this of course was not applied on this test recording
Terrific.
In my opinion you're slightly too close to the microphone for two reasons:
Your voice volume waves are too tall.
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The waves should
never go all the way up and down and that first word is dangerously close to hitting 100% (1.0). If it does touch, it can create crunchy distortion that can be hard to fix.
You can't just turn the microphone volume down because you also have an odd form of P-Popping.
At "creamy" your voice did something that makes a thumping sound. That effect normally happens when people blow vocal air during their "P" sounds. "Peter Piper Packed Perfect Pretzels." You have it on your "C" sounds. You also have a bump at the "B" in "by contented cows."
Anyway, both problems should subside if you move the microphone a little further away. Most raw blue wave tips should hover generally at the half-way mark (0.5). A little above, a little below.
About that hum. You don't need DeHum. You only have one hum tone in your presentation and DeHum removes several different tones from your voice. But that microphone shouldn't hum at all.
Is the laptop close to the Yeti? Do you have a reading lamp or other lamp close? Can you run the laptop on internal batteries long enough for a test?
That hum tone is causing high noise levels.
This can get a little exotic, but here's how I found it.
Drag-select a portion of the raw two seconds of room tone at the front.
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Analyze > Plot Spectrum.
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I know that looks insane, but you don't have to worry about most of it. Make sure the
Size setting is around 8000. That tall blue spike left of center is 120Hz. Hover your cursor over it and read Peak.
That's a sister of the wall power in the US.
That should not be there. The computer could be making that sound, either electrical or actual hummy sound into the room. The lights could be making it. Do you have a dimmer on any of your lights? Dimmers are famous for that. Other possibilities are heater or air conditioning. Some large computer screens can do that through electrical radiation.
My money is on the computer doing it.
Once you move the microphone a little further away, some of the boominess should also go and maybe you don't need
Bass and Treble any more.
Once you resolve that, I had no trouble mastering your voice into audiobook standards, easily passing without the Noise Reduction step or DeHum.
I want to hear a mystery novel in that voice. "That's impossible," said Alice. "I left Colonel Mustard not five minutes ago in the library, with the candlesticks."
Koz
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