Awesome video.. I have expensive conderser mics too, my last session I did with an artist I started with a condenser then ended up using a SM58 because he was playing keyboard and singing at the same time. Condenser was picking up too much noise from keyboard. Found out his voice sounded better on the SM58!! This video is so true.. Actually, your voice sounded a little warmer and natural under that dynamic mic you was using.. Thanks Joe!!!
An alternative "pop filter". Have you tried the pencil trick? Tape a pencil, vertically, to the front of the microphone. The theory is that the pencil deflects the airflow, and prevents it from hitting the diaphragm, without affecting the soundwaves.
All of the vocals on my first album were recorded using the ST-M01, which comes with the Steinberg UR22C interface and people kept asking if I was using a C414 or something like that. Having said that, I've been recording the new album in a studio using a U87 for the vocals, and I absolutely love it!
I agree that there are quite a few myths when it comes to recording equipment. I have made professional cassettes, DAT's, Reel to Reel, and cd's with tape recorders, standalone digital recorders, and now DAW's. GIRATS (See what I did there Joe)…Room noise, mic placement, etc. also play a big part in the sound. I moved to DAWs shortly after making and releasing an acoustic CD in 2000 with a Roland VS 1680 and used Shure 57 and 58 for the entire recording process. I am happy to use almost any mic there is in my studio now. I have used Behringer C2's which are very inexpensive on recordings that have turned out as good as any expensive mic. I have used condenser mics from AKG, Presonus, Roswell, & Neuman's that sound like perfection, to Dynamic mics Shure 57's and 58's that sound the same. People seem to get hung up on "Industry Standards" for about everything. I am not a gear snob and use what I have on hand at the time, or what someone brings to the studio. If you are just starting out recording, you don't have to blow your entire budget on a single mic. Electronics have moved far from where I started in 1988 and don't have the inherent noise. I moved from Pro Tools to S1 Pro and am loving it. Record using what you have and you too can have professional sound that you enjoy. Good luck.
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Agreed ! If one starts a home studio, it makes sense to buy a set of different inexpensive mics (condenser, dynamic, ribbon), to have different options, rather than spending all the money on a single expensive mic.
I have a bunch of different mics. I keep going back to the RE20 (dynamic mic). Especially once you open the DAW, the differences go down. I have a TLM102, and I don't hear a huge jump in quality between the two. I still like having the TLM102 handy ESPECIALLY for "In the beginning..." because the RE20 avoids proximity effect, but the RE20 has been a great daily driver. RE20 can take rough handling, I don't feel like I have to baby it, and it sounds pretty good. The TLM102 feels like I have to baby it more and it picks up plosives like crazy I especially go back to an SM58 or a 565SD (also around $100) at times because the SM57/SM58/565SD is a fantastic mic for heavy effects or that "I'm on a stage" sound If you record at 24-bit, it takes a lot of effort to drop the quality below CD quality. I think the vocal loudness rule came from the analog era. The bigger the waveform is, the more bits you capture. How much volume you need to drop in order to lose 1 bit? Exactly 50%. That tiny waveform you recorded still has maybe 20 bits, and 20-bit resolution is still freaking huge. You start mixing things together, it'll be even harder to tell (the bit resolution actually goes up if you haven't hit the ceiling the more tracks you mix in)
I can bust three more vocal myths. 1. “I have to scream at the top of my lungs to sound awesome.” : Myth. Sounding awesome does take good lungs but it doesn’t take straining yourself. 2. “I can’t sing.” : Half-myth. Maybe you can’t. But you can learn how. Almost everyone who says “I can’t sing” very clearly to me could sing if they just learned a little and practiced. Plus, some of your favorite artists are worse singers than you in reality, so with the power of autotune and pitch control, who cares either way?! lol 3. “You need absolute silence when recording.” : Myth. While it might make you feel better, it’s not actually necessary to have absolute silence. You don’t want a lot of noise, obviously, but I so often see people in videos complaining about sounds that can’t even be heard in the video with the volume blasting at 100%, and the same goes for recording vocals. The hum of a fan a room over does not show up in the mix like you’re so terrified it will. Even some noise that does slightly show up, completely vanishes when the vocals are placed with all the other instruments. So you obviously want to avoid audible noise in your vocal tracks, but you don’t need absolute total silence to do so.
That "you gotta record hot" thing was such a pain in the 16-bit multitracker days. Yep it was only 16-bit but as long as we didn't record too quiet we still had a bunch of headroom we never had on home studio tape machines. When 24-bit converters came in it really was no issue any more even when recording in 16-bit mode because the converters were simply so much better. But the one that really wound me up was "you gotta use all the bits!" Hmm, tell me you don't understand digital audio without saying you don't understand digital audio! 😂
I use the plug-in rea-tune in reaper. When I was sinning, and it was easier to stay in key. Have you tried it. And no, I was not using the auto tune feature.
More bloopers, please. You're intentionally hilarious, I can only imagine how funny your outtakes are. And immediately after this video ended, a Presonus add popped up. So there's that!
Uploaded a track last night, its been a year.A/B last year to today. last year=lazy. Last year track, Tascam Portastudio-DP3 through an Old church 16chn mix, in a gutted RV in my backyard. Last night's upload, daw, same pawnshop Ibanez gtr/bass Marshall. $80 shells, FBmktpl,yeah 80. BUT, new skins and tuned, with high-cymbals. Standard Shures. 1 new gift mic. I Don't sing, still use it. My point is, same room, lets describe it as the opposite of treated. The difference was. Click track ,tune everything! New strings, and heads. that's it. A decent daw helps.
I love beautiful, expensive, classic microphones. However, there’s a lot of nonsense surrounding them and more often than not, I end up singing into an SM7b!
I have an Apogee MiC, it was a little expensive at $400 or $500, but I was really lucky because SOMEHOW I had convinced my parents to get it as a Christmas gift a few years ago. The reason I like it so much has nothing to do with its quality. It does have a nifty built-in slightly-adjustable compressor that makes it better than a cheap microphone, but in reality a microphone is a microphone and it’s not that hard to just add compression in the mix. No, the reason I love the Apogee MiC is because I can plug it into my iPhone and record without ANY need for extra gear. I have no iRig or whatever it’s called. No extra power banks necessary. Nothing. I plug the microphone into the iPhone and some headphones into the microphone and I can record audio into GarageBand iOS right away. Convenience and working smart are my favorite technical things.
I’d argue that a microphone isn’t an instrument, but rather a tool used to record instruments. Just like how a DAW isn’t considered an instrument but a tool used to mix and in some DAWs also master instruments.
Clipping is when audio gets too loud and as a result sounds distorted. If you’ve ever watched any number of annoying gamer videos out there, especially livestreams, every time they scream or yell or laugh obnoxiously and the sound gets really distorted and fuzzy and makes you regret wearing headphones, that’s clipping.
Hi-Joe- do you EQ/COMPRESS your RU-vid Tutorials? or do you run you Cond. Mic through a Channel Strip ( Analog/Outboard ) yes you voice seam balanced & your blessed with that Nice Tone in your vocals. Sounds Good! :) George Amodei
hi Joy, I'm 22, I'm a young student, and I need your advice, I have the opportunity to get Presonus R80 as my main monitors. would be a great option for mixing acoustic music?
