So, booked/recorded my first VO. But the producer booked a studio - now I’m trying to figure out if I can use my home space to - what? Maybe at least create some samples? Wondering if anyone would give a listen (I didn’t focus much on the read, just trying to get a recording in the space as a reference).
It’s a small closet with 1" acoustic panels on the walls, covered by moving blankets. MIC is a Fifine T669, into a macbook air/garage band.
Next stop will be MIC upgrade and an interface - for now, seeing if this acoustic space is workable. So appreciate any feedback.
OK, awesome - in garage band there’s a box called noise gate so I can unclick that. The reverb I don’t know what that is from. There is a preset that I use called vocal narrative or something that adds some kind of effects? Maybe that’s what it’s from - and I can not add that, thx.
The reverb doesn’t sound (to me) like it came from the closet acoustics.
You can record with Audacity and it doesn’t apply any effects during recording. You an optionally apply effects later.
Assuming no “glitches” or effects, your choice of recoding software doesn’t affect quality.
A noise gate is probably OK as long as it’s not noticeable. Sometimes you can hear it kicking in-and-out and it can be distracting.
And strangely… ACX (audiobooks) will reject you if the background is too quiet (or if the background noise is too high). They don’t actually publish the minimum noise but “digital dead silence” (which can be accomplished with a noise gate) will get you rejected.
They do publish the noise maximum (-60dB) and that’s hard to meet with a home studio (without noise reduction of some kind).
Oh, I can play it. I just don’t have a sound file to analyze. I think you have fan or motor noise in there, but I’ll tell you a lot more after you post an actual sound file on the forum.
That heavy horizontal bar with the vertical arrow in the forum message panel is the File Upload tool.
Ah, so re Wav… garage band saved the wav file and its was 6.7 MB. Audacity said it wouldn’t accept a file larger than 4MB… so I tried MP3, which saved at 1.3MB. Is there a diff way I can save/upload a wav? Thanks thanks
