My first Mic CAD u37

Hi guys finally I bought my first conderser microphone. here's the raw recording of this mic https://soundcloud.com/nikhiljoshua/raw

I disabled the AGC in windows. Used FL Studio & Asio4All to record it. No effects added, except maybe fruity limiter I forgot to turn it off 😅. Let me know how it sounds.

sounds highly compressed, I suspect you elft the limiter on, next time just elave ehadroom or don't use the limiter as a limiter, switch it to comp mode, try seetting the threshold for just below your loudest peak and keep the threshold at about 3:1, fiddle with the time constants based on the tempo, try the different attack curves, if i sued fruity limiter while tracking I would try soemting fairly grabby like 1 or 2 and I would also disable the saturation for sure, save that kidna effect for the mix... work on your microphone palcement, its hard doing it on your own. Glad you got your kit together, keep experimenting.

yea sure thanks 😄

use this new power wisely...

https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/25774-tone-tips-quick-tips-for-recording-and-mixing-acoustic-guitar

there's some absolute basics that are spot on... some other thigns to know, for a snappy rhythm sound try using a capo whether you need one or not.... say you are playing in A major, 1st position, try capoing up a whole step (2 frets) and playing G forms, the capo will change the tone without resorting to any processing... same mic position, same chords, different inversions and an artificial barre finger behind your hand takes the nut out of the equation adding snappiness and reducing that acoustic guitar honk ;-) Also, dont be afraid to mute some strings low or high to fit that part into a tighter register and leave bandwidth in teh finished mix for otehr instruments. You hear these tricks more than youthink in commercial productions. Your rbain will say "I can tweak that in the mix" but if you can get it outta that guitar in the room before plugging in a microphone then you saved yourself some serious knob tweaking and potential degradationa nd artifacts from extra processing.

and try not to let the microphone pickup all that room noise... carefully find a spot i the room where the computer and HVAC don't leak in so loudly OR turn the HVAC off and get sweaty while you focus onr educing computer bleed. There's soemthing hissing like a mofo in your track. You also picked up rattle, a resonance from an objec tin the room that pops up when you hit its resonant frequency in one of your chords... lsiten carefully. That should be avoided.

this is ltierally the ebst vocal you've ever recorded.... tis not exactly a hifi capture, but the feeling is in there and the delivery has authority and msore precision than your previous efforts, perhaps just HOLDING a guitar when you sing will help you overdub better vocals?

its a little muddy, the guitar, changes are Cadd9, G, Am7?, Em(7), so major major reltaive minors? subbing an Adom7 for the Am occasionally and holding for 2 bars would add tension and give modulation point, classic folky trick

HVAC was turned off there was no sound coming into the room. The chords are http://www.worshiptogether.com/songs/10-000-reasons-bless-the-lord/ all the chords I was holding were sus chords

riding the G across them? the C with a G is an add9, not s sus technically, you're thinking sus 2 but with the 3 in its an add9, iw as hearing an Am but tis wishful thinking, i woudla subbed an Am7 for Dsus, and if you're playing an Em with a G and D up top its an Em7

i thought it was your song

still needs an occasional A7 to be itneresting, subbing Dsus and Em7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwT_vyy0HKA here's the exact thing I played, I learnt from it. http://www.worshiptutorials.com/tutorials/10000-reasons-bless-the-lord-matt-redman/

<< This is more clear

yeah, the C is called Cadd9 by musicians, D over F# i just D, F# is the 3rd, its just an inside voicing, called a secondary dominant. you sound like you're suspending with a G on the top string

I'm kinda noob at naming guitar chords 😅

i thought it was your song

I didn't write any song yet. I will write though but for the purpose of showing the mic quality I had to record it.

so are your sources... guitar chords share the same naming conventions as every other instrument... no difference on a staff, guitar chords are just chords

this is almost a dead lift on a 90s pop tune LOL but its such a silly change its just an accident

guitar chords share the same naming conventions as every other instrument.

Yea I know. I was very lazy to figure out the notes. And it takes me some time to analyze the name of the chord

can you tke more music classes as electives ins chool... maybe a guitar performance class too for lessons thata re tuition funded? some people don't need lessons, you might benefit from them

if you didn't live in Indi I would offer to teach you.

FYI, a sus chord omits the third, if there's a third its an add chord, either 9 for 2 (get it, 7 tones up from 2?) or its an 11th, for some reason we don't say 'add 11' though, just he way it is, and 11 is a full major with a high 4th, AKA 11th, a close harmony with 3 and 4 in teh same octave is an add4 usually though.. a sus2 is usually written as a 9th, so it would be C9 for a 2nd with no 3rd and Cadd9 for a 3rd and a higher 2nd

proper naming dictates voicing, so it matters... its soemthing that ahs fallen apart in elad sheets in these ignorant times

https://youtu.be/pele5vptVgc

if you didn't live in Indi I would offer to teach you.

Thanks :), In my college there's nothing like music or recreational activities. Though we have sports and some competitions occasionally

I enrolled in this course on udemy though. https://www.udemy.com/pianoforall-incredible-new-way-to-learn-piano-keyboard/learn/v4/overview

worth a shot! maybe when you graduate and have some income you can enroll in some piano and guitar lessons... I actually take piano lessons with my son LOL, never too late to improve

ohh, I thought I knew playing piano...And btw, the payment is done. And I have a small question about fl. Can I use only stock plugins to complete mixing and mastering a song? And do you know any other $200 budget DAW which has good stock plugins. Just curious, I'm about to buy a DAW now.

any vst plugin should run in FL assumig its modern eough for the last update of widows10.. I lost one, MH_Thump but hey, after some reinstalls all good but thump

https://shop.presonus.com/products/studio-one-prods/Studio-One-3-Digital-Downloads/Studio-One-3-Artist how about this?

umm