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ChrisGz
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Hi everyone! I'm new here... Finally i found a good forum about Home recording =)
Well, I'm 17, and besides of Time-consuming lessons in Highschool, i've always loved to Sing, it's one of my passions among Illustration. Last year i decided to start a proyect: Having a youtube Channel where i can upload my covers and videos (Much like goot, tsui and grimmie, for example) later original songs and everything. My biggest goal is getting a place on the itunes store. Don't care if i don't sell or i'm not popular, i would just like to feel what's like to have your own creations available for the world (and create a little profit to improve them). This is what keeps me going. I really like to compose and write, an my biggest dreams are being an Illustrator & a Singer/Songwriter.
Well, wanting to record songsi bought a Samson Condenser Microphone (The one i could afford) : C03U (USB), and i'm really happy with the quality of the recordings... But some questions have arised and i hope someone could help me answering them
1.- I would like to know about the cardioid "pattern" i should activate when recording vocals (I don't quite understand them yet, if anyone could please help me...), and which direction should i face my Microphone when doing so (In front? facing which part of the mic?)... (what's the distance i have to keep between me and the Mic?)
2.- My laptop is a Sony Vaio with 2Gb RAM. Software applications i own are Adobe audition, Soundbooth CS4 and Audacity... I'd like to know which of those is more useful for me (Just starting)...
3.- I would like to know about how to improve my recordings... (I don't want to use Autotune, btw.) I'm not talking about pitch correction, just how to make a smoother and softer vocal recording, without crackling sounds (That i usually get when adding +Db to the tracks)
Thanks for the attention, and hope that someone can help me. I'm from Chile, and there isn't much info about the topic here, and i'd really like to make neat recordings (acapella in this moment, later with instruments)
Hope that someone can help me, Sorry for my bad english..
- ChrisGz
PD: (Here are some recordings i've made.. if you could check them out and point me out on how to correct them, it would be awesome : Landslide Incomplete cover (LandslideIncompletaPrueba.mp3) Raise your Glass Incomplete cover (Tuft bubs arrangement) = (raiseyourglassincompleteacapella.mp3)
Well, I'm 17, and besides of Time-consuming lessons in Highschool, i've always loved to Sing, it's one of my passions among Illustration. Last year i decided to start a proyect: Having a youtube Channel where i can upload my covers and videos (Much like goot, tsui and grimmie, for example) later original songs and everything. My biggest goal is getting a place on the itunes store. Don't care if i don't sell or i'm not popular, i would just like to feel what's like to have your own creations available for the world (and create a little profit to improve them). This is what keeps me going. I really like to compose and write, an my biggest dreams are being an Illustrator & a Singer/Songwriter.
Well, wanting to record songsi bought a Samson Condenser Microphone (The one i could afford) : C03U (USB), and i'm really happy with the quality of the recordings... But some questions have arised and i hope someone could help me answering them

1.- I would like to know about the cardioid "pattern" i should activate when recording vocals (I don't quite understand them yet, if anyone could please help me...), and which direction should i face my Microphone when doing so (In front? facing which part of the mic?)... (what's the distance i have to keep between me and the Mic?)
2.- My laptop is a Sony Vaio with 2Gb RAM. Software applications i own are Adobe audition, Soundbooth CS4 and Audacity... I'd like to know which of those is more useful for me (Just starting)...
3.- I would like to know about how to improve my recordings... (I don't want to use Autotune, btw.) I'm not talking about pitch correction, just how to make a smoother and softer vocal recording, without crackling sounds (That i usually get when adding +Db to the tracks)
Thanks for the attention, and hope that someone can help me. I'm from Chile, and there isn't much info about the topic here, and i'd really like to make neat recordings (acapella in this moment, later with instruments)
Hope that someone can help me, Sorry for my bad english..
- ChrisGz
PD: (Here are some recordings i've made.. if you could check them out and point me out on how to correct them, it would be awesome : Landslide Incomplete cover (LandslideIncompletaPrueba.mp3) Raise your Glass Incomplete cover (Tuft bubs arrangement) = (raiseyourglassincompleteacapella.mp3)