redo: updated my studio used tips in first critique
I redid the audition read after updating my system and studio using the tips I got the first time to get rid of the plosives and ambient sound. I don't want to resubmit until I'm sure everything is up to par, the sample is below, thank you in advance!! -Melissa
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Hi, Melissa!
Thanks for reaching out and sharing this with us! I wouldn't recommend YouTube as a means of sharing audio, because it does compress it a bit. Many of our talents and some of us rely on Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, WeTransfer or any other file-sharing service. It's also best if you could share a high-quality file (96K/24b wav) for evaluation purposes.
However, I can tell you right now that your microphone sounds very clear and clean! I like it. Room echoes/reverberations are an issue you have to deal with still, so pay close attention to your acoustic environment and try to find the most anechoic space in your dwellings to set up a recording booth where you can apply the necessary acoustic treatment.
Hope to hear more from you soon, so don't be a stranger!
- Héctor Adolfo Ituarte (VoiceBunny QC Agent)
Hi Melissa,
Another V/o person here - agree with Héctor, mic sounds great, but I hear some reflections from your recording space, perhaps reflections off walls, windows, other hard surfaces. If you can do a bit more acoustic treatment, perhaps with curtains, carpets, acoustic foam or the like, you should be in business.
Regards,
Joe Brown
Thank you both so much! It's a new apartment so I am trying different thing to see what's best. I took the advice and am now sitting in a carpeted blanket fort! I think it sounds better..thoughts? Suggestions? Thank you again!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6hr9txje8no6zk/3%20voicebunny.mp3?dl=0
Hi Melissa,
This sounds better! (I have my own sound blanket fort as well!)
While the space itself sounds quiet, I still seem to catch some reflections off a wall? or some hard surface beyond the blankets? Heard them particularly when your voice goes up, such as on the "thank you" early in the piece. Those reflections sound like they're happening in mid-range frequencies around 1k - 2k or so.
My old ears are fickle though, so let's see what Héctor says. All in all, I don't think it will take too much more to get that space sounding great.
Best,
Joe
Hi, Melissa!
Thank you for that sample. Indeed, as Joe says there are some reflections still getting picked up by your microphone. Would you mind sharing a picture of the space so that we might make suggestions based on what we can see and not just what can be heard?
Cheers!
- Héctor.