How to Record Music at Home : How To Record Vocals At Home

[rhythmkeeper009]

Why don't you just build an iso booth? It only takes really heavy blankets hung properly or 4 walls and sound dampening foam. Not that hard.

[bobuae]

So 2008..

[iWillStayAlive]

hahaha, closet recording = biggest fail

[alexgowers]

expert village need to stop trolling the whole of youtube!!!!!!

[phaze2ooo]

You should totally do a how to record vocals from home while recording a video of how to record vocals at home!!!!!

[hallobaaaby]

RED HEAD alert!

[obscurecult]

expert village is soo fail.

[XxGamingGodZz360xX]

just stick to the kitchen& cook me bacon!

[JiminyKracker]

I think it might be the same village in that M Night Shyamalan film of the same name

[frankdbruin]

none of your videos helps

[kirbyofeasthartford]

@melvinromeroreyes i was thinking the exact same thing!

[thejuice32]

wow that was shitty.

[TheLuckyNumba9]

this video was made for children vocalists lol

[DavinaFaerie]

Omg! You were so unbelievably helpful, I wouldn't have known those things myself! Wow! How very informative!!! :0/

[Masteracci]

N@@b!

[ThoseGuysWithGits]

0:42 - to get rid of any unwanted noise *HEAVYLY BREATHING INTO MICROPHONE* xD

[DirtyDove1022]

@ThoseGuysWithGits hahahahahaha s funny!!

[nanopakour]

she doesn't say how to record, just were too, not good vid

[studionic]

..duh



[BGSXboxx]

sounds bounces off walls. no, shit.

[cseko85]

gotta love those housewife titties

[abochristo]

closet is for gays, not for recording :P

[AustinGraggmusician]

WOW...Idiots. 

[kingofmetal89]

you cant even get the audio on a vid sound good

[Smurf431]

@CloudNizzleNine

crackers huh.......nothing racist about that "crack"!

[linguafranca86]

I guess she lives in expert village, or should I read, retard village....

[linguafranca86]

she's really into cable management... oeh yeah I wonder why....

[DudasMiska]

she has like 0 tits

[shootbootleg]

"expert"  Shana Bethune just took away 1:27 minutes of my time. I want it BACK!

[CelticProgeny]

You missed a critical point. "If you're going to record a vocalist in a room make sure the vocalist is in the room before you start recording".

After giving that info I feel like a real expert.

[secretpros]

... also, ideally you would have a good 'sounding' room ... which takes a bit of work. A good combo of absorption and diffusion is best. Dead is better .. replace room with a widener or spreader, a short delay, and reg very (Lex medium hall is very common for this) ... good luck!  =)

[secretpros]

Heya friends … you can also put up 2 mic stands to the left and right of you, and put some thick, absorbent fabric or packing blankets up to really absorb the room sound. Also try 2-4" Owens Corning 407 fiberglass wrapped in fabric (or check out Ready Acoustics … excellent cheap room treatment) … this is more important than the mic actually. We also have a short video about this … check out our channel … SecretPros

[PHATBOONER]

"when your recording vocals your not just recording the voice, your also recording every other noise that happens in the room" later on..... "your goal is to record the vocals and nothing else" is it just me or is this a slight contradiction?

[LhalaluvzJanet]

@PHATBOONER lol her point was that you should record in a quiet space

[elcubanito422]

expert village sux and they dont know shit...maybe they are experts............BUT AT AN UNEDUCATED GHETTO VILLAGE =P........like srsly.. and the 61 people who like this video....OMG I FEEL SORRY FOR EM. thumbs up if u agreee X_X

[foamplane]

What did she say her name was?? Chain a Bafoon.... That's sounds about right for, Inexpert village. They really ought to chain that one up, before it tries to move itself into real television.

Where do they find these people from.. I've never seen a less expert mob of morons than they parade in front of us on Expert Village.

Classic example of how to make money from knowing absolutely nothing!!!

[mistagrafix]

lmao @ "where ever you decide to record make sure it can acomodate all your equipment" looool u dont say....

[kink66]

nothing new here simply call it [echo chamber]

[slavesbydesign]

"sounds bounces off of walls" no shit....

[BeatsBySantino]

Get back in the kitchen

[PcRepairz]

ROFL!! How was that how to record... That was more like where to record or "Where to hide if you look like a hideous troll such as her"

[totalyruben]

the closet is the best place for her tbh....

[TSDC2010]

So, ''how to record vocals at home'' doesn't give ANY tips on mics, preamps, compression, doubling vocals or anything else except...... what sort of room the vocals should be recorded it.... really? Also, only an idiot would choose a small room. Visit Sugar Hill studios in Houston Texas. The room that they record vocals in is about the size of a large living room with a 15ft ceiling..... thats not a closet!

