Recordin Slump

[shotgun]

What up, i been in a huge recording slump the last couple of months.

It seems like whenever i lay down a track i cant feel it the same way i spit it to myself. Like it sounds like im comin off different.

I try mixing it because i think it might sound better when it is mixed but it sounds distorted and muddy and like shit.

I dont kno it might be a mixture of me, mixing, and my equipment.

if yall could help me thatd be great

i can post some new acapellas if that will help yall.

one

 

[Relic]

Well the problem is a couple things I would bet.
1- What you hear in your head and what comes out isnt always the same.It takes alot to be able to do that , and if you are the artist and the producer and the engineer that takes alot out of you.
2- we all hit slumps..Itll come back.Go bang some stuff you did that you like for awhile.

 

[open mind]

when u record your voice make sure u hear yourself on the headphones to hear how it come out like an instrument player hears his instruments u know to get a feel.also make sure it dont clip or distort before recoding speak some loud shit and see where it hits and stay under -5db more or less.but at any cost under 0db.

also dont process fx to your vocals to hard it will sound like a dude from mars or sumtin haahah

 

[Ash Holmz]

What up, i been in a huge recording slump the last couple of months.

It seems like whenever i lay down a track i cant feel it the same way i spit it to myself. Like it sounds like im comin off different.

I try mixing it because i think it might sound better when it is mixed but it sounds distorted and muddy and like shit.

I dont kno it might be a mixture of me, mixing, and my equipment.

if yall could help me thatd be great

i can post some new acapellas if that will help yall.

one

happens to evrybody .. its a phase ... u get over it ... evrybody hates there voice when they first hear themselves on playback... ur voice actaully sounds alot diffrent then the way u "think" u sound in ur head ... plus being in the booth is diffrent then spittin out on tha street .. its just an enitrley diffrent thing... the redlights on, you got headphones, u cant move around as much and get into ur performance, u realize how much breath it takes to complete ur verse etc....... just keep at it ... study ur voice after u record... after analyzing my shit... one day i realized i was "shouting" my ryhmes instead of rapping them ... i was trying so hard to get an aggressive sound that i actually lost all of the "body" my voice had and ended up souding like i had weak voice ( which i dont) ... now i know how to control the tone of my voice and control my inflections ... rapping is all about control... sometimes by toning things down u end up sounding more aggressive


other thing i cant stress enough is proper mic selection .. everyones voice is diffrent so it pays to pick a mic that matches the type of voice u have. for example if u have a deep voice that already sounds thick, u dont want a dark sounding mic because it will make u sound muddy, u want a bright, faster, aggressive sounding mic that will give ur vocals top end presecence .. if u have a thinner, high pitched voice u def do not want to use a bright mic because it will just make u sound even thinner..in that case u want a thicker, slower, duller sounding mic to give ur voice more body ...

 

[Relic]

Again great advice...

 

[Quality]

happens to evrybody .. its a phase ... u get over it ... evrybody hates there voice when they first hear themselves on playback... ur voice actaully sounds alot diffrent then the way u "think" u sound in ur head ...

other thing i cant stress enough is proper mic selection .. everyones voice is diffrent so it pays to pick a mic that matches the type of voice u have. for example if u have a deep voice that already sounds thick, u dont want a dark sounding mic because it will make u sound muddy, u want a bright, faster, aggressive sounding mic that will give ur vocals top end presecence .. if u have a weaker, high pitched voice u def do not want to use a bright mic because it will just make a sound thinner..in that case u want a thicker, duller sounding to give ur voice more body ...

That is one of the reasons that I didn't start writing rhymes until not to long ago. I knew that my voice sounds a lot deeper then I thought, so I didn't want to hear my voice that deep when it didn't sound like that in my head. But I just got over it and started to write.

Also, thanks for the tips on the mics. I need to buy a mic pretty soon, and it looks like that I'm going to buy a faster, aggressive mic.