The Home Music Creator channel helps mere mortal amateur musicians create music.
So many music RU-vid channels seem to think you have unlimited money, space, time and resources to put into your music making. At Home Music Creator, we realize you are busy and you have a (very) limited budget. And that you don't have a fancy dedicated studio with a vocal booth, vintage tube amps and sound treatment.
We show you how to make music with what you have, even if that is just a laptop and an audio interface. We concentrate on what you can do with nothing but a limited budget, limited space and the burning desire to make great music!
Welcome Home Music Creator!
Don't forget to check out the channel's companion website (see link).
Interesting idea. I wish you had actually put together what it recommended. Throw a 4/4 Rock beat on a drum machine and lay down the rhythm and lead tracks.
sm57 and 58 are all i use with my 8i8 and my hummingbird. got a few other great acoustics but for mics its sm57 on my acoustic and sm58 on vocals and sometimes on acoustic also
Thank you for your videos. They have helped me a lot. Have you tried Luna, from Universal Audio? It looks like this one is free. Greetings from Brasil ! 🇧🇷
A condenser mic tends to offer more detail and better transient response than a dynamic mic. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on what your are after sonically and how you prefer to work. Many budget condensers lean towards being overly hyped making them sometimes edgy and unpleasant, sometimes overemphasizing sibilance and mouth noises in a bad way. This can be delt with using a de-esser and/or eq but some prefer to use a dynamic mic and deal with adding a bit of top end or using a compressor with a slow attack to let the transients through and even enhance them somewhat. Dynamic mics tend to do better in bad sounding rooms as you can get right up close on them to get a drier sound with less of that bad room in the recording. You do have to be careful however as a mic like the SM57 and SM58 has a considerable proximity boost so you will have to do some low eq cut to make up for being so close to the mic but this is an easy fix and can be better than recording with a condenser from further away and getting a lot of bad room sound or even external noise from outdoors or HVAC systems. The SM58 (or SM57) can certainly be a great mic to get and it isn't very expensive but there are some decent condensers that cost the same or just a bit more. The AudioTecnica AT2020 is a fairly passable budget condenser, personally I would invest a little more if you want to go the condenser route but even the AT2020 should be capable of good sound if you know what you are doing with it.
Doesn't work unfortunately. When I open Guitar rig 7 player it the "On" icon at the right top corner is white and I cannot enable it. It just doesn't start.
Hi. Nice video thanks. But I was wondering, since the -18dB is a target value aimed at analogue gear, since a daw is fully digital I don t think it is too relevant aiming at -18dB, unless some plugin is mimicking analogue circuitry and the input value should be naturally -18 dB. The DAW itself I d say is blind to this, we can lower or raise values in post and it will not even make a change, including clipping. Thanks :)
Some of the most prized records ever made used an SM57 (that's right, SEVEN) ON THE VOCALS, which is very similar to a sm58 you would just need to put a foam filter over it for singing.
I do have a Helix but recently bought the Marshall Suite from Softube in a sale.I love that too. Yes, real amps are great.Nowadays there's so much to enjoy. Thanks.
The biggest issue I have with mic’ing up an amp at home is affording the amp. Seriously, though, I’m a fairly new viewer, have you made a video on the bare bones necessity in term of the software stuff? What kind of computer do you need? What’s the minimum on processor and memory and all of that?
True. The quality of the SM-58, and the interface you show, and even software, such as LogicPro, is way beyond what most people are even capable of doing. On the other hand, don’t make the mistake of buying a cheap, made-in-China acoustic guitar for $99. You need to spend at least $400 to $600 for a decent guitar with good acting, real spruce top, to play well.
Pressing the L, R or the combined button isn't to select the input on your audio interface. You can split your signal in Guitar Rig. Making it possible to select effect chains. This way you can make your own sound for rhythm or leads for example. Or select both to have both chains active. I'm quite new with this but I am pretty sure it has to do with that instead of your input of your audio interface. Otherwise you wouldn't have to select the input in the driver settings within the preferences settings. Do correct me if i'm wrong! I love to learn. :)
it comes up with an offer to buy it at a reduced rate of £89 sounds good, you say its free, then why buy it, is there a time limit on how long you can use it before you have to buy it, im a bit confused, thanks
Sound advice. I been playing a Hohner LP 75 pro for years while i was trying to see if i would play more in the future. I will say, when i bought my first Gibson Les Paul Standard Traditional 2008 first year model, by chance, it brought the tone and enjoyment to a whole other level. Been using Shure sm58 dual impedeance for the same period but want a better now. But those 2 low tier things is what kept me going and found out that, actually, i wanted to step it up a bit.
