[JaeAudio]

Please somebody please help me. Its driving me mad trying to figure out how to record properly. I record my music at a friends, and the mixing alone makes me want to kill myself.Ive got a few questions. What microphone effects does jay z and nas and the likes use,I dont understand how they can record at one studio, and just pick up where they left off at another, clearly the program,mic,setup is going to be way different. My friend uses podfarm and acid 6.0 to record with,podfarm has thousands of vocal effects to choose from but I sware each and everyone of them are dull,very dead sounding,no life behind the actual effect. Once i find one mic effect that does sound like it has life and rich sounding it has to much echo or mix to it. There has to be some sort of universal microphone effect that is just the default sound of you through the mic, i cant seem to find one.Out of all the mic effects ive pritty much just got it down to two effects, one is called Blues Vocal which projects your voice pretty well, with the tiniest bit of echo. I use that effect when im recording to a track or beat that is very plain ,a track that doesnt have a million sounds everywhere. For the more ambient type track I use an effect called Vintage vocal which to me magnifys my voice the same as blues vocal but has an ambient type echo to it for the tracks that have more sounds going on. But even these effects arent coming out 100%,as a matter of not even close to that. What do most 1 vocal track rappers rap through? What effect? Please someone break down some shit for me.