As far as the electronics of it.if at all possible use a digital interface that allows you to plug the XLR cable directly into it without a Hi/Lo Z conversion. I would suggest putting your music stand at maybe chest level so your voice doesn't reflect back into the mic and cause phasing problems. It's the perfect size because I can put my boom mic and music stand in there with just enough space to be comfortable. I hung several blankets on the coat racks on either side of it. I use a walk-in closet that's about 5 or 6 ft. Do the vocals in a room separate from the computer (fan/hard drive noise issues). The idea is to consider the geometry of the sound waves such that they'll have to travel as far as possible before making their way back into the mic.
Another option, I think, is to have the singer face so that most of the room is behind them. Personally, I've had some success by placing the mic so that there's a curtain behind the singer, and the singer faces into the room diagonally (to generally cause sound to have to bounce away from the singer.
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You might need some portable acoustic treatments to assist.Īlso, mic placement counts. Big room, with lots of stuff in it (furniture, drapes, etc) to dissipate echoes and give the reverberations of your voice somewhere to go besides back into the mic. There are two ways to approach this when it comes to working in your living room, I think: You use the Roland for this, I'm guessing? This can be in a mixer, something modest like an SP VTB-1 (tube pre-amp, recommended by many) and reasonably good-quality cables. There are a number of factors to consider:
Are you recording direct into your soundcards or using a seperate mixer? I'm real interested in feedback about obtaining strong vocals without the advantage of having an isolation booth or soundroom. I'm interested in hearing from you Sonar 3 users on the different ways of recording vocals without picking up back ground noise.