Thank you very much. I think mastering has to be done from the first initial stage at the start of the composition and throughout all process of composition. Bit by bit, step by step, comparing sound relationships between instruments to find an optimum golden ratio. It is an art form on it's own. This approach is much easier for me rather than waiting for the full track to be finished) I am not expert but I think this is the way out and it much healthier for my ears and it doesn't kill inspiration.
You have such a beautiful English) Nice accent and perfect English tone. Thank you for this information. I have just bought this mic. I am discovering it's possibilities)
i have buy a bunch of mics from stagg or berhinger , yee they sound grate , you can get 5 cheap sm57copy mics for the price of 1 , sure sm57 and 99% of people will not be able to tell the difference , and also 90% of people lessen to music on laptop or phone speakers or with cheap small earbuds , or on car speakers ,
@dark The claim that recording quality doesn't matter because people listen on sub-standard gear is silly and backwards. In reality you want the best sound you can achieve when recording, mixing, and mastering so when people degrade that with crappy playback gear there is still hopefully something at least somewhat decent sounding remaining. If your recording sounds poor to begin with then bad playback gear is going to magnify that and make things even worse. As to using those super cheap Shire knockoffs, some of them do sound sort of ok but by spending $100 on the Shure you have a known quantity that you can count on rather than a supercheap mic that has you wondering what you might or might not be missing.
Spot on Paul. It's what you put into your effort that counts. Having said that, the SM58 isn't the workhorse it has been for the past 60 years if it wasn't any good.
I am SO GLAD some one told the REAL truth about a mics besidez NO mic soundz $5000 better than SM58 even SM57 shure been around FOREVER and to dis day ALL nu mics alwayz trying 2 compare against sm58 that along should tell EVERYBODY something
This video made me realize I had ASIO the whole time and just never selected that option because I didn’t know what it was… should have seen my face, THANK YOU
A single channel interface might be ok for someone gaming or doing a podcast who will never have a guest but for music getting at least a two channel interface is a generally a pretty good idea. Even if someone is happy with a single mic on say an acoustic guitar or an amp cab using two is a rather common technique and might be something that you might want to try at some point. For bass guitar recording direct signal plus another channel with mic on an amplifier is another thing many do. If you record keys direct without MIDI would be yet another reason for having two inputs. Another thing would be recording vocals and an instrument at the same time. While some people prefer everything separate others simply perform better say playing guitar and singing simultaneously especially those who don't record to a click and instead prefer to make their own natural timing. While you can certainly save money by purchasing an interface with less channels, not boxing yourself in by purchasing too few is worth some thought as recording acoustic drums or a live band are not the only reasons for having more inputs.
Thank's, I was also looking for a guitar amplifier and initially had Focusrite Scarlett Solo in my shortlist... but then I decided on Lekato, this is not an advertisement but to be fair: you plug the thing into the guitar, plug in the headphones or the PC audio input and can choose between rich sounds all the way to rock/metal .. 🙂💥
I have a SM58 and a $50 Marantz MPM 1000 condenser. In my limited experience, the cheap condenser with some couch pillows thrown around the room does a much better job for a final recording. Especially in the editing and pitch correction phase. The dynamic mic suffers from a lot of artifacts, which makes it sound unnatural and overprocessed. This doesn't happen to the condenser.
I think it really depends on the level you're doing things at. I have two mix engineer friends (both are definitely well respected and worked and top of the country) who can hear the slightest transient difference between a Prism Lyra and an Audient id44 mk2. Granted, they're listening on high-end monitors with well trained ears. I can't hear the same difference but I can definitely hear the difference between a Behringer interface and my Audient. Since I'm a good guitar player, the difference in tone between a Gibson and an Epiphone Les Paul is immediately apparent to me. But I can imagine that a guitar player who's just starting out wouldn't hear the difference to be as striking because their ears aren't trained yet.
Now also go off brand. You can find better mics that are cheaper if you give up the Shure label. Shure is making great mics, but in the cheap section there are more competitive players.
Yes, you're a minimalist. Many of us have played longer than you & can afford to buy whatever the hell we want, just from playing guitar on the side. Plus we hold down jobs, raise families, etc. Exampke: What the hell would I buy a laurel fingerboard far, rather than rosewood? In the '80s you could buy a YUGO car for under 5K. Did you own that fine piece of automotive machinery? BTW, where can we buy your new record or cd?
