Good vocalist microphones should provide a crisp and smooth high frequency response, along with a warm and present midrange, and a warm but gentle low frequency response. The same can be said for microphones, you want the best possible so the listener can really hear you. Imagine if you could buy yourself a pair of ears, would you buy yourself a cheap or average pair of ears? No, you would get the best ears you could afford so you could have the best hearing possible. It is the conduit that allows the rapper’s voice and message to be heard anywhere, anytime. The microphone, which is a transducer, is the most important piece of the recording process. The next thing to consider when attempting to record a good “rap” performance is the microphone that will be used to capture the recording. Recording rap vocals in rooms that do not possess reflective or reverberate qualities, also known as a dry or dead room, is most optimal when attempting to capture a good rap performance. A wet room can tend to smear the sound of the voice or rap, dulling out the rhythmical excitement and clarity of the performance. A room with a lot of reverb, or a wet room, isn’t preferable when recording good sounding rap vocals.
This effects the overall tone of the vocal recorded, sometimes pretty dramatically. Depending on the size of the room and the materials it is built out of, will determine the length of time the waveform will reflect or reverberate around the room. When a rapper is performing, the waveforms coming from his or her voice bounce and reflect in many different directions around the room they are recording in. The sound or ambience of a room can have a major effect on a recorded vocal.
First, the room in which the rapper is recorded in must be taken into consideration. It is not just about setting up a microphone or headphones and then pressing record. While it’s true that recording Hip Hop & Rap may not be as complicated as recording a live Jazz Ensemble or Rock Band per se, the process of recording a good rap vocal is equally as complicated. Understanding & appreciating that these two core elements are central to the hip hop and rap genres are vitally important to the correct approach and methods of recording these styles of music. The drumbeat in rap music usually provides the basic rhythm of the song, while the “spoken rap” provides the intricately syncopated rhythms to the beat. Hip Hop & Rap music, driven largely by drumbeats and rhythmically spoken word vocals called “raps”, is an exploration into the sound and syncopation of rhythm. Rhythm is what drives melody and harmony. But what they forget is rhythm is just as important as melody. Their argument, that these genres really aren’t music because they’re absent of any melodic structure and theory, could hold true if you were alive during the Baroque Period.
When it comes to Hip Hop & Rap music, many music aficionados like to think of them in a negative context.
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