Sometimes audio is rejected and sometimes its not.
I'm quite frustrated. My work has been approved well over a handful of times and I've won every contest I've entered. However, twice now someone from QC (this time was Julian Cubillos) has rejected the work. He said this time it was too boxy which makes it sound like it's recorded in a small space and sends me a tip list which lists as #1: record in a small space, the smaller the better. I literally have checked off all 5 boxes. My space is acoustically treated, no windows around, carpet and acoustic treatments all around, it's a built in and insulated whisper booth I'm using with a condenser microphone, I even have an acoustic shield around THAT.
My frustration is nothing has changed on my end, yet I'm getting inconsistent results from QandA. Sometimes I'm approved and two times now have been rejected (sadly the performance was good so this adds to my frustration). These projects take a lot of time and to not have a guarantee going in (on a small paying job to begin with)....is extremely discouraging. I'm on 3 other platforms and don't have this issue anywhere else. My studio has been verified on the other platforms as professional.
Can someone from Quality Control please reach out and help me here?
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Hi Kelli, This is Julian Cubillos from the Bunny QC Team
First of all, I thank you for taking the time in order to clarify what's wrong whit your submissions lately. I just want to say that we're here to help you to achieve the top-notch quality we're aiming for, and also we're more than happy to help all our pros to improve and get over the issues in their work.
On the other hand, I know how frustrating is to have work rejected since as QC agents we follow meetings by meetings all of the quality of our pros. We know as a team that one of our tips for beating "boxiness" is to record in a small space, nevertheless, this applies more to a "room echo" issue. However, on certain occasions, recording in a small space with not enough absorbing acoustical materials surrounding the mic would affect the character of the recording making it sound "boxy".
Secondly, I've already read that you have a well-isolated booth with an acoustical shield surrounding the microphone, so I think the issue would be in the transduction or post-processing stage. So, in order to have all the possible details and find what are the issues that are affecting your quality, I kindly request a description of your gear equipment (audio interface reference, microphone reference), and the step by step guide of how your vocal recording chain works. This will give me a better look at what is happening to your signal after you record it.
Also, if you process your recording with certain plug-ins or audio processors, please let me know how's the processing chain working over the signal, this will give me more information in order to tackle this issue.
Lastly, if you can send me through here the recordings that have been rejected lately, that would be awesome. I sincerely hope these requests could guide us as the QC team and help us to clarify where the "Boxiness" is coming from.
Thank you for your time.
Kind regards,