Recording Perfect Vocals from Home (Assets)

Hello fellow artist! I hope you’re doing great. Feel free to use this guide to remember some nerd stuff.
This guide, together with your checklist and recording sheet, are your virtual assistants while you’re recording.
Happy recording!!!

Remember that your checklist will be ready always in the song folder on our shared Google Drive folder. To access our Google Drive folder all you need to do is to type https://damdominici.com/youartistname on your browser 🙂

MIC Distance Example

I know the image is funny . But is very accurate! Remember to put the pop filter back after measuring!

MIC Levels

You can use your eyes to check your mic levels and adjust accordingly from your sound interface.

Naming Convention (Ableton users only!)

– See Logic

Type	Naming Convention (Use this )	Notes
Lead Vocal	lead	If you have more than one lead because of overlapping or other reason, please add a number at the end starting from 00. Example: lead_00, lead_01
Doubles	double_00 double_01
Low harmonies	harm-low_00 harm-low_01
Mid harmonies	harm-mid_00 harm-mid_01
High harmonies	harm-high_00 harm-high_01
Adlibs Spoken	adlibs-spoken
Adlibs Noise	adlibs-noises
Adlibs Singable Phrases	adlibs-sing
Misc	misc	You will use the above names for the most part. But if you think you can’t name a track after one of those names, please be specific to what the track is.

Export Settings (Ableton)

Here’s a picture with the settings I need you to use when exporting the files.
This method will export all files at the same time.

Remember to export in WAV 44100hz and select the option “Selected tracks only”.

Naming Convention (Logic & Other DAWs)

– See Ableton

Type	Naming Convention (Use this )	Notes
Lead Vocal	vox_lead	If you have more than one lead because of overlapping or other reason, please add a number at the end starting from 00. Example: vox_lead_00, vox_lead_01
Doubles	vox_double_00 vox_double_01
Low harmonies	vox_harm-low_00 vox_harm-low_01
Mid harmonies	vox_harm-mid_00 vox_harm-mid_01
High harmonies	vox_harm-high_00 vox_harm-high_01
Adlibs Spoken	vox_adlibs-spoken
Adlibs Noise	vox_adlibs-noises
Adlibs Singable Phrases	vox_adlibs-sing
Misc	vox_misc	You will use the above names for the most part. But if you think you can’t name a track after one of those names, please be specific to what the track is.

Export Settings (Logic )

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