Old 05-01-2020, 12:00 PM   #1
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Default My first voice over attempt...

Doing a promotion video for our new EP I tried my hands (and voice!) on a first voice over
I am not going to re-do anything, this little snippet is now already released, but for future similar things, maybe I could get some hints of what I can improve.

And yeah... I wish I were Morgan Freeman, alas...

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Like it. Don't hear anything I'd like to change. Good job!
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Like it. Don't hear anything I'd like to change. Good job!
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there are actually several issues for me listening to your voice-over (no bitching intended):

- huge 300-500 Hz bump in your voice. The small room's resonance frequencies are very prominent. You should definitely work on room treatment to remove those resonances.

- a lot of noise/hiss

- speech intelligibility suffers from bad eq and bad room

- not enough compression on the voice to make it cut through and "dominate" the music bed. Lots of syllables are getting buried.

- from the "performance" point of view you should try to articulate more (making faces while speaking), add more (cooler) variations to the speech melody and generally do more "voice acting". A narrator is always an actor!

Here's a quick attempt to remedy some of the sonic issues:

https://www.audioworld.de/data/Voice-over%20Fabian.mp3

Hope this helps getting better

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Default what hes trying to say is

use a decent microphone in a soundproofed room
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Old 05-11-2020, 10:39 AM   #6
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there are actually several issues for me listening to your voice-over (no bitching intended):

- huge 300-500 Hz bump in your voice. The small room's resonance frequencies are very prominent. You should definitely work on room treatment to remove those resonances.

- a lot of noise/hiss

- speech intelligibility suffers from bad eq and bad room

- not enough compression on the voice to make it cut through and "dominate" the music bed. Lots of syllables are getting buried.

- from the "performance" point of view you should try to articulate more (making faces while speaking), add more (cooler) variations to the speech melody and generally do more "voice acting". A narrator is always an actor!

Here's a quick attempt to remedy some of the sonic issues:

https://www.audioworld.de/data/Voice-over%20Fabian.mp3

Hope this helps getting better

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Thanks, I'll study that carefully and try to improve for the next time.

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use a decent microphone in a soundproofed room
Yeah, in the ideal case for sure.

Thanks guys. Tough, but appreciated
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Thanks, I' study carefully and improve processs next time.

Yeah, in the ideal case for sure.

Thanks guys. Tough, but appreciated
its not 'ideal' d u d e its "minimum standards"

you cant just talk into yr comp and post it thats so hideaous


sorry sir,.I mean if you put in the effort to come here to improve yr self
its only 150 < 3g thing ,..you got to start at the start tho

ie_yhe problem you came to fix is 'gear' so fix GEAR
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its not 'ideal' d u d e its "minimum standards"

you cant just talk into yr comp and post it thats so hideaous


sorry sir,.I mean if you put in the effort to come here to improve yr self
its only 150 < 3g thing ,..you got to start at the start tho

ie_yhe problem you came to fix is 'gear' so fix GEAR
Yeah.
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I am not sure what ticked you off to blow steam like that. But it's nothing I'm going to apologies for... Dude!
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