What's your recording process like?

riptunes

Teto's Territory
Defender of Defoko
Any rituals, things you do before you get started, prayers to the vocal gods

How do you make sure you have a clear sound, stay on pitch, keep the same tone (especially for voiceacting)

Basically what do you do before and during the time you make a voicebank!
 

Kuro Cure

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
First I start with vocal warmups, then I listen to a bunch of covers to see what kind of bank I want to do, then I record! I usually finish 2-3 pitches per sitting, but lately, I've been relatively attention deficit xD
 

Animé Fan

Head of the Shonen Academy
Defender of Defoko
I always make sure I've eaten and drank enough and wait at least 5-10 minutes before I start recording. The same process applies during food and drink breaks while recording. If I record shortly after a water break, my voice won't be consistent.

Since CVs are generally short and simple, I do long recordings for each vowel sets (e.g. a's, e's, etc). But with other formats, I do the traditional method and record the samples one at a time. Since I do vocal impressions, the recording process varies on the type of voice I'm using.
 

riptunes

Teto's Territory
Defender of Defoko
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First I start with vocal warmups, then I listen to a bunch of covers to see what kind of bank I want to do, then I record! I usually finish 2-3 pitches per sitting, but lately, I've been relatively attention deficit xD
How long does that take you? :00 and the covers thing is awesome!

selling ur soul
Really thorough description thank you! (Do you ever need to pee mid-session because of all the water?)

I always make sure I've eaten and drank enough and wait at least 5-10 minutes before I start recording. The same process applies during food and drink breaks while recording. If I record shortly after a water break, my voice won't be consistent.

Since CVs are generally short and simple, I do long recordings for each vowel sets (e.g. a's, e's, etc). But with other formats, I do the traditional method and record the samples one at a time. Since I do vocal impressions, the recording process varies on the type of voice I'm using.
I'm interested to hear what your process for any vocal impression is like for say, a solid/vivid sounding bank (using append terms because I dont know how else to describe them)
 
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Kuro Cure

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
If I get free time, I'll record what I actually sound like when I'm trying to figure out a tone to record, hehe. And by that I mean //side eyes at my mom wondering when she's gonna go out again//
 

riptunes

Teto's Territory
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If I get free time, I'll record what I actually sound like when I'm trying to figure out a tone to record, hehe. And by that I mean //side eyes at my mom wondering when she's gonna go out again//
That would be super helpful, thanks! I'd love to hear it!
 

IrisFlower

Precious Flower with Thorns
Supporter
Defender of Defoko
My process is something like:
1. Have a glass of water nearby, take a sip or two and clear the throat first.
2. Make sure my dog is either a)not nearby or b)is in a spot where she won't shake making her collar jingle lol
3. Open up all necessary programs and plug mic in
5. Some kinda vocal warmup that doubles as a mic check
6. Record!!
7. Assume something goes wrong at this point. It can be anything really. Dogs barked. Files don't sound like they should. Someone came home. Whatever.
8. Recording Attempt #2
9. Usually things are good enough now and it's time to actually oto and test.
10. Rinse repeat after a break if applicable.

I don't make a habit of pushing myself during recording because it's not worth it; I like to keep things pretty relaxed. So I tend not to do more than 2 sessions in one sitting and most sessions don't last longer than an hour and a half. Shortest ones are like 15 minutes. And my dogs always do something to either contaminate or interrupt my recording so I tend to plan things around them most of all lol
 

Animé Fan

Head of the Shonen Academy
Defender of Defoko
I'm interested to hear what your process for any vocal impression is like for say, a solid/vivid sounding bank (using append terms because I dont know how else to describe them)
My UTAU D.T.'s GOLD Append is proof of how I recorded a strong, two-pitch CVVC voicebank with this process. Otherwise, doing such voices is generally difficult with my brothers playing PC games and yelling in the back.
 

Zephyr

Glitter and Death
Defender of Defoko
Oh, as for recording times.
CV - 4-5 minutes.
CVVC - 3-4 minutes.
VCV - 12-16 minutes.

Naturally 1 pitch. I don't do vocal warmups because im irresponible and shouldn't be allowed to record.
I also don't take breaks in the middle of pitchs. I only stop when 1 pitch is fully complete.
 

Hazu パワ

Weeaboo yet not Weeaboo
Defender of Defoko
I first do random singing to find the voice I'm looking to record for(after I have water at the ready and make sure the room is at a decent temperature)- I then test my mic to see if it's plugged up correctly. If it's VCV I'm most likely going to try to do it in one go and only take me about 30mins-1h for one pitch.
 

Hazu パワ

Weeaboo yet not Weeaboo
Defender of Defoko
I first do random singing to find the voice I'm looking to record for(after I have water at the ready and make sure the room is at a decent temperature)- I then test my mic to see if it's plugged up correctly. If it's VCV I'm most likely going to try to do it in one go and only take me about 30mins-1h for one pitch.
Forgot to mention that I speed up by instinct while recording so sometimes I have to stop and realize it and then try to slow down again. If I get the same things wrong repeatedly there's a huge rage(I think I literally cried once)- My game rages are no where near my recording rages. : X
 

CarrotBunz

Trash
Defender of Defoko
  1. Get motivated
  2. Forget to warm up or warm up badly
  3. Try to record in oremo
  4. Give up for a min
  5. Repeat 3
  6. Finish
  7. Either dislike the outcome and repeat 3 and 4, or leave it alone for an hour or so
  8. Repeat
But seriously i really need to warm up better before i record
 

MillyAqualine

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
1) Wait I'm alone at home with no one around me
2) Be in a place where I avoid as much echo as possible (generally my room, but if I can't, then I have to exile myself in the dinner room)
3) Be sure I've closed all windows and doors (especially if I perform a shouting or a powerful VB )
4) I do warm-up by singing songs along with original singers
5) If I get my throat dry I drink, otherwise I don't eat or drink (except if I was recording albine's VB, I'd do it right after having finished lunch, especially if I was eating ice cream nor drank a glass of cold milk at 4:00pm but now I don't necessarily need to do it systematically)

Again there are times where I don't need to do warm-ups and I can launch directly, but I prefer to do it to avoid straining and feel more confident


I generally record in the afternoon to avoid any disturbance and if I'm sickish I don't record because I've done this while having a cold and it sounded really gross once in the program (and my voice already sounds gross when ti's normal)


And It's the same process for my covers
 
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WendytheCreeper

(>☉ ͡ヮ☉<)
Defender of Defoko
  1. Find a rare, perfect opportunity where there are no humans in the house/room
  2. Forget about warm up (gdi)
  3. Turn off heaters and fans and the television
  4. Squawk into microphone and hope I don't sound bad
  5. ???
  6. Profit Or, alternatively, decide I hate the recordings and start all over
After I record, I make sure to do some noise removal to prevent any of that awkward background noise stuff from getting in the way. You can actually batch process samples in Audacity!
 

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