Will my cell phone recorder pick up paranormal voices or do I need an EVP Recorder?
Yes, you can use your cell phone but I suggest you at least get a cassette tape recorder. A good digital recorder works well also. the only reason I would not use a cell phone is you may get a call during a critical time. You also want to keep your phone with you and many times investigators will leave a recorder in one place while doing other things in another room or area. If you happen to loose the recorder you have just lost a recorder but if you loose your cell phone someone could find it and run up a huge phone bill. Here is an exxcellent article on how to record EVP that gives all the basic information on how to pick a correct recorder to the actual recording. http://www.ghostweb.com/evp_how.html
Can you hear yourself through headphones in a recording studio?
You will if the engineer turns up your signal on the Cue Send (bus that feeds signal to the headphone mix).It is quite unusual for an artist not to want themselves in their monitor.The only times I can think of, is when latency is causing an audible delay, or a vocalist wants to sing while listening through their skull.Both instances would typically require slipping a headphone driver off an ear.Headphone mixes are tailored to whatever balance helps allow the artist perform their best, while helping them remain at their most comfortable.The trick is to keep levels low enough that a singer, or player can actually let go, go for it, and have the mix sound balanced.If the mix is too "More Me", the tendency is to be timid, to sing with a "Head Voice", as the vocal sounds so LOUD in the headphones that they'll choke up, possibly in self conscience, or to try and balance the mix.This is counterproductive, and a good engineer will put a pair of cans on, listen to their headphone mix, slowly turn down the vocal as the artist is singing.By doing so, the artist naturally begins to Turn It Up, and pretty soon they're having fun letting it all hang out.Hopefully they have practiced their part thouroughly, so a great performance happens within a few takes, before the voice gets blown out.When it all comes together, magic happens, and it is a beautiful thing!
Why do my vocals sound better played back through headphones instead of speakers?
To be completely honest, I don't know much about recording and mixing. I only know how to play instruments and sing. With that being said, I'm looking to record covers and some of my own material at home, and hopefully in a studio someday. I use a Shure SM57 for recording instrumentals and vocals (I'm going to get a microphone tailored for vocals soon). Long story short, I am in the process of covering a song, and I am very pleased with what I have done so far.. through my headphones. For some reason, it sounds drastically worse through speakers. The speakers aren't cheap either. In every other situation they sound better than my headphones. I know I can sing, but I don't know why I sound like **** through certain sound systems. Does anyone have an explanation?
What will a singer listen to, in the head phone, while recording a song?
Primarily their own voice.Have you ever listened to somebody singing with headphones on? They think they sound good, but in reality they are horribly out of tune and out of control. That’s because they can’t hear themselves: the brain relies on a feedback loop of listening and singing to stay on track.In a recording studio the goal is trying to create a perfect vocal track, and so the singer needs to be able to hear every nuance of pitch and phrasing. Relying on “hearing yourself” through bone conduction or reflected sound off the walls might work, but in the studio it’s really hard since the singer needs to also hear at least some of the other instruments to stay in time and in relative pitch, but if you have the instruments in the same room as the vocal mic it will pick up those sounds and mess up the vocal track.Headphones turn out to be an ideal way to do this. The sound being captured from the microphone is mixed in with a special mix of the music — often the rhythm tracks and backing chords — so that the singer can both have a reference for what they are singing and a clear awareness of their own performance.It’s worth noting that while the vocal track you hear on a record has been “sweetened” to one extent or another, with reverberation and other effects, this would usually be used sparingly if at all in the headphone mix, since they would mask any imperfections or problems with the performance. The exact mix and levels would usually be worked out between the artist and the producer/engineer; experienced singers often have a specific preference for their guide mix.This is also the function of stage monitors (those speakers on the stage facing towards the singer). Many singers have moved to in-ear monitors (basically headphones used on stage) which operate very much like the recording studio approach described above.
When recording a song, How loud Should My Headphones Be?
OK, so i have my beats, my mic, everything, I have studio version beats, when i'm recording, should i boost up the volume all the way so i can't hear myself sing, or in the middel where i can hear my voice and the music through the head phones, Or... U know what i'm talking about right? Please tell me you do! I'm Hopeless here :P Thnx Everyone!
How can I hear my voice in real time while recording vocals on my laptop?
You don’t have to have in ear monitors (by the way, when recording, headphones are generally used, IEMs are mostly used for live performance), but you will need headphones, earphones or even just your regular in ear buds. This is to prevent the playback from being recorded back into the mic.Unlike what most people say here, you actually don’t need an external audio interface to be able to monitor yourself. Having said that, I’ll assume you probably have one anyway, but whether you have one or not doesn’t matter.Most DAWs have a switch that enables you to hear yourself as you play back. No this is not the one on the external interface.For example, in REAPER, which I use, you can enable monitoring by right clicking the arm (enable recording) button and selecting “Enable Monitoring”. This enables you to hear whatever the software will record on that track. This way, you can hear yourself as you track.Google “how to enable monitoring in
If you record yourself and listen to it on headphones can you think over the sound of your own voice?
Having recorded vocals on many songs & listening many times to each recording afterwards, yes, eventually. But not right away- it's very distracting & takes awhile to be able to tune it out. Once you've listened so many times that you're sick of it, you can think about something else even while your own voice is audible.
Latency when recording vocals! HELP!!!?
Look into the ASIO audio driver: http://www.asio4all.com ... that driver can cut down on latency problems. Also see if your recording program has a low-latency mode you can click on when recording. And additionally, look in the program's preferences/options to see if there's a latency setting you can manually adjust, which will shift your recorded waveform left or right to compensate for the inherent latency. Firewire helps only if your computer is really slow to begin with, as it takes the load off the processor a bit. If your PC is old, that could factor into it. But first, try the preceding tips and see if that works for you. ----- EDIT ----- Direct monitoring means the interface sends the mic signal straight to your ears before it even gets into the computer. Or I mean, the signal is split in two, one part into the computer, other part to the headphones. That's the only way to get true zero latency. Problem is, you can't have any effects with it, because only the computer can do effects and the zero latency monitoring bypasses the computer. There are also XP / Win 7 optimization steps you can take: http://www.audiorecording.me/windows-xp7... http://www.audiorecording.me/optimize-wi... The buffer in ASIO, try 256 -- it will lower your latency but tax your CPU more. If you get clicking/popping while recording that means it's too much for your computer, so turn it back to 512 and try something else. The input output latency compensation ... that's worth playing with. At 44.1khz sampling rate, it's 44.1 samples per millisecond. So if something is off by 10 milliseconds, it'll need a shift of 441 samples. But I don't know if that'll help in your situation, give it a try and see. I've never had to use that feature so I'm not sure.
What're some good headphones?
I've been looking for some good headphones, can't seem to find any. I've gone to Best Buy, Walmart, and Target. Any store that sells headphones. I'm sure I've missed a store, the RadioShacks' near me are all shutdown, so I can't go there. I've researched on yahoo answers only to find more generalized answers that didn't really help. My experience with headphones are pretty decent, I've had V-Modas(excellent), Beats(overrates), Skullcandys(decent not as bad as people say), Sennheisers(good), and Sony(above average). This time around I'm looking to spend less than $150. I'm into hip-hop, jazz, r&b, classical, pop, oldies, etc. Id love to get Bluetooth and noise cancelling headphones but can't seem to figured out which ones to get either.