How To Make Your Voiceovers Sound Pro

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hey guys today I want to show you the basics of recording and processing voiceovers to get professional quality quickly and easily before we get started if you like these videos and you want to support my channel head over to my website Alex Knickerbocker com I’ve got a PayPal donation link as well as a bunch of sound libraries curated from my personal collection that I’m making available I’ve used these in major feature films broadcast television international advertising campaigns and they all come with industry standard metadata and documentation so you can find what you’re looking for quickly and easily I’ll be adding more as I can so don’t forget to check back ok let’s get into voiceover there are a few steps to this so I’m gonna cover everything from the gear that you need to the software that I use to process everything first you’ll need a quiet space to record in professional voice-over recordings are done in tune spaces that have padding up on the walls they’re acoustically treated they sound really clean and silent but if you’re just doing this at home a small bedroom or closet works and I’ve heard even great results come out of people in parked cars because they’re so well sound isolated you’ll of course need a microphone in an interface and there are a lot of options for both so check out the links in the description below for my recommendations on both budget setups and pro setups – pretty simple I’ve got an avid mbox 3 Pro for my interface which it’s actually getting kind of old now but it sounds clean the preamps are nice enough it does everything I want it to and the microphone I’m using is annoyin TLM 103 this is a bit more of a pro mic but there are plenty of budget options that have all the same characteristics and you can get great results out of them this is a large capsule condenser microphone with a cardioid pickup pattern the large capsule is going to pick up a little bit less of the environmental noise around it because it requires more energy to move a larger capsule microphone and because it’s a condenser it’s gonna be a little bit more sensitive to higher frequencies and it suits my voice well so I like how it sounds and I don’t have to do too much to it to get it sounding the way that I want cardioid pickup pattern also have what’s called a proximity effect where if you get closer to the microphone capsule it artificially boosts the low-end energy of your voice so if you want that kind of nice trailer radio voice this is a good microphone and a good type of pickup pattern to get whereas if you back off of it it gets a little bit more into the natural speech style and you don’t get that low-end presence the other thing you want is a pop filter these allow you to get a lot closer to your microphone without blowing out the capsule with peas or bees or any other letters that might carry a little bit more wind noise with them so once I’ve got that in place I’ll position myself between eight and twelve inches away from the mic capsule with the pop filter midway between and I’ll adjust my levels so that as I’m speaking from that distance in the tone that I want to record it’s not gonna clip any of my inputs anywhere now I’m using Pro Tools as my recording software but you can really use anything whether it’s an interface in a computer or a portable recorder and any software that can take audio inputs gonna work whether it’s audacity you’re da Vinci or GarageBand you know whatever you’re comfortable with working in the next step is to simply hit record and get all the voiceover that you want captured so that you can work with it now this is just my voice by itself totally dry no processing at all and I like how it sounds but with a few quick changes I can get into better shape so I’m going to show you how to do this with some of my favorite plugins but you can use these same techniques in any software so don’t worry if you don’t have Pro Tools you don’t have the ones I’m using it’s not so much about the specific programs or brands first I’m gonna use my EQ to remove irritating frequencies in my voice so I can focus on the ones that I want now I did a video on this in depth so check that out if you want to know more but basically I’m gonna grab an EQ band I’m gonna use a narrow bandwidth and I’m gonna raise this up so I can sweep back and forth across my frequency spectrum and find those annoying resonant frequencies once I’ve got them I’m going to lower them down sometimes even by up to 10 DB so that they’re no longer even there and this is gonna be different for every voice but this technique is what every Pro mixer uses on every dub stage and every music studio out there next I’m gonna filter out the frequencies that I just don’t need so anything below about 60 Hertz is sort of low-end sub bass mud I don’t need any of that and anything above about 14 to 18 kilohertz depending on the voice is really just air and maybe mouth clicks so I’m gonna filter those out as well this keeps the voice frequencies intact and it gets rid of all the frequencies that I don’t need and don’t use so they won’t cause issues down the line after that I’ll shape the remaining frequencies that I like so I want a crisp top end because I think it sounds nice and detailed so I’ll boost the high end just a little bit and I want to control the low end so it’s not muddy or boxy and that tends to build up in between 300 Hertz and 500 Hertz so dipping that down makes it sound a little bit clear then I’ll just sweeten the low-end a little bit by boosting my bass frequencies and make any other minor adjustments to make sure that my voice sounds balanced in its frequency response after I EQ I’m gonna compress my voice a little bit to tighten up the dynamics so nothing is too loud or too quiet and I did a video on compression that goes a little bit further into detail so check that out if you want more info I’ll set my ratio to about 3.5 or so to keep it sounding natural and all adjust my threshold so that no more than about 6 DB of gain reduction is being applied and that means the loudest parts of my audio are being reined in so that they’re not jumping too much but still sound natural and the quieter parts are being left alone I’ll set my attack and release to medium speeds so the compressor isn’t too aggressive or too relaxed again trying to make it sound natural and I’ll use a soft nice so that any compression that happens is gradual and not such a harsh clamp down on line levels then I’ll adjust my make up gain since compressors are naturally reducing levels and I should be in pretty good shape now that I’ve got my levels tightened up I’ll add a de-esser to control any sibilance or consonants and make any of the harsher words that I’m saying sound more smooth I’ve done a more detailed video on de-essing as well so if you need a refresher check that out but basically I’m just finding the frequencies of my s’s and telling the plug-in when I want it to kick in using my threshold then I’ll let the D S or lower them by anywhere up to 5 to 10 DB with my range knob and that’s gonna be much less harsh again just making my recording more smooth and easy to listen to and finally just to make sure I don’t clip any of my audio anywhere I’m going to put a limiter on last now remember a limiter is just a really harsh compressor that brick walls the level of your audio whatever you set it out and I did a video detailing out how limiters work so check that out if you want a refresher I’m using a pro limiter by avid because it sounds clean it’s easy to use it shows me how loud my audio is by metering it so I can make sure that any mixing I’m doing is up to broadcast television standards I’m gonna set my ceiling to maybe minus 2 DB just to be safe so that when I upload it to youtube no weirdness and conversion happens and I’m really well away from clipping and I’ll dial down my threshold so it’s limiting gently without squashing my voice because again the goal is to sound natural and full not over processed and that is the basic workflow to get professional sounding voiceover now every pro voice-over artist has their own unique style and timbre and of course there’s really no substitute for having great talent in front of the microphone but using these techniques on the right voice is gonna step up your voiceover quality into a whole other professional level so I hope that makes sense if you enjoyed the video don’t forget to hit like hit subscribe comment below with any questions you might have I’m over on Instagram at axk so come follow me there and as always thanks for watching

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