touzet
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Nice voice and delivery. You may want to give “to” a bit more of a tooh sound vs a tuh sound. However, you can’t over enunciate it either. For me, there’s a bit too much gap between “fresheness” and “…in a way”.
There’s some phasing / flanging kind of thing happening. This is often a result of using (over using) noise reduction. Are you employing noise reduction?…If so, you may be better off just going with the noise. Also, If you are using NR, you need to make sure you’re are giving it a legit room sample (room tone) to work with.
“Unfortunately” came off a little energetic and perky whereas I think it should be a little slower and more serious.
Recording and vocal tone sound pretty good.There seems to be some punching of words and/or syllables that are puzzling. Track 1 line 1: REsearch shows people reMEMber… Also, “So to help YOU remember…” seemed a bit overdone. For me, it needs to flow more with less punching ..or at least more nuanced punching or inflection. Track 2 seems to be an NBC show promo which I believe should be pretty fast and high energy.
Audacity has a decent compressor (I believe the default settings will work ok). After compressing, you can use the normalization tool to set the highest peak to whatever you want. I believe -3 was suggested. The compressor will help even out high and low volume sections of your track.
– touzet –Very nice voice. At around :19 secs in the first track, you hit “Business” pretty hard.
In track 3, around :11 “…need to know….to produce a…” The gap between “know” and “to” stuck out a little for me. (An easy edit fix).
There are some minor plosive issues…I mean minor but I think could still be mitigated some.
In track 1 “….Buying goods on line…” That B in buying. Sounds like it may be high-passed a bit which saves it some but I’m thinking more could be done with pop screens or mic position. Might be better to have more low end in your track and physically avoid the plosives.
I am also hearing some sibilance issues throughout. Again, back to the first time “Business” is read in track 1. Both S’s in that word.
A de-esser may help with that and possibly some EQ adjustments.
I pretty much like the performance throughout.– touzet –
You have like a signature Motel 6 (We’ll leave the light on for you) kind of voice. Very nice tone. For me, there are some flow issues. One at “…own children….for your care..” , also “…Disability….Insurance Company..”, and “…prepared….when it gets here.” IMHO, those lines should flow more straight through. You might want to shoot for making “We’re” sound more like weer instead of were. Nice work.
– touzet –Thanks for giving this a listen. Since the word prior to CONserve was PREserve, I felt like a little emphasis was due there on CON…trying to be careful not to overdo it. I listened to the “found” at 0:16 a few times… I’m not hearing an issue there but might be able to make the diction a little crisper. Without getting totally slosh-mouthed (<-technical term) , seems like you have to loosen the diction a little on a very laid back spot. Thanks again for taking the time to listen and comment.
Good point about the pauses. I was actually doing it in the same vein as the track with the visuals…as if it were stripped off of the video. I suppose if I were really ambitious, I could have added in some voices, feet shuffling, car doors slamming, sirens, jet plane noises to fill some of the space in between. 😉
