So you want to be a YouTube singer, huh... Then it's your lucky day.
Hey everybody, I'm Dan Vasc and welcome to the first episode ever of ask Dan Vasc
Now this is how it's going to work. I will do this Q&A videos, but it's not
normal Q&A. I don't want to take a bunch of questions and answer them very
quickly on just one video. I will take one, maybe two or three of very
interesting questions and I want to answer them in detail in individual
videos. So feel free to leave your questions down below if you want to know
something, if you want to participate on the series. Today the first question is
very interesting. A lot of people ask me all the time for tips about having a
YouTube channel for singers, so I chose a question from my friend Igor. He wants to
start a YouTube channel with him singing. He asked me for tips, so today I'm going
to be listing seven topics for you, a beginner YouTube singer, to work on to
start your YouTube singing channel. Topic number one! It's obvious but it's worth
mentioning. Common sense but it's not common practice. You have to be a good
singer for God sakes! You need to judge your voice objectively. Being a good
singer... there are different aspects to it. There are subjective aspects, but there
are also objective aspects and you need to judge yourself objectively to check
if you're actually good. If you cannot do this yourself, ask a friend, ask the
opinion of a family member and tell them that you won't be hurt, tell them to
tell you the truth, because if you suck and they don't tell you, the market will
tell you. And believe me, you rather having a friend telling you that you
suck than the market, okay. What if I discover that I suck? What should I do?
Well, work on it. Do something about it. Singers are not born, they are made. In
spite of what a lot of people say. Search for
a vocal coach, a singing teacher, subscribe to my channel, because eventually I will
be bringing a lot of singing tips for you guys. And feel free to ask me for any
specific tips also. Work on being good, but don't commit the mistake of
postponing the creation of your channel to a moment when you will think that
you're good enough. Let me tell you something. That moment will never come.
You will always think that you have something that it's not quite right yet,
so just start. Work on your abilities whilst you work on your channel. If you
check some of my older videos you'll see that they suck. I like to keep them there
so people can see what is possible with perseverance, with hard work and study.
Don't worry. And people will like to see your evolution. I think it's a very good
thing to make public. Topic number 2, equipment. The first thing and most basic
thing you need is a microphone. You can have a dynamic microphone, those normal
microphones that people use live. I don't really like it very much. A lot of good
people, successful singers on YouTube do use dynamic microphones, but I don't
enjoy it very much. I think it's a matter of style. I like the condenser microphone.
Those are the ones that I prefer to use because they capture more detail on your
voice. This here is a studio, you want to be able to have the details. I pretty
much prefer condenser microphones. There are two types of condenser microphones that
you can use. There are the USB condenser microphones and the XLR condenser
microphones. Mine is an XLR one. The advantage of the
USB ones is that you can just plug it on your computer, no complicated stuff. But
the XLR one has a lot more quality than the USB one. I use an XLR one and there's
this special XLR cable that you cannot plug it normally on your computer, so you
will need a sound interface. The first sound interface that I had
was an M-audio Fast-Track USB 2. It's very cheap and it's very good for an
entry-level. It's not professional quality, but you can start to learn the
recording process with it. It has only 2 channels. As a singer, if you're recording
only vocals, you don't need more than two channels. Now I upgraded to an Avid Mbox
Mini. It's a great sound interface. It's already professional level, I could
easily record an album here. It would sound really professional. It serves me
pretty well. So coming back to the microphone, if you are using a condenser
microphone, you will need to have a microphone stand and with your
microphone stand you want to have a spider microphone holder. Through elastic
wires they hold your microphone in a way that it absorbs the impact of some
vibrations that might mess up your sound. I don't have one here. I should have, but
where there's a will there's a way. What I use here is a folded blanket
underneath my microphone stand. It absorbs the vibrations pretty well. I
forgot to tell you about my microphones. The first microphone I owned was a
Behringer b1. I really don't recommend it. It was very cheap and of entry level, but
even for someone on entry-level I don't recommend it, because it has a very short
lifespan. For some reason it's very sensitive to humidity, I don't recommend
it. Then after that I upgraded to a Samson c03 and it served me pretty
well. It's a good entry microphone. I still use it on my Twitch streams, but now
on my YouTube recordings I use this Rode nt1000 and it's a great microphone,
the best microphone I ever owned. It's very good for its price. Also you need a
camera, but maybe you can use your cell phone. For a long time I recorded my
videos with a cell phone. So the third topic that I want to talk about is
software. You'll need a recording software to do your recordings, or a daw. I started
with Audacity. Audacity is free, it's pretty good for a free program. Now today
I use Sonar x1. There is already x2 and x3, but the x1 serves me pretty well. But
you don't need to use Sonar, there are a ton of good DAWs out there. There is
Pro Tools, there's Cubase, there is Reaper. Reaper is free, but it's a lot better
than Audacity, it's very professional. Logic Pro for the Mac users. Here is what the
thing is. The best daw for you is the one that you know best. Choose a program
for you and get good at it. Get to know the program and stick with it. Learn the
keyboard shortcuts, get fast, get efficient with it and stick to it. Now
plugins. Ok I just want to show you guys here real quick what one of my vocal
tracks here on my daw Sonar x1 looks like. I will not go into many details,
because I don't want this video to be huge. So first this is Sonar x1 and this
is the track. It has some editions here, I remove the silences from some parts.
