Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-26280153-20150413194008/@comment-26280153-20150518134935

FrenchTouch wrote: English isn't my native language either, but over time and practice, I found how I could improve myself, and now, what I do is voice acting, and audio editing for personas such as the Comic Crossroads community. Also, I have no problem with little mistakes, au contraire, I marvel at people's narrow escapes when they do, because personally, if I mispell a little thing, I'm restarting the whole thing and that's pretty bad :D

The sock trick doesn't work. Actually, if you're holding your microphone in your hand, the fibers will create noise. Sure, they will attenuate the vibrating noises, but also the sound of your voice, so yeah, irrelevant. If you use Audacity, you may want to go heavy on the Noise Reduction, though not too much, if you don't want to phase your whole track. Pop filters will save your life, though :)

Oh also, don't use the same soundtrack twice. Like, never. Also, speaking of which, you may want to give some dynamism to your music, so first off, you should tone down the overall sound of it, it's pretty distracting (even though your voice is much louder), and also, try focusing on the more higher notes, for example, you may need to level your track, so that the highest notes really resonate through the hears of your community. For example, that would work quite well on "Bon Bon". For sadder and heavier, more lore-focused pastas, you should add to the bass. That's a little trick that might help you out a lot. I've compared a couple of times, and I feel that the sock actually does help a little. The microphone I use is a standing microphone and it manages to tone down the fans of my computer a little.

As for soundtracks... Yeah, you're right. I never use them twice in the same video, but my music library is too small to not use them more than once.

I use noise reduction, and then I compress and add bass/treble to all my recordings, but I bet there's better ways to brush up my audio :)

And another fun little fact, I actually played with the pitch a little bit for bon bon, up a little for the main protagonist, who was a kid, and down a little for his father.