Libertinus
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I'm an oldish geezer with *not* a lot of presence in my voice. Mine is not a bass sound, not a castrate choir boy pitch. Mid-something. Have worked in radio and tv for decades, and engineers usually needed to compress my voice a lot, to make it able to fight the background noise at listener's tv viewer's homes. I guess the freezerd, fridge, traffic hum and I compete at the same bandwith or something.
For audiobook reading, podcasting, VO and some creative voice acting I am looking for various mike solutions.
The recording environment will be a somewhat (amateurishly) treated cottage / log cabin environment, doing the recordings at night time. This being Finland, during summers the birds will be chirping at night, and an occasional truck or moped might be heard in the distance. I can dampen the rooom(s) with some thic duvets, mattresses, even some acoustic cheapo panels. Due to asthma am *not* going to make DYI acoustic panels from weawed glass insulation mattresses. Can't take that risk with my lungs.
The mic price range where I start to cringe and shut down mentally is at 800-1500 €, which does not mean I want to spend 1500 unless it gives me extreme versatility or unfathomable ease of use. At the top of the price range is a "mic for life" or a very good stereo pair. (As I will do multiple roles "in real time" a stereo set might be handy - when I had a Zoom with XY mikes, that worked very well. Some weasely scoundrel stole my H6 so that is gone.)
As for gear I have Mixpre-6 II, Audition or Reaper for editing, possibly Wavelab later (as I'm most familiar with Wavelab, which is currently not installed, since I need to find the USB-licence key, otherwise can't afford to upgrade to current from my old Wawelab 6 license.)
I am a creative guy, writer and whatnot, but a noob techwise, as at work there were always engineers taking care of the sound and image, and I just wrote the script and shoot my mouth on cue when told to speak.
The mics I have read about and are interested in are a single Neumann TLM 107, a single or a stereo pair of AKG C414 XL II, Neumann TLM 193, Neumann, Neumann BCM 104 (and even its similar-looking, much cheaper Dynamic bro), Neumann KM 184 single or a stereo set, and I have heard good things about Lewitt mikes from a real broadcasting audio pro.
The mics mentioned above seem to be "all over the place" but that's because I do not know which type of mic would be best for my voice and circumstances. One thing is sure, though: I cannot have a mic that needs to be "glued to my face" as I need to be able to read a book, turn pages, and move sideways in front of a stereo pair to change characters "live" and have the audio move in the stereo image accordingly.
I will attach a short sound file. Mic used: AKG C-214. My voice, but wrong environment.
My s's are even normally rather dull (like Arabic Saad insted of an Arabic Sin) and a temporary dental problem has it exaggerated right now.
Low cut is set to 80 HZ, nothing else done to my voice.
Sorry the long post - all help is really appreciated!
L
For audiobook reading, podcasting, VO and some creative voice acting I am looking for various mike solutions.
The recording environment will be a somewhat (amateurishly) treated cottage / log cabin environment, doing the recordings at night time. This being Finland, during summers the birds will be chirping at night, and an occasional truck or moped might be heard in the distance. I can dampen the rooom(s) with some thic duvets, mattresses, even some acoustic cheapo panels. Due to asthma am *not* going to make DYI acoustic panels from weawed glass insulation mattresses. Can't take that risk with my lungs.
The mic price range where I start to cringe and shut down mentally is at 800-1500 €, which does not mean I want to spend 1500 unless it gives me extreme versatility or unfathomable ease of use. At the top of the price range is a "mic for life" or a very good stereo pair. (As I will do multiple roles "in real time" a stereo set might be handy - when I had a Zoom with XY mikes, that worked very well. Some weasely scoundrel stole my H6 so that is gone.)
As for gear I have Mixpre-6 II, Audition or Reaper for editing, possibly Wavelab later (as I'm most familiar with Wavelab, which is currently not installed, since I need to find the USB-licence key, otherwise can't afford to upgrade to current from my old Wawelab 6 license.)
I am a creative guy, writer and whatnot, but a noob techwise, as at work there were always engineers taking care of the sound and image, and I just wrote the script and shoot my mouth on cue when told to speak.
The mics I have read about and are interested in are a single Neumann TLM 107, a single or a stereo pair of AKG C414 XL II, Neumann TLM 193, Neumann, Neumann BCM 104 (and even its similar-looking, much cheaper Dynamic bro), Neumann KM 184 single or a stereo set, and I have heard good things about Lewitt mikes from a real broadcasting audio pro.
The mics mentioned above seem to be "all over the place" but that's because I do not know which type of mic would be best for my voice and circumstances. One thing is sure, though: I cannot have a mic that needs to be "glued to my face" as I need to be able to read a book, turn pages, and move sideways in front of a stereo pair to change characters "live" and have the audio move in the stereo image accordingly.
I will attach a short sound file. Mic used: AKG C-214. My voice, but wrong environment.
My s's are even normally rather dull (like Arabic Saad insted of an Arabic Sin) and a temporary dental problem has it exaggerated right now.
Low cut is set to 80 HZ, nothing else done to my voice.
Sorry the long post - all help is really appreciated!
L
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