When recording voiceover in our home studio, we often work in imperfect spaces which are smaller than would be ideal. This makes fine-tuning microphone placement and position one of the key factors in getting great quality recordings.
Compression in voiceover recording - this tool can become very apparent and may easily overwhelm the performance itself. Be careful!
When we use a Compression effect on our audition, it’s important to ask whether that effect might be overwhelming the performance. Do we hear the processing rather than the performance? That’s a good indicator that we may be doing to much. With Compression, it’s easy to fall into that trap.
Audio Compression is one of the least well understood tools available in the home voiceover studio. Let's start by learning how it works...
How much complexity belongs in your home voiceover recording studio? Are you missing out? As long as the equipment and software is not getting in the way of the performance or the production tasks, everything will be fine.
Recognizing competency in one area can give us confidence that it will appear in others. Those studio skills we’ve built up will serve us.
Are we wired to accumulate stuff? In our voiceover studio, new stuff keeps appearing tempting with a new feature we didn’t know we needed...
Last week I talked a bit about clearing out the cruft, simplifying and identifying those things that truly matter in our workflow. It’s always instructive to take a few steps back and ask whether any particular part of the process is really necessary. Extra bits and indirect steps always manage to sneak in when we’re not looking. The end of the year is a good time to consider what’s actually needed.
As we accommodate tiny complications, those minor diversions can become the new normal. It can be helpful to push everything to the side and start fresh.
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