Post by benedict on May 4, 2017 13:55:00 GMT -8
This is probably obvious, but if so then I'm missing the obvious answer. How do you juggle good mic technique while reading copy and wearing glasses?
I should probably have prefaced this question by saying I'm still trying to sort out the acoustics of my house. It really is pretty dismal: lots of hard surfaces and vaulted ceilings, tiny closets, coupled with living twenty feet from a highway. Right now I've had the best sound recording under the blankets on my bed, but I have a hard time getting anything far enough away from my face that I can actually read it. I also built a "foam in a box" micro booth, but by the time I'm a reasonable distance from the mic, the box fills almost my entire field of vision. (The field of vision afforded by my glasses, anyway.)
Last night I did a bunch of Google searches, trying to find pictures of people recording while reading copy so I could see what I was missing, but most, if not all of them were in a studio setting: mic on a boom stand, copy on a music stand, good lighting, lots of space, etc. I looked over at my pile of blankets and cried a little inside.
And yet there are voice actors who record this way successfully, so I've got to be doing something wrong.
How close are you to your microphone? Where do you hold your copy so the mic / pop filter / reflection filter (if you use one) doesn't block your view? If you're far sighted (like me!) at what distance does your prescription correct your vision? Any other pointers?
Thanks,
Tom
P.S. I already suspect I need to get new glasses. >sigh<
I should probably have prefaced this question by saying I'm still trying to sort out the acoustics of my house. It really is pretty dismal: lots of hard surfaces and vaulted ceilings, tiny closets, coupled with living twenty feet from a highway. Right now I've had the best sound recording under the blankets on my bed, but I have a hard time getting anything far enough away from my face that I can actually read it. I also built a "foam in a box" micro booth, but by the time I'm a reasonable distance from the mic, the box fills almost my entire field of vision. (The field of vision afforded by my glasses, anyway.)
Last night I did a bunch of Google searches, trying to find pictures of people recording while reading copy so I could see what I was missing, but most, if not all of them were in a studio setting: mic on a boom stand, copy on a music stand, good lighting, lots of space, etc. I looked over at my pile of blankets and cried a little inside.
And yet there are voice actors who record this way successfully, so I've got to be doing something wrong.
How close are you to your microphone? Where do you hold your copy so the mic / pop filter / reflection filter (if you use one) doesn't block your view? If you're far sighted (like me!) at what distance does your prescription correct your vision? Any other pointers?
Thanks,
Tom
P.S. I already suspect I need to get new glasses. >sigh<
