Voiceover

[legitmik]

Afternoon folks.

Did a voiceover recording the other day with a girl who was extremely short sighted (has albinism) but has a fantastic speaking voice.

Because she's so short sighted, she had the script literally about 8-10 inches from her face at eye level. This caused all sorts of weird phasey / comb filtering sounds with the 414 at forehead height about 2 foot away pointing down towards her mouth.
Any (technical) suggestions on how to minimize the sound problems as I'd like to use her services on other voiceovers that are coming up.

Ta.

[Freuman]

Ok, two practical solutions:

option 1.
Use a headset mic, (less quality, but keeps it out of the way)

option 2.
Use a different artist. She may have a great voice, but if you are getting bad results then the great voice wont matter.

hope this helps.

[Daniel Drummond]

Print the lyrics really really big so she can see them from a distance. Different needs, different resources...

[Rockrooms]

Afternoon folks.

Did a voiceover recording the other day with a girl who was extremely short sighted (has albinism) but has a fantastic speaking voice.

Because she's so short sighted, she had the script literally about 8-10 inches from her face at eye level. This caused all sorts of weird phasey / comb filtering sounds with the 414 at forehead height about 2 foot away pointing down towards her mouth.
Any (technical) suggestions on how to minimize the sound problems as I'd like to use her services on other voiceovers that are coming up.

Ta.

Is there any way that you could read a sentence at a time over the headphones and have her repeat that ? More editing for you, but if you really want to use the same artist worth a go ?
What about a flat panel / laptop or projection running a power point presentation using large fonts placed behind and above the mic ? Clunky, but again if you really want to use the same artist.

I'm currently in a project were most of the voice over talent are amateurs, one kept putting the script on his knees and read straight down to them, with similar effects to those you've described. Unfortunately it's all non English language so I'm not really able to do much apart from try and maintain a consistent tone.

There really is a world of difference from those that do voice overs for a living compared to those who don't, it's certainly not as easy as some seem to think.

- Joe -
Rockrooms Studio

[archdake mkII]

Print the lyrics really really big so she can see them from a distance. Different needs, different resources...

Yep...

[Celsius]

Put a big TFT in front of her and use large fonts.
or maybe-->>this method

[BoogieBear]

Put a big TFT in front of her and use large fonts.
or maybe-->>this method

+1 for this method, used it many times

If you can't borrow some form of 'autocue' try editing the script in 'Word' or similar to have each section between breath intakes on one page and use the page or some method of autoscoll too run the script

Cheers
Anton