15 Dec
2018
15 Dec
'18
1:15 a.m.
<hollundertee(a)gmx.net> writes:
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?
Leaving enough time to actually incorporate advice or do some
experimentation?
You have four voice actors, a likely reverbating room and a single
microphone? If you want to get four actors with a single mic, you need
a reasonably wide characteristic and that does not mesh all that well
with a reverbating room. I'd have used something like a H2 Zoom (which
has 4 built-in mics) where you can sit your actors around and afterwards
try mixing down to stereo in a useful manner. That also means minimal
equipment to hassle with. It also assumes that you don't need studio
quality recordings. But if you do, I think you already have a problem
given the equipment you are planning with.
--
David Kastrup