Bad Snacks walks through the full setup process for recording vocals in Ableton Live, covering everything from audio interface routing to creating a properly named audio track. The starting point is confirming your input device in Ableton's audio preferences and verifying that your mic signal is coming through on the right channel before you hit record.
If monitoring latency is a problem, enabling "Reduce latency when monitoring" in the Options menu tightens up the delay noticeably. It's a one-click fix that makes a real difference when you're trying to stay in the moment while singing.
Adding a touch of reverb to your monitoring chain is a practical comfort trick, not just an aesthetic one. Singing into a dry signal can feel clinical and make it harder to perform naturally, so dragging a reverb onto the track and dialing up the decay gives your voice some space to breathe while you track.