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Old 08-14-2018, 05:11 AM   #8 (permalink)
Guybrush
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You need a proper DAW. Reaper is a good and relatively cheap one.

To make your vocals seem to blend in better with whatever arrangement you have, you're mainly going to need to do three things, maybe four:
  • Adjust volume
  • Adjust EQ
  • Use a compressor (/ limiter)
  • Add some reverb

Using EQ and volume to make your vocals sit right in the mix is the most important. Compressor will tame your peaks, make your performance more dynamically "even" and professional sounding and has a tendency to "glue" things together.

And for best results, you need to get as dry sounding (no natural reverb) vocal recordings as possible, then add that reverb back in with a reverb plugin. If you have like a backing track without individual parts, you just have to play around with reverb until yours sounds right. If you have the individual parts of your backing track (like a drum track and a bass track, etc.), then hopefully they are dry and you can pan them left or right and send them to the same reverb that you got for your vocals.

But all of this requires that you look up on some tutorials for how to use your chosen daw, how to use a compressor, how to set up reverb in an effective way etc. You have to learn how to produce yourself and all in all it's a big subject.
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