Hello! I'm Josiah, and I'm new to this forum and recording.
I need your feedback on my first recording. It's an acoustic cover of Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash.
Here it is:
Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash) - Acoustic Cover - YouTube
Lemme break it down: I recorded this with 2 mics, a dynamic for my voice and a small diaphragm condenser on the guitar. This idea works in theory and for others, but it didn't record exactly how I would've liked it too. Because the dynamic mic wasn't close enough to my mouth, the pickup was rather weak. And (I'm guessing) due to the height of the condenser, it picked up the vast majority of the total sound.
This ran to a Presonus AudioBox Usb into Presonus Studio One Artist. No processing on the way in.
Once I had the tracks in S1, I applied a "Deaden The Room" noise gate because it was necessary. I then applied a compressor to each track. I used a rather light compression(around 1.8:1) to liven up the sound, rather than make it feel super processed and over produced.
After that I used a Default (flat) EQ and subtracted the most offending frequencies off of the condenser(main) track. Acoustic and male voice occupy alot of the same spectrum so I cleaned a bit to make it a little less cluttered and nasally. I rolled off some super highs and inaudible lows as well.
On the vocal only dynamic, rolled off the extremes. I warmed this track up, added a gentle shelf of low mids to my liking.
The whole idea is to sound a natural, pretty unprocessed recording. I'm really satisfied considering it's my first time.
I exported the track as .wav (all I can do), then lined it up with the video in Windows Live Movie Maker. I don't think I exported in the highest quality, as the track sounds MUCH better S1 than WLMM. Also, I imagine YouTube's file compression watered it down some.
That being said, PLEASE listen critically and help me out! I'm willing to learn.
I understand the performance may not be platinum quality, that's part of why I want to start recording. It helps me notice my issues (vibrato, over-compensating for fear of being flat).
Sorry for the massive wall o' text but I wanted to let you guys know exactly what was going on so you can help me
I need your feedback on my first recording. It's an acoustic cover of Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash.
Here it is:
Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash) - Acoustic Cover - YouTube
Lemme break it down: I recorded this with 2 mics, a dynamic for my voice and a small diaphragm condenser on the guitar. This idea works in theory and for others, but it didn't record exactly how I would've liked it too. Because the dynamic mic wasn't close enough to my mouth, the pickup was rather weak. And (I'm guessing) due to the height of the condenser, it picked up the vast majority of the total sound.
This ran to a Presonus AudioBox Usb into Presonus Studio One Artist. No processing on the way in.
Once I had the tracks in S1, I applied a "Deaden The Room" noise gate because it was necessary. I then applied a compressor to each track. I used a rather light compression(around 1.8:1) to liven up the sound, rather than make it feel super processed and over produced.
After that I used a Default (flat) EQ and subtracted the most offending frequencies off of the condenser(main) track. Acoustic and male voice occupy alot of the same spectrum so I cleaned a bit to make it a little less cluttered and nasally. I rolled off some super highs and inaudible lows as well.
On the vocal only dynamic, rolled off the extremes. I warmed this track up, added a gentle shelf of low mids to my liking.
The whole idea is to sound a natural, pretty unprocessed recording. I'm really satisfied considering it's my first time.
I exported the track as .wav (all I can do), then lined it up with the video in Windows Live Movie Maker. I don't think I exported in the highest quality, as the track sounds MUCH better S1 than WLMM. Also, I imagine YouTube's file compression watered it down some.
That being said, PLEASE listen critically and help me out! I'm willing to learn.
I understand the performance may not be platinum quality, that's part of why I want to start recording. It helps me notice my issues (vibrato, over-compensating for fear of being flat).
Sorry for the massive wall o' text but I wanted to let you guys know exactly what was going on so you can help me