Part 1…

Okay, so you created a great track. Wrote a killer melody and lyrics, so now you want to record some vocals to create your masterpiece.

Well, nothing beats a great singer. If you know someone who can really rock your song, it is worth almost anything to persuade him/her to sing it for you. A great singer recorded with a laptop mic beats a bad singer recorded in a world class studio any day.

Once you have found your singer, you need a little bit of gear to get a great sound out of you talent. In reality any microphone will do the trick, but there is quite a difference between a built-in laptop mic and a vintage neumann tube microphone going through a first-class preamp.

But you can get world-class results with far less than a 10,000 dollars microphone.

If I were to built a nice little starter setup today, here is what I would get:

1 – USB soundcard with buit-in preamp like the 130 dollars M-audio MobilPre USB Interface with Preamp. Reviews here..

2 – The 100 dollars Condencer Microphone Audio-Technica AT2020. Reviews here..

3 – Your favorite free audio software like Cubase LE or Garageband

So about 230 dollars will buy you enough hardware to get you started recording world-class vocals assuming you already have a computer.

Next time I will show you how to setup your software to get a great sound.

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