I've been learning how to sing with distortion so that my metal songs can get the vocals they deserve. I finally think I'm ready to start recording, so I did a practice take this morning and I found a problem - the range in volume between when I'm singing with vs without vocal compression is wide enough that either I set my gain low and I can barely hear the cleaner parts, or I set my gain higher and then it clips in the louder sections. Applying a compression plugin mitigated the problem somewhat but it was still there.
I'm sure that as I get better with the vocal techniques it will even out to an extent, but I want to make sure that I'm covering it from the production and mixing side as well. One thing I can do which I'm guessing will help is to just move a little further from the mic if I know I'm going to be louder. Besides that, what else can (or should) I be doing to get better quality vocal recordings if the volume is going to be changing a lot?