Where do you hear the compression in this sample that was rejected?
Hello,
Could you kindly give a time stamp on what sounded "off" in this audition to cause it to be rejected? Thank you!
(Regarding https://voicebunny.com/projects/#/timeline/611DB81D20FC2586DCD8?version=default)
For your convenience, here is the file in dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0euk5nobg8znz2d/American%20Express.wav?dl=0
I appreciate your time,
Teresa
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Hi Teresa,
Thanks for reaching out.
As you can see, there are two issues with that recording, one being the compression, and the other one the over-processing.
Regarding the compression, if we appreciate the waveform, here at this point, you can see that at some points the waves appear to be chopped due to compression and limiting. As you know, we don't recommend compression on the audios, only limiting, but if you want to compress, please do it slightly so it doesn't affect the quality of your audio.
Actually looking at the waveform right before submitting work could give a good idea of what's happening with your audio.
But the main issue was the artifacts resulting from processing, could be a noise gate, deverb, or something used to improve the quality of your audio, but you can hear how it is affecting it when the sound of 's' is not natural, sounds rather robotic, or plastic.
Please have in mind that it will always be better to have the right settings and the right acoustic right from the beginning, rather than leaving those crucial items to post-production.
Let me know if this solves your question, have a great day.
My DAW doesn't have that visual showing clipped waveforms (image attached). I'll do my best to learn how to address the "s's" but I don't hear it. Thank you for your feedback!
Have a fantastic day- can't believe the year is almost over!
Maybe it has to do with the conversion when uploading to our site. You'll always get a preview of the waveform before uploading, so give it a look before submitting, also, I'd suggest you lower the threshold a little bit on your DAW only to be on the safe zone here.
Thanks, and yeah, it did fly by!
Best regards
Oh ok! I will do that, thanks!
Hi Teresa,
I was having a similar problem with the QC team a year or two ago. My metering and file analysis would should everything under -3db, but files would get rejected for over-compression. I did precisely what Johnatan suggested in his comments - looking at the uploaded waveform on the VB submission page. If it appeared at all chopped off or flattened on the peaks, I would just remaster about 2db lower, resubmit, and the files were accepted.
I created a template with all those levels pre-set and have not have a submission rejected for compression in quite some time.
Hope that helps,
Joe Brown