by eery » 23 Dec 2014 09:43
Well, denoising tends to make stuff less quality, which might be why you find it harder to mix. The best you could do would probably be just make a good recording enviroment, i.e. have a rug on the floor and other sound absorbing things in your room. Youd really be best of having at least a wall (make one out of cardboard or something, cover it with clothes) between your computer and your mic. if the noise isnt so bad when you dont sing, check out noisegates. They dont remove the quality, but also remove noise in a different way, and doesnt remove any noise when you sing.
Mixing vocals is like the toughest thing I do in music, I feel. I dont know much about it, and some users could probably give you better advice, but this is my process. I tend to make a overdub, recording the vocal once, then another where I get the vocalist to sing over themselves as close as they can. Then I pan one to the left, another to the right. I run a shelving EQ or a Highpass filter to remove stuff under 500hz or so, since vocals usually dont need stuff down there. Optionally at this stage I will apply pitch correction, depending on how good the vocalist was, and if I feel it will help the track in any way (each dub should be on its own mixertrack with each own pitch correction). Then I compress the whole thing, usually with little attack, to preserve some dynamics. Multiband compressors would probably be preferable, but I find them cumbersome. Then I do a EQ to bring out what I want in the vocals. Then reverb and all the other mess.
On stuff that occupies the same frequency space as the vocals i.e. pads, leads and some snares and claps, its important to make cuts in the EQ to make more space for the vocal. In most music, the vocal is the most important element, and the mix should breathe in order to fit one in.