My 251 build and EQ advice

I like this game.  I wanted to get my solution in early because I'm a hack.. I took about a minute so it's probably a little overdone. If I took any more, I'd probably end up with something completely different. I'm fickle that way.  Don't know if I'd do anything down low - It's harder because there's so much other material down there.

I found it to be too harsh, so I gave it a broad dip a little below 2k, a light cut around 8k and a shelving boost starting at 3.5k.

Pro q2 -3 db at 500 hz -24 or -36 bell, q set to 4 or 5 ( medium )

Hpf around 150 with 36 - 48db Hpf in pro q2, then around 200-250hz I would sweep for boxiness and mud ( nonmusical trash ) lots of 200hz for a female from the eq shot, however you don't want to reduce this area too much, so a -2 to -4 db bell with a -12 to -36 db slope, Q around 3, just to smooth, not remove.

Feel like a little 800-1000 needs some pulling out, maybe a -24db slope bell doing -1.5 to -2db with a q of 2- 3 ( wider )

16-20khz air boost +3db, alternatives could be parallel squashing/ limiting, serial compression, parallel and serial, blue stripe, rev d or E on fastest release, attack around 11 to 1 ( clock style number comparison ) and take off -7 to - 10db ( HW ) UAD i do about -5 GR on Rev A, then another rev A set to -3 to -5 GR. Depending on tempo you can put the rev E after doing slow attack slow release or go for more smoothing with LA2a collection or blanket style level with la3. Or rev E 1 o clock attack, fastest release, into la2a or la3 and have the Rev A donthe parallel squashing!

there are others with more experience than me on this so i'll just throw this out there with the understanding I am guessing.

To me there is an acoustics issue going on. Was this recorded in a vocal booth? looking at the eq graph posted above it looks like there are nulls and comb filtering at play. listening to the track it seems small and boxy.

was this tracked in a vocal booth?

No, the track he posted was of the entire mix and it's a bass heavy track.  Luckily the vocal was recorded hot.  I just focused on the vocal as I was working with the EQ.

I'm doing the same thing here.  RGO strikes me as the 251 forum!  I think you might be pretty close on your mic already.

Thanks!  I certainly could work a lot harder on these songs, in terms of takes and mixing.  I just wanted to give people an idea of some of what I'm up to lately.  A lot of these lyrics and melodies were written by hitting record and going for it.  First take is putting it lightly.  Which probably makes the voice not sound so confident and the melody not as distinct as it could be.  Most of the drums are 2 mics.  Although I do have a 9 mic kit setup ready and tweaked for 2017.  Sounds more modern.

Vocal mic would have been one of two, maybe three things.  One I call the D-276 it's a K67 capsule with de-emphasis in a C-12 circuit.  Love that mic, I have two, it's just a jack of all trades kind of thing, works on anything.  When I got that mic dialed in, I was so satisfied, it was a 4 year prototyping project.  The K67 can give you this wonderful midrange character like nothing else.  It is not properly implemented in most of the cheap import mics, which gives that capsule a bad rep.

The second would have been maybe the 251 in one of its beta-stages.  I am 99% finished today, previous versions were a little iffy in certain ways, mostly sibilance and brightness.  Feels good to get this one finished up.  That mic is good on my voice, too.  When it's not on vocal I love it in front of the bass amp.

The third possibility is I might have grabbed a TAB transformer SM57 and sang right into it handheld, into a Mackie preamp.  I do that a lot on the more electronic sounding stuff.

I don't specifically remember what was used per-song but those are my go-to vocal mic choices for 2016/2017.

The tweaked Peluso 2247 SE and formerly an SM7B, or M88TG have also been good to me, but are not preferred lately, just because I have so many options.  I do feel spoiled as the mic locker starts to fill out.  It's a great feeling.

In 2017 I'm probably going to add some 414 and M7 style solid state mics, and possibly a DIY U87.  I would also love to do a U47 but that's a very expensive project.  Lots of future gear to look forward to.

Now I want a 67

Yea... nope, it's a little hard and got some mid glare, got some (shhh) new fresh off the press caps going in. 

I used a 1000 pF from plate to ground with my K67 mics.  I didn't use any kind of negative feedback.  It seems to have worked out quite well this way.  My amplifier is basically a C12 with the 1000 pF tacked on so I can use the K67.