Why my vocals are dull and lifeless?

[stevieg11]

The soundcloud file says unavailable for me, so I can't listen but maybe a harmonic exciter? Or a little distortion? (Just assuming that the high end is either dull or non-existent).

 

[Steenamaroo]

you mean you didn't treat the narrator voice separately than rest of the audio?
For example a different type of mic for narrator or any other recording method which makes the narrator voice stand out.

The narrative voice was recorded differently to the character voices.

There are two people heard in that book.
Me on narrative, and an other guy on everything else.

My narrative was done with the sm7b in the real nice room, and the other guys stuff was done with the sm7b in a very bad room.

His parts took a lot longer than mine so I couldn't really book the studio for him, plus his parts are almost always blended with music, sound effects, ambient reverbs etc. The bass is always cut back on character voices too.
I found it made the starting quality a lot less critical.


Funny, I made some rockwool panels last week and setting those up immediately reminded me of the uni narrative sessions.
Check this out. http://www.steenaudio.com/rockwool1.wav

It'd be fair to say this roughly equates to the difference between character and narrative voices.

 

[jonny deep]

Hey Steen - where did you end up getting your Rockwool from? I remember you couldn't use the same company I did as they wouldn't ship to NI. I guess you found a more local supplier?!?! Did you get RS45?

 

[Steenamaroo]

It was you, huh?
I spent aaaaaages googling because I couldn't remember who provided that link!

In the end Kip4 was kind enough to double up his order and forward some on to NI for me.
I think it was rs33 in the end.

I got 5pcs of 1200x600x100 and made myself 4 covered panels.

LOL. I crapped myself when it arrived because the package was pretty much a big cylinder.
Turns out it came back to shape pretty quickly.

 

[ritb]

The narrative voice was recorded differently to the character voices.

There are two people heard in that book.
Me on narrative, and an other guy on everything else.

My narrative was done with the sm7b in the real nice room, and the other guys stuff was done with the sm7b in a very bad room.

His parts took a lot longer than mine so I couldn't really book the studio for him, plus his parts are almost always blended with music, sound effects, ambient reverbs etc. The bass is always cut back on character voices too.
I found it made the starting quality a lot less critical.


Funny, I made some rockwool panels last week and setting those up immediately reminded me of the uni narrative sessions.
Check this out. http://www.steenaudio.com/rockwool1.wav

It'd be fair to say this roughly equates to the difference between character and narrative voices.

Thanks for the great advice brother.