A First Newbie Voice-over with EV RE20 + Cloudlifter CL-1

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Newbie Voice-over with EV RE20 + Cloudlifter CL-1



My first ever attempt at a voice-over. Was asked if I'd like to write/voice/record ideas for a very low budget startup; meaning zero money but great fun. Actually it's fantastic fun :-) Done in this one and only single take a few weeks ago.

The only thing I did was to set the compression at the default settings in the DAW. No EQ or anything else touched or added. The recording space was a large heavily furnished drawing room. An aviation theme had been required, but has since been dropped. I do realize that it's completely unusable as a means of selling anything. Way too menacing and scary!... but good for understanding how to work the gear.

Question: what other processing should I consider? I am not a VO person, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks folks

Bubba Speare
 
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Your voice is great for this, and it was funny.

Maybe [noise] gate it so we can't hear the background noise when you're not talking or consider a better/quieter preamp.

PS. The cloudlifter will change the mic's impedance, which essentially acts to EQ it in a way...(usually brighter/open, but you have proximity effect from speaking close into the mic that's masking that). So just realize you did use two EQs (impedance from the in-line pre and proximity effect).
 
It's not bad, certainly. It's very clear and mostly very clean.

There are a few lip smacks which might be distracting. It also feels fairly bassy overall. Some more high-end might help.
To that effect, I'd recommend backing off the mic a little bit. That will help tame the low frequencies (and should help with the smacks)
 
VomitHatSteve said:
.It also feels fairly bassy overall. Some more high-end might help.
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Agree - there is one particular frequency that is jumping out at me a bit. Somewhere between 180 and 300Hz maybe. Perhaps a mild focused cut if you bud it. It may add some clarity.

I love RE20s. I tracked 8 tracks of female vocals with one yesterday. It was great. I'll post the mix in here at some point after we finish tracking.
 
Nola, VomitHatSteve and ibleedburgundy: thanks to all for the suggestions. Am taking notes + mucho tech reading. Plenty of good info already posted on this site, so becoming familiar with the search function.

Thanks again

Bubba Speare
 
Yeah, I'd roll off some low end. But really other than that I thought it was good.
 
Nola said:
...but you have proximity effect from speaking close into the mic...
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Actually, RE-20s, RE-15s, RE-320s and RE-27s have something called Variable-D, which means they have little or no proximity effect.
 
bouldersoundguy said:
Actually, RE-20s, RE-15s, RE-320s and RE-27s have something called Variable-D, which means they have little or no proximity effect.
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Oh yeah, I have an re-11 with that. I didn't realize the re-20 had it.
In that case, the OP has a naturally deep voice.
 
You've just reminded me that there's a bass roll-off switch on the RE20. I kept on looking at it and wondered what the hell it was, so did a bit of reading. It actually sounds quite exciting.... " I shall now be deploying my bass roll-off switch" Yes! Less painful than squeezing my small spherical objects for that higher pitched voice.

Bubba Speare
 
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