Kevin Mccarthy
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Stewart, it sounds to me lilke you may be looking for a way to “add some “nads” to a voice over track as opposed to creating a freaky over enhanced monster voice. It that is indeed the case, here are some suggestions.
If your original voice track has a lot of background noise, wind, HVAC etc., do a “noise reduction” adjustment first. If you don’t anything else you do will only amplify this noise problem. Some low frequency noise can be removed with an EQ setting, but it will also affect other portions of the track. It’s better to use a noise reduction setting. Just find an open section of the track that only includes the offending noise and get your baseline noise reduction effect to be used on the rest of the track.
If you want to “thicken and level” the voice, then use a compression setting of 5 to 1, up to 8 to 1. Use a quick attack setting and a longer release setting to avoid a “pumping” effect to the voice.
Look at your track and see if you have any extremely high peaks in your wave form where someone coughed,, sneezed, dropped something etc. causing it to peak. Highlite and replace these with “silence” (do not simply delete these sections as that will thow your audio out of sync with your video. Then normalize your track to 90%. This will give you a natural sounding voice track that sounds louder and at 90% overall level, still leave you room for a music bead etc with out going over 100% VU levels. Please note that levels above 100% create digital distortion, drop-out and in some cases digital noise that can damage speakers.
Good luck and let us know if this helped
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Any time!
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Matt
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Very true Scott! It all gets back to the original environment.
What are your thoughts on using a noise gate? Depending on the average level of ambient background sound, he might be able to cut off the echo at the end of each phrase, and if he used a music background, he might be able to “hide” the reverb if it is not too “wet”.
Also, I wish I could afford an anechoic chamber
Cheers
Kevin
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If your original was recorded outdoors and your new audio was recorded indoors, adding reverb, of anykind, will NOT make it sound as if it were recorded outdoors. The is no natural reverb outdoors unless you are shouting in a canyon ie; echo. Standing in an open space (outdoors) there is nothing for your voice to reflect off of. Indoor recordings always have a bit of ambient reverb depending on the size of the room and the reflective surfaces, ie; floors, walls, and windows and what they are made of. Adding reverb will only add to your problems and make the audio sound more like it was recorded indoors. Examples are “large hall”, “stadium” etc. There are no filters to remove reverb. You might try some EQ adjustments such as rolling off some of the very low end, but I doubt that would help. I would suggest you re-record your voice tracks outdoors for a better solution.
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Hello Out There!! Anybody got a suggestion for this issue. I’d really appreciate some help Thanks again
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Ken
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