What's your recording process like?

Arissa

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
1. Wait until it's nightime(When my Dad's at work for weekdays or asleep for weekends) and prepare my laptop
2. Prepare Oremo
3. Have a drink handy
4. Practice the voice and pitch I'm going to do
5. Destroy vocal cords Record
-Take drink breaks if needed
6. Deal with the aftermath, a full unoto'd voicebank
7. Question my future
 
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mallowkey

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
1. decide i want to record (either seriously or for the lolz)
2. figure out when i'd be alone and schedule myself for that accordingly
3. get my earphones ready
4. put the reclist and audacity side by side
5. get panicky whenever i hear even the slightest sounds and suddenly stop audacity
6. replay it just to hear if the noise got in
7. realize it was only getting your voice the entire time so you just wasted audio footage you dingus
8. regret everything and just lie on the floor
9. idk record i think
10. cut cut cut
11. save save save
12. regret regret regret
 

수연 <Suyeon>

Your friendly neighborhood koreaboo trash
Supporter
Defender of Defoko
Pre-record:
1. Pick a laptop to use.
2. Hook up the UR12
3. Position said laptop where I have access without too much fan noise.

Record:
1. Open up Mixcraft
2. Load any random song to practice singing the tone I want (usually in the target language to get pronunciation reinforced)
3. Start a new project with 1 track and open GTune.
4. Load reclist/make reclist
5. Record. Stop to drink. Re-record if the dog, animals outside, cars, etc. make noise.
6. Put finished files through audacity to silence voiceless areas.
7. Oto
8. Run through a ust
9. Render and mix
10. Die
 

Soursop the fruit

✧ Fruity & Happy ✧
Defender of Defoko
1. Waits for family to go outside
2. Plug-in mic and move it around so it won't make loud buzz sound
3. Open Audacity & reclist
4. Get a water, record loudly like a boss
5. Use 'noise reduction'
6. Re-record the recorded sound w/ pc, just to make it louder w/o voice distortion
7. Export, generate and .oto
8. check samples, .oto again
9. and .oto again
 

ReticentResolve

Ancient Master of Filibustering
Supporter
Defender of Defoko
1. Charge my tablet and go somewhere quiet.
2. Open Audacity.
3. Record several samples at once.
4. Use mild Noise Reduction.
5. Save the big .wav file and sort later.
Result: 200 some samples.
(I record binge pretty bad)

Step 6. Die because of strain on vocal cords. Since I've only recently recorded a voicebank in my natural voice, it starts getting hard to talk after recording. Especially after ones like Kamui (High and nasal) and Albert (Low AF).
 
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SparkyPsychc

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
1.Wait for noise to go away
2.Kiss the webcam mic
3.Record
4.Take a break because dad is moving and throwing things like crazy
5.Record
6.Re-record because of my little brothers shouting
7.Rage quitting because of birds chirping in the background

But yeah thats literally me when recording my upcoming voicebank.
 

lunari162

Defoko's Slaves
Defender of Defoko
0: I am the opposite of a process
1. Get motivation out of absolutely nowhere
2. Explain to my parents why I have to close the door again
3. Close the door
4. Mess around with my microphone until my computer recognizes it
5. Open the door again to go and get water (I wasn't doing this at first oops)
6. Talk a bit to see if the mic's working (just kidding, it's because I still don't want to record)
7. ???
8. Presto! A small part of a VCV pitch and a heck of a lot of bloopers!
9. Go to oto them while asking what I'm doing with my life
 

Kitcat190

Defoko's Slaves
Defender of Defoko
o, is this thread still active? : ' D
Before Recording:
1. Migrate my computer, microphone, popfilter, stand, wires and cables over to my recording closet
2. make room and set up computer so it's standing vertical, love you tablet computers
3. Plug in the USB and Microphone and get Oremo and microphone settings all ready
4. Proceed to cry, get water and do vocal warm ups
After:
1. Fidget a lot and hope it doesn't get picked up by my microphone
2. Scream at loud cars and motorcycles ruining my samples
3. Standing in the closet for 3-6 hours screaming aiuea and hope it sounds great
4. burp
5. Resist the urge to pee after 3 hours
6. Save all files to USB drive because I've learned my lesson with loosing files on my computer
7. Keep them on my USB drive and leave them there for 5+ months until I eventually oto them
 

delphic

y e e t
Defender of Defoko
1. Waiting to be alone;
2. Trying to sing to warm my voice;
3. Deciding what to record, if I didn't think about it before;
4. Trying to record (stop here if we're talking about by 9-pitch VCV, I've lost the will to record it);
5. Open Audacity after recording;
6. Apply noise removal;
7. Chain export;
8. Time to test!
 
