Dark audacity3/16/2023 It’s my personal VO bootcamp and as you’ve taught me, it pays. Lots of VO people like to poo-poo the sheer quantity of copy of audiobooks, but I say if you can run the marathon of recording a book, when a 5 line commercial comes in, you’re gonna pop it out with conversational style, simply because you’ve had the experience of spending hours on the mic. You are a beacon in the midst of my disbelief. Fact is, without your support, I doubt I’d even be auditioning. It’s exciting when one of my 3 agents (LA, SF and Minneapolis) drop a national commercial audition, Disney animated character or Silverlight game character audition into my inbox. I’m in search of my 7th audiobook now, after having taken a break for about 9 months of agent hunting, demo-making, website updating and on-line promotions, all of which I learned in your no-nonsense classes. Your advice, as always, is stellar and you’ve got a great knack for addressing exactly what I’m pondering in your newsletters, often without my even reaching out. So, keep it simple – just normalize if you need to, but not for audiobooks, until you’ve used Levelator. Noise removal can severely damage your performance with just the slightest slip of the mouse – instead, work to make your recording space quieter.Īnd the other plugins are mostly for music. Then, I bring that Levelated audio back in to Audacity, and normalize to -3.0 before exporting to MP3.Īnd I suggest you resist the urge to play with these things, unless all you’re doing is playing. I leave the raw WAV audio I record for audiobooks alone, and let Levelator do its magic without any help from an Audacity plug in. I don’t use anything, except normalization, and only when I do auditions. (Marlon’s an awesome foodie as well as a VO talent and actor – check out her YouTube channel here) “Noise removal” to eliminate superflous background sounds?ĭo both these just about every time? Neither? Just one? Knock the highs and lows off with “Compressor” effect? What audacity effects do you utilize most often to polish an audio file before sending it off? The truth is, I suggest you keep it really simple. She was talking about all those options on the Effects menu in Audacity. I got a note from the lovely and talented Marlon Braccia about what I do to manipulate my audio with Audacity before submitting – you know, compression, noise reduction etc. I don’t think they would add a version with telemetry when the time comes.By David H. A lot of them look like something made for techno, loops etc, which is just too narrow and useless and overdone if you play something non-programmed and the only thing you need to program is the metronome.Īs for the firewall thing, my version of Audacity comes from my distro’s app store and I’m sticking with that. Also, for recording channel by channel, Audacity (or Adobe Audition) are really the simplest and easiest, if you’re a musician you’re not a programmer or a gamer and many DAWs are too complicated and convoluted for comfortable work. Also there’s noise reduction, amplifying only certain parts, fade in/out, it’s just easier when you have the final product in front of you. Say you’re making an album, you decide what you want on tracks for one song, then simply apply the same presets to tracks from all songs. Reaper is good, using it too, but I do prefer “destructive” editing.
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