Wow 🤩Glad to see such quality content, rich information with a lot of fun with ear training and exercises, can’t wait to watch part 2 👏🏼 Thanks so much! Regarding high quality usb mics there are few ones can record 24bit/96khz and more, but some of them are too expensive like Apogee HypeMic ($350) and Antelope EdgeGo series with emulation technology (ranges between $500 - $2000) plus others in mid range but don’t sound great like Yeti Pro ($270) and AKG LYRA ($150). Hope I added some value to your great and wonderful video! 👍🏼
Thank you so much for the kind words! It's always tough to know how content will land, so it's nice to know this is useful. That's interesting that there are some USB mics in that range. Aside from a very small increase in convenience, I really don't understand USB mics at that quality level. Seems like a very small market.
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Hi thank you for this great tutorial. My issue is that i have four different types of sounds (soundscape, studio recorded, interviews) and it became very challenging to create one episode with a coherent listening experience. Do you have any advice/video for me as a beginner? Thank you
Very great video! Informative and right to the point. I love the examples you used and how you really challenge the ear to spot differences. Thank you.
I have severe hearing loss from my time in the Army, and I cannot tell any difference from any of the examples, even with my Sennheiser headphones. What do you recommend for someone like me?
I love your videos but dammm in Audition I kept manually taking the gain down to ZERO between my spoken lines to make it super clean. Sounds like you're advising instead to capture a few seconds of room tone and drop that into those parts instead. As of now, I don't know HOW to do that. If you can point me in the right direction, that would be great! As far as recording in 96Khz, I thought that was dependent on the audio interface? (then again, I guess that's why you mention USB mic not being able to do it) But I think any condenser mic IF CONNECTED TO AUDIO INTERFACE THAT SUPPORTS RECORDING 96KHZ should be able to do it, correct?
Hey Alain, if you're interface supports it, you should be good to go! USB mics have the interface build it, and usually the interfaces don't go that high. Either way, it's not a huge deal as it's only requested once in a while. As for deleting sound between lines, its a tough balance. Sometimes you have to if there is a lot of extraneous noises. Room tone is a great way to make your edits feel much more subtle and natural. To record it, simply record some silence without speaking, and make sure to keep the gain at your normal level. It's not going to look like much, but it will help smooth out those edits. I hope this is helpful!
Thank you for this! You mentioned that submissions that are loud tend to land more jobs. The -1 db limit you mentioned is the level the recording should be at once processing is finished, is that right? I have been recording at around -12 db, then after my processing, it's usually at -3 db. Sounds like I need to get it a little louder.
You're got that spot on. Recording between -12 and -6 is a good rule of thumb. If you're peaking around -3, try to inch that up as best you can. You may want to dial it back slightly for an actual job, but the loudness really helps for auditions. It's such a psychological trait for clients to gravitate to the louder auditions. I'd recommend listening to your auditions, then listen to some from www.voices.com/top100. If you're close to their levels, that's great! - Randy
Great stuff. Can you do one (or maybe there is one?) on strip silence and/or noise gates? I can't seem to get the sweet spot balance of no noticeable breaths, yet not so sterile. Thanks,
Hey Sara, we are planning to revisit some of our podcasts in the new year with some fresh topics. Mission Audition, our podcast where we host voice over coaches and evaluate real auditions is as new as a couple of months ago. I hope this helps!
If you're just getting started, an XLR cable, scarlett solo, and an XLR mic, and a good room is the best way to start. Having a good sounding room is very important. We have a video on building a DIY booth here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sIHNUQhyNJo.html&ab_channel=Voices Good luck - Geoff
I want to become a voice artist. It would make me very happy to have the opportunity to be a voice for someone else. And I am very thankful to you that you took out your time to reply to my message.thank you so much. @@voices
Yes you can! I actually have that on my list to make a specific video on that plugin. I always recommend using caution with destructive plugins like noise reduction. But it can definitely help as long as you're subtle with it. -Randy
Thank you for the video--I've been given conflicting advice on what 'setting' to normalize to: I've been told -1. I've heard -3...and even -6. What is the ideal setting? Thank you!
Yes, there is a lot of variety in the advice you'll hear on this topic. We recommend -1dB. The reason being is that when a client is combing through 25-50 auditions and only listening to a few seconds in some cases, the louder auditions tend to win. This is based on a ton of statistics on our site, but generally speaking, clients prefer the louder auditions. That said, the actual project files may very in their requirements once you've booked the job. I hope this helps!
@@voices Yes thank you! Now, another question building on the -1dB thing. I'm self-taught, so forgive me! I'm tweaking my recording settings to try and get more bookings and have read (are your eyes rolling yet???) that my recording levels shouldn't go beyond -6db. So, I've had to set my mic volume to like 40% (in Audacity) to not go beyond -6dB. If I now normalize to -1dB, will my recording be loud enough?
You've got it. Normalizing basically takes the highest peaks and pulls them up as loud as you set them (in this case -1) which means they aren't clipping and it's also bringing up everything else as well. I always recommend keeping the recording levels as high as you're comfortable with without clipping, but conservative enough that you don't need to stress about them and can focus on the copy. Hope this helps!
Hey, that's okay. These exercises are meant to really be challenging, and in some cases, there's some subjectivity too. The important thing is that you're starting to focus more critically on your own audio. Thanks for watching!
@@voices • Oh, I thought these were supposed to be beginner exercises, okay, haha, thank you. I’m only starting my focused training now so this video was still helpful in giving me a goal to one day be able to recognize good audio reliably, so thank you for making it!
Thanks for watching. Most of our resources are geared to beginner/intermediate voice actors, but this Ear Training specifically was designed for talent who may have very small audio issues in their auditions. I hope the resources have been helpful!
