Make Your Voice Over Sound Professional
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- Here's how I edit and process my voiceovers in Adobe Audition.
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Normalizing
1:17 - DeEsser
1:48 - Graphic EQ (boost highs)
2:09 - Dynamics Processor (compression)
3:23 - Parametric EQ (cut lows/mids)
4:50 - Dynamics Processor (gate)
5:25 - Scientific Filter (high-pass)
6:09 - Hard Limiter
7:07 - Screen with all settings
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Howdy folks! Since this video, I've started a second channel called 'Thom Teaches TH-cam' where all of my filmmaking / editing/ YouTubing tutorials are going, while the 'Thom Gibson' channel is education / classroom content. Check out 'Thom Teaches TH-cam' if you're interested :) th-cam.com/channels/ci0WHPxmwC6WJj2tAAwxZA.html
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Good job! Everything I was looking for in a single video. Finally! Thanks a lot Thom!
I'm glad! Happy recording 😄
Great stuff, Thom! I don't know too much about voiceovers, but I'm definitely going to come back to this video to step my voiceover game up. Love checking out all your content man!
Thanks Matt! Let me know if you have any questions as you begin working them :)
Thom Gibson I certainly will man!
Thank you sooo much Thom for sharing! Many many blessings!!!
Happy recording!
thank you so much your setting work really well with my voice I only had to make little changes here and there
Hey glad it was helpful! Since this video, I've started a second channel called 'Thom Teaches TH-cam' where all of my filmmaking / editing/ YouTubing tutorials are going, while this 'Thom Gibson' channel will be education / classroom content. Check out 'Thom Teaches TH-cam' if you're interested :) th-cam.com/channels/ci0WHPxmwC6WJj2tAAwxZA.html
This is awesome. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Happy voice-recording!
Thanks for a very helpful tutorial.
I have been removing background low humming with noise reduction filter and that ACTUALLY kills the voice quality by eliminating required frequencies too.
Yeah noise reduction can really mess your audio up if you do too much of it. Glad this was helpful!
Insanely useful video!
Hey I'm glad! Keep on that voiceover grind!
This is solid gold, son! Much thanks!
Glad it was helpful! Happy voice overing :)
Thank you so so much for this!! ❤
Sure thing Arnúlfur! Glad it was helpful :) I've started a second channel called 'Thom Teaches TH-cam' where all of my filmmaking / editing/ YouTubing tutorials are going, while the 'Thom Gibson' channel will remain education / classroom content. Check out 'Thom Teaches TH-cam' if you're interested :) th-cam.com/channels/ci0WHPxmwC6WJj2tAAwxZA.html
Thanks! I sure will. ❤❤
So cool thanks man
Happy voiceovering Sady!
nice niceee video dude!
Thanks slopro! :)
Great vid Thom. I've been checking out a lot of Audition videos and your vid is tops in my book. I'm new to Audition and was hoping you could clarify something for me. When I bring in a RAW audio file, what is the best order to apply effects to the audio? Do I compress, EQ and normalize before adding FX's? Or do I add those first and then compress, EQ and normalize? Thanks for the great vid. Hope to see more from ya.
Hey MrChiprocks. There's different workflows (mine has even changed since this video). I generally normalize, EQ, then compress, mainly because most of my EQ is cutting frequencies so I cut them so I'm not compressing those frequencies. But another argument could be said that you compress and then cut so that way you're making sure those frequencies are out. Experiment with good headphones; reorder the effects and see which you like :) But yes, I do the compress, EQ, and normalize before any other effects. Another good TH-camr to follow is Mike Russell; his channel is all about audio engineering with Audition.
Hey Thom, thanks for the fast reply....and thanks for the tip on Compress,EQ and Normalize before FX's. Yeah, I've seen a few of his videos which are really good. But I think this video in particular is the best I've seen. Looking forward to more content from ya.
hey i just realized he charges for those presets so thank you sooooooooooooo much for this.
Yeah mine's a little different than his (and I've even tweaked it since then) but same general chain :)
wooow thanks 🔥
Sure thing! Happy voiceovering!
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Sure thing.
Finally!!!
Happy recording!
That dynamics processing noise gate before the scientific filter (high pass). Is that the same thing as a downward expander. Would I need the scientific filter with the expander as well?
Not sure on the downward expander, may need to find a TH-cam video on that.
Try with and without the scientific filter and see which sounds better to you 👍
Thanks a lot!
But I would like to know the settings of the last dynamics processing for making the quieter thing s quieter.
For making quieter things quiet you want to use a gate (it mutes things unless they're louder than a certain level). Here's a video on how gates work - th-cam.com/video/gErFoJc7tzk/w-d-xo.html
Thanks!
Where would you put noise reduction in this chain?
Great video. Thank you very much.
Try a few different places in the chain and see how you like the sound. If the difference is too subtle to hear, you can try cranking of the noise reduction level temporarily and then see the difference of it's impact if it's early in the chain vs late in the chain to help you decide.
Hi, Thom. Thank you for the video! Would you mind showing 2nd dynamics processing settings? You have showed the curves, but not settings
I didn't end up changing any of the settings there so you can leave them at default :)
@@gibsonedu thank you, Thom! You make it look easy. Really helpful
hello Gibson my name is Alex and I'm from Brazil, I would like to ask for help with my audio, how much compression and equalization can you help me ? Sorry, I do not speak English, I'm using google translate.
