- Practical 1 - Audio Arts - Recording and preparing Voice Over [1]
This week we learnt about how to record and prepare voice overs. The points to focus on with voice overs are:
- clarity (condeser mic and popper stopper)
- output optimal volume with lease noise using compression (usually 4:00:1 ratio is good)
- deadest sound (dead room is best to record in)
The mic should be set to either cardiod or hyper-cardiod with flat settings. Setting up a music stand is also a good idea to prevent paper rustle from nervous 'talents'.
Later on this same week I got the chance to record a voice over for a "Life Impact" Uni promotion video. Unfortunately I wasn't able to use the dead room for my recording, but instead I set up a quasi-dead room by using those movable walls covered in absorbant sound material.

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This setup worked pretty well and here is the final product of both voice-overs.
Female Voice
5 Comments:
I liked the coherency of Pierre Henry's work as well. It was good hearing musique concrete used in this way. I looked up Pierre Henry on wikipedia and it mentioned that the theme song from Futurama was heavily based on the 1967 piece 'Psyche Rock' so I checked it out. AllMusic Guide has samples of a record called 'Psyche Rock Sessions', which has samples streaming of various remixes, and I was definitely able to discern the similarity with the futurama theme.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4wkqoauaqijd
"my degree is world class, much like my hair"
hahaha man what kind of twisted voice-over is this?
also, i like how he then mentions how he surfs, is that meant to elaborate on his world class hair or is that just because surfing is cool, and uni people are cool according to this crazy diamond? it's probably best left upto the imaginaion.
Yeah that Pierre piece was probably one of my most favorite this whole year.
Thanks for the comment about Futurama.
I know this brilliantly composed theme you're talking about, and it's interesting that it as based on 'Psyche Rock'.
I'll have to check it out when I have time.
Haha, you crack me up Jake.
It is pretty funny. Heh, you can't blame him though as both participants didn't have direct control over their scripts.
It was funny because that, "much like my hair" line was suppose to have a short laugh after it, but because he was so tired of rehearsing this one line over and over, he could no longer do a convincing laugh. In fact this part was recorded over and over until we found a good take and slipped it in.
My interpretation about the movie is that Uni will give you a "Life Impact", and despite the Uni workload, you can still live a balanced life.
However, in my opinion, the part about a balanced life has more to do with the person than necessarily being at Uni.
you watch yor mouth tyrell.
they are watching. always watching
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