James Perrett wrote:I'd say you've got a pretty good basic sound there - certainly better than the sound on the video you linked to. You could probably benefit from a little compression to even things out a bit on that sample, maybe a couple of dB cut in the midrange if you want to go for a more 'voiceover' style and a high pass filter at around 60Hz to remove the odd slight plosive but thats all as far as I'm concerned.
There's a little bit of room sound which will be accentuated by any compression so I think your greatest improvement is going to be in the area of room acoustics. And make sure you talk across the mic rather than into it to prevent plosives when working close.
I'd like to make my voice sound "richer" - with more bass, etc. What would you suggest with the previously mentioned plugins?
Aidenator wrote:
I'd like to make my voice sound "richer" - with more bass, etc. What would you suggest with the previously mentioned plugins?
First get right up close to the mic (while speaking across it rather than into it) so that you are almost touching it. I'd then probably pick the console EQ and set the high pass filter to about 60Hz and do a mid frequency cut of 2-3dB at around 600Hz.
The rest is down to your performance and, if you are really after a deeper sound, you may find that vocal coaching is more effective than throwing technology at the problem. The best voiceover people are usually actors who have had years of practice at putting over a script.
There's always pitch correction software and without doing any tuning you could try changing (lowering) the formant parameter. You can normally do this a few steps without it sounding too artificial.
