Can anyone tell me how to edit a song, I see many videos on Youtube with people singing in their lounge or kitchen and then the sound has had something done to it, I cannot work out what the tricks are to get this kind of sound. What do I mean? Take a look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhs-HTQW2Q this did not sound like this when it was recorded, what was done to it? I cannot find anything on youtube to tell me. Thanks.
Jimsyt
I have only had the briefest of harkenings on a laptop of that vid' but it is quite an advanced piece of work. Either that gal is listening to a foldback speaker or, more likely, someone is playing in the room with her. Whatever, not a simple thing to achieve so well as it has been.
To MAKE such a recording in the first place you would need a decent microphone* (not a usb mic) and an Audio Interface. This takes the mic signal, boosts it and converts it to a digital signal to send to a computer, almost always via USB these days.
In the computer you have a Digital Audio Workstation, a rather silly name for a piece of software that allows the recording and subsequent manipulation of the signal. Those manipulations can include,..compression, equalization (tone control) filtering, de-essing, reverberation and many other things. BUT!!! You MUST have a decently clean sounding signal to start with! That comes down to a good mic and some knowledge, especially of how to treat a room for improved acoustics.
*Depending upon your final aim, you would not need the mic in the video, something smaller and cheaper might serve.
A very popular DAW is "Reaper" free to use so long as you can stand the nag and not expensive if you can't.
AI's start at about £80 but a really nice one is the Steinberg UR22 AT £100. Figure about the same for a microphone with boom stand and cable. You will need headphones. Sennheiser HD202 are not at all bad for £20.
Do check the stickies.
Dave.
