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Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2020 1:17 pm**

Siraj Hassoun wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:20 am
One last enquiry please, can I reach the quality of the voice in this video:

https://youtu.be/slCWH9oV1no

As this man uses the same mic I'm using and he's shooting outside (there must be some noises), I also saw many youtubers with lavaliere mics and their voice-over is of the same amazing quality.

That you are indoors, in what sounds like a small reflective room, is why your sound is different from the video, (reverberation).

If you are going to be talking softly, (whispering), then an expander/noise-gate is worth having to attenuate the audio when you are not speaking.

Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:01 pm**

Most lavaliere microphones are non-directional. They depend on closeness to the performer to do their tricks. This works on large news sets or other acoustically dead or controlled environments. If you record in a bathroom, it's going to sound exactly like recording in a bathroom.

I made really good use of furniture moving blankets for two projects: The kitchen table studio...

viewtopic.php?p=369938#p369938

...and a portable studio.

https://www.kozco.com/pictures/boothFin ... op-mic.jpg

"Heavy" is good. Each blanket is 7-8 pounds (3.5kg) each.

Libraries full of books work well. I made good use of a storage closet full of paper accounting records.

Lots of bare walls, ceiling and floor are not good. This room would be a nightmare to record in.

This room would also have a different problem. If two people talked to each other across that room, they would be perfectly loud but would not be able to understand each other.

There are more exotic solutions, too. Flynwill, one of the helpers on the forum once designed a sound studio without parallel walls. It had normal acoustic ceiling tiles and a little carpeting, but was amazingly dead for sound recording. Only if you were paying attention did you know that the north wall was slightly bigger than the south, east and west walls didn't line up and the ceiling wasn't level.

I sent a lot of sound jobs through that room.

Koz

Posted: **Mon Dec 21, 2020 9:26 pm**

kozikowski wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:01 pm
Most lavaliere microphones are non-directional. They depend on closeness to the performer to do their tricks. This works on large news sets or other acoustically dead or controlled environments. If you record in a bathroom, it's going to sound exactly like recording in a bathroom.

I made really good use of furniture moving blankets for two projects: The kitchen table studio...

viewtopic.php?p=369938#p369938

...and a portable studio.

https://www.kozco.com/pictures/boothFin ... op-mic.jpg

"Heavy" is good. Each blanket is 7-8 pounds (3.5kg) each.

Libraries full of books work well. I made good use of a storage closet full of paper accounting records.

Lots of bare walls, ceiling and floor are not good. This room would be a nightmare to record in.

This room would also have a different problem. If two people talked to each other across that room, they would be perfectly loud but would not be able to understand each other.

There are more exotic solutions, too. Flynwill, one of the helpers on the forum once designed a sound studio without parallel walls. It had normal acoustic ceiling tiles and a little carpeting, but was amazingly dead for sound recording. Only if you were paying attention did you know that the north wall was slightly bigger than the south, east and west walls didn't line up and the ceiling wasn't level.

I sent a lot of sound jobs through that room.

Koz

Thank you so much, I will consider that.
Lots of gratitude.

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