Decided I’m gonna buy an In home studio probably today because my sound quality is ready in my mind to be good. We have a room at my parents house in the basement with great acoustics. It’s not too expensive, I don’t need monitors, headphones work. So really only will cost me a little more than $500 for the mic, interface, and pop filter. This is the mic I’m getting. The main piece. My birthday present to myself. https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Cardioid-Microphone-Two-Section-Broadcast/dp/B00U1SG5SW
Going forward I will record at my apartment, on my USB microphone, upload it privately to SoundCloud, listen to it 50 times, then edit the lyrics. Drive to my parents house and nail it, record it tight, without having to worry I’m bothering my neighbors. Sweet I’m so pumped. !!
Btw my friend who I share my music with thinks it’s good and offered me to host my own radio show in new Rochelle New York. To broadcast my music on the radio. I told him I’m not ready. But with studio quality recordings and a couple months more work maybe I’ll be ready.
for technical tips… might want to catch pixel when he comes back… I asked him for technical tips for making youtube videos… he knows his stuff… hardware software and tricks of the trade…
I think I’m good with the hardware but I think I wanna sound proof the room better. My moms friend does sound proofing for a living we’re gonna ask him for advice . I know if I need advice I can ask pixel though. Pretty sure he has an in home studio as well. Probably more advanced than I will. Because he uses his for radio or something
I plan on spray painting some egg flats black… free has got to be cheaper than the foam you can buy… lol… they just throw them away… I bet if you asked some local dinning places they would hold them for you aslong as you made good on picking them up…
The room I wanna use already has a ton of foam on the walls and no windows But on the contrary it also has a metal pipe. A huge metal pipe. So I’m not sure…my moms gonna call the guy and explain the situation. There’s 3 potential rooms. Hell give us the perfect advice.
The Heil PR-40 is a hella good mic. I’d kill to have one. I do own some refurbed EV RE20s that I got used for $100 apiece and they sound pretty good, but nowhere near as good as yours does. The only problem you’ll notice is that your Heil picks up a lot of background noise as it is very sensitive. You’ll want to treat your studio with sound absorbing materials. Egg crate packing foam from www.uline.com works very well on a budget.
For our student broadcasters we use Behringer XM1800S mics. They cost about $22/each CDN and they are a blatant clone of the Shure SM-58. Tweak the EQ just right and you can’t tell them apart. They are super directional and hardly pick up ambient noise and the also take a beating from kids. Get yourself some of these if you need cheap, great sounding spares, or you need to perform in an untreated environment.
Will be here the beginning of summer!