[lilbeatch]

wtf is she wearing 0_o

[GuideMeMetal]

This is common sense for the fucking love of god!

All ObviousVillage vids sucks balls.

[ZAZ800]

yeahhh.. thats good. but her dress is... wtf??

[Robergine]

"Make sure you have enough room in your fucking house so you can park yourself somewhere."

NO FUCKING SHIT??

[reggaemisiek]

LOL WUT?!

[mediamanbkk]

She should be on a quiz show answering questions on the fvcking obvious!

[moneyambitions]

this would realy suck if you couldnt read.

[dark00xvox]

moronvillage

[KiddGuap]

does anyone kno where i kan record good vocals at home

[easternbud]

Okay so i am trying to do a cover and i want to have my voice used instead of whoever im covering...like if i did BMTH instead of oli sykes i would want my woice in the song anyone know how to do that?

[RizzoAstronama]

@easternbud Umm get the instrumental of the song and record over it duhhhhh....You must work for expert village don't you?

[slavesbydesign]

@easternbud yeah download Audacity online (it's free) then type into youtube "how to remove vocals with audacity" and it will show you how to get rid of vocals in the song, it works for every song I've tried so far. Which BMTH song are you planning on covering btw? I'm jw because I do covers of them too.

[Samixelo]

Come on guys. I'm sure that these tips help someone who's starting out. It's not like she's telling us false information about the optimal recording environment. And you elitists should consider that not many people want to spend hundreds on soundproofing a room for vocals.

[DTrueAce]

I dont think shes come outta the closet yet lol

[assdrew]

bollocks

[LBProductions511]

omg do you see how her krks are set up... like wtf

[LBProductions511]

@Samixelo yeaaa you deleted your comment because you said "So? She didn't make a statement that she would be a mixing expert, or that she would be a expert of any kind. " and then you realized that the name of this channel is called EXPERTvillage.. haha

[Samixelo]

@LBProductions511 Yeah. Sorry for saying that. If you read the description, it says that she is a home studio engineer for 4 years. She definetly should know how to place her monitors. :P I posted the comment, then read the description, then thought: awww dammit I was wrong..

[ScottyDaSlayer]

Um please call this Video "WHERE TO RECORD VOCALS" doesnt at all say HOW to record them. WTF

[thatswhatisaidyeah]

These are mostly bullshit tips... Take a little effort to make good recordings, unlike this chick is telling you...

[SuperEmu4]

We must close the window when we record the voice! It's very important, uhm, uhm!! :)))))))))) How much villagepeople make me smile!!!!!! oh sorry EXPERTvillage :))))

[boxing661]

good stuff

[AlienTechAudio]

put blankets on the walls? putting blankets on the walls does just about nothing, a real engineer would know that..

[95juggaloman]

NICE!!!!! AFFORDABLE AND GOOD

[MrShoyarite]

tell us somethin we dnt noe

[SMASHDOTFAM]

u look sooooo ugly go and do some beauty shit or work in tescos

[accadaccaVHRATM]

@SMASHDOTFAM way to be sexist, you think women don't know anything about music eh? well this is one person. it's a basic video it's not supposed to be some detailed thing. you don't care for it, go teach yourself, but you're not gonna become famous by learning how to record from youtube!

[endofworldin7days]

This is an good example of "talking about books you haven't read". Not saying that she doesn't know what shes doing (mind you, she probably DOENS'T), its just that anyone else could tell me the same thing.

This video is pure shit. Its so much shit that it makes the bigger pile than the one at the scientology head office. Now thats saying something.

[accadaccaVHRATM]

@endofworldin7days if she was a guy you probably wouldn't have even commented on this video.

[endofworldin7days]

@accadaccaVHRATM what makes you say that? =(

I said what I said based on the contents of the video. Sorry if I am comming across to you as a troll at the moment, but I just don't like being unjustly labelled as "sexist", if that is what you are implying.

Also, if my previous comment has offended you or anyone else (apart from this video and expert village), by comming across as sexist, I would like to add that I did not do so knowingly, and therefore apologize.

[DudasMiska]

yea Ill just use my clothes in my closet to muffle the sound...yea and then ill hold a candle in there to help me see the damn thing, excellent advice

[skyskelton97]

she told us where to record not how to do it.I think i'll try howcast they should have it

[Nitro487]

google chrome sucks.

[FCO0710]

she has a BA in architecture...haha

[kdnh93]

its funny how she talking about getting better sound quality to record and the sound of this video is bad

[rubberritchie]

Great tips. Thanks  x x x

[latitn]

expert village vidios are to short and not enough info

[1lu2ma3ca]

she tought me nothing

[aevans692]

guys seem to give bad comments about this, a lot of recording was done in bath rooms, small rooms and stuff, Joe Meek is just one producer that made a whole recording studio in a small flat in london.. and had Number 1 hits

The beatles recorded a whole album on a four track..

