15 Dec
2018
15 Dec
'18
1:10 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 23:54:14 +0100
<hollundertee(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Hi there,
I'm currently taking part in a game jam and I'll have to do a whole lot
of voice recordings tomorrow.
I have barely any experience with that.
I do have a laptop, USB audio interface, mic, stand and a bunch of
questions.
1) Room: Besides corridors and such I have access to a roughly 2x10 m
room or a bigger room, I guess 10x20 m. I guess go for the bigger one?
They are both rather empty, safe for tables and chairs.
2) Recording software? Ardour, something simpler?
3) Post processing, normalization of some sort. I'll have at least four
total amateur voice actors and all in all hundreds of lines.
4) What did I forget?
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Best regards,
Philipp
When you say 'voice actors' is this just spoken word? If so it would be a good
idea to put a pop screen in front of the mic to suppress plosives. If desperate
you can make one with a wire coat hanger and a bit of a nylon stocking.
Are they speaking one at a time or in groups? If singly hang a large duvet
behind them to deaden echos. In any case go for the larger room, and try to
position people and the mic to give the longest possible return path - avoid
90deg to walls like the plague!
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
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Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.