Recording voice overs

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PilotGav

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I am looking for any advice on recording speech for an on hold message.

I'll be using an AKG C-1000s, into my TEAC mixer, and to Sonar.

The voice will be on top of a royalty free sax instrumental - light and medium tempo.

Any advices as to recording technique or processing for on hold messages would be greatly appreciated!

Gavin
 
Get up close and personal with that microphone, too!
 
Hey, you mean you're not supposed to....


Umm....


Never mind. :eek:
 
thats right...you can love your mic...you just cant LOOOOOOVE your mic....

ive seen to many metal guys live giving oral to a sm57 or 58...there is such a thing as TOO close to a mic......
 
Damn, talk about "deep throat".

Maybe those guys have some, uh, issues they'd like to talk about.

You know, not there's anything wrong with that? :D
 
Try "ducking" the sax background music with a compressor side chain to automatically lower it's volume only when the voice over guy is talking.
 
Great topic...
I am looking to do the exact same thing.
I tried last night to record...here's what I did and how it turned out...

Hardware Used:
Denon DN1800F Cd player
Pioneer DJM500 Mixer
IBM ThinkPad notebook
SM58

Software Used:
SoundForge 4.5

I recorded the music (royalty free) and vocals live into soundforge using the line in on the IBM. That worked just fine. The only problem I had was the vocals sounded very "tin can" like. I do not have a sound proof room :(
What I want to know is, how can I fake the radio booth (sound dead) sound with my setup? Is there a filter or setting on SF?

Here is what I am going to try tonight...

Record the vocals into soudforge and saved them.
Record the music (royalty free) into soundforge.
Mix the two together (don't know how to do that yet)

Any ideas? I really want the vocals to sound better.
 
Get Sonic Foundry ACID 3.0

Very nice Multi-Tracking Software...
 
Recording through your mic-input on your sound card tends to sound pretty hollow too. It's better if you can record to your line-in (you'll have to boost your mic signal to line-leel though..).
 
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