Les Pual did most of his early recordings in a small bedroom using a recorder which he made him self, with marry ford singing in the cupboard.

so maybe have a look in the history books before you pass judgment .

[psychobollox]

spot on!

can't really add anything else.

well said"

[HOSTILEPRODUCTtv]

well said dude

[313EDO]

@aevans692 well thats just the proof that the quality isn't everything...I like Beatles but the sound quality is just horrible...on the other side, back then the equipment was just horribly expensive. Sometimes is the sound out of a bathroom just the right effect. The mostPOPmusic today is just screwed up, the final mix is just horible with the saturation all over. I started to listen some Hungarian orchestral folk music. The recording was probably made with 4 mics but better than enything else.

[wolfhalen]

I recorded a vocal after sifting through her pantie drawer

hhh....hhhh.....mmmm......oh..­.ughhh

:)

[Jeefs]

Look at how the speakers are placed, lmao, those guys got to be real experts

[DeliverLikeUPSTrucks]

LMAO WTF? OMG this is really bad.

[kurei15]

Um.. duh?

[Shemassault]

fuck it, keep em all in the closets!

[boonehawks]

These are just up-start videos that only last a minute or two with limited info for beginners.

But, you're right...to many of these half hearted videos are clogging up the servers?

[bigbigsound]

0:44 "DOOOFFFF"

unwanted nosie anyone?

jesus h raptor christ these vids are lame.

[Briarstudios]

LOLOL

[wolfhalen]

lol at bigbig sound

jesus h raptor christ - ROFL

she is the best instructor, check out tad donley, holy shit

[skatepark02]

Really should of been called "amature village"

[ilovefun321]

PLEASE FOR THE LIFE OF ME STOP PUTTING OUT THESE USELESS VIDEOS WITH WRONG INFORMATION ! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhh

Read a book on audio, any book... even magazines, just don't watch these videos because they are filled with wrong information. She was the "best" instructor so far, and she had NOTHING to give information wise that will help you.

[nmon1]

wrong? whats wrong with it? she is absolutely correct in the fact that unless you want natural reverb of a specific room, than you want to muffle the sound as much as possible to prevent recording ambient noise from ruining the mix. The only thing she is slightly wrong about was room reverb permanently destroying the vocal track. Depending on the levels, you can clean that up, but that was the thing she was wrong about.

[helianimal]

I just can't get over how unbelievably horrible the production of these videos are, the audio in this video is the worst. At least keep the audio levels in the same zip code from clip to clip! These audio "experts" can't manage that?

[helianimal]

Know what these videos remind me of? When i'm in LA Fitness and see some of the girls who are personal trainers.. but it looks like they should be "personally training" someone to win a pie eating competition. You don't deserve to teach or train someone when you need the same training, that's just passing info along.

[da805boy]

If you want good sound invest in acoustic treatment. I read a book about acoustics, and towels and blankets do virtually nothing for the room sound. Also, it is not always desirable to have a "dead" sounding room. It is actually better to have controlled "liveness" in the recording booth, it adds intimacy to the sound instead of taking everything away from it.

[freinelt]

I could clearly see more dresses in the closet. Why is she wearig only this one?

[MrYurul]

WTF who records in a bathroom!

[freinelt]

zum Beispiel die BathroomBrothers (siehe deren YouTube Kanal)

[Lolpezatron]

YOU ARE A REEEEEEEEEEETARD. Yes.

[gayan123cool]

expert village is totaly crap... 1st thr vdos r less than 2 minutes and then wt they r telling is totaly useless. thrs nothing new in these expert village tutorials other than the things every kid knows about home recording.

u can learn a lot more than this from the vdos posted by amatures !!!

this is total shit !!! if u cant produce some quality stuf, why dont u guys quit youtube so we could save our time checking ur dumb vdos???

[freedomnow2012]

LOL!!

[lochnarus]

All of the Expert Village videos SUUUUUCK!!!!

You don't make tutorial videos that are less than 2 minutes with real info.

I swear to god I could do any one of these videos better than this garbage.

[3van1993]

Do It Bro!

We Need A Good Video On Recording Vocals

=D

[accadaccaVHRATM]

@lochnarus yes, see, i agree with you--and it's not the fact that she's a woman that makes them bad, people! it's just the way expertvillage does crud like this!

[DoubleD2kaii10]

@lochnarus , wel said bro! they dont teach anythin! other normal ppl teach better then them!

[2daft4u]

I'd love to bounce her head off a wall, has she listened to the quality of the recording on this posting?

I remember somebody once saying " that person went to the 'school of stating the bleeding obvious". Well she went to the same school I guesse.

