I am a voice actor, and have been searching for videos that could help me on the post editing of my submissions. This has been SO helpful, so thank you for sharing your knowledge.

This is great! The one thing I'd suggest is emphasizing subjectivity. These tools are so important to know, but the way you use them will definitely change based on who's talking and how they sound naturally. I've recorded voiceovers for a bunch of different projects ranging from video games and audiobooks to commercials, training videos, and apps, and while i TOTALLY use signal chain templates to improve my workflow, I know the way I process my voice will totally differ from when I mix other VO artists

Kudos on making videos which are all short, well explained, and to the point. Almost every other tutorial is bloated and features a host who meanders around a topic by either getting too personal, or going into unnecessary history about the technique. Sifting through an hour or 2 hour's worth of content is a motivation killer, so these bite-sized tutorials are gold.

I needed some general guidance on how to approach something more natural like VO work rather than music, and this was perfect. Turns out I was WAY overdoing it like a Pop or Rock vocal rather than something more natural. Thanks a ton man, and thanks for the great plugins, too.

Joey recorded this, and his milk went bad

Joey you're the man. A helpful free download that's not behind a mailing list signup? Wonderful!

Thanks Joey! As a producer who also dabbles on voiceover work, this is really helpful. keep up the helpful content 💪🏼

Man I absolutely love this channel!!!

Great video! Thanks Joey!

Thank you so much! Just getting started, this has helped end weeks of frustration.

Best tutorials on the net guys, your gonna reach 100k in no time once people catch up! Thanks again.

This is great! Thanks!

Thanks, this greatly improved my audio.

This is perfect for us as we're currently recording skits for our upcoming album!

I just started a new voice-over gig which has me recording several scripts throughout the week. It's pretty crazy how close our settings are to each-other!

Love that you did this on Reaper!

Thank you very much! You just saved my life

@joeymusic

9 ай бұрын

You are welcome! Glad we could help!

@mamandapanda185

6 ай бұрын

@@joeymusic Hi! 5:15 It would be so great if you could do a little more how-to's with soothe2--especially tweaking for sibilance.

Good stuff! At work I've mixed hundreds of voice overs and I still find them one of the more challenging sound sources to get right, especially cause we often don't control where and how they were recorded. There are almost no general rules to follow that always lead to success as a recording often needs the exact opposite approach. We use Izotope RX a lot for cleanup (noise, mouth clicks, de-essing - love the RX de-esser) and for unmixed voices I often use match EQ to immediately get it in the ballpark. Other than that transparency is usually what I aim for; Using multiple compressors at low ratios and trying to minimize the EQ bands. I've found that compression is easily overused on a voice. It can be nice to leave it really dynamic, if there's no huge issues on that front. Nothing will show more clearly how destructive our processing actually is than voice: Often it's more desirable to have a voice sound somewhat shit rather than over processed shit :) Bypass is your biggest friend, often the natural voice sounds inexplicably better, cleaner, calmer than what you and all your efforts managed to do. Gotta rethink your moves and kill your darlings. Fresh Air from Slate (free) works nicely for adding some sparkle (as does Revival). Multiband compression can be useful when a voice's timbre changes (most extremely when "yelling" and speaking more softly), I've been using a ton of dynamic EQ too to tame infrequent offending resonances, and there's nifty stuff to be done when you duplicate the channel, compress one very hard, leave the other dynamic, combine both to where the loud VO is louder in the loud parts and the flat VO is louder during the soft parts, and do separate EQ on the softer or louder parts. Most stuff can be fixed, except phase issues/comb filtering (when the room becomes part of the direct signal, so you can't edit out a reverb tail) - it's like chopping off the head of a monster and new offending frequencies will keep appearing - and distortion also can't be dialed back, so those are the best to watch out for when recording yourself.

Thanks !!

much better now after playing arround with your chain... but still got some problems with the high frequenzies, because i lisp a little.... which makes it much harder

Thanks for the great guiding video. I started to do voice overs for my travel videos, as I am a little bit too shy to do so in front of camera. So I can focus on my shots, and do voice over to fill some story and information later. It´s better for me, as I can squeeze the best from script, in compare of spontageous talk on camera. Using Davinci Resolve, I am still finding the best vsti tools to get the best I can. Also, I found that dynamic mics need some preamp even when you have one in the audio interface. This is really great tutorial, thanks for all hints.

Thank you for this information, but I find a lot of vids like this while helpful leave out the audio interfaces (and pre-amps).

Wich mic and preamp did you used here? sounds good from the raw file!

Waves Nx2 saved my life close to loud computer fan

One perhaps maybe stupid question I have is, how do you gain stage? Do you record between -18 and -12 and boost it afterwards or do you already record at -6?

Hello sir Pls teach how to put the Effect in banlab phone?

What's the general volume of a voiceover in a podcast?

What is this software you’re using please. Thanks

As for me, I apply de-click after eq and compression.

@PhillipNathanielFreeman

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

If I do audio books, and I have smacking sounds from my mouth in the final performance, is there a way to silence the mouth sounds without spending money on something like Izotope Declick, Ozone software?

Hey Joey! Alway wanted to do more voice over work. Ladies love my voice. Lol thanks. Let’s talk soon. I have some good news for you.

Say if you didnt have RX, would you place a de noise before or after a de esser plugin?

@joeymusic

Жыл бұрын

Before

Please forgive me for this elementary question, but what are you doing at 10:00 with the mouse to split and cut so fast? I usually have to click the mouse where I want to cut, hit S, then the other side hit S and after that delete it and merge them by hand. Can someone pls explain that? I'd be most grateful to learn. Thanks!

@dorianbelen

Жыл бұрын

he is using the razor edit. Select the item. go toactions menu. check enclosed razor edit. Look some videos about it.

Sounds like the voice on infographics

Joey Doesnt share food! =)

I am very confused. Every video seems to have a completely different piece of advice for the effects chain, the EQ, and how much compression a voiceover needs. I've seen people put their EQ before their compressors and vice versa, I've seen people put their de-esser before AND after their other compressors, I've seen people use an audio limiter at the start or the end of their chain, and so much other nonsense and my voiceover isn't any closer to sounding good after looking for advice. If anything, the more research I've done the worse it sounds.