What mike to buy for singing at home?
A dynamic microphone with an interface and closed hearing aids are more useful to be singing at home. We explain how best to have a capacitor.
To sing at home, in a room with no acoustic treatment, the most useful option is often a cardioid dynamic microphone Connected to an audio interface with closed hearing aids. It gets your voice and leaves out a good share of the noise from the house and from the street. A condenser mike gives more details but also records the echo from the room and every background noise, so it shines into a quiet and somewhat treated space.
Before you buy, define what you want it for: practice, record, take virtual classes or all at once. It's not the same, and for some of those things you don't even have to have a bug.
To sum up
- To practice technique you do not have to have a microphone: the voice works with an acoustic.
- To record and take virtual classes, a dynamic cardioid microphone is the most tolerant with noisy rooms.
- The capacitor needs a phantom power of 48 volts, more care and a quiet room.
- A direct monitoring interface lets you listen to you without delay.
- He sings with closed and cable hearing aids: The Bluetooth have been delayed and they are no good for singing about a track.
First, what do you need him for?
| Objective | Do you need a bug? | The least that works |
|---|---|---|
| To practice technical and repertoire | No | Your voice and a mirror and his cell phone to get you once and for all |
| Record to listen to your progress | No at first | The cellphone recorder about a foot away, in a room with little echo |
| Virtual singing classes | That's quite a help. | A dynamic microphone or USB and cable hearing aids |
| Record covers or models | Yes | Microphone, audio interface, closed hearing aids and a recording program |
| Singing with track at meetings or events | Yes | A dynamic hand microphone and a speaker or amplifier |
A mike doesn't improve tuning and breathing: amplifies what you already do. That's why the technique goes first. [vocal warming exercises]](/blog/ejercicios-de-calentamiento-vocal) and classes are the basis, and the mike is the tool to better listen and show your voice to your teacher with clarity.
Dynamic or capacitors
| Aspecto | Dynamic | Condensador |
|---|---|---|
| Sensibilidad | Minor: gets about everything about them | High: get details and also room |
| Background noise | That's a good place out. | He searches buses, dogs, refrigerator and echo |
| Food | No need | 48 V phantom from interface, or integrated if USB |
| Resistencia | Very high and damp resistant | More sensitive |
| Range of use | Close to his mouth, a few centimeters | A little further with an anti-pop filter |
| Ideal for | Untreated quarters, virtual classes, live singing | Record in a quiet and treated space |
In both cases, look for a pattern cardioid or supercardioid: He captures above all that's at the front and rejects what's coming from back. To his voice, the most widely used capacitors are those with great diaphragm.
Keep in mind the proximity effect: The more you get closer to a directional microphone, the more serious capture. Use it to your favor if your voice sounds thin and get a little closer if it sounds pounding.
USB or interface microphone
A USB bug will connect directly to the computer and bring everything with them: it's the easiest way for virtual classes and basic recordings. A XLR bug with an audio interface, a box that converts the sign and connects to the computer. It's an additional step but allows you to change the bug later without changing everything, and the same bug will help you to connect it to a speaker or to a tidal.
What to check with an audio interface
- At least an entry XLR with preamplifier and gain knob.
- Fantum power of 48 V, if you ever wear a capacitor.
- A hearing aids with its own volume monitoring.
- I'm monitoring directly, listening to you without passing through the computer.
- Compatibility with your computer: computer, tablet or cell phone, and the latter usually require an adapter.
The delay matter more than it looks: listening to your own voice with a second fraction of delay mistipates and makes you define. The direct monitoring of the interface resolves it.
Headphones: closed and cable
- Closed: They prevent the track from leaking into the mike while you are filming. Open ones are comfortable to listen to but their sound goes down on the recording.
- Of a power > 0,5 kW but < 0,5 kW: The Bluetooth are late and they are useful for listening to music, not for singing about a track and monitoring you.
- ComesThat they have an ear around them and have no tighten up, because you're gonna have them for a while.
- with an ear free: Many singers withdraw a side of their hearing aids to listen to their natural voice in their room and better tuning them. Test them.
Keep the volume moderate. If you put up your hearing aids to listen to you above the track, you tend to sing more strongly and to get his voice tiresome. how to care for the voice We're talking about that kind of habit.
How to get his best at home
- Put the mike on a foot, and while you have a record, you avoid handling noise and keep your distance constant.
- Use an anti-pop filter with the capacitor to soften p and b.
- Adjust the gain singing the toughest part of your song: the light of the interface should not get red. It's better to record a little low than saturated.
- Choose the place from the room: A closet with a rough suit, curtains or bed with less echo. Avoid singing to a naked wall or an empty corner.
- Close windows and put out fans, and in a town as Bogotá, the noise of the street goes through with ease.
- Listen with hearing aidsThat's about how I feel about your computer phone phone and how I feel about how I feel about your phone and how I feel about it.
For virtual singing classes
In a virtual class, what most changes the experience isn't a sophisticated microphone but an application configuration. The video-laminated platforms are made to speak and tend to cut long notes and volume changes. It activates the original sound or music mode and deactivates noise suppression and [equipment for virtual music classes].](/blog/equipo-para-clases-virtuales-de-musica-camara-microfono) We explain how.
Due to the delay with the internet, you and your teacher cannot play or play at exactly the same time. The teacher usually shares with you his track or his accompaniment and you sing about his and his face with hearing aids so that his track doesn't come back with his and his microphone. If you're thinking about starting with his [singing classes]](/clases/canto) you can choose from virtual and at home.
Common mistakes while buying
- To buy a capacitor for a noisy and echo room.
- Record with an integrated karaoke microphone with an integrated speaker: it serves to have fun, and not to listen to you with details.
- Sing with Bluetooth hearing aids.
- Forget about the microphone foot and cable: without them, the equipment's bad.
Frequently asked questions
Can I have virtual singing classes without an outside mike?
Yeah. Many students start with computer or phone and hearing aids. To figure out how to get better and better with an application and how to get better and better with a better and better sound and with an outsider and with more clarity or a better record.
What's best to start with, a USB or an interface bug?
If you just want virtual classes and simple recordings, USB's useful. If you're serious about recording, singing live or changing a microphone later, an interface-growing XLR bug grows with you.
How far from the mike should I be singing?
With a dynamic, a few centimeters, with a capacitor, a little farther, about a quarter, with an anti-pop filter in the middle. Just listen: if it sounds a little tipsy, get back and if it sounds far and with echo, come closer.
Do a good mike make me better at singing?
It makes you sound clear and no more tuned. The tuning, breathing and buzzer are worked with technique and the mike only gets what you do.