General improvements for voice acting?

[kozikowski]

Remember to make the recording environment perfect before you start messing with the quality of sound. The Shure SM-58 is widely regarded as one of the better rock band vocal microphones. It has a dip at the low end to get rid of room rumble and handling noises, and a "haystack" peak starting around 2.5 KHz. It's that peak that give you the slightly forward, bright sound. I would not have left that little notch in there, but that's just me. Note that it's not much. 5dB or so. Much beyond that and you'll start to run into sibilance and baby screaming sound problems.

You should be ready to describe the sound system you're using to set these sound qualities. In general, if you can hold your speakers in one hand, that's probably not good enough. Headphones are good if you can find a set that does not try to help you by boosting anything. I was using Sony MDR-D150 headphones as generic monitoring (purely from habit) and I stopped when I discovered they have a very pronounced bass boost. So everything I was mixing was weak in the bass. It sounded fine to me.

Koz