Those red lines that you are seeing here are automations, automations on volume
and those lines over here are automations on the plugins. So let's talk
about the plugins. The first thing that I use is an equalizer. The second thing
that I use is a compressor. What the compressor does is it organizes the
volume of the track. Naturally my voice is very very dynamic. The parts where my
voice has a high volume it's very high and the parts when it's low it's very
low. So what the compressor does it evens a little bit those dynamics. We don't
want to kill the dynamics completely, but we want to organize it a
little bit so the volume is not all over the place. The third effect is a de-esser.
What a de-esser does is it lowers the sibilants on your voice the Ss, Fs, all
of those things that may pop out on the mix. After the de-esser there's a delay
and after all of those things - here's the delay - after all of those things we have
here a reverb. I use Altiverb 6, it's a very good reverb and that's it. I will
not go into more details because I don't want this video to be huge, but let me
know in the comments if you guys want to see more details about any of this stuff.
Just wanted to show you guys the daw and the effects chain that I use. Ok,
topic number 4, space. Now we are going to talk about two things that make a space good
for recording. Acoustic isolation and acoustic treatment. Those are not the
same things. I see people all the time giving their rooms treatment thinking
that they are isolating and people isolating their rooms
thinking that they are treating the sound. It's not the same thing. Let's talk
about isolating. It's not cheap. It's something that you want to be worried
about since you are first building the room. Luckily for me, I didn't have to
spend too much isolating my room, because I live in a pretty much peaceful
neighborhood and I strategically chose a good room on my house that it's not
close to the street, it's not close to anybody else's rooms, so I won't disturb
anybody. Sometimes I need to make my dogs shut up. But just choose a room more to
the back of your home so you won't get traffic noise, far from other people's
rooms so you won't bother anybody and nobody bothers you. What if
you don't have those options? Well, then you'll just have to save money and
contact an acoustic engineer. And I just realized I have my lights off here. Right, a
little better. Now let's talk about acoustic treatment. There are many
purposes for acoustic treatment. There are more advanced stuff where you use
treatment to control specific frequencies of your room, but what
matters for you now it's controlling
reverberation. Room reverberation on your recordings is what makes it sound very
amateur, so you want to control it. You don't want to wipe it out, you want to
control it. A lot of people make their rooms in a way that there's no
reverberation at all and that just kills the sound, makes the sound really weak
and artificial, so you want some reverberation, but a controlled
reverberation. What I have here on this wall, behind my background I have an
acoustic foam that covers pretty much the entire wall and it's the only wall
that it covers. It's pretty much a normal foam, but on this specific format. I chose
this specific wall because it's the wall right in front of my microphone, so it's
the wall that sends to my microphone the greatest quantity of reverberation. You
don't want it everywhere. I see a lot of people doing this. Filling their walls
with this foam everywhere. You don't want to do that for two main reasons. First, as
I said before, you don't want to kill entirely the reverberation of your room.
Two, you don't want to have too much of the same material on your room. The secret to
a very good control over the reverberation of your room is variety
of materials. There are all kinds of acoustic products over
there, but a very cheap solution for beginners is just fill your room with
stuff. You want to avoid empty rooms, you want to avoid empty walls. The sound will
reverberate on your walls, especially if they are like clean with nothing in it
and especially if they are parallel, right in front of each other. And then
the sound will reverberate through them like forever, so this will give you a lot
of reverb on your recording so fill your rooms with stuff. I have a bookcase over
here, I have a sofa over here, I have curtains, I have a carpet. The variety of
materials will make the sound reverberate differently through those
materials and will give you a more rich, but at the same time controlled ambient
for recording and this is pretty amazing. On your walls you can, I
don't know, hang up pictures, frames, posters, a
surfboard, whatever. Put something there. Avoid empty
rooms, avoid empty walls. Topic number five, instrumentals. If you want to be a
singer on YouTube you will need instrumentals, of course. What I do is I
make a lot of my own instrumentals. If you know nothing about playing any
instruments, there are plenty of options to you. First, you can pay someone to do
instrumentals for you. There are a lot of professional musicians over there that
will be happy to do that for you if you pay them. If you're short on the budget
you can ask a friend to do it for you, you can reach out to other youtubers and
offer them collaborations. You can tell them "hey, I can record vocals for you in
exchange for you making instrumentals for me." Whatever, offer them value. Now, if
all of this fails, there's also another option. Not copyrighted instrumentals on
the internet. A lot of content creators they make instrumentals themselves in
pretty high-quality and put on YouTube as karaoke videos. So you can just search
for those. Since they are not on YouTube Content ID you will be able to monetize
them normally. Just make sure you tell the guy that you're doing it, just
leave a comment, send him a message and say "hey, I'm using your instrumental on
my cover. Is that okay?" And most people will say yes and just tell you to put a link
on your description to their channel, give them credit, so it's really a
win-win. I did this in some of my covers myself. Now, some people ask me "Dan, how
much do you pay on licensing those songs so you can record them? How much do you
pay in synchronization royalties, how much do you pay in public performance
royalties?" And the answer is zero. You don't need to do it.