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OngakuCD

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
1.Get the urge to record
2.Wait until Im alone for an extended time.
3.Goes into my closet with laptop and mic.
4.Starts recording in Oremo
5. Five minutes into recording, I'm sick of recording and stop.
6.Repeat 1-5 every other week.
 
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Raindropx

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
1.Sleep well
2.Have a nice dinner
3.Play games for a while
4.open oremo
5.Record
6.Rest awhile
7.Repeat 3
8.Finish
9.Rest awhile
10.Send wavs to otoer(or I do it myself)
 

EchoCaptil

Ritsu's Renegades
Defender of Defoko
Step one: Wait until 1-3 AM
Step two: Set up Oremo/mic
Step three: Record for an hour or so
Step four: Make sure all the sound samples are there
Step five: Look at voicebank
Step six: Cry about the otoing
Step seven: Suffer through the otoing after x amount of days/weeks/months
Step eight: Suffer through rendering the FRQs
Step nine: Suffer through fixing any FRQ error
Step ten: Pack and upload
Step eleven: Get sudden urge to record three different banks
Step twelve: Repeat
 

CrimsonNeko

Teto's Territory
Defender of Defoko
1.Get the urge to record
2.Spend hours trying to cool down my room(My room is always so warm that I have to have a fan on constantly)
3.Take ages to get Oremo setup because I keep forgetting to save the settings to how I like it
4.Get my microphone
5.Try to find my USB cable(for some reason I don't keep the microphone and wire together)
6.Choose a reclist(I love writing reclists and, while I did create a folder for them, they are all over my computer)
7.Record(This involves failing several times and turning the recordings into strings of curses)
8.Realise that I have to Oto this
9.Cry
 

Sync_Ye

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
1° I open the Adobe audition
2° I load the script of the recording
3° remove noise and apply normalization and compression multi-band
4° I export the edited file gross
5° I use the wavdivider and load the script of the recording
6° die of boredom oto.ini
 

HixaiU

Ruko's Ruffians
Defender of Defoko
1. Drag my lazy but to the studio at 6am
2. Spend the next 40min - 1 hour setting everything up
3. get pulled away by my receptionist because people are incompetent and dont know how to do things
4. Its now 4 hours since I arrived at the studio
5. get a total of 50 minutes recording before pulled over again
6. rinse repeat until Im done
7. its now 10pm time to go home
 

Reiz

Teto's Territory
1. Wait till home alone
2. Move things out of my closet to make room
3. Try to stop everything from falling down
4. Sit down in the closet uncomfortably
5. Get out iPhone and open Voice Memos
6. Read some reclist I found off deviantart
7. Make sure every 5 seconds that I am 8 inches away from the microphone
8. "KA KI KU- AGH AHEM KA KI KU KeEEE - UGH I HATE THIS FREAKING BULLCRAP I HATE MY LIFE SCREW UTAU SCREW EVERYONE-"
9. Find out I just spent half an hour recording just one pitch
10. Send the recordings to my laptop
11. Edit it a little bit
12. Get the motivation to OTO in 7231739817318 years
13. Realize I have to rerecord everything whilst having a hurting back
14. Kill myself
 

ghostchiryou

Momo's Minion
1. Wait until my parents are gone
2. Get out my dust-covered mic and open OREMO
3. Listen to the pitch I'm recording at 300 times
4. Drink water
5. Hit record
6. Realize I'm talking too quietly, try to raise voice.
7. Voice starts to go out
8. Drink water, clear throat
9. Record again
10. Repeat steps 7 - 9 until done recording
11. Realize you took 2 hours to record, even though it should've taken 30 minutes
 

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