Vocals gravação doesn
1. Don’t use a stage mic in the studio
Agora, a gravação lore está cheio de histórias de como esta ou aquela famosa cantora sempre grava com seu fiel SM58 (o clássico $ 99 hand-held padrão clube mic), e ainda consegue soar grande. E isso
2. Don’t choose the mic strictly based on brand-name or $$$ cost
Apesar da minha recomendação acima, você não deve
3. Don’t position the vocalist too close
Enquanto você pode ser tentado a ter a cantora chegar à direita no microfone
Chegar muito perto de um microfone direcional (direcional
4. Don’t let the vocalist move around too much
Uma desvantagem potencial de ter o vocalista manter um pouco de distância do microfone é que, se ele / ela se move ao redor muito no desempenho a essa distância, você pode ser capaz de ouvir o tom vocal e alteração do nível de ambiente na gravação
5. Don’t depend on the mic’s own popscreen
Mesmo que todos os microfones adequados para vocais têm um built-in popscreen (pára-brisas), isso normalmente não é suficiente para garantir a liberdade de P-pops
6. Don’t overload the ADC
Mesmo quando você
Enquanto existe um software especialidade que podem ser utilizados para tentar remover esse recorte digital, ele
Um pouco de atenção a essas armadilhas mais comuns deve segurar as gravações melhor vocais. Se você receber um bom sinal limpo, dinâmico sobre a forma como, em seguida, quando chega a hora de misturar, você
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I have a nicely treated (DIY) room, a decent condenser and a preamp combo. The techs all there, the room is there, however, I don't have an "isolated" room so the condenser will pick up EVERYTHING when recording quiet, intimate parts.
Here's my issue - recording at -12dBfs (or so) is an easy concept to grasp but I don't get HOW I can crank it up later when all it's going to do in those "intimate" parts is, well, noise, especially when compressing.
What is the trick, method, idea? I'd REALLY appreciate it.
You're right, if there is noise/leakage in the recording it will also come up whenever you raise the level of the track or compress it. Recording down around -12 is designed to avoid possible input clipping, but at any level, if the room is too noisy, those sounds will intrude later. The best approach is to prevent that leakage at the source -- try and isolate the mic a bit better, taking advantage of its directionality (aim it away from noise sources) and using baffles (commercial or DIY) if possible to block out a quieter area in the room. Try to eliminate or isolate noise-generating elements (fans, whatever); seal windows (if outside sound is part of the problem).. You could build a small iso booth (as I did), at a fraction of the cost of commercial options, if you're handy enough—a little research should turn up some books/websites with suitable plans.. If none of that is possible, running the track through a noise gate in playback (or using the DAW's "Strip Silence" function) may eliminate the leakage between phrases, but won't help if unwanted sound is audible at the same time, under the vocal. Ideally, you'll want to find a way to create a less noisy environment at the source..
Cheers,
Joe
When you say you can always crank I up later, which Volume control do you use to do this? Is it on the actual track in the DAW (not the mixer track)?so the wave WAVE FORM becomes bigger?
As you noted, cranking up a track with its channel fader will increase the level but won't make the wave appear larger. But there should be a couple of ways to do that.. Many DAWs have a waveform zoom feature that increases the size of the wave visually, without actually changing its level. To increase both level and waveform size, you could use the DAW's offline audio editing feature, if it has one (i.e. Audio Editor in Logic, AudioSuite in PT) to (destructively) increase Gain. Many DAWs also have a region-based Gain feature (i.e. Clip Gain in PT, region Gain (in the Logic Inspector), etc)--this would let you non-destructively increase the level of the wave before it passes through the channel strip, and the size of the waveform would reflect the gain change, just as if it had been recorded at a louder level in the first place..
not the best advice a professional should be giving newbies, If the mic suits the voice and sounds good then why not?
Hard to say without hearing the audio & seeing your settings, but if I was to guess, I'd say it could depend on HOW you "ramp up the audio interface". There are several gain controls in the path of a mic signal on that mixer (as on any mixer), and they all need to be set at the best positions for good, clean sound -- this is called "gain staging".
I'd start with the Pad off, and the Trim ("Gain") and channel Level and master Stereo Level knobs at Unity Gain (the triangle). I'd also set the Compressor knob to its lowest position and the EQ flat. As you sing, advance the Trim (Gain) until the Peak LED on the mic channel starts to flash, then back off slowly until it stays dark. Then increase the mic channel's Level knob until the level on the mixer's LR output meter goes no higher than -6 dB (making sure the Peak LED still stays dark).
In the DAW/app, make sure Pre-Fader Metering is enabled, set the channel strip’s main fader to ±0dB (Unity Gain), and check the level there as well. Assuming the mixer is also your (USB) interface, it should show a similar setting. If the gain is too low, assumedly you could increase the (h/w) mixer channel Level or even the Stereo Level a little, but again make sure the channel Peak LED doesn't flash and the LR output level meters on the mixer go up to around -6 without going into the red.
A "good level" would be anywhere from around -12 up to -3 dB on the DAW's channel strip meter -- again, assuming you have the meter set to "Pre-Fader Monitoring". Assuming you're recording at 24bit resolution, even a slightly lower level should be fine. If the wave is too small to see clearly, you could either make it larger graphically (if the DAW has an option for that), or via clip gain (if available), which will also crank the audio level (I don't know if any of that would be available on an iPad app). If the level is too low in the mix, increase the channel strip level; if that requires too much of a boost above ±0dB (Unity Gain), then you could insert a Gain/Trim plug-in, and boost the level there.
Now all that is assuming that what you describe as "pops and crackles" is in fact caused by audio overload in the mixer/interface. Most people describe the sound of overloaded audio as "distorted" or "crunchy"; the term "pops and crackles" is more typically used to describe intermittent noises that are typically the result of too low a Buffer setting in the interface's Audio setup, but that shouldn't occur only as a result of level settings, it would normally happen independently of level.
Anyway, try the gain staging I described (if your settings are different), and see if that helps..
Cheers,
Joe
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