I think there is nothing I can do about background hissing when recording at home ’cause the room needs to be sound proofed. I don’t have a sound proofed room. I think I’ll keep getting hiss no matter what kind of recording gear, software or mic I use ’cause this room isn’t sound proofed. 

For musicians who do have their own home studios… they have sound proofed rooms. That’s why they are able to record perfectly clean successfully without any background noises. There’s gotta be simple and affordable ways to sound proof this room better. 

I’m still planning on re-recording the vocals for the “Leave This Place” song without the preamp and maybe that will reduce the hissing. 

I kind of wish I never got that preamp. I got it hoping that will help remove the hissing in the vocals and I guess that didn’t solve anything. Maybe the preamp needs a shorter XLR connection ’cause I did read somewhere that the connection needs to be a short cable connection. I’ll consider buying a shorter cable sometime. 

I’m still planning to buy a USB mic for the Ipad to give that a try. I heard that microphone sounds on the Ipad has good sound quality. 

As you can see, I’m still trying to investigate on how to find ways to get a clean sound at home when recording original music. If I can’t find a way, no matter what I do… I guess the only way to get a perfectly clean sound is that I will have to record at a local studio somewhere. 

Even though home recordings don’t have the best sound quality… they are just good for recording song ideas, at least. 

Kev