My voice sounds robotic after adding very few effects???
- April 10, 2022
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Good afternoon. I am opening a voiceover business, and one of the places I am marketing myself is on ACX as an audiobook narrator. However, for as much as I love to act, I have never been good with audio editing, and now I am at the end of my rope trying to edit a sample recording of my narration to upload to ACX.
I recorded a snippet from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and (after a bit of editing and adding a few effects) managed to get everything looking spot on to comply with ACX's standards and requirements. However, I realized upon playback that now at some parts when I am speaking in the regal, commanding voice of the Queen my voice sounds very robotic. As Edmund, it sounds fine, but when I raise my voice as the Queen it suddenly sounds off when it sounded just fine in my original recording! Please see the two attached .wav files to know what I'm talking about.
Here are the exact effects I added to the original recording, in order:
1. Edited down the high audio peaks using Amplitude and Compression, Dynamics, -10 Threshold, 4 Ratio, 1 Attack, 50 Release, 0 Makeup.
2. Added the default Click/Pop Eliminator effect (didn't change any numbers from default).
3. Normalized to -3 dB.
My Audition recording settings are as follows:
Sample Rate: 44,100
Channels: Mono
Bit Depth: 16
I/O Buffer Size: 128
Please, any assistance you could offer would be sincerely welcome! I don't want this robotic-sounding thing to be my first audiobook sample on ACX! Is there any way for me to fix it?
Thank you so much in advance!
