tobyrho
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I Am A(n): Aspiring Voice Actor
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Post by tobyrho on Nov 27, 2019 8:56:02 GMT -8
So I've faced this problem a lotta times now and I'm not sure if it's an issue that has to do with my Neewer NW-700 or if there is some kinda fix to it. My mic is quite sensitive so I try to record with a lower gain most of the time but even despite that my audio always peaks when I have to be loud during an otherwise calm line. Does anyone have an idea on how to deal with this?
I'll give my thanks in advance!
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Post by erichturner on Nov 27, 2019 9:29:22 GMT -8
There are really only a couple of things you can do to avoid peaking/clipping:
1. drop the gain when you know you need to be loud 2. Back off the microphone. If you imagine the microphone to be the ear of your listener , you would not want to scream right into it 3. use a combination of both
if you do clip, then your best solution is to retake. there are some tools out there such as, iZotope RX7-ELEMENTS , that has a De-clip plugin that might be able to fix it depending on how much distortion there is.
Take your latest example lines outside of the audition/performance takes and work with the above methods to find what works best for you.
Hope this helps!
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tobyrho
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Post by tobyrho on Nov 29, 2019 9:11:17 GMT -8
There are really only a couple of things you can do to avoid peaking/clipping:
1. drop the gain when you know you need to be loud 2. Back off the microphone. If you imagine the microphone to be the ear of your listener , you would not want to scream right into it 3. use a combination of both
if you do clip, then your best solution is to retake. there are some tools out there such as, iZotope RX7-ELEMENTS , that has a De-clip plugin that might be able to fix it depending on how much distortion there is.
Take your latest example lines outside of the audition/performance takes and work with the above methods to find what works best for you.
Hope this helps!
It doesn't really help, I'm afraid because either my microphone is too quiet during the normal-sounding parts or it picks up the sound of my movement when I back away from it. I've tried to do so before. However I am gonna try out these softwares and hope it'll improve my situation. Thank you very much for lending your time!
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Post by nichalia on Dec 21, 2019 21:26:47 GMT -8
Have you tried this? If you have a sample to let us hear, then that could be better. Easier to hear what's happening. Definitely if one line is normal talking and the next line is shouting, you will need to adjust the mic gain in your recording software (do you use Audacity?) or your audio interface (but I am assuming you don't have one, and record directly from the mic onto the PC), and then turn it back up again when you go back to talking. Then cut out the sound of you moving and the extra time it took to adjust the gain when you do your editing, afterwards.
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