[Ty Ford]

Hello Jeff and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Wireless mics run from about $600/ch for Audio Technica and Sennheiser to $5k for Audio Ltd..

Lectrosonics has an excellent reputation. Some pros also like Zaxcom.

In the US frequencies will be nuts as of Feb. 19th and no one knows quite how it will shake out.

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[Ty Ford]

Peter is correct. In case I didn’t make it apparent, teh Sound Devices 442 displays peak and VU simultaneously.

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[Ty Ford]

Being a still photographer, I know an image is all about light. When it comes to sound, it is all about the rooms acoustics. With respect to the balance of absorption and diffusion of the recording space. What would you recommend I use? Where can I go to learn more about this art?

With respect the mic you recommended, the Electro Voice RE20, it is a little outside my price range. Do you have any other recommendations?

>>There are always cheaper mics. Search for a MCA SP-1 for $40. It’s only available on line.

Also, the biggest question I have is: What is the setup for the performer? The training video is of him speaking to the viewer, so he is going to have to match his lips in the video. Thus I know he is going to have to see the video, does he listen to that audio from the video or to himself, or both? Should I simply play the video back in Adobe Soundbooth or should I encode it to DVD and play the video via a regular DVD player? In the end, I am trying to figure out how I am going to have everything wired up when doing the voice over.

>>Sam, expecting him to lip sync to the video is unreasonable. None of your methods will work properly. At best it will take a VERY long time and you’ll end up with something that looks like a badly dubbed oriental horror movie. Why can’t you use the audio from the video you shot?

Again, can you point me to any web sites, books, etc that will help enlighten me to the task at hand?

You have much to learn. Google is your friend.

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[Ty Ford]

zoom in till you see the loop edit point. Adjust the borders so the waveform is not jagged at the edit point.

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[Ty Ford]

Nelson,

no reason not to use the TLM103. Don’t let the fan blow on it. Put your headphones on and move the TLM103 around until you get the sound you want, adjust the record level then push the record button.

Done.

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[Ty Ford]

[Nelson May] “I also have a rode ntg-2 shotgun mic and an Neumann TLM-103. I have a sound booth the size of a phone booth. I am a VO actor, so I can’t get anything to the Neaumann”

Nelson, I don’t understand your thought here. What do you mean you can’t get anything?

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Nelson and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Use as long a piece as you can and zoom in to find the 0 crossover point and make it work so you don’t hear a tick at the loop point.

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[Sam Carleton] “The long and the short of it is: I want to get the best audio quality I can for between 400 and 500 USD. I would ideally like the mic to have a USB port so for the times I don’t need the best quality; I don’t need anything beyond the mic and the computer. What are your recommendations?

I have another very basic question: how do I setup for doing voice overs? It is my understanding the speaker needs to watch the actual video. He is not a trained voice over person, he is not accustom to working in sound studio’s at all actually. So what audio should he be listening to? The playback audio, his live audio, or should I be mixing them both back into his headset? “

Hello Sam and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

I do a lot of VO work, with my own voice and with others. I use a $2k mic, $1k preamp with compressor, $1200 A/D converter and I record in a custom tuned room. I record in Pro Tools LE and remove the breaths for my clients so all they have to do is slip the files on their timeline. For example….
https://idisk.mac.com/tyreeford-Public/NAVAIR%20Master%20takes/NAV01.wav

My advice to you is to get a Centrance MicPortPro; $150.00
An EV RE20 mic: $600 +/-
Sony MDR7506 headphones
and take a good hard listen to your recording space, which you will need to treat with a balance of absorption and diffusion.

You’re right, good sounding VO is more difficult than it looks.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Keith and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

1. Please watch the language here. We’re trying to keep it a nice place.
2. The OP said he was going to get all the tracks to someone working on PT. Presumably that would be without fades. I’ve done it. It works and without ordure.

Thanks for your thoughts,

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[Ty Ford]

Check me on that.

it’s rec.arts.movies.production.sound

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