Super cool! I always find it so hard to get myself to use live instruments, so to see other people do it is honestly inspiring.
Great main theme, great instrumentation, great quality.
Great job!
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A good microphone, practice, and using the metronome. A good mic for a good price is the Shure SM-57 - it's actually widely used in studio recording, often for drums. But it's key feature is that it has a very accurate signal, whereas other mics are more about how they color the sound.
So, for accuracy and quality, it's pretty good for a hundred bucks. You'll need a DAC to go with it. I've got a scarlet 2i2, but there are other models to look into. I'd have gone with the SM-57 first if I had known about its reputation over the past 60 years. SM58 is also solid.
Also don't forget to sing in the car and practice changing pitch slowly so that you can learn to accurately land on the correct pitch without having to hear it. Practice singing what you're going to record so that you are prepared so you don't have to do too many takes, which gets really annoying.
Even if you don't sing now, learning to sing is a great, intuitive way to remember musical ideas. Record them on your phone to remember your ideas.
Oh yeah I've been slowly practicing singing for a long time now. This year I've actually joined a choir so I think I'm definitely improving much more lately (and if I had a bit more time, I feel would've been able to show this improvement more in this jam, but I barely had time to practice these harmonies and to record them).
Anyway, noted!