How do you go about recording a music cover video without a fancy shmancy microphone?

CristyTango

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I'd really like to cover some songs eventually, but don't know how to go about doing it. I don't have a fancy microphone. I have a headset with a microphone, but that's as close as it gets. I don't know how to approach this. Help? :crying:
 
Headset would probably be a bit rough to work with trying to record your own cover songs. The best advice I could give is invest in a Blue snowball, it's a cheap studio quality microphone, it's very good for starting out and low budgets, I think it's $50. I currently use one and it's been a lovely Mic, but it's definitely no audio technica
 
I've filmed friends singing with my phone a few times same with my DSLR's mic and my XLR studio set up... honestly if you have a good voice you can sound good with almost any microphone.
 
BecomeAPrime said:
I've filmed friends singing with my phone a few times same with my DSLR's mic and my XLR studio set up... honestly if you have a good voice you can sound good with almost any microphone.
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I would just use my camera, but I've been told the sound isn't that good-unless they meant with my older videos which I didn't know I wasn't supposed to compress them so much, so that effected the quality. I guess I'll just try it out and see what happens and go from there!
 
I rarely see anyone on YouTube using a fancy smancy microphone - everyone is using ones that are like, 1000 or less. I got started with a 30 dollar USB microphone before I upgraded to an audio technica, but if you have a bit more of a budget I'd definitely say a Blue Snowball, Yeti, or MXL008 to get you started. I'd say not to a headset for recording a song, because it'd be really rough on your P and B sounds lol. But yeah - like the previous poster said, a Blue Snowball could work if you want a better sound than your headset.

I also know some people who started just by using their rockband USB mics to start covering stuff, so you have a lot of options in a lot of price ranges :D

I also want to point out - you'll get the best audio quality if you record your audio separately from your video, mix the audio with the backtrack you're using, and then sinc it up with the video. If you want a live coffee shop performance type feel though, then recording yourself singing live would probably be fine :)
 
CrystalD said:
I rarely see anyone on YouTube using a fancy smancy microphone - everyone is using ones that are like, 1000 or less. I got started with a 30 dollar USB microphone before I upgraded to an audio technica, but if you have a bit more of a budget I'd definitely say a Blue Snowball, Yeti, or MXL008 to get you started. I'd say not to a headset for recording a song, because it'd be really rough on your P and B sounds lol. But yeah - like the previous poster said, a Blue Snowball could work if you want a better sound than your headset.

I also know some people who started just by using their rockband USB mics to start covering stuff, so you have a lot of options in a lot of price ranges :D

I also want to point out - you'll get the best audio quality if you record your audio separately from your video, mix the audio with the backtrack you're using, and then sinc it up with the video. If you want a live coffee shop performance type feel though, then recording yourself singing live would probably be fine :)
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I'm a broke a** b**ch haha So I'll probably try out the live thing and keep in mind the options you gave me! ^_^ You have a very nice voice, btw!
 
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