Singstar

Hi, guys! I`m new here and I wanted to ask you a few questions to see your opinions and find someone who knows more about this stuff and who could help me.

Well, I`ve been taking singing lesson for few years now, been singing my whole life... and in the past few months I started thinking about recording some stuff and maybe put it on YouTube or my FB... and I have been searching for a microphone. I have narrowed down my choice to 2 or 3... but I don`t know which to choose. First, I don`t know if I should go for a condenser one (Behringer is my choice for starters) or a dynamic one (Shure)? At first I decided to buy a dynamic mic - I can do a decent recording with it and still use it for performances... but than I switched to a condenser mic - better recordings... then again, I would record it in my room, don`t have an isolated booth or something like that and the condenser one is quite sensitive as I heard, it picks up more background sounds... or not? Please help... does anyone have advice which way to go according to the purpose for which I plan to use the mic? I would definitely like to buy both but can`t do it at the moment... in the future I will have both but at the moment I have to choose.

And second... I`m quite a computer geek and know my way around computers but wanted to hear how people do it... because I don`t have a lot of experience with recording. Which software does the job decently and is free for download? And about recording... people who do it maybe for YouTube or something like that... do they record separately the video and audio.. match it up later than add the backing track? Do they hear themselves when recording? How can I pull everything off?


A lot of questions... but I hope that you guys will have time to spare to answer with few sentences... I would greatly appreciate! Thanks in advance!

If I ever manage to put up a video, I`ll definitely thank everybody LOL

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