What's your recording process like?

kimchi-tan

Your local Mikotard
Global Mod
Defender of Defoko
1. Get motivated when I'm supposed to be studying/doing homework.
2. Be alone in my tiny room.
3. Close the window.
4. Get my pants or blanket to wrap around my phone.
5. I may or may not forget to drink water.
6. Do what can't even be considered warm-ups to "practice" the tone and voice I want.
7. Record in my dinky little phone
How do you make sure you have a clear sound, stay on pitch, keep the same tone (especially for voiceacting)
I don't and can't :'D
 

Amzsie

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
1. No one is home and Im finally not lazy
2. Open oremo
3. Oremo doesnt work again
4. "Pfft, guess Im not recording"
5. Oremo finally works
6. Suffer (record for much longer than I should)
7. Render out a preview fast! Hurray Im done!

tbh, I love utau and using utau, but I prefer tuning than recording
 

Shasta

Professional Lurker
Global Mod
Defender of Defoko
A typically recording session here at SSLHQ really depends on who is being recorded. Regardless of who is recording, it starts with a couple bottles of water, a few vocal exercised, and some stretching. When it's just me recording, warm ups take about 10 minutes, I can get a one VCV pitch out within a couple of hours, and depending on the room temperature is how much water I go through. After each hour, I take about a 15 minute break for the bathroom, snacks, stretching etc.
Let's say it's Shirley, another member of SSLHQ, we start with about 20 minutes of warming up and stretching, and one VCV pitch takes several hours to get done because I have to monitor everything, help her maintain pitch, tempo, tone, clarity and get samples rerecorded on the spot. We take 30 minute breaks each hour to get more drinks. food, and whatever.
While if it's Raph, another memberof SSLHQ, he does all of his warming up and stretching on his own. We usually do everything while on a discord call, so I'm not sure how much he drinks, but he takes 10 minute breaks every 30 minutes and I dunno what he does during his breaks. I'm there for the same reasons listed above, and it also takes several hours.

We don't use oremo, we're old fashioned and we use audacity. Lmao. At HQ, we have to get our mic and stand adjusted before we start which takes about 10 minutes. We're not sure what Raph does... He just.... Get's it done... (???)
 
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✧ Elfrida ✧

The Space Witch
Defender of Defoko
My recording process is pretty simple

1. make sure the house is either quiet or empty (depending on the voice style the house must be empty)
2. open up audacity
3. listen to the pitch you're recording on and prepare metronome
4. record bank
5 (30min-1hr in) randomly take a break
6. finish recording
7. save project and export the files at a later time cuz you're lazy

I keep water nearby usually, but I don't do vocal warm-ups or do stretches of any kind. I should probably start doing that and preparing better because I sometimes have trouble keeping my recordings consistent.
 

riptunes

Teto's Territory
Defender of Defoko
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OH! Forgot to post my own process:
1. warmups what warmups
2. forgets to get water and has to go get it, make sure no cars or jeeps or tricycles or neighbor's kids making sounds
3. open up audacity and start recording
4. voice slowly gets higher in pitch (wHY)
5. this is why i need to sacrifice a goat to satan
666. give up, try another day

I never get past this, unfortunately U__U
 
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Izua

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
Well, y'see, my ritual is really quite simple:
1: try
2: fail and cry
3: repeat

topkek I'm kidding
I used to record in Audacity but ever since I started toying with the idea of doing multipitches, my friends duped me into starting Oremo, saying it would be easier to use. And it really is in a lot of ways; It's quicker(especially for people like me who will redo the same note at least 5654765 times before I like its outcome enough to move on to the next)and also comes with this handy feature that shows you your pitch target thingy--a line across the screen to help you be sure you stay on the pitch you're aiming for. Without it I would probably never be able to pull off multipitch because I legit cannot identify pitches by ear : )))))

A lot of times when I start to record it's literally on a whim and impulse so I rarely warm up beforehand, but somehow I've survived well enough so far. I like to use Moresampler to oto my VCVs at first just so that I can get a feel for how the finished product will sound long enough for me to decide if I like it enough to actually OTO myself or not(I'm lazy). What comes last, naturally, would be the long grueling process of aliasing and otoing lol
 

RaccoonButler

Founder of The Church of Mawarine Shuu
Defender of Defoko
I record under kinda weird circumstances because I have to record on a chromebook. (The mac I use for utau doesn't belong to me so I can't use it for prolonged periods of time) So no audacity or oremo, just browser based stuff.

