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Hi Graham! You do not know me but I just wanted to say God bless you for what you are doing. I am from a musician family regarding most of my family but was hindered by my parents who never let me pursue music. Now, I turn 41 next month and I am going to take your one song a month challenge. I just want to tell you that I am praying for you and your family. Our Father is so amazing and I also have close to 5 years of sobriety in May! Only God could save a wretch like me! Just wanted to personally let you know I REALLY appreciate what you are doing on youtube. May our Father bless and keep you close to Him. I would love to work with you someday. Maybe we could collaborate someday. Who knows what God has in store!
Hey! I already knew ALL of this but it is easy to get caught up in gear, technical stuff, that you forget! If I was asked before this video what would I recommend I'd fail but I knew all the techniques and just wasn't using them. This is an actual game changer again. I hope to record 3-5 records (either be my solo, band, or other groups) by mostly using my humble living room!
The closet tips is awesome!! I treated my little room with the blanket on the hangers inside the closet and treated the opposite side with the sofa cushions and blankets. I've also covered the radiators with towels and opened up other closets to "cover" other walls' area. Another thing I did was to put another blanket right on top of the closet doors, creating a cover from the above. The room became much much drier!
Yep, walk-in full of clothes was my first vocal booth, and I still use this trick. Worked perfectly on my very first album, got great dry vocals with no background noise. Was using a very sensitive tube condenser that picked up any background noise. For me, acoustic treatment has more to do with creating a useful "listening/mixing" environment, but as you well know, you can actually record just about anywhere. I also find noise gates help to reduce background noise.
Great video and very good advice Graham, we also have had studios in a number places in our house. Now we are getting on the road as full-time RV'ers. My wife and myself are songwriters and I produce music mobile on the road in a 26ft. travel trailer. There were a few challenges setting up our studio, but it can be done. In the house we use to try to record vocals in quietest room in the house. Now we move the house to a quiet place. It works just as good. (Can't wait to go into the desert). Increase The Peace !
Wow, you both love music and pursue it together?? Damn, that sounds like a Great Life!! I had thought about doing something similar....hoing on the road nationwide recording with different people in different places all over. Do you still go on the road?? Feel free to come holler at me, I'm very interested in what you do!! I'm in southern WV on the Va border.... will also assist anyway I can
my Bedroom is big and treated well with acoustic treatment ! but in the past 6 years i was working on my Bed !!!!! Yes Sitting on my Bed and working on a Song With A Client hhhhh but i managed to work and now im happy with my new place a bigger Bedroom and Better Gear !! i dont recommend a Closet For Recording Vocal ! Because it will sound Boxy and So Dry !!! i Recommend Buying a mic isolation shield
How Audio Works and the fact that it's accessible to blind audio engineer/producer's with just a few plug-ins should make it one of the top ones too because a lot of us blind producers are pretty much ignored
Thank you I was getting depressed because recording in a studio is so expensive and I always felt I could make better songs if I had more time and I didn’t feel rushed… I’m also new and it’s hard for me to show my emotions even thru songs so I think I can do it better alone I just thought it was impossible and I actually needed a small empty room to do it… I’m gonna try I hope it works… All the money spent in studio time I would’ve had my own nice home studio. Thanks for this video
You have a huge fans here in Saudi Arabia and you are a legend here in my country and we love you so much, your advice in your videos were helpful and useful to all of us ... thank you and move on don't stop.... peace ✌️
I found this video very helpful because I didn't know that we all have brains in each of our ears. After using my ear brains I've been getting fantastic results. Thank you.
Huge fan of your work! I'm finally about to dive in to recording my own semi-pro demos so my fans can have at least some access to my songs! You're a great inspiration, and I always thought it was cool that you operated out of Tampa!
amazing Graham thank you so much for the gear guide dude. I really love the way you give so much back to the audio community by passing on your skills and hard won knowledge, total respect man. Keep creating and being the best man you can be, peace love and empathy dude :)
Hey Graham! I really appreciate your channel! It inspired me to start my own and youtube helped me make a decent living out of my home studio for the past 3 years... By the way, I live in Montreal and I'm an acquaintance of Eric Tessier, whom you met at a masterclass in Paris! :) About your video, I don't want to be a smart ass here, but cardioid mics pick up the back, it's the sides that you want facing the noise... Thanks again, Graham!
