Continuation Of "The Backing Track Vocal Recording Guru" - "How To Choose The Right Track To Sing"

I left the question open on my last entrance to this blog of "how to find the right song to sing". I am going to suggest three important features that you should consider when choosing your songs.

1st, and in my opinion most important is that you select the right key and to do this you will need to know what is your best key to sing in, we shall go into that on my next entry to this blog.

2nd, and this may take a little experimentation to find the right genre, a song that you feel will allow you to let your emotions in.

3rd, Although you will want to test yourself stamina and energy play a bit part of achieving a good recording so consider the lenth of your song.

From the right key point of view http://www.soundback.co.uk/ supply samples of their tracks before you purchase so you might want to keep this in mind.

Importance Of Backing Track Selection - From - "www.soundback.co.uk"

OK the Guru has given you advice on  techniques with microphones along with how to and what to use when choosing them to get the best recording possible, of course this can only be achieved if the right song is selected, we need to progress on so I will ask this question, what would you say would be a priority when choosing a backing track to record your vocal onto.
I will leave this question open for a while so as to get you thoughts on the matter. You may leave your thoughts in the comments area.
You can of course look through the www.soundback.co.uk catalogue for you question's ideas.

Backing Track Selection for Recording - "From www.soundback.co.uk"

OK so the Guru has taken you through several techniques on microphones both with how to use and what to use to get a quality recording. Of course this can only be achieved if the right song is selected to record your vocal onto. What might you think is important when you make your selection.....?
I will leave this question open for a while so that I can get some of your ideas in the comments area as to what you think is important.

Continuation of Microphone education by "The Backing Track Vocal Recording Guru"

Well after many pieces of advice over the months I hope that it has all been worthwhile and that the advice has been of a benefit. The advice has been sponsored by www.soundback.co.uk and will be updated regularly. With technology changing and supposedly improving with time it is very important that you can use modern Mic Tech to try to re-create an older sound I as the Vocal Recording Guru have never found up to this point a successful way of doing this and use my experience of where possible to use the original Microphone that was used on the original recording to find out how to do that find out in the next blog by the "The backing Track Vocal Recording Guru" sponsored by www,soundback.co.uk.

Soundback Mic workshop - Continued

"In my next blog on the subject I will delve deeper in microphone identification" Those were the words that were written in my last entry to this blog.

O,k so identify the right microphone for the job is a matter more for the experienced that the novice as I would suggest 85% of the decision would have been made by trial and error.
How do you get it right first time? well I can only give my suggestion to you and that is to read, magazines,articles and blogs such as this one.

So lets hear some opinions from you producer/engineers out there how many of you would suggest a microphone for recording in an environment lets say Deep Rain Forest that is also being filmed.

How To Identify Settings Cont.

To Identify microphone settings the best anenue to take would be to check with the makers supplied info sheets this will advice you how to get the best from the Microphones frequency responces. remember Cardioid, Hyper-Cardioid and Omni I will explain the difference in my next blog entry.

Identifying microphone settings

O'k we have in our hand all of the equipment needed to make a decent recording out in the open air of lets say for arguments sake a specific Frog that is croaking away with many other Frog of a different species. How do we go about making sure that the croaking of the Frog were are wanting to priorities is at the forefront of the recording and not lost in the background.

For the answer to this follow this blog.Cardoid

Free Advice - Continuation of Wilderness Recording

To follow on from the advice given yesterday by the Backing Track Vocal Recording Guru on microphones and their settings for outside wilderness recordings.

We established in the last blog that the setting on microphones are very important for capturing a quality recording on all formats so how do you know what the right settings are.

This is where the Guru comes in, let him know your recording enviroment what equipment you have available and a time scale if there is one and the Guru will give an opinion on the best way to achieve the best result.

Wilderness Recording - "Info@The Backing Track Vocal Recording Guru"

It's been a while since my last entry on this blog but now I have had a request to make a few comments about the technique of recording in the wilderness.

By the wilderness I will presume to be outside in the open air with many different environments to contend with.

I will always revert to the basic requirement for good recording and that will be that the quality and type of microphone needed to capture the true sound at a volume that can be stored on a medium so that playback will be as close to the original as possible.

Multiple settings on microphones would be advisable in most instantses so that all around sound plus hyper directional can be achieved at the flick of a switch.

In my next plog on the subject I will delve deeper in microphone identification.