Could go to the studio again. Man, I forgot what I did so easily, especially since my tasks switch so fast. So I don't know the order anymore, but the supervisor did look at my documents and will fill it in this week.
He showed me what work he would do at the KISS concert. I assume I won't be participating in it as his boss won't let me. Aw well..
We looked at the scripts for Streetmachine weekend and changed one or two more.
The majority of the time we worked on commercials. The 60 second commercial had to change to a 30 second commercial so he had to figure out what to leave out. Also the sponsors took over the majority of the commercial so we had to make multiple in order to name them all. He shortened the beginning of my voice as he made it sound like a-a-a-aare you ready? Now it's just: Are you ready which shortened it with 2 seconds.
He rewrote part of it until the sponsors got announced and stepped in the vocal booth. So much energy and he opens his mouth wide when talking. I understand now how important it is as it makes you help having better pronunciation. But gosh the speed of those commercials. I will get a hard time with that.
After he showed me again how he cleaned up his voice. He used the noise remover and had a certain setting ready (which I will learn later when I have the program!) He did have to delete a breath and after that maximizer was used and he had the treshold around - 18. I asked if it had to be a certain setting, but anything between -12 and -24 would do with the output to -2 otherwise it could peak. The treshold mainly depends on what knd of voice you have. I don't remember the other slide anymore.
A reverb got added, A small hall or something? He added an amount and asked if it was fine this way, or if it should be lower or higher. I said that I didn't know what the right setting was because I found it too much reverb already. He understood my point of view as I don't need this in voice acting, but in commercials the reverb helps it stand out so quite an amount is needed (-38 I believe)
After that was done he imported it in adobe audition and duplicated the voices. The duplicated voice got a - 10 on output so it wouldn't be too loud. Now it was time to cut out the silences and make everything slow nicely. It was time for me to do something too. He showed me first how to do it, but honestly I didn't need the explanation because I had seen him do it a couple of times. I had to add in the sponsors at the end so that meant duplicating it and moving it so that it flows nicely. When saving the thing I did have to cut out the muted part at the end.
After exporting all of them we had to clean the complete commercial. It started with the maximizer again only the treshold was a lot higher now. Cant remember exactly, but something around -5?
Also an EQ got added to give it some better higher tones.
At the end of the day I tried to install that program, but it didn't work. It kept on erroring so I have to find a solution soon. In the meantime I showed the supervisor my commercials which I recorded for that acting competiton. He said it was too bad I had the accent, which apprantely meant I did good =D
But I agree, I wished I could get rid of it too. He said I had some different pronunciations so we analyzed a few words. For example: What. I just say: Wut, but I have to add an h.
I had to look more at the words and see what letters they contain. Also the word powerful was too mumbled . I didn't open my mouth enough!
Well soon I will receive scripts hopefully to practice with as sunday we will have to record the commercials for Streetmachine. Exciting, but I'm afraid it will be a letdown.
He showed me what work he would do at the KISS concert. I assume I won't be participating in it as his boss won't let me. Aw well..
We looked at the scripts for Streetmachine weekend and changed one or two more.
The majority of the time we worked on commercials. The 60 second commercial had to change to a 30 second commercial so he had to figure out what to leave out. Also the sponsors took over the majority of the commercial so we had to make multiple in order to name them all. He shortened the beginning of my voice as he made it sound like a-a-a-aare you ready? Now it's just: Are you ready which shortened it with 2 seconds.
He rewrote part of it until the sponsors got announced and stepped in the vocal booth. So much energy and he opens his mouth wide when talking. I understand now how important it is as it makes you help having better pronunciation. But gosh the speed of those commercials. I will get a hard time with that.
After he showed me again how he cleaned up his voice. He used the noise remover and had a certain setting ready (which I will learn later when I have the program!) He did have to delete a breath and after that maximizer was used and he had the treshold around - 18. I asked if it had to be a certain setting, but anything between -12 and -24 would do with the output to -2 otherwise it could peak. The treshold mainly depends on what knd of voice you have. I don't remember the other slide anymore.
A reverb got added, A small hall or something? He added an amount and asked if it was fine this way, or if it should be lower or higher. I said that I didn't know what the right setting was because I found it too much reverb already. He understood my point of view as I don't need this in voice acting, but in commercials the reverb helps it stand out so quite an amount is needed (-38 I believe)
After that was done he imported it in adobe audition and duplicated the voices. The duplicated voice got a - 10 on output so it wouldn't be too loud. Now it was time to cut out the silences and make everything slow nicely. It was time for me to do something too. He showed me first how to do it, but honestly I didn't need the explanation because I had seen him do it a couple of times. I had to add in the sponsors at the end so that meant duplicating it and moving it so that it flows nicely. When saving the thing I did have to cut out the muted part at the end.
After exporting all of them we had to clean the complete commercial. It started with the maximizer again only the treshold was a lot higher now. Cant remember exactly, but something around -5?
Also an EQ got added to give it some better higher tones.
At the end of the day I tried to install that program, but it didn't work. It kept on erroring so I have to find a solution soon. In the meantime I showed the supervisor my commercials which I recorded for that acting competiton. He said it was too bad I had the accent, which apprantely meant I did good =D
But I agree, I wished I could get rid of it too. He said I had some different pronunciations so we analyzed a few words. For example: What. I just say: Wut, but I have to add an h.
I had to look more at the words and see what letters they contain. Also the word powerful was too mumbled . I didn't open my mouth enough!
Well soon I will receive scripts hopefully to practice with as sunday we will have to record the commercials for Streetmachine. Exciting, but I'm afraid it will be a letdown.
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