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| Recording voices; Some hints at recording voices | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 15 2009, 10:55 PM (75 Views) | |
| Ryan | Apr 15 2009, 10:55 PM Post #1 |
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Some tips to keep in mind when recording your voice. Something thats always handy to have when recording voices is a pop shield. When you use hard consonant sounds, particularly the letter P your mouth tends to blow out a burst of air that makes an exploding sound into the microphone, this is called a plosive. A pop shield can help reduce this considerably, as well as recording with your mouth not directly facing the microphone though some tonal qualities can be lost this way. Unfortunately most people dont have a pop shield lying around their house but fear not, if you nick a pair of your girlfriends tights (or your own tights if you wear them) and stuff a coat hanger down one of the legs and stretch it out, voila you have your own pop shield. Just hold it up and speak through it when recording your voice and make sure it doesnt touch the microphone. The most important factor in a good clean recording is the signal to noise ratio. This is the ratio between the signal strength and the background noise (usually hiss) and basically means having the input signal as high as it will go without it reacing 0db, which is where you start getting distortion and a nasty crackling sound. Having good input meters helps a lot with this, most sound editing applications have these. Do a few test recordings and see how high the levels get and try to get them close to -2db or so at the peaks, but remember any peaks above 0db will probably render the whole recording useless. You can fix a low signal level by compressing the waveform which basically squashes out the peaks and allows you to raise the overall volume of the signal but this in turn will amplify not only the signal but the background noise instead and the more you maximise the signal the louder this is going to get. In turn you can reduce hiss by cutting back the frequencies above 10khz using a parametric or paragraphic EQ (most sound editing apps should have this as standard). Hope someone finds this helpful Ryan |
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| Draklems | Apr 16 2009, 12:24 AM Post #2 |
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I was trying to record a few things a bit ago and was have the plosive problem. Didn't know it had a name, or the solution. Thanks for that info, very helpful. |
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| Katman1245 | May 2 2009, 02:00 PM Post #3 |
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I've already made on of these... I took some pantyhose and stretched it across an embroidery hoop (circular and smaller) |
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