Recording

Recording might look like a manual job. But it is one of the most critical and creative task too. We've passed the days where all instruments and vocals would be recorded at the same time. Agreed that recording an orchestra live is more organic way of producing music. However, with more audience with better music knowledge and more ears looking for more detailed and fresh sounds, demand for sound quality has raised many times. With more crisp and sonic quality of sound expected at every corner of your music, it has become essential every single instrument needs to be recorded with more focus and dedicated effort.

So every musician / recording engineer would figure out his/her own process of recording to render the music with great detail. When it comes to me, I've come up with things that work for me. I record one instrument at a time Or one voice at a time. This helps to work on each instrument/voice with more focus, dedication and passion. To me, vocal recording is the most critical recording in your music. Get it right everything else would follow.

When it comes to vocal recording, you can pull out a lots of technical tips all around the web. Here are some basic non-technical tips that I use for my own self.

* Before recording, understand the lyrics completely.
* Try to sing without seeing the lyrics.
* While singing, keep your timing and be in the pitch. And then just focus on the lyrics. Don't listen to additional music.
* Use minimal BGM tracks for recording (may be simple percussion, chord & bass tracks). More tracks on headphone could diverse the focus.
* Sing as if you sing a solo song in front of your best audience ever.

There could be many more. I would add them as I get them.