How to record voice
- 1. How to record a voice Trent Ryan Katzenberger
- 2. Hello! My name is Trent Ryan Katzenberger. I am a student in the Introduction to Music Production class presented by Coursera.org just like yourself and my lesson this week will be a tutorial on how to record voice. It's a fairly straight forward process.
- 3. Make sure your mic and computer are handy as well as any device or devices you may need to hook them up to each other. If you have a USB microphone plug it into your PC or if you have a microphone that needs to be run through an interface of some kind attach the microphone to the interface and then connect that to your computer.
- 4. Next confirm that your computer has recognized your hardware and open up your DAW. Make sure that your DAW also recognizes your equipment. I am using Ableton Live 8. If you go into preferences you can check if it has registered your equipment. There should be a similar option in your program of choice. The next screen is an example of what it should look like if it is working properly. The section that I have circled is what indicates that it has recognized my microphone.
- 6. Create a new audio track in your DAW and bring your cursor to the beginning of your track and hit the play button and then record. Sing or speak into your mic and when you’re done give it a couple of seconds and hit the pause button. This should stop the track. The next slide will again be an example of this in Ableton.
- 8. Now listen to what you have recorded. Make sure it turned out like you wanted it to. At this point you have a couple of options. You can either use what you have now as a clip and edit it and save it as a project to work on later or you can render it out as an audio file if it is complete and ready for distribution! Either way you are done! Congratulations! You've successfully record the human voice!