1. Quality/Equipment: Quality may be more important then a rapper may believe. Quality does more then make your voice sound clear and crisp, it effects your flow. Good mics can be acquired on a small budget. A good vocal mic i know of is called a "condenser microphone". Remember theres only so much editing can do. Youve gotta get a good mic to give editing justice. I recommend looking up mic reviews on google and youtube before making a purchase.

          -Side tips-

                Mic placement:

You want to take into account where you place your mic. Ask yourself questions like "is my mic to close to the wall? Can my mic hear noise from other objects like a computer? Is my mic stand sending vibrations to my mic when i step...everyone will have a problem to solve...its up to you to figure out what it is when it comes to placement.

                Dark areas:

I havnt tested this but dark areas, maybe even dark objects absorb unwanted noise. look this one up yourself. it may help in perfecting your studio.

                Recording Program or (DAW):

Look into which recording program you want to use. Some i know of include  Mixcraft(cheap),Pro Tools(costly), Audacity (not recommended but free) Pro Tools intro (free)

                Quality tips:

In my opinion the most important thing to understand for quality is how loud your vocals/track is, if your whole track is to loud your vocals will usually sound staticky, try turning down the whole mix, and play around with turning down your vocals. But all in all you just want it to sound good. if it sounds good it is good...and sometimes that means youll edit a track different from your previous track. Be innovative. Eq (a plugin sometimes called VSTs or the effects) can turn down specific parts of your voice or turn up. mess with the lows you can hear. turn it up a little bit and it might make your track sound more natural. this is my technology theory. But if you lower it seems to make the voice more in tune sometimes because its getting rid of some of your sound. giving the beat more sound in that part of your voice. I also dont mess with eq and just leave it to compressor sometimes. the audio-technica at2020 (message if your not sure which mic) is the mic id use if your just starting. it sounds fun meaning your recordings sound like you but you wont get tired of the way you sound. something new i figured out in my opinion if its not a complete fact. with the behringer u-phoria 2 and a stand and pop filter. updated in 2026. the next vst youd need to use is a compressor. this plugin is a bit easier to figure out then eq vst plugin i talked about earlier. it just tries making everything the same loudness so your quiter words or louder words are all the same volume. just remember there are free vsts out there and lots of them. only other plugin you might need is a de esser.

               Remember:

Quality should be based on how good your vocals sound and not how crisp/clear you sound. If your a beginner its ok to practice with a laptop mic untell you find your voice. People will be able to tell if your good regardless of what quality you have. Quality is important but never let it substitute for skill.

               Monitor Recording/Latency:

Monitor Recording is being able to hear yourself while you record. Latency is a delay in hearing audio that  passes through a DAW..Most audio interfaces offer Zero Latency Monitor Recording. But interface Monitor recording wont let you hear the effects(only the original sound going through the mic). Good DAWs will have monitor recording built in so you can hear every effect while you record. But Latency will be a issue without the right setup.

               How to rap:

Rap is a form of singing that makes music cool sounding with parts of the voice singing sometimes leaves to advice (rap can make it sound good in my opinion better then holding the best singing voice/sound (i call this searching) to the next important words in the song singing usually needs to hold that note for all the words but not completely (just talking with the note is cool).. singing is when you hold that note for a while or keep it from word to word long enough.. and this can help you find notes for rap). in rap words dont need to be sung. to stay on beat just dont spend to much time on saying 1 word. but take as much time as you want. to make it emotionally clear worry about how the emotion of the first word of the verse is said (flow). This emotional start will continue throughout the whole verse. starting it this way makes it easier for it to do so in my opinion. retakes are to grasp which emotion sounds best for the beat and to have fun with the styles you can come up with. To me its what makes writtens fun. But you can definitely rap in parts.

               hold that emotion and get louder when you need to. this is probably just 1 style of rapping and there are various styles of rap. add rhythm a pattern of saying the words. maybe switch it up when you get the chance. but dont hurt yourself rapping, singing, or making music.

               how to write 16 bars. its just making sure your word has a word to rhyme with 16 times. but you can switch what words you rhyme with. so just 16 rhymes. Thats if your rhyming without inner rhymes in the sentence. you can rhyme after the clap right before it or on beat. multisyllabic rhymes would be rhymes with words that have more then one syllable and every syllable rhyming. you can also get enough words that rhyme so they rhyme like that without being 1 word. songs usually have 2 16 bar verses and a hook. and then theres slant rhymes.

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