we're living in a time where you can purchase a budget audio interface for fifty dollars sometimes
even less grab a twenty dollar cheap microphone use some free plugins and free software
and you can create a great demo or even you can create some great tracks that you can distribute
worldwide through spotify itunes and all of those online stores i'm zane welcome to simple green
tech and this is the first video in a series that i'm going to be doing where i'm going to
take a budget priced audio interface a cheap microphone some free plugins and free software
and see what kind of music i can create and i'm going to release something at the end of
this now the audio interface that i'm going to be using is the behringer um2 it's right here
it's a very simple audio interface i think i paid about 25 canadian for this about five
years ago it was on sale at best buy and at that price i couldn't turn it down i
just had to see what this was all about and the microphone that i'm going to be using
is the behringer xm 8500 this is a very affordable dynamic mic it doesn't sound too bad i will have
to eq it but i always eq my microphones anyway so that's not a big deal the laptop that i'm going
to be using is an average four-year-old laptop it's got an older i5 processor which was designed
for mobile so it's not as fast as an i5 that's designed for a desktop it's actually quite slow i
had to leave this thing on for two days just to do the updates on it and the virus scan just so i can
record on it and hopefully it will work out for me so in addition to this budget priced hardware
that i'm going to be using i'm also only going to be using free plugins and tracktion waveform now i
have tracktion waveform pro but i'm only going to use the features that are available in tracktion
waveform free when it comes to recording and making music i'm taking myself out of my comfort
zone i'm not going to use any of my external processors not the compressors or the external mic
pres i'm not even going to use any guitar pedals everything's going to be connected directly to the
behringer um2 and i'm only going to be using free plugins to create any kind of tone with whatever
i record in i've written a very fun song for this project it's sort of a new wave 80s post punk type
of song so there's going to be some synths in it where i'll use free synths and there's going to be
guitar in it plus bass guitar and those are going to be recorded directly into the behringer um2
so i'll use some free guitar amp sim plugins for those there'll be drums and i'm going to be
using the mt power drum kit free plugin for that plus there'll also be my singing through the 20
microphone so i'm going to have to find some free plugins to create my vocal chain i'm very excited
to hear how this song turns out i've got the song in my head i'm hoping i can get it into the
computer the way it sounds into my head we'll see about that but my goal here is to show that you
can create music without spending too much money whether my song turns out great that's still yet
to be heard but this is the intro to the series i'm breaking it down into individual videos so
there'll be one for recording the bass recording guitars programming the drums programming the
synths recording the vocals and then i'm going to even have a video with the mixing process so
you're going to see all of the plugins that i'm going to use plus the workflow in creating this
song you'll see how i go about creating a song maybe it can help you out with creating yours
maybe not maybe do exactly the opposite of what i do and it helps you out but if you want to
check out the next video in the series be sure to click the video on the screen right now and if you
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon