This video is spot on. I'm now producing ad spot videos for someone. On top audio engineering I'm dabbling in video as well. As for audio, Waves plug-ins are worth the money when they're in sale. Amazing noise reduction for 30 bucks and now they have a new noise reduction plug in that seems to be better.
This is a great video Neil. If you remember I reached out to you last year and you were kind enough to help me with my reaper set up. I'm using Studio One now actually because it suits me personally but I have learnt so much about cleaning and engineering my audio in the last few months and cannot believe the things I didn't know. It has made my work flow so much faster and yes it took time to learn but it's worth it.
Thanks so muchh!! I'm startinh with V.O and i was a bit scared about the audio because it all seems so complicated and confusing :/ but now i'm more relaxed and eager to learn 😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Neil, I found the hardest and most frustrating part was not the reading and recording, but like you mentioned, cleaning up the audio. It was a steep learning curve. I still have issues with low rms and getting the volume correct, but now I know how to amplify, normalize and recently how to use compression. My quality is getting much better but it takes me hours to edit and clean up the recordings. I use audacity, I’m wondering if I should try another DAW.
Very good advice for beginners. While at the time of 11 months ago remote work was much more optimal-and still is for a lot of commercial voice over-it seems that character animation and interactive are moving back towards in-studio work unless they can make an exception for remote. But yes, being your own audio engineer is A MUST for anyone looking to work in voice over, regardless of which vein it is. You never know when someone will come to you for remote work and since you're the only person that can be the audio engineer you have to know what you're doing when you hop into the booth to both save time and save face. Worst thing you could do is not know how to engineer your own recording session. What happens when you spend 2hrs on a directed session and deliver the files with poor gain control? Remote voice over artists have to be multifaceted since there isn't a team that can do it for you in-studio. Which, in all honesty, is very VERY difficult because you then have to worry about the issue of "overthinking the levels in the middle of a performance" up until you get so good that it all becomes natural. 😅
@@CrownStagVoiceover Well, I'm still trying to figure it all out, but I did have a contest rejected from Bunny because of reverb--and I've the most bougie 'hobo fort' in the world so I know it's not that. Maybe it's the way I stack my plug-ins. Maybe I accidentally changed Reaper settings. Now I know how mechanics feel when trying to chase ghost electrical issues in cars!
@@musicalneptunian I began there and because they're 6 years old and he's on a Mac everything looked different. That's how I ended up here. :) But now that I'm more familiar with the DAW maybe it will look familiar. Thanks!
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This video is spot on. I'm now producing ad spot videos for someone. On top audio engineering I'm dabbling in video as well. As for audio, Waves plug-ins are worth the money when they're in sale. Amazing noise reduction for 30 bucks and now they have a new noise reduction plug in that seems to be better.
I just noticed this. The new plugin is Clarity VX and it is astounding. I'm blown away by what it takes away and how it preserves the original voice
This is a great video Neil. If you remember I reached out to you last year and you were kind enough to help me with my reaper set up. I'm using Studio One now actually because it suits me personally but I have learnt so much about cleaning and engineering my audio in the last few months and cannot believe the things I didn't know. It has made my work flow so much faster and yes it took time to learn but it's worth it.
That is great to hear.
Awesome video! Thanks for such great content 🙂
I’ll have a look
Thanks so muchh!!
I'm startinh with V.O and i was a bit scared about the audio because it all seems so complicated and confusing :/ but now i'm more relaxed and eager to learn 😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Neil, I found the hardest and most frustrating part was not the reading and recording, but like you mentioned, cleaning up the audio. It was a steep learning curve. I still have issues with low rms and getting the volume correct, but now I know how to amplify, normalize and recently how to use compression. My quality is getting much better but it takes me hours to edit and clean up the recordings. I use audacity, I’m wondering if I should try another DAW.
I honestly stand by reaper and using dynamic split
Very good advice for beginners. While at the time of 11 months ago remote work was much more optimal-and still is for a lot of commercial voice over-it seems that character animation and interactive are moving back towards in-studio work unless they can make an exception for remote. But yes, being your own audio engineer is A MUST for anyone looking to work in voice over, regardless of which vein it is. You never know when someone will come to you for remote work and since you're the only person that can be the audio engineer you have to know what you're doing when you hop into the booth to both save time and save face.
Worst thing you could do is not know how to engineer your own recording session. What happens when you spend 2hrs on a directed session and deliver the files with poor gain control? Remote voice over artists have to be multifaceted since there isn't a team that can do it for you in-studio. Which, in all honesty, is very VERY difficult because you then have to worry about the issue of "overthinking the levels in the middle of a performance" up until you get so good that it all becomes natural. 😅
Fantastic video Neil!!! Thank you so much!
No problem
Some good info man thank ya.
Neil, what would you say are the steps you take in
your editing
process?
I have a whole video on that actually lol I think it was called work flow or editing process
@@CrownStagVoiceover Perfect! Thank you
6 months into it and I feel like I'm regressing with the engineering.
How so?
@@CrownStagVoiceover Well, I'm still trying to figure it all out, but I did have a contest rejected from Bunny because of reverb--and I've the most bougie 'hobo fort' in the world so I know it's not that. Maybe it's the way I stack my plug-ins. Maybe I accidentally changed Reaper settings. Now I know how mechanics feel when trying to chase ghost electrical issues in cars!
@@mamandapanda185 If you go to the MIke Delgadio [booth junkie] videos, he covers Reaper like no one else.
@@musicalneptunian I began there and because they're 6 years old and he's on a Mac everything looked different. That's how I ended up here. :) But now that I'm more familiar with the DAW maybe it will look familiar. Thanks!