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Tips for recording a voice over
Monday, February 14, 2005
There’s one thing I know well: recording a great sounding voice over is difficult.
Some tips that I found useful:
La Voz… (How To Achieve a Great V/O Without a Great Studio Setup)
Getting a good voiceover seems to be a mystery for some digital storytellers. This spawns from a wide variety of reasons that can usually be narrowed down to three basic issues;
- Poor monitoring or recording environments
- Lack of knowledge
- Lack of understanding existing tools.
A good voiceover recording doesn’t require that you have expensive gear or a super-well designed recording room, nor does it require a tremendous amount of schooling to achieve. Common sense, a little effort, and a trained ear are necessary, and everything else is gravy.
To the uninitiated,recording an announcer or “voice-over” artist would seem to be relatively simple compared to other things audio. But for those who have done it, it’s a creative/technical task not to be taken lightly. Speech sounds are harmonically and dynamically complicated because of the way vocals are produced-by the chest; lungs; diaphragm; larynx; the oral cavity, including the tongue, hard and soft palates, the teeth and lips, the nasal cavities; and by the dynamic interaction of all those elements through time. Explosions of air bursting from the mouth, the lips and tongue can sound wet, and “sss” sounds can overmodulate a track.