Wow, you present your tips and techniques very, very well here. This is my first viewing of your work and I must say you do a great job on your channel. Subscribed... !!!
Great videos!! You saved me some cash just by coming up with out-of-the-box thinking with this stuff. Ended up hanging a lightweight folding papason chair from the ceiling, behind the mic. The curved cushion of the chair works perfect. lol. Plus, I now have convenient storage when not using it. win-win!
Great video and very good advice Graham, You're a great inspiration, I just discovered your channel a few weeks ago and I am happy I did. I am a beginner and I want to build a small home studio and you're really helping me out with that. Thanks
I really appreciate these videos. It really helps to know how to record in an unprofessional room. Do you have any advice on how to make great records when you generally just suck at music? I could really use a video like that.
Thanks for all your input... have got back into Music after 12 yrs...and Built a Leget "HOME Recording Studio" . I do understand that to get my " VOCAL" Upfront does not require High End Out Board Gear ? or Plug-Ins but understandting "EQ & Compression" / Mic Placement & how to use Them :) I Thank you for giving me the know how to get my Recordings nice for a "Home Studio" . Will Keep FOLLOWING YOU :) Thx. George Amodei
Let’s not forget about recording intruments through DI: Very clean recording (even more if far away from reflecting walls in the case of Guitars and Basses). And also composing Drums with samples and virtual drums, they may not sound completely natural but you can process the sound the make them sound good (up to a certain point).
I highly recommend building a *portable vocal booth* out PVC pipes and some acoustic blankets if you want to get the best quality recordings in a non acoustic treated space. You can also use packing blankets. Your recordings are only as good as your room acoustic treatment or some kind of isolated space to filter out reflection and background noise to keep the noise floor low as possible.
The absolute most important thing in a recording studio is not the daw, not the plugins, not the microphone. The most important thing is acoustic foam. Let’s say if you have a Neumann Tlm 103 which is an expensive microphone. And you have it in a completely untreated room, trust me, if you have a completely untreated room it’s gonna sound horrible because, the Tlm 103 picks up everything.
Or, you can stick yourself to a wall (reflective) with mic facing yourself and wall, which rejects the back wall. This position is actually the furthest away from the walls. But for best results, you want fairly close mic to source. Reflections are so short that this works - while the long reflections from opposing walls are kept in check by signal to noise ratio. Your advice is still ace. In the 70's I used to find recording between two couches with carpeted floor was good for lots of applications.
Wouldn't you want to sit very close to the wall, but put the microphone between yourself and the wall? Then the reflection off the wall would be coming into the back of the microphone, so it won't pick it up. That would be furthest from the wall. If you have your back to the wall, the microphone is facing the wall and would pick up whatever is bouncing off of it.
A person who is dead ink one ear, and therefore NOT as able to focus on one sound, I recommend putting in one earplug to more easily test and "hear" what the microphone would hear, without any additional equipment.
I did a couple of recordings in the office's meeting room. I chose a room with is in the inner of the building to get away of the noise outside (traffics, sky trains, etc.). The room I ended up with is a small circular room, with 10-20% glass mirror. I used Zoom H2n to record everything as I don't want to carry too many stuffs. Not really sure if that was a good choice or not though :P.
Very few of the 'classic albums' were recorded in purpose built studios. Abbey Road is an old house. One of the Motown atudios was a basement with sewage pipes running through it. I think Rockfield is an old farm. The Powerstation in NYC (is it still there?) was a disused power station. The one Pete Townsend built is in a converted church. There were many examples during the 70s and 80s where bands rented stately homes or castles and moved gear in - Machine Head by Deep Purple, Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree by U2, Dave Gilmour's is on a boat.
