We need to have an honest conversation about the state of home studios. If you are setting up a room for podcasting, YouTube, or music production, your first instinct is usually to go on Amazon, buy a 50-pack of cheap, dark-grey “egg-crate” foam squares, and spray-glue them to your walls…
If you are setting up a home studio for podcasting, YouTube, or recording vocals, you have inevitably come across the two biggest heavyweights in the beginner audio space: the Blue Yeti and the Audio-Technica AT2020…
We have all been there. You hit record, step up to the mic, and deliver the absolute best vocal take of your life. The emotion is perfect. The pitch is flawless. Then, you sit down at your computer to play it back… only to hear a delivery truck driving by, a neighbor’s dog barking, and a metallic room echo that makes you sound like you’re singing inside a public bathroom.