Kevin A
Differentiated Rebel
ill o.g.
I'm going to be real short with this, and put you up on some information that's gonna probably save you alot of money.
First let me dedicate this info to N.U.G, much respect for keepin it real. 2ndly this is dedicated to wings, although we've had a brief disputation in the past, there are no hard feelings.
Here it is
Most of us who build home project studios build it in two parts. First we buy the things we need to make the musical production, and then when go and buy the things we need to record vocals so we can have a full functioning studio. In your research about what your gonna need in order to set a mic up, you've found that your are gonna need some hardware besides just buying a mic. To start off you know your gonna need some kind of mic amp, hardware compressors, limiters you know what I mean. A while ago there was a article on illmuzik as to how to make your vocals sound profession with a cheap mic. That is a very good tutorial and you should read it because I read it before I decided what I was going to do. Anyway, I bought a $25 audio technica mic from best buy, pulled out my old gemini pre-amp mixer and hooked my mic up to the computer. Now normally if you had the money, you would buy your compressor at this point, so you can send vocals into your computer that aren't bleeding with distortion. If you go to a pro studio you will see that they have all kinds of rack hardware fx's just to run their mic's through. But lets come back to the computer world now. Normally if you use your computer, you would use some type of multi-track program to put fx's on your vocals. Non-realtime programs like cool-edit will make this process longer. Acid is a program that I usta prefer to do vocals in because the fx's could be played back in realtime, but in both cases, all waves are recorded dry. Here is where you get one better, Vegas 4. Not many people who produce music give this program a second thought because it's sold as a Video & audio editing program. But let me tell you, this program is surely a heavy weight, and can do all and more than what your regular multitrack recorder can do. It is also the best buy for your dollar. Although Vegas has tons of features, I'm only going to talk shortly about one. Vegas 4 has the ability to compress, and basically use any vst fx you have on your computer in realtime before you even start recording. The only other thing I know that can do this is hardware. I have it hooked up, and it's working great. I got my microphone modulator vst and the set up is working perfect. So if you ever thought that you was going to have to buckle down and buy a few pieces of hardware to get your mic system to a reasonable standard, you may not have to spend as much money as you think. So my advice is check Vegas out as a mulititrack recorder, and as a alternative to hardware compressors & fx's. And yes you do need a fast computer and good sound card, recording in vegas is dependant on latency as well as some of your other production software.
Don’t sleep on this info.
catch you Later illmuzik
and keep the production Hot
Peace
First let me dedicate this info to N.U.G, much respect for keepin it real. 2ndly this is dedicated to wings, although we've had a brief disputation in the past, there are no hard feelings.
Here it is
Most of us who build home project studios build it in two parts. First we buy the things we need to make the musical production, and then when go and buy the things we need to record vocals so we can have a full functioning studio. In your research about what your gonna need in order to set a mic up, you've found that your are gonna need some hardware besides just buying a mic. To start off you know your gonna need some kind of mic amp, hardware compressors, limiters you know what I mean. A while ago there was a article on illmuzik as to how to make your vocals sound profession with a cheap mic. That is a very good tutorial and you should read it because I read it before I decided what I was going to do. Anyway, I bought a $25 audio technica mic from best buy, pulled out my old gemini pre-amp mixer and hooked my mic up to the computer. Now normally if you had the money, you would buy your compressor at this point, so you can send vocals into your computer that aren't bleeding with distortion. If you go to a pro studio you will see that they have all kinds of rack hardware fx's just to run their mic's through. But lets come back to the computer world now. Normally if you use your computer, you would use some type of multi-track program to put fx's on your vocals. Non-realtime programs like cool-edit will make this process longer. Acid is a program that I usta prefer to do vocals in because the fx's could be played back in realtime, but in both cases, all waves are recorded dry. Here is where you get one better, Vegas 4. Not many people who produce music give this program a second thought because it's sold as a Video & audio editing program. But let me tell you, this program is surely a heavy weight, and can do all and more than what your regular multitrack recorder can do. It is also the best buy for your dollar. Although Vegas has tons of features, I'm only going to talk shortly about one. Vegas 4 has the ability to compress, and basically use any vst fx you have on your computer in realtime before you even start recording. The only other thing I know that can do this is hardware. I have it hooked up, and it's working great. I got my microphone modulator vst and the set up is working perfect. So if you ever thought that you was going to have to buckle down and buy a few pieces of hardware to get your mic system to a reasonable standard, you may not have to spend as much money as you think. So my advice is check Vegas out as a mulititrack recorder, and as a alternative to hardware compressors & fx's. And yes you do need a fast computer and good sound card, recording in vegas is dependant on latency as well as some of your other production software.
Don’t sleep on this info.
catch you Later illmuzik
and keep the production Hot
Peace
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