Here are some tricks to get a better vocal sound. Money investing is not needed, and the time spent is low. You do not have to struggle to record or post-produce a better track. Just a couple of techniques will help.

There are all kinds of pop screens out there in the market. The old school one, which you may need a boom arm to get installed. Or the U-shape pop filter, which can be mounted on the microphone body. But all those reduce the plosive sound, like B and P, and the aspirated air blowing toward the microphone. If there is too much sibilance in your voice, the pop screen will also help to filter it out.

If you do not bother to get a pop filter, another trick is to talk a little off-axis to the microphone. So that capsule will not receive the direct breath blowing to ruin your track with the cracking noise.

It is the relation between the amount of sound picked up by the microphone and the range from the mic to the mouth. The more you put into the microphone, the more it captures and the more low-end-frequency sound it brings out.

If you are not doing broadcast or voice-over, in which case you need that deeper and warmer sound, you had better not get really close to the microphone. Because the issue of sibilance and cracking will exacerbate over time.

And if you are recording something huge and do not want the blasting, it really makes sense to back up. So you should be aware of the distance from the mic to your mouth. This can be an obvious advantage you could take or a deadly culprit you should be aware of.

If you do not set the volume level appropriately, you are going to mess up your sound. It’s better to keep it a bit low from what you expect and pay attention to the level indicator so that it does not go from green to yellow and turn red. Then your signal to noise ration will be kept very low.

Besides avoiding distortion, the other upside of keeping volume low is that you can always boost your level later, so it is better to record on the conservative side to make sure the volume is not too loud. And then increase volume after.

There are way too many to choose from. MP3 is the most familiar but also known as a lossy format, which means it discards some information from the source. Some of you may be dissatisfied with the lossy audio, the export the track as an uncompressed format, like WAV. will be a better choice.

But it is not set in stone to be WAV. Different audio formats make things more optimized for different types of users. Just make sure you choose the lossless compressed formats.

Simple technique but really makes the difference. If you would like to suggest any other useful methods, feel free to contact us!