Deepen voice while keeping crisp for commentary

[kozikowski]

I got the clip. Your voice is ringing and tinkling from excessive noise reduction. Post something with just you. Don't help.

Koz

[steve]

Don't have a proper Pop filter atm tho.. Kind of uhmm using a makeshift ...

Mine is made from the front fabric of an old loudspeaker. I bought a "proper" one, but the makeshift version works better

[kozikowski]

It was older and more experienced.
Koz

[kozikowski]

In reading the original question, Effect > Change Pitch is going to change the crisp. That's it's major failing for voices. Give it a shot anyway, just to see what it does, but people trying to lower their voices notice right away that their voice gets a blanket over it.

Koz

[steve]

Effect > Change Pitch is going to change the crisp.

It will if you go more than a few percent. If the pitch is lowered too much the voice will turn into a mud-monster (a monster made of mud). If the pitch is raised too much it will sound like a chipmunk. Up to about 7% either way should still sound OK.

[kozikowski]

Another note about live recording, anything you do in post production will have to be done forever. No such thing as getting to the end of recording the show and go home. You have to always remember to apply the filters corrections and check to make sure the show sounds OK. Every. Show.

Newbies posting on the forum generate huge lists of filters and effects, cutting and pasting, volume management and fading and think they're going to create a podcast like this every night. Maybe not.

There was one poster who was actually going pretty well but after several months is down to short "Flash" podcasts with quick updates. I suspect eventually they'll be down to Twitter feeds like everybody else.

Koz

[gamingoodz]

I got the clip. Your voice is ringing and tinkling from excessive noise reduction. Post something with just you. Don't help.

Koz

I could upload one without noise reduction but its horrible.. I built my gaming Pc for performance over noise level so there is a lot of background noise if I don't use noise reduction. I'm not looking for studio quality sound just something that when people are watching my youtube videos think hmm this guys audio sounds good and is enjoyable to listen to.

[kozikowski]

I'm not looking for studio quality sound just something that when people are watching my youtube videos think hmm this guys audio sounds good and is enjoyable to listen to.

I'm not after studio quality sound, but I want it to sound like it was recorded in a studio. Only one poster so far has got away with that and he was only interested in note-taking and nobody but him was ever going to hear it.

Studio Quality sound is designed to be pleasant to listen to. That's its whole reason for being. No dogs, no echoes, no hiss, no background noises, no fans or pumps and no honking, tinkling cell-phone sound. No competition. Just the performer in a natural quality as if they were standing there talking to you in a quiet room.

If you're happy with your work, then we're done. This is your show. But if you feel like it, yes post some completely uncorrected voice. Post enough WAV so we can get a good chunk of clean background noise (several seconds) and then actual performance.

I shot a sound performance a while ago and one of the instructions from the client was just before the show, everybody absolutely stop what they're doing for ten seconds and record Room Tone. I was recording under studio conditions and they didn't need that, but we did it anyway and I thought it was a swell idea.

Koz

[flynwill]

Lauren Bacall's voice was lower than Humphrey Bogart. "You know how to whistle, don't you Steve?"

By the way Lauren Bacall taught herself to speak that way. Her natural voice (according to her biography)
was considerably higher pitched.

If she can do it, you can too.