Graham! I laughed so hard at the Big Rig story! Maybe I can feel you pain, living on a semi-main road(main road for emergency vehicles from one town to another). I use my closet under my stairs as a vocal booth/isolation area for amps with my home studio in the whole finished basement of my split-level home.
You're so right.. The best tip I ever got was NEVER let your lack of equipment get in the way of your creativity.. Some guys buy 10k$ preamps and run sine waves through them to check signal degration etc.. Dial in your shitty pre the best you can, move that mic around.. Use dynamic mics in bad rooms.. Use condensors in sweet rooms. Use Talent and a a good performance , utilize your ears and the space you have and make music.. Peace
Your recordings are only as good as your room acoustic treatment or some kind of isolated space to filter out reflection and background noise. I'm building a portable vocal booth out of pvc pipes with acoustic blankets that I can take on the road for mobile recording. I'm also building my own DIY acoustic panels out of a wooden frame stuffed with bath towels.
Hello Graham, Nice guide but I was hoping you would include something regarding deadening reflections around the microphone. I mean can you really call what you have a Recording Studio if your microphone has no treatment around it?
The "air braking" you're talking about is called "jake brake". Idk why I am mentioning this on a recording how-to video, but I'm sure you'd appreciate it 😛
I'm at the same conditions you were, but I'm actually considering dynamic mic over condenser. Is it better for conditions you describe? I mean, is white noise affect the mix that bad? I'm just starting
Question: For this video, you seem further than 1 ft. away from your mic. What's the set up for this video? What mic are you using, and how far away are you from the mic so that the mic isn't in the shot? Thanks for the vidoes!
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Thank you so much for all of your help to us. God bless you.
I found recording in the closet to be great, plus Tom Cruise was there to help hold up the lyrics.
LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet_(South_Park)
HAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!
LOL, No. he was holding the lyric sheet, minding his own business.
ThisLittleShow did u get r kelly on vocals doe?
Hi Graham! You do not know me but I just wanted to say God bless you for what you are doing. I am from a musician family regarding most of my family but was hindered by my parents who never let me pursue music. Now, I turn 41 next month and I am going to take your one song a month challenge. I just want to tell you that I am praying for you and your family. Our Father is so amazing and I also have close to 5 years of sobriety in May! Only God could save a wretch like me! Just wanted to personally let you know I REALLY appreciate what you are doing on youtube. May our Father bless and keep you close to Him. I would love to work with you someday. Maybe we could collaborate someday. Who knows what God has in store!
Hey! I already knew ALL of this but it is easy to get caught up in gear, technical stuff, that you forget! If I was asked before this video what would I recommend I'd fail but I knew all the techniques and just wasn't using them. This is an actual game changer again. I hope to record 3-5 records (either be my solo, band, or other groups) by mostly using my humble living room!
1:55 #1 Get away from the walls
3:50 #2 Get closer to the microphone
5:00 #3 Use the back of the microphone
6:08 #4 Take back your closet!
;)
U are my man dude
Thank you man
God bless
@Rijksoverheidtaking it all for free and getting offensive - not sure who's the moron here.
Thx bro
The closet tips is awesome!!
I treated my little room with the blanket on the hangers inside the closet and treated the opposite side with the sofa cushions and blankets. I've also covered the radiators with towels and opened up other closets to "cover" other walls' area. Another thing I did was to put another blanket right on top of the closet doors, creating a cover from the above.
The room became much much drier!
I miss seeing your videos. Always among my favorite experts. Thanks so much Graham.
I love the examples you use to explain the concepts.
Yep, walk-in full of clothes was my first vocal booth, and I still use this trick. Worked perfectly on my very first album, got great dry vocals with no background noise. Was using a very sensitive tube condenser that picked up any background noise. For me, acoustic treatment has more to do with creating a useful "listening/mixing" environment, but as you well know, you can actually record just about anywhere. I also find noise gates help to reduce background noise.
