Need Voice to Sound Less flat and richer

[kerryc2019]

Hi guys, 

I'm having an issue with getting my voice to sound fuller on Audition. All the YouTube tutorials etc seem to only focus on evening out sharp pitches etc but that's not really what I need at the minute (it's still useful obviously but when I apply a lot of the effects from these tutorials it doesn't do anything to improve the overall "warmth" of my voice). My microphone is decent and records well but my voice sounds a bit flat. It basically needs to sound richer and fuller and I'm not sure how to do that? Is there someone out there who could show me a nice workflow to mend this? 

This is for a podcast by the way. 

Thanks very much I appreciate your help

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

You could try a bit of gentle EQ in the 300-1kHz range, and that may help a bit. Use the parametric EQ with a Q value of 0.7 and centred on about 600Hz with a boost of 3-4dB to achieve this. Often if it's a cardioid mic you are using, getting closer to it and reducing the level of your voice will achieve a more natural-sounding version of the same thing, and generally that's the best approach to anything like this; about 5-6" from the microphone with a pop screen, and talk across it slightly rather than directly to it. The reason for getting it right at the start is fairly obvious, I hope - any acoustic solution is always going to sound better than a processing one.

[kerryc2019]

Thanks very much for the reply I'll give that a go and let you know 🙂