If you haven’t already recorded your piece from the last section, let’s discuss the best way to do so now. And for those of you who have, here’s a technical review. First, let’s discuss environment. The two key aspects of WHERE you’re recording are your actual location and the ambience level in that spot. So, …
Once you’ve found some good sources for copy, whether printed or online, you can get to work by reading them out loud. It may be you’ve never done that before, save for pulling a quote to discuss with a friend, but it’s always been there, part of the fabric of our modern lives, just waiting …
The heart of voiceover is about reading copy and the wondrous aspect of that is in the endless variety that winds up on the stand in front of you. You never really know what’s coming next and the gamut runs from ridiculous to sublime to… ridiculous again. Developing a skill for reading copy requires, well… …
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A common challenge voice-over artists face is with reading copy on the page. If you’re close to the mic and reading two pages of copy with them placed as a 2-page spread on the stand in front of you, once you finish reading page one your head is going to tilt to the right in …
Your relationship with Mr. Mic should be close but not too intimate. As a rule, stay about 8 inches from the pop filter. That’s close enough for the mic to pick up every nuance but farenough to help keep plosives from overwhelming the pop filter and hitting the mic with a little blast of air …
This guy, Mike. Friend, foe, lover, hater. Such a relationship we all have with this thang! A mic will bring out the best and worst of you and your performance, accentuate your nuance, amplify your lip smacks, punctuate your P’s and B’s, muddy your pronunciation,play up that texture in your mid – low range, faithfully …
The vast majority of voiceover recording is done FLAT, with the idea of hearing nothing but a quality recording of the voice in a completely neutral environment. Which means youneed to be careful about where you place your mic and will likely need to experiment in finding the best way to record in as quiet …
Nevermind that you don’t WANT to record noise. Point is, it’s there to muddy and mess upyour take. So first, let’s discuss the environment. The two key aspects in where you’rerecording are your actual location and what sounds make it onto the take.You obviously want to record in an atmosphere that’s relatively quiet. It doesn’t …
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