Great video and very good advice Graham, we also have had studios in a number places in our house. Now we are getting on the road as full-time RV'ers. My wife and myself are songwriters and I produce music mobile on the road in a 26ft. travel trailer. There were a few challenges setting up our studio, but it can be done. In the house we use to try to record vocals in quietest room in the house. Now we move the house to a quiet place. It works just as good. (Can't wait to go into the desert). Increase The Peace !
Wow, you both love music and pursue it together?? Damn, that sounds like a Great Life!! I had thought about doing something similar....hoing on the road nationwide recording with different people in different places all over. Do you still go on the road?? Feel free to come holler at me, I'm very interested in what you do!! I'm in southern WV on the Va border.... will also assist anyway I can
double v neck shirts?
It's what gives the best audio bro.
You mean a W shirt?
I thought this was going to be too 'noob' for me but boom, sometimes going back to basics reminds you what you're forgetting. Thanks Graham!
my Bedroom is big and treated well with acoustic treatment ! but in the past 6 years i was working on my Bed !!!!! Yes Sitting on my Bed and working on a Song With A Client hhhhh but i managed to work and now im happy with my new place a bigger Bedroom and Better Gear !!
i dont recommend a Closet For Recording Vocal ! Because it will sound Boxy and So Dry !!! i Recommend Buying a mic isolation shield
Add Reaper to your recommended list of DAWs, if only for the price that is lower than any of its competitors.
And the fact that it's waaaaay better in almost every regard.
Well I did not want to be contentious :-)
How Audio Works and the fact that it's accessible to blind audio engineer/producer's with just a few plug-ins should make it one of the top ones too because a lot of us blind producers are pretty much ignored
Thank you I was getting depressed because recording in a studio is so expensive and I always felt I could make better songs if I had more time and I didn’t feel rushed… I’m also new and it’s hard for me to show my emotions even thru songs so I think I can do it better alone I just thought it was impossible and I actually needed a small empty room to do it… I’m gonna try I hope it works… All the money spent in studio time I would’ve had my own nice home studio. Thanks for this video
love the mirror reference... so visual
You have a huge fans here in Saudi Arabia and you are a legend here in my country and we love you so much, your advice in your videos were helpful and useful to all of us ... thank you and move on don't stop.... peace ✌️
I love the look of your studio, very clean and nice. Just amazing!
Thanks for doing what you're doing, Graham. This is invaluable stuff for people at the beginning.
I found this video very helpful because I didn't know that we all have brains in each of our ears. After using my ear brains I've been getting fantastic results. Thank you.
Man, you give us so much valuable information for free, thank you.
Really, thank you.
Wow! Thanks for all these great videos. I'm a 17 year old who has a band for my church and these videos have been amazing!
This is amaziiiing. Thanks. Absolutely no fluf. Just value from start to finish
Huge fan of your work! I'm finally about to dive in to recording my own semi-pro demos so my fans can have at least some access to my songs! You're a great inspiration, and I always thought it was cool that you operated out of Tampa!
Your videos have given me so much hope and motivation to start recording again.
Perfect timing on this video, Graham! I literally just moved into my new house yesterday and my bedroom is now my studio :D
Thank you for the video, this is exactly my situation. Very helpful, I look forward to using these tips with my next EP!
amazing Graham thank you so much for the gear guide dude. I really love the way you give so much back to the audio community by passing on your skills and hard won knowledge, total respect man. Keep creating and being the best man you can be, peace love and empathy dude :)
Oh yea, i accidentally discovered that if you point the back to the noisy laptop, it cuts out that noise too, great points ✌
Hey Graham! I really appreciate your channel! It inspired me to start my own and youtube helped me make a decent living out of my home studio for the past 3 years... By the way, I live in Montreal and I'm an acquaintance of Eric Tessier, whom you met at a masterclass in Paris! :)
About your video, I don't want to be a smart ass here, but cardioid mics pick up the back, it's the sides that you want facing the noise... Thanks again, Graham!
