Recording "Life as a bell pepper"

Each evening during the past week, I would devote an hour or so in recording vocals for this new song¹. The results of the first two nights weren't very good, but every night my singing would improve. At first, I was using a pop filter that I had bought some months previously from Temu, but the resulting sound was terrible and I couldn't get it to sound like I wanted it to by using EQ. Also, the pop filter encouraged me to sing louder than I normally do; whenever I do this, I lose a great deal of accuracy. So the later nights had me reverting to my normal close mic technique which also records breathing and even some stomach noise.

Once I had a good vocal track, I could begin mixing. Should the vocal be in mono or stereo? Two mono tracks with panning? I spent a few hours on Friday and more than a few hours on Saturday trying to find the optimum combination. In the end (after maybe 50 different mixes!), I achieved the desired sound: this is mainly a mono vocal but with long reverberation added as an auxiliary effect: this allows the vocal to be clear but also to have a cloud of reverb somewhere behind.

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