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Thanks for your thoughts and some good points!

T Thanks for this video--helpful!

It seems to me from my amateurish attempts at mixing, the loudness of the singing voice in a song matters greatly to how integrated (and professional) the song sounds. Too quiet or too loud but particularly when it's a bit too loud, the voice sounds like it is separate from the music, like just...

Yes, that was the first thing I did. I was able to record my voice but: 1. The waveform went by very quickly and looked very stretched out. 2. I wasn't able to see the waveform after stopping recording. 3. When I tried it a second time, I didn't see a waveform at all. The image you show is...

Thanks for that helpful image! That got it working, though then when I recorded my voice saying "check," I saw some waveform briefly but now it is gone. I then went to record more and I didn't even see the waveform (and yes, the track was armed). Really confusing. Whereas the first time I...

Hm, not in my experience. I just went to do that and it gives me a warning that I must "arm" a track before hitting RECORD or else nothing will be recorded. I don't know yet what purpose that step serves... (although I get that I didn't have a track inserted. I guess just the language of...

Great, thanks for that tip. I had Reaper on my previous (Windows) laptop and tried it and was immediately baffled, couldn't get it to record anything, and shut it off. Somehow Audacity "just worked." But I guess just need to hunker down with a tutorial or something for Reaper. I'm sure once I...

I've been using Audacity to do music recordings and it's been easy to get started and pretty good in some ways, particularly since it got the option to apply realtime effects. However, I've looked around and, unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems there is no way to set up a bunch of realtime...

You make a good case! I think what has been holding me back is justying $150+ headphones given that I'm quite unsure about several other aspects of my recording set-up. I feel good about my interface (MOTU M2), but I'm not sure about my mic (Blue Spark), and guess the recording room (a 10'x10'...

Other people recommended them here last year and that's why I got them. But fair enough and thanks for the input and specific recommendations! I tend to wonder if I'm going to be even able to hear the differences you do, or if my listeners will (if I ever have any). Sure, if I were trying to...

Not even a year ago, I asked about inexpensive headphones for recording and wound up buying SENNHEISER HD 206 Closed-Back Over Ear Headphones. I have no good basis for judgment, but these sounded reasonable to me and I went with them. However, after wearing them for a while (>20 minutes, say)...

Whoops, sorry. I found that I actually had a USB-A to USB-C adapter so I could connect it using the included cable. Please delete this thread.

Thanks for all these thoughts and the general spirit of it! Really helpful!

These are all good tips, thank you. I was actually going to ask about whether I should the one headphones only thing and there's a vote that I should.

Fair enough! Thanks for your thoughts. I'll have to figure out how to do this in a DAW, as I won't have a physical fader.

I posted a thread a bit back about my vocals not sounding quite as I want and got a lot of great feedback about my boxy room and possible treatments, better headphones, mic technique--even singing tips and general encouragement. All very helpful! Now I've been fooling around with songs recorded...

I agree that your vocals aren't where you need them to be to make music to release. When you say 12 years "on and off," how often did you practice each week? Did you do specific exercises for at least some hours a week? The song you sang strikes me as what I think of as "talk singing"--it...

That's an interesting tip. I have never heard of the words "ice fishing shanty" before. I did look on Craigslist and they were quite a bit more expensive than what you got but I'll keep it in mind! And I was originally under the impression that blankets wouldn't do much for a room because bassy...

I so agree! It reminds me of a boxer studying films of his previous fights to see when he is dropping his guard, etc. The last thing I want is to Dunning-Kruger myself into thinking I'm singing/playing well enough when I'm not. I'm all for optimistic humility and musical "kaizen."

You make good points on both of these. I tend not to be at all defeatist in other aspects of my life, but I may be being a bit wimpy on this one and need to just keep plugging away. Thanks for reminding me!