Minimal treatment, Arc2, Bookshelf/ record shelf behind me, referencing. Working for me so far
Inside closet is working for me. Big help🙏
Very helpful video, thank you!
Wow, you present your tips and techniques very, very well here. This is my first viewing of your work and I must say you do a great job on your channel. Subscribed... !!!
Great videos!! You saved me some cash just by coming up with out-of-the-box thinking with this stuff. Ended up hanging a lightweight folding papason chair from the ceiling, behind the mic. The curved cushion of the chair works perfect. lol. Plus, I now have convenient storage when not using it. win-win!
You just described the house I live in. I came to the right place. Thanks!
Great video and very good advice Graham, You're a great inspiration,
I just discovered your channel a few weeks ago and I am happy I did.
I am a beginner and I want to build a small home studio and you're
really helping me out with that. Thanks
Thank you sir keep the knowledge flowing.
I really appreciate these videos. It really helps to know how to record in an unprofessional room.
Do you have any advice on how to make great records when you generally just suck at music? I could really use a video like that.
This man is fundamentally amazing!!$
Trucks going down hill FX ...classic...awesome vid G
i am really new to your channel, and m very glad i discovered this channel
Graham the man, you are amazing bro! can't thank you enough for these videos.
Thanks for all your input... have got back into Music after 12 yrs...and Built a Leget "HOME Recording Studio" . I do understand that to get my " VOCAL" Upfront does not require High End Out Board Gear ? or Plug-Ins but understandting "EQ & Compression" / Mic Placement & how to use Them :) I Thank you for giving me the know how to get my Recordings nice for a "Home Studio" . Will Keep FOLLOWING YOU :) Thx. George Amodei
i'd love this video to go straight to the point, good one buddy
Great advice. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I[m from Argentina and I really like your videos! Thanks for sharing
knowledge!! ps very good on that "no bueno"
This has been super helpful to me! Thank you!
"Mics are dumb", big true ,I laughed at that part xD
Lol I heard that and it got me thinking....."is my drummer a mic?"
That is probably the best comment I have ever read.
I just converted my closet to a booth...thanks for the affirmation
Thank you so much Sir. God bless you
Let’s not forget about recording intruments through DI: Very clean recording (even more if far away from reflecting walls in the case of Guitars and Basses).
And also composing Drums with samples and virtual drums, they may not sound completely natural but you can process the sound the make them sound good (up to a certain point).
Thank you very much for all of your work and sharing
literally the most helpful video
I highly recommend building a *portable vocal booth* out PVC pipes and some acoustic blankets if you want to get the best quality recordings in a non acoustic treated space. You can also use packing blankets. Your recordings are only as good as your room acoustic treatment or some kind of isolated space to filter out reflection and background noise to keep the noise floor low as possible.
Hey, so wat about the floor ... Should it remain solid or should I put some blankets there as well?
New thumbnails are top notch x
I'm still running from bear walls 🐻
Nice info indeed....
The absolute most important thing in a recording studio is not the daw, not the plugins, not the microphone. The most important thing is acoustic foam. Let’s say if you have a Neumann Tlm 103 which is an expensive microphone. And you have it in a completely untreated room, trust me, if you have a completely untreated room it’s gonna sound horrible because, the Tlm 103 picks up everything.
Amazing! thank you. I find recording myself is very scary, so Thank you for saying all of this in very simple language.
Or, you can stick yourself to a wall (reflective) with mic facing yourself and wall, which rejects the back wall. This position is actually the furthest away from the walls. But for best results, you want fairly close mic to source. Reflections are so short that this works - while the long reflections from opposing walls are kept in check by signal to noise ratio. Your advice is still ace. In the 70's I used to find recording between two couches with carpeted floor was good for lots of applications.
Wouldn't you want to sit very close to the wall, but put the microphone between yourself and the wall? Then the reflection off the wall would be coming into the back of the microphone, so it won't pick it up. That would be furthest from the wall. If you have your back to the wall, the microphone is facing the wall and would pick up whatever is bouncing off of it.