What I usually do is:

1. Make sure that the house is quiet and no one is doing laundry (the closet I record in is right next to the laundry room so the washing machine gets in the recordings)
2. Open shitty online voice recorder (or recently Beautiful Audio Editor which I guess is kinda like a shitty browser based version of audacity)
3. Open this online tuner thing https://www.flutetunes.com/tuner/
4. Open reclist as txt file
5. Record for upwards of an hour (I think the longest I've gone is like 3 hours? I have to do everything super slowly because of the programs I use lel)
6. If I used the shitty online voice recorder, it only saves as mp3 so I have to convert all of them but also it's less glitchy than beautiful audio editor)
7. upload everything to google drive and put it on the mac later
8. cry
 

PrinceofHades

A wandering soul
Defender of Defoko
Wow. I feel the pain.
For me, it's:
1. Randomly get inspiration to record when I really need to be doing something else
2. Lock self in bedroom as soon as it gets quiet
3. Have to leave bedroom to get water/tea because warm tea is good for your voice, helpful hint
4. Record multiple banks in OREMO at once because omg when is the next opportunity going to show up?? And yes, those multiple banks are VCV. Shoot me.
5. test banks in UTAU (whilst waiting a thousand years for FRQs to render)
6. cry at the failed banks, coo over the good ones
7. wait for recording inspiration to hit again

EDIT: I noticed a lot of you were having trouble staying on pitch. I did too. I even posted a thread about it, and got lots of helpful advice. You can find it here.
 
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Izua

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
Wow. I feel the pain.
For me, it's:
1. Randomly get inspiration to record when I really need to be doing something else
2. Lock self in bedroom as soon as it gets quiet
3. Have to leave bedroom to get water/tea because warm tea is good for your voice, helpful hint
4. Record multiple banks in OREMO at once because omg when is the next opportunity going to show up?? And yes, those multiple banks are VCV. Shoot me.
5. test banks in UTAU (whilst waiting a thousand years for FRQs to render)
6. cry at the failed banks, coo over the good ones
7. wait for recording inspiration to hit again
I FEEL YOUR PAIN SO HARD
My chances to record come few and far between so when I can I always record huge masses of things in one sitting rip i feel u
 

Tomato Hentai

dont call me a veggie
Defender of Defoko
  1. Spend 10 minutes getting mic to work
  2. Open Audacity
  3. Clear throat, sing "a i a u e a" in different pitches until voice stops sounding rough and like I have strep throat or something
  4. Record <x> string 3-5 times and cut out the recordings that suck, saving the only good one
  5. Repeat step 4 for an hour or so
  6. Eventually get distracted by something else like a weird light outside
  7. Stop recording
  8. Repeat steps 1-7 some weeks later
 
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dezzydream

cv bank enthusiast
Defender of Defoko
*bump*
Here's my process.
1. Tell my family I'm gonna record a voicebank(they get what I mean).
2. Pack up my mic and laptop into my moving truck and go to my grandma's bedroom(because she's always washing clothes in here).
3. Set everything up(plug in mic, put laptop on charger bcs it dies faster than I eat).
4. No warmups bcs I can do that.
5. Pull up my custom reclist.
6. Record my samples.
7. Oto it over the course of a few days(I'm pretty slow at oto'ing CV tbh but its bcs I wanna make it sound good).
 
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HoneyPai

Defoko's Slaves
Defender of Defoko
My ritual/process is
1. Get the feeling of wanting to record
2. Gather my mic and other itema I need and move into the room I record in
3. Set up my mic and pop filter and then open up my laptop and open oremo, let it load while I get water
4. Think about how much I hate Oremo on macs.
5. Move myself and the computer into my recording closet
6. Traditionally accidentally hit my head/glasses on my suspended pop filter.
7.set my file save folder and open up the pitch keeper in oremo.
That's about it
 

kamonohashi

a small person
Defender of Defoko
1. Decide I want to record
2. Make sure it's quiet enough that I can/I won't be told to do anything for awhile
3. Turn off fan
4. Grab blanket to cover myself, my computer, and my microphone with
5. Record
6. Put blanket back on bed
7. Turn fan back on
8. Put unfinished bank in UTAU

that's basically what I do
 

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