What's the proper setting for voice overs?

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November 24, 2023
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Greetings,

I have been working on recording voiceovers and was wondering if anyone knew what is good setting to use in audition to have a professional sounding recording? I have watched different YouTube videos on how to do this and yet nothing seems to work.

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SteveG_AudioMasters_

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The reason that nothing seems to work is very simple - all voices, and voice-overs, are different! People have different voices, they use different mics and they record in different acoustics. There is absolutely no one setting that will improve everything. Most of getting a good result is about everything except the settings in your computer - so it's about a treated space, the proper mic set up properly and getting your voice into a good shape. What you are aiming for, in fact, is to need to do the absolute minimum in the way of post-recording treatment to get the result you want. And it takes most people a while to get to this stage - there's no quick fix, I'm afraid.

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reginaldm50031151Author

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Ok. Forgive me for my ignorance, but are you saying this applies to noise reduction(the features inside audition) as well? I understand that people have different voices, but I'm referring to delivering a quality and or professional sounding voice over product to clients.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Absolutely it does! A good recording doesn't need it, and anyway there is nothing about NR that makes any voice sound more 'professional' (whatever that is - could you define it, please?) I'm saying this because all NR does is alter the background noise levels - doesn't do anything to the voice at all - if you get it right...

Thing is, if you take NR as a typical thing you might want to do, then the settings you use will vary considerably, depending entirely on what background you are trying to get rid of. There's a whole giant can of worms over this, in fact - some people seem to think that getting rid of everything - including natural breath noises - is the way to go, but those of us who've been doing it for a while know that listening to a voice like that for any length of time is quite disturbing.

There really is no 'one size fits all', I'm afraid. And even if there was, then everybody would sound the same - and I don't think that would help either!

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