mikemcgann
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Hello Devin,
– I wouldn’t use the music in the background. I would recommend listening to it a few times then starting without it, or play it through your headphones but make sure the volume is low enough that your mic doesn’t detect it.
– Your pacing wasn’t too fast, but I feel the music suggests it should be even slower and maybe some extra time in the breaks. The music to me suggests there would be nature visuals in between the sentences.
– Watch for occasional mouth noises. Nothing too bad, but a few stood out.
You still did very well, your voice works well for this piece, so nice job selecting it.
Hello everyone, attached are two samples if I could get some feedback on them whether it be processing or vocal delivery.
Thanks
Yeah, those nasal pops are a pain. They can even make you sound stuffed up when you’re not! I was dumbfounded where the pops were coming from in my recordings early on until I stumbled upon it. A little head tilt down and speaking from the diaphragm made a big difference. Hope you feel better.
I think your voice matched the script well, but I would watch for pacing ( a little fast ) as well as mouth noise and plosives. You may just have to balance the right distance from the mic as well as staying hydrated.
Maybe also play with a few versions of the “How do you get clean?” I may have not emphasized the “DO” but more on the “you.”
You mentioned that you’re not in your usual recording space, but I thought the environment actually sounded pretty good.
You have a great voice, but each sample was pretty fast. I think especially the cool jazz sample should be slowed down emphasis the “cool” in jazz.
Watch out in the “carnation be” I think you were a little hot on the mic or just need to lower your gain as it created distortion.
Also listen for mouth clicks, the NY Life had a few.
Again great voice, just mostly need to take your time.
Nice job on the reads as well as eliminating more background noise since the other samples.
I would just suggest to either lower your gain a little or make a little more distance on the mic, not by much though, as you’re doing well isolating your voice in the room. It seems like it’s picking up some nasal pops, just between the 17 to 20 sec on allure 1.
I used to get these a lot more often, but if you lower your head just a little more you may find it will reduce the appearance of them. I think of it like treading water with your head on the surface, you realize how much air makes it out your nose and creates pops.Besides that, you did great matching the voice to the feel of the scripts.
Bob Ross was pretty good to me, just watch for plosives and background shuffling. I may suggest to inflect up a little more at the question at the end.
Primanti Bros was pretty good, but you may want to slow down a little bit on the reading to enforce the idea of nostalgia in the story telling and allow a beat between sentences as well.
Overall, I thought both were done well.
Thanks for the feedback, it’s very helpful.
If you anyone has a moment if they could listen to the updated ones I’m attaching today.
firefighter: I added a half beat between full sentences, and a quarter beat in a few spots just to space it better. I’ll think of it to myself as giving the listener time to catch up with writing notes along with the tutorial.
website greeting: This is a completely new recording. I put more smile into the read as well as slowed down with the same pacing in mind I added to the firefighter read.
Thanks again for the input.
Thanks Joel, I appreciate the listen. I’ll be working on that a little more. I had comments before of choppiness, so I may be over compensating somewhere between delivery and processing.
