Kokoskoarl
New member
Hi community,
Since we are under a Quarantine and shouldn´t leave our homes except for grocery shopping etc. I have more time now to think about recording my music.
I play mainly the accordion (+vocals) and sometimes guitar + vocals. I would like to record accordion, vocals, guitar and smaller percussion instruments like a cajon, eggshaker and the kind for a relatively small budget.
My goal is to put Videos of my songs on youtube, nothing professional, but the sound should be as good as possible, because who knows, maybe I´ll have a small gig or something sometime in the future plus I want to have good recordings of my song ideas as a memory (kind of like photos of friends and family).
I bought a Blue Yeti USB Mic since I wanted to go the cheapest possible way.
I live in an old appartment where I don´t have the opportunity to set up a home studio, because me and my gf need the 2 rooms to live in.
By now I regret the purchase because I can really hear a lot of background noises. I always turn the gain nob on the mic all the way down and that helps, but only up to some point.
Another problem I´m having with the mic is the delay when I record a second track while listening to the first. I do everything in Audition and couldn´t find a way to cancel the delay so far, maybe somebody can help?
From what I´ve read that´s a problem of USB Mics and since my Laptop wasn´t made for recording the bad quality of the sound card isn´t helping either.
I thought of getting a SM57 + a VM-57 (better to record both sides of the accordion seperately I guess), what do you think?
Another thing I want to ask is what do you think of a XLR to USB cable, will I have the same problems as with a USB mic and should I get an audio interface instead?
What do you think of a mount for Cajons, something like this:
Anybody had any experience with this kind of mount?
Also what I should mention is that we will move into our house at the end of this year where I will set up a small home studio in the basement (same instrument setup as now), so I don´t want to invest into something which isn´t suited for a studio environment.
I have a full time job and when we will have kids I´m sure I won´t have a lot of time left for my hobby, so for these reasons I don´t want to spend a lot of money on my equipment. Not planning on trying to go big
Thank´s for reading through this in advance,
Daniel
Since we are under a Quarantine and shouldn´t leave our homes except for grocery shopping etc. I have more time now to think about recording my music.
I play mainly the accordion (+vocals) and sometimes guitar + vocals. I would like to record accordion, vocals, guitar and smaller percussion instruments like a cajon, eggshaker and the kind for a relatively small budget.
My goal is to put Videos of my songs on youtube, nothing professional, but the sound should be as good as possible, because who knows, maybe I´ll have a small gig or something sometime in the future plus I want to have good recordings of my song ideas as a memory (kind of like photos of friends and family).
I bought a Blue Yeti USB Mic since I wanted to go the cheapest possible way.
I live in an old appartment where I don´t have the opportunity to set up a home studio, because me and my gf need the 2 rooms to live in.
By now I regret the purchase because I can really hear a lot of background noises. I always turn the gain nob on the mic all the way down and that helps, but only up to some point.
Another problem I´m having with the mic is the delay when I record a second track while listening to the first. I do everything in Audition and couldn´t find a way to cancel the delay so far, maybe somebody can help?
From what I´ve read that´s a problem of USB Mics and since my Laptop wasn´t made for recording the bad quality of the sound card isn´t helping either.
I thought of getting a SM57 + a VM-57 (better to record both sides of the accordion seperately I guess), what do you think?
Another thing I want to ask is what do you think of a XLR to USB cable, will I have the same problems as with a USB mic and should I get an audio interface instead?
What do you think of a mount for Cajons, something like this:
Anybody had any experience with this kind of mount?
Also what I should mention is that we will move into our house at the end of this year where I will set up a small home studio in the basement (same instrument setup as now), so I don´t want to invest into something which isn´t suited for a studio environment.
I have a full time job and when we will have kids I´m sure I won´t have a lot of time left for my hobby, so for these reasons I don´t want to spend a lot of money on my equipment. Not planning on trying to go big
Thank´s for reading through this in advance,
Daniel