[mr4y]

4- By not making a smart cable management, you can induce hum and noise at you rrecords.

5-Not getting into the gain issue for each type of mic.

Sorry for any typos and sentence erros.

Expert village my arse.

[mr4y]

some points:

1- she don't give any info on condenser or dynamic mics.

2-towels and blankets can isolate the sound, but make it sound dead. Building a mobile voice cab is a better investiment.just goole it.

3-Her monitor placement is far from wrong, its horrible. And the KRK USER MANUAL that shure comes with each monitor shows the correct monitor placement.

[LeetDarby]

Hang towels on the walls? This video is terrible...

[kathyb8832]

please comment i record with headsets and it sounds good but there is this hissing noise wat do i do???

[sebavidaurre]

You can hang towels POP or any other thick fabrics POP and also some ZZZXWWZW POP to sound better... NIce job expert village...

[easydp]

no, you can easily get a pop stopper or a sponge end on your mic. sorted, for just a few quid!

[nexusdb]

yeah, hang thin cotton cloth on your wall; that'll do a fine job.

you know, because quality acoustic treatment is the biggest ripoff in the business.

[boogie504]

no kidding, where does this chick get off naming this video " How to build a Professional Vocal Booth and Record Professional Studio Quality Vocals"

[andrewlace]

record in the closet..... that really makes sense. Put towels on the wall, I'm going to build a towel closet that i'm comfortable with. Put some nice murals on the wall. Perhaps even put a light in there.

[xxDLCCxx]

well that was no help !

can any1 tell me a simple way of recording my tracks on the computer that sound clear like what equipment do i need ??

[OsbieCamacho509]

u need a good mic, a condensor mic, filter 4 it, if u have a room or a closet, lol. then get soundproof foam, u need an amp orfirewire digital audio interface to get a good signal 4 tha mic, and set ur mic volume low on the computer to avoid distortion.

[bl33d1ngm42c4ra]

get a decent condensor mic, pad your closed for it. get a preamp for it that is a direct input. hook it all up. and get any program u can to record the wav audio into.

[NoEyedDeer]

Hi this is Shana Bethune and here i am with yet another USELESS video telling you something that you already know in a more simple way.

Seriously, cover something worth doing. Like mic placement, how to get the right sound of an acoustic guitar, different types of mixers ANYTHING. not how to sort out your cables and hanging towels on your wall. people these days.

[t4mil1an]

lmao @ 0.42 - 0.45 she says about hanging clothes to prevent unwanted noise, next thing you hear a POP

[MARTRELL17]

I Record Out MY Room..Am I Supose To Put Blankets up When I Record?? And Should The Be Thick??

[crouchingPIG]

expert alright!

[ultramegadudesupper]

yeaaahhh she totaly RoCKS

[Bradun91]

shes hot i think..

[MusicSpotProduction1]

are you blind

[chickensk]

in expert village you are all "EXPERTS" :D

perfect mess of cables :D

[cptkirkatl]

lol

[veunson]

This housewife obviously got bored after cleaning her house and she had a little extra time before fetching the kids from school.

[ginno1album]

I just think you are hot

[coolbandit111]

I record my vocal while I poop. It gives me the stinky dirty sound I am looking for.

[Aunqs]

lol

[halfbakedhomi]

lmao i love it

[kevintarzandotier]

mmm, i just burned my tongue

[Levsomslav]

Me too!! :)

But I usually do it when recording a love song. It kind of brings out the power and emotion that is deep within.

[goldenpica]

She DOES have a white moustache...

[THHK4]

a yo who da fuck recordin vocals in da bathroom expert village have da funniest videos

[dhump415]

believe it or not there are many artists who record in the bathroom. i know ur not that dense.

[ziadh30]

that was the most useless minute and 26 seconds of my life

[Blackenthecursedsun1]

Haha, I swear I'v learnt more from comments, than the "expert" village videos themselves.

[mcgred]

record your vocals up your vag, thats sound proof

[chilla2]

her monitors were below ear level,and definitely not in a triangle position for mixing.

[LKSkre]

haha i noticed the same thing

[Chanceofthenaturals]

hahahahha

[letterpaper]

useless

[muziqmonster]

I LOVE YOU! haha look at all your spider webs :)

Bon Jovi records the vocals in the kitchen located in their vicious studio. It has hardly no padding, angled glass panes and the vocals are laid down dry.

i saw that on Oprah. hehe

[everardos]

Not helpful!!! Ay senor!  Que tia mas loca! Parece una cabra!

[SmileyReborn07]

This should of been called Where to Record Music At Home LOL

[cursedreject]

a lot of expertvillages tend to stray away from the title :\

[zyruemusic]

What about compressors? That seems to work best in any room