Thank you for your info, work and everything dude 💖💖💖
A person who is dead ink one ear, and therefore NOT as able to focus on one sound, I recommend putting in one earplug to more easily test and "hear" what the microphone would hear, without any additional equipment.
Like the idea of a closet/vocal booth!
Such a helpful channel, god bless you.
This was super helpful, thanks!
Thank you for all the great content you're providing. I was wondering about your opinion about the Kaotica Eyeball! Thank you.
What about using blankets to create like a box around you? Will it also avoid bouncing the sound off the walls?
I did a couple of recordings in the office's meeting room. I chose a room with is in the inner of the building to get away of the noise outside (traffics, sky trains, etc.). The room I ended up with is a small circular room, with 10-20% glass mirror. I used Zoom H2n to record everything as I don't want to carry too many stuffs.
Not really sure if that was a good choice or not though :P.
Thanks so much dude.
Great information as usual.
Great video
Very few of the 'classic albums' were recorded in purpose built studios. Abbey Road is an old house. One of the Motown atudios was a basement with sewage pipes running through it. I think Rockfield is an old farm. The Powerstation in NYC (is it still there?) was a disused power station. The one Pete Townsend built is in a converted church. There were many examples during the 70s and 80s where bands rented stately homes or castles and moved gear in - Machine Head by Deep Purple, Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree by U2, Dave Gilmour's is on a boat.
Graham! I laughed so hard at the Big Rig story! Maybe I can feel you pain, living on a semi-main road(main road for emergency vehicles from one town to another). I use my closet under my stairs as a vocal booth/isolation area for amps with my home studio in the whole finished basement of my split-level home.
Oh, and a BIG +1 to the Studio Guide!👍🏻 even though I have what I need, it was an excellent read, and great guide for beginners!
Do you put the microphone inside the closet or just outside it so you can hang all your clothing up?
Great video! I have a question: so, usually bigger rooms are better but at the same time a closet is also good, why does that happen?
solid advice. so much appreciated.
amazing such a good vid
Great advice, thanks.
Thank you 😊
Just subscribed.. great content bro thanks!
very helpful!! thankyou.
Great tips. ! Thank you
Greatly helpful.
Thank you
ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE
this video was uploaded at my birthday 😂😂😂 however good work in this channel 😄
You're so right.. The best tip I ever got was NEVER let your lack of equipment get in the way of your creativity.. Some guys buy 10k$ preamps and run sine waves through them to check signal degration etc.. Dial in your shitty pre the best you can, move that mic around.. Use dynamic mics in bad rooms.. Use condensors in sweet rooms. Use Talent and a a good performance , utilize your ears and the space you have and make music.. Peace
Your recordings are only as good as your room acoustic treatment or some kind of isolated space to filter out reflection and background noise. I'm building a portable vocal booth out of pvc pipes with acoustic blankets that I can take on the road for mobile recording. I'm also building my own DIY acoustic panels out of a wooden frame stuffed with bath towels.
Can you talk about hanging up those panels? How do I soundproof a cinderblock wall?
Thanks many times over!
Hello Graham,
Nice guide but I was hoping you would include something regarding deadening reflections around the microphone. I mean can you really call what you have a Recording Studio if your microphone has no treatment around it?
this was very helpful, thank you :)
Thanks fro your videos, they're very helpful :)
The "air braking" you're talking about is called "jake brake". Idk why I am mentioning this on a recording how-to video, but I'm sure you'd appreciate it 😛
Dick braking
How did you not talk about the crap on your walls? The form panels and such, this is what we need to hear about.
thanks using a tapestry above my head too
I'm at the same conditions you were, but I'm actually considering dynamic mic over condenser. Is it better for conditions you describe? I mean, is white noise affect the mix that bad? I'm just starting
Question: For this video, you seem further than 1 ft. away from your mic. What's the set up for this video? What mic are you using, and how far away are you from the mic so that the mic isn't in the shot?
Thanks for the vidoes!
Great advises as allways.
That sound when the trucks are going downhill is called a Jake Brake…