Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-26280153-20150413194008/@comment-6548012-20150518102336

FrenchTouch wrote:

You do really decent narration, I like it a lot. Though, maybe you should work more on your sound. Try maybe a better enunciation, for English learners (optionally of course), or even better, try to not breathe heavily - or just breathe at all, in your microphone. Try to cut the distance when you need air, even for a long sentence, you can always edit that out and/or reduce the noise. But yeah, besides that I like your narration. Oh, and don't "puff" in your microphone. It ruins an audio. That's the kind of thing you just can't edit out.e There are indeed many things I need to improve on. English is not my primary language and I might make some mistakes :)

The pops you can hear are indeed something I need to fix. I'm saving up to buy a pop-filter, which would fix most problems. The sock I pulled over my microphone doesn't fix anything atme :/ 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 :)