Audition was rejected yet again.
Hi guys just had my recording rejected YET AGAIN from the site. for the below reasons.
There is \'boxiness\' impacting your recording which makes it sound as if it was recorded in a very small space. Please ensure you record in an acoustically treated environment. If you already have acoustic treatment, it may not be adequate.
I'm recording inside a studio bricks booth so I think someone should let them know its too boxy apparently...
-Loud background noise is impacting your recording and adversely affecting the quality of the deliverable.
I'd also love to see a spectrum analyzer that shows this loud background noise because mines giving me a peak between -60 and -70 not amazing i'll grant you but well within tolerance for what's been asked.
This gatekeeping is absolute nonsense and just drives pros off the platform.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1odBWdq_TeICtxKFQxZqlgXWg7Q0Dkr5e/view?usp=sharing
Hello Stewart!
Thanks for reaching out!
I was checking the file you sent us, as well as the sound booth (really cool booths! I wasn't aware of that company), and although the main focus of the booths is sound isolation and not sound treatment, I think you are really really close to the ideal quality at this moment!
Also, I honestly do not like using spectrographs to check for noise, since I think our ears should be the main judges, (I can definitely hear the noise floor on the recording), but after tinkering a bit with iZotope vocal de noise, I think that the noise, although audible, should be easy to clear. Here are a couple of pictures of Wave's PAZ frequency spread:
This one is the raw file:
I think those peaks on the mid-highs are the ones that are more evident (for the low end you do need a sub to hear that noise). Here it is after a high pass at around 100Hz is applied, as well as a bit of de-noising from Izotope:
So, as you can see, that noise can be definitely tamed while keeping your voice nice and clean! I think a small EQ dip at the 2kHz mark could also help lower it even more, but I do not want to change the timbre of your voice that much.
Coming back to the booth, I think some pannels could help, since at the moment the issue is not outside noise, but the reflections inside the booth. I tend to share this video a lot since it has great tips for acoustic pannels that are really cheap to make while having stellar performance (better than many expensive types of foam):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABvTWSxOes&t=10s
I hope that this info is useful, and let me know if I can help you with anything else!
Kind regards,
Daniel