Re-activating Account
Hello,
My account was de-activated and I was interested in coming back on board.
Please tell me how I may do that.
thanks
Paul
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Hello,
My account was de-activated and I was interested in coming back on board.
Please tell me how I may do that.
thanks
Paul
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Hi Paul
Please share a sample of your current recording conditions so we can review it :)
How can I upload a sample here?
Hi Paul! You can't directly upload it here, but you can share a link from Google Drive, Dropbox, Soundcloud or similar service! Make sure it's shared publicly so we can all listen to it.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GCDTjuGfqzGIQSSwV1jhAENY5lICJDkV
Hi Paul
Thanks for sharing. Checking the recording I find the following problems with it:
First, I pick up a lot of hiss noise. The recording has a hiss noise that's very noticeable throughout the recording. You can pick it up more clearly at the beginning before you start talking. I believe this is a mixture of your space and the gain of your preamp. Your space, I believe, is taking part in it because your voice sounds very nasal and has a metallic sound to it. This is usually because the acoustic treatment of the space is not the appropriate one. It could lack the covering of some surfaces or it can be too absorptive as well.
The recording is also not well edited. There are areas where the edits cut with the flow of the voice over. The edits also have some clips due to lack of fading. These clips are uncomfortable to listen and are considered as editing mistakes.
Hope this explained it!
Okay now you're just making stuff up. I sent the same clip to one the most respected engineers in the world and was told it sounded wonderful. I don't know what kind of equipment you are using to listen to these clips but you really need to have it checked
Hi Stephano,
I can hear loud hiss, you can hear it specially at the start before the voice comes in. There's also undesired noises, like mouth noises before you start. You can easily edit that first part out and add a fade in right before the voice comes in. At 0:09 there is also a bad edit, it seems as a cut breath.
Best,
Juan.
I'm coming late to the party here, but it sounds like Juan listened to the wrong clip. Here's the stats (and some opinions):
* The overall Total RMS is -23.91 dB with a True peak of precisely -3.00 dB. It could, maybe, stand to be a little hotter, but no more than -18.00 dB for Internet use.
* There is no clipping.
* The max RMS level of the 2.6 seconds of intro is -65.05 dB. There are the remains of some brief sounds in that intro that are barely audible with headphones (maybe the creak of pants on a leather chair while leaning into the microphone), but I think they have been pre-treated with some serious noise reduction; the loudest one has a Total RMS level of -65.79 dB and True peak of -59.93 dB. This should do nicely and could hardly be considered "a lot of hiss."
* There is no bad edit at 0.09. The phrase "He's getting Tillersoned." is entirely clear and intact.
* "Adding a fade" is something you might do with Audacity, but this clip has all the earmarks of being processed by some serious pro-grade software. Besides being limited to precise -3.00 peaks, the overall Loudness range is 2.3 LU, indicating some judicious compression. It's also seen some judicious noise reduction. It left a barely noticeable artifact on the trailing -k of "...this week." at 25.6. Also, care was taken to reduce the breaths. For instance, the breath at 28.2-28.5 can be seen on a spectrogram but, it's down to -55 dB, which is barely above the noise floor.
* Did anybody else think Juan's voice sounded "nasal and metallic?" I thought it was an appealing, rich, baritone with precise articulation and a broadcaster's Standard English with just a hint of pretension... like a good wine.
* My only complaint would be that the breaths have merely been processed out but there was no editing in the time domain. That is, we all sneak mid-sentence breaths between phrases but, the flow of the narration can be improved by sometimes removing the remaining gap (and sometimes shortening the pauses between sentences.
p.s. I totally flunked my activation test by being unavailable while our daughter was in crisis with a difficult pregnancy. (They both survived and are doing nicely.) I'm back in harness now and would sure love another shot at it (if Mr. Bunny doesn't think I'll be too big a pain in the ass.)
Care and blessings, DavidS