Where to Record Vocals: Becoming a Music Producer

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Larry Hammel, singer, songwriter, engineer and producer of Deep Waves Studio here in New York City and on behalf of Expert Village, I would like to welcome you to how to produce a recording artist. Recording singers can take place anywhere but to really maximize it you need a sonically isolated enclosure. We have our vocal drum booth and we use this basically; its tuned that we get a very very neutral sound out of it except the vocalist can reside. This is the singer's world and you want to create this world for the singer so you make them as comfortable as possible. A few various things that you wanted to do is provide them with some water or some room temperature liquid, a music stand, the cue system right here is a box which they will use to set up their own mix, a set of close-back headphones is extremely important so that there is no leakage into the microphones and that they can hear themselves. You want to set that up so that it is very important that they hear what is going on and that they are not fighting the mix. Microphone setup is key as well. The way you adjust them and set them up height wise and things like that all attribute to how the singer will perform in the isolation booth."