📝 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 )

Click on the image to make it bigger 😀.

Logic export settings

Ready to make music?

FAQ

That depends on the scope of the project you have in mind and the amount of work involved.
As a ballpark range it can start from $850 to $2500.

I mix and master all my work but you’re more than welcome to hire an external mixing and mastering engineer.

Once we are clear on the direction it can take 2/3 weeks to have the final master.

100% remotely. You’re more than welcome to come to the studio though 😀

We will have a Google Drive shared folder where we’ll drop every file necessary for the project.
I will provide you with instructions so you can organize your recording session and deliver your vocals in the best quality.

You will need:

  • Computer
  • Microphone
  • Sound Interface
  • DAW

Yes! If you feel more comfortable hiring a studio and a recording engineer in your town, feel free to do so. I just need the vocal recordings to have little to no processing so I can tweak some knobs on my end 🤓