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Hi! Upload your recordings, and get feedback from your peers!
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Hello VO peers!
Here to upload my first two recordings. Currently working on narration. Any and ALL feedback is greatly appreciated!
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Hi fchappel! You have a wonderful sounding, deep voice! Here are a few things I noticed: As it is the same with me, I naturally say ‘tuh’ instead of ‘too’. Make sure you watch for that! I would love to hear a little more emotion in your reads. You do sound very gentle, but having some more excitement will help those longer reads move forward, and this way you can also find where the points of emphasis are in the scripts. I do hear a bit of staggered pacing at parts, so try to sound super conversational! My coach told me to imagine WHO I’m talking to, for WHY, and WHERE – and it helps a lot, for me at least! I encourage you to try it out as well! Good luck and I look forward to hearing your next reads! 🙂
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fchappel, congrats on the first uploads! I really liked the Zillow read. Pacing was good, could have a more diverse change in inflection as you list stuff at the end but it was good. Main thing that stuck out with Nationwide was I picked up a distinct “beat” or rhythm to the read that was distracting. The voice was great for it but watch out for going up, then down, up, then down repeatedly. Editing and initial gain settings seemed better with Zillow as well but again, things which can easily be worked though. Nice work!
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Hi all! While I will take any feedback you have, I am still working on a better setup and am aware my sound quality is not where it needs to be. With that said, would love feedback on the read or anything you have. Thanks.
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Your sound isn’t too bad, I think I may have heard some reverb but overall nothing to significant. Your tone starts out good for this read but maybe because there’s not much change in inflection the script sounds a bit read. I’m not getting a good sense of your connection to it. I hear some areas where you are over enunciating, its a little distracting to the script and takes my attention away from what you are saying. Just a few things to consider with this. Keep at it!
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Hi folks – I’ve posted a sample of audition I sent for social media explainer piece – I did not book it. The posting came with no direction. I made my choices and stuck to them. Asking for feedback on the tone and pace I set – did it sound real and conversational, or cheesy and “salesy”? Thanks, Lance
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Hi I actually like the reads. Given that the spot is about how to increase sales using technology – I though the tone struck the right chord of “what are you doing and why aren’t you doing this – get with it”. As a salesperson myself, whenever I hear spots like that – it causes me to consider what the product or service could do for my business. The only part of the script that turned me off was the last 3 to 4 words – the tone and pitch up was a little to harsh for me. I thought a in inflection would have helped.
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Hi Lance,
Sorry you didn’t get shortlisted. Your read does sound like you’re talking down to your audience versus having a conversation with them. The pace is a little too slow and there isn’t a lot of variation in this read which makes it a flat read. So maybe try a little more energy and inflection next time with a faster pace. Keep at it!
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Good evening everyone,
Below I have 3 reads. My mic was acting up so I had to use the good ol’ laptop mic. Any and all feedback would be greatly beneficial. Thank you in advance.
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Hey EC! nice work getting all the info across in the American Airlines piece. Your pacing is a bit robotic, work on varying it throughout to sound more conversational.
it’s probably not worth mentioning, but I thiiiink your laptop mic may be a bit too echo-y to be totally effective. if your usual mic is still out, try using a phone with a voice notes recording app if you have it, it may sound cleaner than your laptop. good luck!
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Hi everyone! I need some feedback on my audio quality. I have a nice recording booth and what I think is a decent fx chain, but I’m not having much success auditioning. Might just be my reads, but I want to be sure! I’ve heard some criticisms about boxiness in the past. Anything need to be adjusted? EQ, reflections, etc.
This was just a quick read, so I’m not looking for feedback on the performance so much. If you have something to suggest about that, though, I’m always happy to get advice!
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Alex – I do not hear any noise, sound is clear and clean. Not sure what you mean by boxiness – like you’re in a box? Don’t hear that either. All sounds great – including your read, btw. Would love to know what you have in your booth – is it soundproof booth? What mic and DAW? As for not getting booked – persistence!!! Keep up what you’ve been doing! Lance (nicolance)
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Yeah, like a box. A bit vague, but I could kinda hear what they meant. They told me to EQ out the frequencies that were causing it, so I guess I was successful! Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it!
I have a booth made by this gentleman https://www.scottsvobooths.com/. Mine is the “enhanced” model. It’s a good booth, especially for the price. But it’s definitely not as soundproof as I was hoping, and you have to treat the inside yourself. He has a model with even thicker walls than mine, so maybe that one is truly noise-isolating. But he was a nice guy, and it’s very solidly built, so I’m satisfied.
My mic is a Bluebird, and I use Reaper for my DAW. I also have many of the Izotope plugins for de-noising, mouth clicks, pops, sibilance, etc.
I’ll keep plugging away! I’m happy to have some reassurance from other ears that I’m on the right track.
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Great read, work on hiliting the product name and its benefits. Seem to trail off when saying the product.
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Great read Alex! I thought I was actually watching a toothpaste commercial while listening. Please continue the great work.
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Hi Everyone! I would appreciate feedback on any or all of the audios below:) My voice is a little croaky in the sleep aid read, but I’ll like to know what you think of it regardless. The Ozark Audio Description is meant to be an aid to the visually impaired while watching the show, the audio is supposed to be interlaced into the show but I reduced the duration between my sentences to make the audio shorter. Thank you in advance!
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Hi Grace! I listened to the Ozark piece. Primarily I noticed that you speed up a fair amount by the end, and you lost me a bit especially in the action-y part. Sounds like a cold open so, I imagine it does move pretty fast and I read that you cut time between sentences to make it shorter but I wished I could keep up with some of those rapid fire images coming at me at the end. The other thing I noticed on second listen was that some hard consonant sounds are a little swallowed up: the T at the end of “follows suit” and in “tread water” and the k sound at the end of “lake”. your volume is a little low in general but you have a lovely voice and these are mostly small details/quick fixes. keep it up!
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Hi everybody! Back with a couple more reads. Definitely only looking for technique and performance notes, as I am recording on the phone. Here are some things I’m working on.
With the Corona Refresca spot, I was looking for the right pacing. Trying to find the heartbeat of the thing to keep the energy up. (I rewrote it a little since coolers are out and spiked seltzers are in.)
and with the NYCannabis spot, I was prioritizing sounding conversational while listing the very serious legalese/rules.
General feedback and notes are also appreciated!
Thanks,
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The energy remains high in both reads which makes it interesting to listen to, and I think the pacing is pretty good in both. You might be a little choppy in the first sentence of the Corona read, but leaving space between words could work with tv as that could be when images appear on the screen and the pauses could lend to dramatic effect. For the Cannabis read, i think it would lend to your credibility to not invert(mentioned in Edge Studio’s guidebook) the word “children” but to end the word as if it were the end of a sentence like you did with the word “influence” at the end of the audio.
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Both great reads! In the corona one some air got into your mic, that can be easily edited. Love the cannabis read, I do feel like your pace slowed at the end though.
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