Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-26280153-20150413194008/@comment-26280153-20150518193645

FrenchTouch wrote: If you use a standing microphone, then yeah, it does help, I thought you had the microphone in your hand, but I guess it's a Blue Yeti, then? If so, you should turn the setting to "monodirectional", it should only pick up the sound of what's directly in front of it: You.

If you need help with audio library, I can provide you some tracks, and even mix up the audio and sync it up a bit, though I'd need your voice first to do this; it takes more time, but it should be efficent.

Well, you use a pretty good technique to brush up your audio, but if you want my advice, that's a thing that needs a little bit of spontaneity, for you might want to change a bit from the exact same method, that would push the spectator out of his comfort zone a little, though, maybe you could use a little more leveling and normalizing :)

Very good initiative, though, if I might give you some advice, you may want to read the text differently with each persona. With Bon Bon, for example, you could have put yourself in the mind of the Narrator, the protagonist, and the father, to do so, you can try speaking with your hands at the same time and making facial expressions in front of your computer. At first, you'll find it stupid and unsettling, but soon enough, you'll accomodate. I have been doing this a while, and even with my lack of talent and poor microphone (a microphone in the Band Hero Wii Bundle (a.k.a a really bad mic)), it gave a different personnality to the characters I've voiced (here's a human under the emprise of his own demons, a planet-eating planet-sized robot, and  a old Brazillian capoeira master, they're all different :D), and even with a lot of pop (not me fault, I ain't got no filter either :}), and that helped me out a lot, even in the most dire situations (I've recorded the second character's voice while prone to an acute laryngitis which I kept from 6 weeks). If you want to play around with audio, may it be a voice or a soundtrack, you might need to play around with all the levels, the tempo and use the Hard Limiter, a lot. ( a song I've cut, edited, and applied most of the effects I know to, in order to use it for a specific occasion, it's my take on the instrumental version of Roc Marciano's 76)

I really like your style, and I hope you can get a good future with your usage of voice acting and audio editing. ;)

Sidenote: The voice clips I've linked you to were made with much fewer knowledge of audio than now, plus I didn't really use noise reduction on them, at the time, so sorry about that. It's already set to monodirectional, I've made sure of that. It's just that my computer is pretty damn close and noisy. There's not that much noise in my audio but it bothers me :3

If it comes to an audio library, there is of course the problem of licensing. There isn't that much stuff out there that's usable under CC-BY-SA or otherwise, but if you have any recommendations, I'd gladly take them :D

As for having you mix the audio, I really don't want to take that much time out of your life :)

I've definitely tried acting with my hands, and I often still do, but I'm always a little afraid I'll knock something over. Also I could definitely use some lessons on audio editing, I indeed have this default routine I go through, but that's pretty much all I can do and know of.