need to remove transvestite sound from my voice

[steve]

Personally I thought the reading speed was fine. Snappy enough to keep my interest, and slow enough to be clear and not sound hurried.

[kozikowski]

<<<The recording would benefit greatly from using a better microphone (close up) and better sound card, both for producing less noise, and picking up the lower (more manly) tones in the voice.>>>

Oh, yes. I forgot about that. Directional microphones have Proximity Effect. You get ballsier the closer you approach. When you go see your favorite band at the pub (do they even have bands at pubs?), please note the lead singer with his lips plastered against the microphone and all your can hear is the woof-woof-woof, rumble-rumble of the sound system. That's an extreme, but you can use that to your advantage to get a little more chest resonance out of the show.

You never told us what kind of microphone you're using. Computer microphones tend toward gutless and the best said about the built-in microphones, the better (unless you're on a Mac).

I want to emphasize the theatrical nature of presenting/announcing. I got to see Johnny Olsen announcing a TV show once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Olson

He gestured, he bobbed and weaved (always keeping the microphone spacing) and he got red in the face during the reading. He was very theatrical and nobody else ever sounded like him that I ever heard. Oh, and he didn't have a particularly deep voice either.

"Tonight, these three people meet to compete for the Priiiiizes of a lifetime, on... [music stinger] The Price Is Right!"

Koz

[bntheman]

Thanks for the tips everyone. I tried speaking a bit deeper, and with your tips I think I can get something a bit better. I will let you guys know, and give you the link to register on my site so you can download the tutorial. This will be my first lesson of project 1, which will be a free tutorial to all new registered users.

[Trebor]

Personally I thought the reading speed was fine. Snappy enough to keep my interest, and slow enough to be clear and not sound hurried.

Maybe a regional thing: many people in my area of the UK speak twenty to the dozen,
and that was before the NHS started handing out government-issue speed (Ritalin) .

[kozikowski]

A note. You're still going to need to get rid of the noise level that appeared in your test. I mean at the capture step, not later.

Doing a voice job is not an automatic cue to apply six or eight filters, patches, and tools. If you need that, it usually means your capture is technically damaged no matter what your voice is doing, and unless you do a perfect post production job, it's still going to be damaged after. Remember the "One, two, three" test? Whatever filters you applied caused serous damage. Don't do that.

Earlier, even Trebor admitted he didn't get one of the tools adjusted quite right. It isn't that easy. If your job changes slightly from chapter to chapter, you will be adjusting everything every time and it will be a real problem.

What type of microphone you use?

Koz

[waxcylinder]

... When you go see your favorite band at the pub (do they even have bands at pubs?) ... Koz

They certainly do - ask SteveTF. Iv'e seen him play his fiddle with his band in a gig at a pub in the rural Midlands of England - and very good he was (and the band too).

WC

[whomper]

...
Maybe a regional thing: many people in my area of the UK speak twenty to the dozen,
and that was before the NHS started handing out government-issue speed (Ritalin) .

you should see how fast they talked in mexico
it all ran together so fast
you would think it was percussion style music not words
all you could make out was the louder softer rhythms