Can I make vocal recordings at home as good as in a studio with the moneywould spend
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deRaNged 4 Phuk'dup
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If you understand your tools, absolutely(depending on what tools you already have).
Doesn't take much, a halfway decent mic and the knowhow to tame your room using acoustic treatment, or disguise it with processors(noise gates, EQ, Levelers, ect).
Doesn't take much, a halfway decent mic and the knowhow to tame your room using acoustic treatment, or disguise it with processors(noise gates, EQ, Levelers, ect).
chris carter
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Generally speaking, in a big studio all that's being used for tracking vocals is a good mic, a good pre, the converter and the DAW (sometimes EQ and compressor between the pre and the DAW, but that's not really necessary). All the other gear doesn't really play a role. So you just need those elements. And of course, a quiet room that is acoustically good. Typically trying to get a 'live' sounding vocal with room ambience doesn't work at home because home architects don't design bedrooms and living rooms with decent reverberation in mind. So you want to go with dead Dead DEAD, which is what you want most of the time in a pro room anyway. The "quiet" and the "dead" thing are what people screw up the most. They think it's quiet enough, but it isn't. They think it's dead enough, but it isn't. Most amateurs can't hear the difference between dead and DEAD or quiet and QUIET. But it shows up in the mix. So you get all those things and a HEAVY dose of engineering SKILL and you are golden.