How to Produce Music at Home

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"How to produce your own music at home. You definitely before you want to do that, you definitely want to figure out where you are going to record if you live with other people, you might be a little hesitant to be recording your hard core vocals in your bedroom. And when you have parents next door or like you have roommates cause it does kind of get a little, you get self conscious to say the least and you don't want to be, or especially when you are like recording like harmony so you don't want to be singing weird harmonies and different vocal parts when your roommates are listening next door so you want to be maybe find a room that you can actually go in and record and keep that in mind before you start thinking about recording. Unless you of course you don't care. Which hey, more power to you. Recording vocals is, there's certain things when you record vocals you want to maybe find a closet or some place that's a little more closed then a giant room. You want to have, a lot of people record in the shower or in the bathroom. They'll set up a microphone right in the shower and they'll record. I've recorded my vocals in the bathroom. There's a kind of a natural reverb or a natural kind of acoustic sound that you get from recording in a small space like a bathroom. And that's why they do it. Or if you don't have that space if you don't have a small area to record in, you can set up your microphone with your back to a corner and as long as you have your back to a corner you can get a little more power and a little more focus into the mic, with standing with your back to a corner. So you got your equipment that you'll need which will be a microphones, definitely vocal mics, specific vocal mic. Your other instruments, you need something to record into whether it be a computer system, software program, you got your download that free off the internet. There's different, websites actually offer it free. And or you know there's different sound boards that you can record into. You don't need software. You don't need a computer to record music. So you've got all your instruments, all your mics, your recording software and that's pretty much all you need to record."