How to get the best from recording vocals (Advice and tips on how to successfully manage a vocal recording session)

If your vocalist has a general problem with pitching this is best not corrected electronically. Instead, when recording vocals ensure she has a good headphone mix, a generous helping of vocal reverb aids pitching (I will explain why later). Also, having a solid musical backing is important for many singers - this means strong harmony and melody instruments. I often use block chords on an organ to provide a clear guide track for the song's harmony. The guide is removed in the final mix.
Maybe you could copy the melody on an organ as a simple guide track to help her better define the vocal.

As a general point, when editing your takes, it is a good idea to leave a clear one or two seconds  of space at the beginning and end of edits, unless there is a noticeable background sound to be removed. Any slight noise can be better removed with a dynamic noise gate - that is not as destructive. I often use headphones to double check.

Logic Audio does most edits non-destructively - so you can always undo a delete from the disk. There is little to be gained from making edits permanent, at least until a backup is on DVD.

I *religiously*, nay obsessively ,back up all acoustic recordings as there is nothing more embarrassing than asking a musician to come in again.....(cue bright red faces and lame excuses all round). And it's not as if hard disk / DVD space is exactly expensive today. 

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