Phantom room echo - or, am I going insane?!
Hi there,
I've just received an email saying that one of my samples (which was a recent project) can't be shared because of 'room echo'. I had a listen to the sample in question on headphones and I can honestly say that I can't hear any - can anyone else? Here's the link:
https://bunnystudio.com/voice/samples/195062
I worked on this site about two years ago and left because QA insisted that a lot of my work and samples had 'boxiness', 'white noise' and/or 'room echo' - on some occasions, I had all three, apparently!! It was taking up too much of my time having to constantly go back and forth, re-recording and resubmitting work when I had other VO work and deadlines to attend to elsewhere and the stress was getting too much, so I decided to walk away.
So, if anyone can hear room echo, then I'd like to know - I monitor on a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 headphones.
Thanks in advance,
Jon
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Howdy Jon!
Fellow voice actor here ~
Just wanted to mention that I listened to your awesome sample and I also could not exactly identify any sort of room echo, and personally that is something I have to manually edit out of every one of my productions!
I will be curious to see if anyone else is able to detect the phantom echo?
My curiosity is piqued!
Following!
Hi Aaron!
Thanks very much for having a listen, I appreciate it. I'd be very interested to know what kind of set-up QA has to monitor and review audio, as I know that this affects other pros! I've tried to address it with the powers that be in the past, but to no success. I really hoped that this wouldn't come up again, especially as I now record in a booth.
Are you using splits and fades to also manually cut out any possible room/ echo tone?
That's something I have transitioned to doing on all of my productions with Bunny Studio, even if I am in a perfectly treated space!
Good luck with this!
No, I do the usual 'de-breath' procedure and edit out any mouth clicks between sentences - possibly some de-essing if I'm having a sibilant day. ;-) I always give the final cut a careful listen on headphones to check for any subtle anomalies before submitting my work. I definitely don't hear any room/echo noise.
Thanks!
It sounds good to me
Hi Jon, and Aaron (happy to see you around!), and Grant (welcome to the fam)
We just read everything you guys shared and went back to the sample, you're all right, this sample should be approved... actually, we just approved it again :D
It's amazing and wonderful to see you all interact and jump into other Pros' convos, we do encourage you to keep doing that. As you know, this space is yours!
Have a wonderful rest of your week!
All the best
Hi Johnatan,
Thanks for looking into this for me - I'm very glad to hear that the sample has been approved! :-)
I'm curious to know how the sample got flagged in the first place?
Best,
Jon
Hi Jon,
I couldn't find the reason behind that rejection 🤔 apologies for that.
If I find something, I'll let you know!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Hi Johnatan,
It's fine, I think the situation has been resolved and the sample has been reinstated. Thanks for your time in this matter! :-)
Best,
Jon
Always a pleasure to help, Jon! 🙌🏻