(ON HOLD) Male Voice Actor Wanted - Deep Tones, No Accents.

[draven]

Hello draven.

As a fellow aspiring voice actor with a bit of knowledge of recording, I think I can give you a couple pointers to enhance your recordings.

The first thing I noticed is you're speaking too close to the mic. There are a lot of breaths and pops heard throughout your recording. I recommend a pop filter of some sort, and not talking directly into the capsule. Aim your breaths a little to the side or below the capsule of the mic to prevent wind from hitting it.

You also sounded a bit too quiet. The volume of the recording might have been okay, but you weren't projecting at all. Even talking quietly needs projection of some sort. If just sounded like someone was in your room asleep and you didn't want to wake them.

I heard mic sounds, like you were holding the mic and fidgeting. You want the mic to be on a stand, preferably with some sort of shock mount. Some way that the mic is never touched or moved during recording, and no unseemly sounds can be heard.

Lastly, I recommend using a compressor on your recordings, between your mic and your DAW. In other words, apply the compression to your input, and not after you've already recorded your lines. The compressor will automatically turn your input volume down when you get too loud, so you won't have to worry about clipping.

Here's a good site to learn what a compressor does, with focus on audacity:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Compressor

Thanks for the tips. I'll have to look into the mic thing perhaps something makeshift for the time being, but I'll definitely work on that. Also, thanks for recommending a good free audio recorder, should help a LOT more than just using Windows Sound Recorder~. As for that part about projecting, you're dead right. Low on income right now and stuck in an apartment of people that sleep almost twelve hours a day, and then bug me or make so much noise it picks up on my mic, so it's kinda hard to find a good time to record. I'm going to try out what you've told me though, and get set up proper later on today and try recording again, see how much better it sounds. Thanks again for all of this.