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Foundations: write and finish a song · Lesson 5 of 7
Recording at home in the room you actually have
22 minFoundationalFree
Most independent records are made in rooms that were never meant for recording, and that's fine — the faults that actually cost you listeners are avoidable without spending money. This lesson is about capture: getting audio clean enough that mixing is a choice rather than a rescue.
What you’ll be able to do
- Capture a vocal that survives mixing without re-recording
- Set levels that leave headroom instead of clipping
- Improve a bad-sounding room without building anything
- Know which faults are fixable later and which are permanent
Inside this lesson
- 1Watch first: the room you've actually got
- 2The room matters more than the microphone
- 3Levels and headroom
- 4Performance beats repair
In the app
Take this lesson in the LUCY app
Open it in LUCY and the lesson rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Free with your account.
- Rewritten around your genre and where you're at
- A coach that can see the releases in your account
- Narrated — put it on while you work
- A badge for the track when you finish it
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