Recording Vocals at Home like a Professional Sound Engineer
Hello! My name is Federico and throughout this course, I’ll be teaching everything you need to know about recording and treating vocals professionally from the comfort of your own home.
I’ve been working in the music industry for almost 9 years now. I’ve worked on countless professional recordings and with a wide variety of vocal artists such as singers, rappers, poets and voice over artists.
Now, I’m gonna share with you all the secrets I picked up over the years. How to obtain the most professional results with almost no investment as long as you’re willing to learn.
I take that you wanna know how to record better audio for your videos. Maybe make your voice appear clearer, without any background noise, clicks, pops and or distortion.
Even put a little music on the back to emphasize certain topics or create a bit of a mood.
But,
- What is a vocal recording?
- Why do we need microphones and what are they?
- Is an audio interface necessary?
- What can I do to improve my room’s acoustics on a budget?
- How do I treat the audio of my videos for clarity?
- What are the right levels?
- What is the right audio file format?
These and many other questions will be answered throughout the course.
Feel free to watch some of the free lecture previews and then when you’re ready, enroll in course.
Welcome!
Chapter 1: Sound Theory
Learn about the theory behind sound creation and sound waves propagation through air.
Learn about the most important parameters related to sound.
Learn all about sine waves, square waves, sawtooth wave and every other type of waveforms.
Learn all about directionality and spatiality in sound acoustics.
A couple of questions to apply the knowledge you have just aquired.
Chapter 2: Acoustics
Learn all about the acoustic qualities of a room and its properties.
Learn how sound reflects from walls before reaching the listener and how this affects the quality of your vocal recordings.
One of the most important factors in achieving high-quality recordings. Learn to control reverberation time in your room.
Learn how this simple phenomenons reflect badly on the quality of your recordings and how to control them.
Learn how to sound proof your room to obtain studio quality vocals at home.
What is the difference between this two common words. Are they necessary?
A couple of questions to apply the knowledge you have just aquired.
Chapter 3: Equipment
Learn how to convert your voice to an electric signal during recording.
What is noise? Why microphones capture noise when recording my voice?
One of the key factors in achieve high-quality vocal recordings.
Wich microphone should I buy? How much money does a dynamic microphone costs?
Learn all about condenser microphones. How do they work and what applications are they mostly used for.
Wich type of microphone should you buy? Cardioid or omnidirectional?
Balanced vs Unbalanced cables. Wich are the best for audio recording at home?
Do I really need an audio interface? What are they? Wich one should I buy to record at home?
Wich program should I use to edit audio? Wich audio software is the best for recording vocals?
Are vocals mono or stereo? Wich type of channel should I create to record vocals coming from my microphone?
What are they? Should I buy one? Can I make one myself at home?
A couple of questions to apply the knowledge you have just aquired.
Chapter 4: Recording
What is the proper level for recording vocals? Why do my recordings distort? What is distortion?
What are the best settings for recording audio at home?
Uncompressed vs compressed audio files. Wich is the best audio format?
What should I do when I make a mistake during recording?
A couple of questions to apply the knowledge you have just aquired.
Chapter 5: Treatment
The best way to ensure that you achieve high-quality audio content.
How to edit audio and add effects to my vocal recordings?
How to remove noise from your vocal recordings?
Learn all about equalizers and how to equalize your vocal recordings.
What is a filter and why you must always filter your signals?
Another contributing factor to the overall noise profile of your vocal recordings is the fact that breathing can get out of hand sometimes.
Much like the breathing noises being to loud, certain consonants like Ss, Xs and Cs can make annoying disturbances in your recordings.
A key factor in achieve competitive quality recordings in the audio industry.
Compressors are another type of plugins that controls the volume or gain fluctuations of a signal.
Learn all about limiters. Why do you need them and why they are better than normalization.
A couple of questions to apply the knowledge you have just aquired.
Chapter 6: Enhancement
How to enhance the best parts of your speech qualities for a better listening experience.
How to avoid masking when using background music to spice up your videos.
How to setup send effects to make your recording more natural with reverb, or more artistic with delay.
Tips and techniques to be more confortable infront of the camera and get the most out of your recordings.
A couple of questions to apply the knowledge you have just aquired.
Extra Class
Congratulations! Final words and farewell.
