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Post by Lumisau on May 3, 2017 1:30:01 GMT -8
Heya, congrats on the role! However, this forum is for showing finished projects rather than letting people know you're in something. When it comes out, feel free to post it here, but until then you can just let folks know on your FB and Twitter. This goes for future roles and projects as well.
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Post by Lumisau on May 1, 2017 0:36:52 GMT -8
Noise removal tools aren't perfect. Especially since your background noise profile would naturally be where it's silent, it can only truly effectively fix up the silent parts. I mean, it certainly helps and all, but for a free program it won't be fantastic.
Looking to upgrade your mic is probably the best fix, in all honesty, if you're considering it anyway. Other options include trying to treat your recording area a bit better (that's basically the easiest kind of fix) so you don't have to noise remove much at all, or looking to invest in a paid plugin like iZotope (don't do that actually, that's heavy industry-tier stuff). You could also hope your director/sound engineer/whatever (if you're recording for something you're already cast in) has stronger programs for that too, since it is sorta part of their job. And don't stop tinkering with the drivers and such because sometimes you can just kind of get it all to work anyway. Blue's customer support is reportedly not great.
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Post by Lumisau on May 1, 2017 0:28:20 GMT -8
I've started looking up Dr Seuss texts. Fox in Socks is one of my favourites. Starts off slowly, gets super intense by the end.
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Post by Lumisau on Apr 7, 2017 4:57:17 GMT -8
That... doesn't really have anything to do with my critiques. Editing had no impact on those lines, aside from the last take being cut off. I hope you understood what I said?
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Post by Lumisau on Apr 7, 2017 1:50:11 GMT -8
M'kay, since you posted this in critiques and whatnot... I'm gonna critique.
You sound drunk and unable to pronounce words correctly. "There is... lillerly something..." Pronounce your Ts. Pronounce all words properly. Diction is important - even characters with speech impediments such as lisps are clearly understandable, which this here isn't. There is absolutely no conviction in your lines. You are only reading. You're not acting. There is no vibe of "detective". I would not trust a detective who sounded like this, I would assume he was out of work and had fallen off the wagon. You need to have the feeling of a leader, someone intelligent and cunning. I'm not getting that. The pauses in what you said were unnatural (but frankly, the line itself is unnatural and poorly-written, which is not your fault). All the takes you included (well, including the half-take you accidentally cut off) sounded extremely similar, which is not the point of doing extra takes. They're to perform the same line with different emotions and inflections to try to match what the director has in mind.
Your recording set-up is not sufficient. I can hear one heck of a background echo, so you're clearly not using any soundproofing. Put up some sheets and stuff at the very least. Yeah, your Yeti is better than whatever podcasting nonsense you had before, but your area is almost as - if not just as - important as your mic.
If you want to be the overused VA you said you wanted to be, boy do you have a lot of work you need to put in. Improve your recording location, improve your diction, and improve your acting skills. You're confident, which is good, but right now it's unfounded. Go check out some real acting classes and drama performances, not stuff from your old school. As you are now, you need lots of real-world practice before you can think about getting into actual anime and game dubs. Yes, you got this role... but that is because you were "lillerly" the only one who auditioned.
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Post by Lumisau on Mar 29, 2017 19:24:22 GMT -8
There's a lot of straining here. It doesn't sound natural. Kids can be excitable but you're pushing it too far. The first clip kinda sounds like you're constantly on the verge of tears or about to burst into laughter (as with the second clip, but in a more ambiguous way - the last delivery was better and gave a bit more personality). Also the line "I saw my mom get super excited... over a box of toffee... being on sale." sounded like you forgot to read the entire line rather than highlighting the absurdity which is what I'm going to assume was the intention. You also began to slip out of the voice a bit, but I tend to have that problem too.
The potential's there but you just don't sound comfortable in your voice. Boy voices don't need to be strained and rough, they just need to be a bit deeper and more boisterous. It might be worth stretching out your voice with voices you're actually comfortable with first, in order to reach parts of your range you wouldn't be able to get coming in fresh. As with anything, keep practising, and have a listen to the more quintessential "kid" voices out there for both male and female kids to see what kind of nuances you can pick up.
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Post by Lumisau on Jan 2, 2017 16:22:49 GMT -8
I just think there needs to be a bit more clarification regarding this, since especially in the unpaid section people seem to be unsure. To me, "video game" refers to an interactive medium that one can provide voices for, rather than something made out of a game. Am I correct? Would machinima be better considered animation, rather than video games?
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Post by Lumisau on Dec 24, 2016 19:00:57 GMT -8
While I don't have the feeling this place'll ever get as big as it or the VAA was in its heyday, I'm really pleased to see a more professional-oriented forum where older (by which I mean "active in the past ten to five years") online VAs can congregate. I hope it'll do well!
Professional, she says, continuing her trend of bad Sonic avatars.
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