I'm planning on entering the music industry but I'm still an amateur in recording though I've been playing music (studios, stages, competitions, anywhere I can play) since 12 years ago. Below are two songs that I've finally manage to record quite well with the help of:
Audacity - recording + gverb effect for drums
Rakarrack - Vocal, Guitar and Bass, because I only have one acoustic guitar and one electric guitar
I need some tips on vocal recording. Above songs are recorded with vocal being output of rakarrack (with acoustic effect), so:
Vocal -> Rakarrack -> Audacity
Should it be recorded plain then the effect is applied afterwards like:
Vocal -> Audacity -> Audacity plugin
?
leledumbo wrote:I'm planning on entering the music industry but I'm still an amateur in recording though I've been playing music (studios, stages, competitions, anywhere I can play) since 12 years ago. Below are two songs that I've finally manage to record quite well with the help of:
Audacity - recording + gverb effect for drums
Rakarrack - Vocal, Guitar and Bass, because I only have one acoustic guitar and one electric guitar
I need some tips on vocal recording. Above songs are recorded with vocal being output of rakarrack (with acoustic effect), so:
Vocal -> Rakarrack -> Audacity
Should it be recorded plain then the effect is applied afterwards like:
Vocal -> Audacity -> Audacity plugin
?
You're wasting your time on Audacity. You need a DAW. And yes, it's best to record everything clean and apply effects later (in a proper DAW this is a completely non-destructive process, so you're free to tweak and fiddle until you're satisfied).
Well, of course I recommend Non, but any DAW would be better suited to such work than Audacity.
Oh my, this is a big shift in paradigm. It seems to provide a lot of time saving functionality, gotta learn. Anyway, in theory, since it only contains changes to the original audio (much like a modern version control system), it should eat less disk space, right? Because it's actually one of the things that bugging me with Audacity.
Well, of course I recommend Non, but any DAW would be better suited to such work than Audacity.
Oh my, this is a big shift in paradigm. It seems to provide a lot of time saving functionality, gotta learn. Anyway, in theory, since it only contains changes to the original audio (much like a modern version control system), it should eat less disk space, right? Because it's actually one of the things that bugging me with Audacity.
Right. Audacity has to store some number of copies of your audio data greater than 1 in order to provide its 'undo' functionality--and this does use up a lot of disk space. In a non-destructive editor like a DAW, the original audio is never copied or changed and effects are applied in realtime during playback/rendering. There is a place in the world for sample editors such as Audacity, but it is not multi-track recording/composition such as what you are attempting.
