How can i add Air and breath sounds to my recordings?


Acoustic guitars have more of Air sounding when recording
So does Woodwinds breathing and Air is recorded


For Vocals how can i add more Air and Breath to the Vocals?

sound more like a acoustic guitar or a woodwind

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How can i add Air and breath sounds to my recordings?

Well firstly there is no substitute for a quality vocal mic, you should alwways try to aim for the best possible recording at the source, if you have a bad recording you will always be trying to "fix it" in the mix and to be honest it will sound that way too .... ... .. .

However, for vocal enhancing you can try a couple of things. Firstly though you need to understand you cannot create what is not already there, all you can try and do is increase the level of the bits you are aiming for.

Breathiness is usually associated with the very top end of a voice and this can be enchanced generally in two ways.

1. aural exciter (amplifies the harmonic series of the sound)

This was mentioned for you here:
http://www.studiorecordingengineer.com/ftopic-977-15.html

2. E.Q. (boosts a broad or tight range of frequencies, not necessarily related to the harmonic series)

I guess compression can be included in the list, although that would just be a kind of boosting too, if used.

Hope that helps.
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Does using a Active Mic capture the breathing and Air of the singers
voice more?


How can i increase the breathing and air from the singers voice
to be picked up from the microphone?

walters wrote:

Does using a Active Mic capture the breathing and Air of the singers voice more? How can i increase the breathing and air from the singers voice to be picked up from the microphone?

Yes that is correct an "active" mic otherwise known as capacitor and/or condensor microphone will indeed capture the higher frequencies.

These microphones are famously blessed with having a higher frequency response than their dynamic micrphone cousins have.

This is the point to take away, always get the best possible source recording.

I'll move this to the microphone thread now.
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I heard a tip that you could use omnidirectional mic with lots of gain and sing very close to it. Then just compress it hard.

Not sure though haven't tested that one out yet, but the guuyy who told me that claimed that HIM uses similar method to record vocals.

walters wrote:

How can i add Air and breath sounds to my recordings?

Try running a fan in the background as you record.....

walters wrote:

For Vocals how can i add more Air and Breath to the Vocals?

Have someone breath or blow into the mics while recording....

walters wrote:

sound more like a acoustic guitar or a woodwind

Sing while playing an acoustic guitar or woodwind....
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