Try to keep compression and equalization somewhat to a minimum but it's personal preference
So, I’ve heard different sides to this but why didn’t you start with noise reduction as the very first thing in the editing process and then desser and so on? Some say if you apply all the other processing before noise reduction first you will just add whatever noise is on that track and boost it or get it mixed in with your other processing
Yeah, tons of different ways of doing it. Noise reduction is generally something that takes more time (you have to sample a certain quiet point, then run the noise reduction, then fine tune it) so this chain is showing a way where you just turn on the effects and you're good to go.
Nice clip Thom. My only comment related to processing is the old cliche "less is more". It's easy to over process. I avoid all the end-processing steps you describe in great detail by recording in ProTools with an aux track with four pre set real-time waves plugins, then I edit in Audition. I loved Cool Edit Pro long before Adobe bought it years back and rebranded it as Audition. I've always found it easier to edit in than ProTools. I'd use Audition to record, but the program doesn't allow for plug ins in the live recording chain. Thanks for the post!
Hey Brian, thanks so much for the feedback. Love hearing from a seasoned vet as yourself :) I used Pro Tools a lot back in college (studied sound recording technology) but only have Audition these days. I see you just started your TH-cam channel! Way to bust out of the gate with uploading a huge handful of videos in that first week! Looking forward to checking those out.
Do I have to do all that in the waveform mode? I'm worried about destructively editing my source files.
That's a good concern. Maybe you can duplicate the waveform and work on the duplicated. Keep the naming convention easy to find them like VOJob_Proc (for processed) and VOJob_Raw.
Thom Gibson Is that what you do? Or most people do for this type of editing? I'm used to editing in programs like Reaper or Logic Pro which are all non-destructive and I can't seem to find a real benefit to doing it destructively. It seems like more time spent making copies of files just to get some functionality out of noise reduction programs. Reaper has a non destructive version of noise cancelling that has been working decently enough.
I don't do that for the same reasons (don't want to make copies).
You could work in the multi-track form and put the effects on the rack and export out that way, I just prefer the waveform editor a lot more and there isn't a way to export out of there with the effects on w/out destructively applying them to the waveform.
Everytime I try to use Adobe audition it crackles and pops. It's not my computer or mic. Audacity works fine, as does twisted wave. But Everytime I try adobe audition I get crackling. Any idea why?
Hm, I'm not sure unfortunately. A lot of different variables of what it could be.
I tried recording using this application, but the volume changed to become louder or inaudible after I stopped talking and started again. has anyone experienced something similar to me
Hm, maybe you could take a screenshot of your settings or link to an audio file that shows what you mean?
I think the original sounds better....
LegendarySannin88 Yeah If you want the more natural sound, you can go sans processing :)
@@gibsonedu What is "sans processing"?
@@LegendarySannin88 Sorry, just meant without processing.
@@LegendarySannin88 What is "sans processing"....lol. Stay in school, folks.
@@ACS402010 sans means without in French so yeah stay in school lol
I know I'm years late but for him the end results just sounded like "Look for The Gummy Bear Album in Stores on November 13th"
I had to look up what that was. It was worth it :)
@@gibsonedu Lol glad to have made it worth while :)
what type of mic are you using?
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Barvo & succes to Mr Thom Gibson. From me Indosian Male Voice Over....
Glad it was helpful!
The irony is that your audio sounded better raw imo. At 7 seconds and on the audio sounds overly processed imo. But just my opinion. I think your raw track was much more pleasant.
Yeah audio is a personal preference game for sure. Glad you enjoyed the unprocessed version :)
Normalise first? NnnnnnOOOOOOooooooo! :D
Ha! Why do you normalize at the end? To ensure you’re not amplifying I desired frequencies to begin with?
@@gibsonedu the normalisation is simple scaling of a waveform. And Your scaling will be dependant on the SINGLE highest peak of your track - it's not controlled, you may end with different scaling of the waveform - each time.
I just assume that normalisation could be good for short, very quiet sounds like from instruments, for sound design.
But if You have long tracks with voice over, and You use the same mic...maybe some little different distances - You might want a more intelligent approach. I am not super professional in audio engineering, but my chain for my tourism guide narration processing is following(all free stuff)-
Noise reduction >> TDR Nova(simple dynamic eq) >> Tonmann Deesser >> TDR Kotelnikov(Compressor) >> LoudMax(limiter).
I make first gain with TDR Nova as much as I need to reach -3db - but I do with output product of dynamic eq, which already rises volume as I pop out or limit needed frq.... but last one gains and evens out - but evens as much as I like, it can be too much and artificial.
But You don't want to just scale first(each time by uncontrolled scale) and scale all noise with it - clean first, then maybe it can be limiter or another gain tool which works with your volume intelligently, not just scale all the inequality in your audio. That's why I(for example) am using dynamic eq...first You wanna control all pops and all to quite frq - to make Your track more even.... for me it's like a limiter, but automatically situational. Some use dyn.eq several times, for different purposes and frequencies - probably it could give an even better result. But my audioguides should not be so tidy.
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you are not telling the exact effect you used
Hm, I say it in the video and it's in the description.
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Why are these folks normalizing at the beginning? Normalize is an END process. This is common knowledge.
Good point