59 PM in response to grownhorse

When I look at the Wav on your Vox channel, it seems you are recording only the left side of a stereo channel. Maybe you should a voice track in mono?

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grownhorse Author

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Apr 22, 2016 6:25 PM in response to EdHart

yes , i was talking about the gain on my scarlett 2i2

i have the gain pretty high already , i dont want it to clip .

even with my gain pretty high , it still sounds kind of low

i tried everything almost i put a compressor and a limiter on the instrumental and it still match the vocals well and vice versa.

like i dont want to turn the instrumental down to the point where it loses its connection with the vocals i want the beat to sound loud but i want the vocals to match it perfectly without the instrumental and the vocals fighting against each other

here is a link to a quick example i made for you guys , so you can hear what im talking about

https://soundcloud.com/charlescanrap/idk2/s-DyvQD

and here is the quality im trying to achieve

https://soundcloud.com/charlescanrap/idk2/s-DyvQD

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grownhorse Author

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Apr 22, 2016 6:37 PM in response to Pancenter

yes , i was talking about the gain on my scarlett 2i2

i have the gain pretty high already , i dont want it to clip .

even with my gain pretty high , it still sounds kind of low

i tried everything almost i put a compressor and a limiter on the instrumental and it still match the vocals well and vice versa.

like i dont want to turn the instrumental down to the point where it loses its connection with the vocals i want the beat to sound loud but i want the vocals to match it perfectly without the instrumental and the vocals fighting against each other

here is a link to a quick example i made for you guys , so you can hear what im talking about

https://soundcloud.com/charlescanrap/idk2/s-DyvQD

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