YouTube has automated that for you. When you post a cover on YouTube and you
try to monetize it you will see a little option for you to check where it says
"This is a cover from someone else's song." You check that option and what YouTube
does is they monetize your video and the earnings from that video are shared
between you and the original artist, as long as you are not using any original
parts of the music, any parts of the original recording. For example, my
Dragonforce covers. They were done with the original instrumental from the
actual song, so I'm not able to monetize those videos. So yes, you can record
covers, like, just post your covers and YouTube will take care of the rest for
you. Now, you can also post original songs so you won't have to share your earnings
with anyone. You can also record covers of songs that are in public domain, for
example, my hallelujah video. That song is on public domain, so I don't have to
share my earnings with anyone. Now number six, the recording process. Different
people have different styles. I, personally, I like to conserve the live
aspect of the performance as much as I can. What I used to do before is just one
camera right in front of me, one take. And that is the format that many successful
YouTube singers choose. It's really okay, but for me, I started to think it was
boring. I don't know. Because music, especially on YouTube, it's an audio
experience, but it's a visual experience too. So I started to add multiple angles
from my recordings. The Dawn of Victory cover
I had the normal camera that I use right in front of me and I had my cellphone on
like on 45 degrees to my left and it worked pretty well, but I still wanted
some more dynamics. So now what I do is this. I use three different angles. I
record three entirely different takes, both on video and audio at the same time.
Then I choose the best one in my opinion, I choose my favorite and from this one I
take the audio. I use the audio from this one and then I add the other two, just the
videos. I use just the videos and I use the audio from my favorite one. This
gives me a lot of dynamic. I am singing in one of the takes. Actually I am
singing in all three of the takes, but I'm using the audio of only one. It works
pretty well for me. What a lot of people do too is record the audio and the video
separately. They record first the audio and then they record the video and they
lip sync. There's nothing immoral about it. Some people feel that they are being
cheated or something like that. I think there's nothing wrong with it. If you
want to do this format, go ahead, but, as I said, I like, it's a personal
preference, I like to conserve, I like to keep the live aspect of the videos as
much as I can, because it's just more fun that way.
And speaking about conserving the live aspect now the great dilemma. Using
earphones or not using earphones. Well, I used earphones for a long time and the
advantage is that you have a cleaner recording. You don't have the sound from
your speaker going to the microphone. But the disadvantage is that you are kind of
stuck, you are kind of limited by the length of the wire of your earphone
and I do not feel as free as when I'm without the earphone. So on my last
video I tried without earphones and it worked pretty well. The microphone captured
a bit of the song coming through the speakers, but it didn't ruin the
recording, so I think, yeah, why not? I can do my thing here, I can walk around... It's
basically a choice between sound quality and freedom and for me I tried and my
recording wasn't ruined. Of course, it doesn't sound as good, but I think it was
it was not terrible, so I chose freedom. Now topic number seven and the last one.
Do it! Just do it my friend, just do it. As I said on the
first topic, don't wait until you think you are good enough to start your idea.
Don't wait till you have all of those things sorted out, because it will never
be good enough, it will never be good enough. This time
will never come when you think "oh now it's good enough for me to start" it will
never come. "But Dan, I just have an USB condenser microphone, I don't even have a
camera..." Do it. Just do it. It's pretty cool to see
the progression of someone. It's a very cool thing to show to people. So, you will
be getting better equipment with time, you'll be getting better skills with
time, so show that to people. Let people know that you are walking your road, that
you are trying hard, that you are working hard and, especially, show people
that you love what you are doing. Execution, execution here is key. Theory
is pretty good. You are on a very good start watching this video, you are
getting the knowledge, you are getting the theory, but execution of the theory
is the great key. Because execution will allow you to face real-life problems and
then you can search for the specific knowledge to solve those problems. The
internet nowadays has all the solutions for all the problems in the world, but
the good news is that you don't have all the problems in the world. So when you go
after the execution aspect you will know what your problems are and then this
will allow you to go after the specific solutions for your problem.
Don't fall for this BS that knowledge is power. Knowledge is not power. Execution backed
up by this knowledge is power. Knowledge alone will do nothing for you. So my
friend, just do it. Well, that's it guys. Those were my seven basic topics that I
think everyone needs to know about to begin
a YouTube singer channel. I hope it was useful for you in some way. This is
already a pretty long video and I didn't want to get it any longer, so I could go
into more detail. So, if you want me to talk in more detail about any of those
topics, just let me know down in the comments and I will do a video about it.
If you want to participate on this series, on this show, leave your questions
down below and they may get featured in one of my
videos. You can also use the hashtag on Twitter and on Instagram #askdanvasc.
I will be checking those. If you want to appear on one of my videos
you may record yourself asking the question and I'll put your pretty face here on my
video asking the question. So that's it my friends. I hope you enjoyed. Let me
know about your questions and have yourselves an epic day.
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