followed by Noise Reduction of the beast (6, 6, 6).
And as we constantly remind people who flop down on the sofa glad all that’s over, that’s only the technical part of the process. You still have to pass the theater part. At ACX, your submission goes to Human Quality Control where a real person (we assume) listens to your work and complains about room echoes, tongue smacks, gasping for air and terrible timing.
Among others.
When you get it so you can regularly crank out chapters and passages in a stable manner and repeatably, you can submit a test to ACX.
The desktop, since that first picture has been covered in a towel.
Good call. Note in the last picture, the table is covered with a double layer of furniture moving blanket.
A bare desktop doesn’t give you echoes. It’s much more evil than that. It gives you comb filtering effects. Science Fiction tonal warbling as you talk and move.
Most of your wet mouth noises and popping goes forward and down. So it pays handsomely to keep the microphone either level with your nose or slightly high.
And if that’s not enough, you can arc the microphone sideways slightly.
