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reginaldm50031151
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November 24, 2023
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What's the proper setting for voice overs?

  • 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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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    November 24, 2023

    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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    November 24, 2023

    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_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    November 25, 2023

    https://youtu.be/n4FHoi1cs_s?si=-kxSTIux1Z5mjGdv 

    I just sent a link to a video about noise reduction in Adobe Audition. And my apologies but your comment still dosen't make much sense to me. It sounds like you're telling me to do a straight voice over with mistakes and all and just send it to my clients? I've never heard such advice like this before I'm afraid. 


    I'm not telling you anything of the sort. I'm certainly not telling you to send out unedited material. And I'm afraid that Mike Russell's method of using process NR is extremely sub-optimal and not what we'd recommend at all. If you want a much better idea of what to do, look at this thread.

     

    But ideally you shouldn't need to have to repair what you record - all you should need to do is edit the takes the way you want them to be. But, the process of recording the material needs to be optimised before you start editing. If you don't get the recorded sound from your mic sounding good in your room or booth, then you will waste a lot of time having to tidy it up. This is how it works in a purpose-built VO studio - they optimise at the record stage primarily for two reasons: the less you need to process the recorded result, the better it sounds - and the less you have to do to the sound, the less time it takes. And when you have people breathing down your neck for a result, that can be significant - especially if you want any repeat business. Editing - fine; everything will be less than optimal.

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