Mastering Voice Over For Loudness Standards With Adobe Audition
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Mastering and loudness standards are a mystery to many voice-over artists. Mastering is extremely important to separate you from the competition, especially when it comes to voice-over demos and auditions. In this video, I walk you through a custom voice-over processing mastering setup using only Adobe Audition's stock plugins. Find out why mastering your voice-over is necessary, see how it's different from regular voic-over processing, and hear what it can do for your overall sound.
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A custom processing preset by Lenny B for voice-over is a series of plugins explicitly tuned for your voice, in your room, and on your microphone. To compete in today's voice-over world, you must ensure that your demos and auditions are extraordinary. Voice-over artists at every experience level from all over the world are fighting to win work. However, if you don't have a professional sound, you will lose out to someone who does. Custom voice-over processing can take your audio presentation quality to the level necessary to compete with the pros. Instead of taking it upon yourself to tweak parameters like EQ compression, DeEssing, and saturation, you can hire a professional voice-over audio engineer to create it for you. Once you have the custom preset on your system, you have "The Sound" every time you press the record button.
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love how well you explain everything.
Wow, I didn't even have to look up material on this subject, just popped up in my notifications right away, just when I needed it!
Wow, learned a lot from this. You're a master Lenny
You can use "match loudness" (ALT+5) on your adobe audition. It analizes whole recording and matches loudness to standart or if you strugglin with gain knob in multitrack view on clips, you can "Match clip loudness" (Press right mouse button on clip and then select)
Great content Lenny you're the man ... love how well you explain everything.
Hey Lenny, I really like your channel. You've got a lot of great knowledge. My only issue is that I feel like your own voice over audio is too bright; it's very harsh in the loudness, especially in the sibilance range. Personally I prefer a more natural, smooth sound. I love the results you get people. You may need your own Lenny B. Cheers!
Thank you!
Thank you Lenny B
Thanks Lenny, I'm working on a Vimeo video right now - perfect timing. PS - Your EQ course has been so helpful to me - thank you.
Fantastic! I love to hear that!
Very helpful video! I dont do voiceovers but I do "talking head" videos and I've watched a few of your videos recently to help get my audio to where I want it to be. Still have a way to go, but its getting better.
Are you set up to process audio in Final Cut (which uses Logic, i think for all the audio processing)? I might need some pointers with EQ and the compressor.
Hi NotaRubicon Production, Yes I use FCP for a ton of work. The plugins are almost exactly the same. I actually wish Logic would re-render the wave files like FCP does when you add effects. Let me know how I can help. Actually, you should send me some audio and I'll processing in FCP. It would be a cool video too. Please use this link: Submit Your Voice For Processing: bit.ly/Submit-Your-Voice
Mr. Lenny, I’ll be sending you my file!
I bought your EQ for Voiceover course yesterday, I hope it helps me 🙂
Hi @Zeruphael. Thanks for enrolling in the course. I'm positive your EQ skills will improve. You can contact me through the course anytime if you have questions.
@@HeyLennyB Okay, Thank you!
I was having problems for years equing voiceovers. When i switched to equing before compression rather then it seems all my frustrations disappeared
Hey Lenny! What do you think of bed mattress as acoustic foam for treating my room? Thank you!
It wouldn't be my first option but it would have an effect. It would likely be better at isolating you from outside (the room) noise. However, it may not do the best job of absorbing the reflections that you want to remove. There are easier ways. Rugs or any type of soft absorbing materials to cover as much of the hard reflective surfaces (in the room you're recording in) can be effective. Hope that helps. I saw/heard some of your videos. You've got a great voice!
@@HeyLennyB thank you!!!! 🙌🏽
The echo sound great. how did you make it?
I was wondering what the website was that you found all those delivery standard recommendations on?
It's on the Youlean website here: youlean.co/loudness-standards-full-comparison-table/
I love your work, i am a small youtuber, I want to do voiceover, I want to learn from you, thank you...
I've just recently noticed that you use what looks to be a foam windscreen over your 103. I'm using a Heil PR40 and have begun using Heil's foam windscreen over it to (a) act as a pop-filter and (b) help tame the high frequency bump native to the PR40. My voice is naturally somewhat low and I have very little in the high end anyway. Just wondering what your experience has been (pros/cons) using foam over your 103 instead of more traditional pop filters.
Hi, @eyesonly4451. I find that foam windscreens reduce the high-frequency material very little. My windscreen is used to avoid the infrequent plosive that might result from my breath hitting the mic. I expect the high and low frequency balance with your microphone has more to do with your room acoustics. I'd be happy to send you a free assessment of your sound. Please follow the three steps on this page: www.lennyb.com/get-your-voice-processed-submission-form and be sure to reference this conversaiton about the pop filter in the form. Thanks
Hi Lenny, excellent as usual :)
Couple quick qs - where's that link from for the various broadcast standards?
Presuming the limiter is there with the max output level set, is there a difference between pushing up the input volume in the limiter and using some kind of gainer/utility plugin to increase the volume or even simply pushing up the channel volume if you're working with a processed/exported file?
Thanks
Because of your suggestion, I'm now a fan of the Youlean Loudness Meter plugin. It's on their website youlean.co/loudness-standards-full-comparison-table/
@@HeyLennyB cool! Thought I recognised it, not surprisingly even that's well put-together eh.
sadly the loudness radar is now deprecated by Adobe
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Loudness Radar isn't a stock plugin but it's used a lot here. Can I get just the software plugin from them or does this come with hardware?
The Loudness Radar is from a company called TC Electronic. You can find out more about them here www.tcelectronic.com
Hi Lenny, thank you for this, really helpful. I got the Klangheim VUMT after watching your video, but I am not sure how to set it up so that it has two meters, one for the input and one for the output!?
@emilie M. Ah, good question. If you use a stereo track, the meters will automatically show two meters. But I think what you want is how I set it up. I put to instances of the plugin on one mono channel. One before all of the plugins and one after. Then I open each of the two instances and put them side by side. Hope that helps. 👍 @klanghelmaudio
Yes, it does help tremendously! A million thanks Lenny 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@lenny b I want to edit my audio through EQ and deal with things like compression, limiter expander gate, etc, I know I’m gonna have podcast style videos in the future but I also want to do post editing on my audio
Should I use pro tools or audition and which plugins do I need for both
Any help is appreciated please respond in great detail if possible
And also I would like to reach out at some point so maybe we could further this discussion via google duo or Microsoft teams or something along those lines
Hey SP, I expect that the video editing application that you use will also likely have EQ, Compression, an other effect already available to you. But if you want to work in an audio application, here are my thoughts. Both, Protools and Audition have all the plugins you'd need. In my opinion, ProTools is overkill for your needs. Unless you are multitrack recording several instruments at a time, ProTools is not a great choice (in my opinion). It sounds like Adobe Audition is a smart choice for you. Lots of effects come with the application, there's a ton of official video tutorials from Adobe that can get you up and running, and you can always use additional plugins as you learn more. The secret is that all these really cool plugins mostly do the same thing. The know-how will get you much further than a new piece of gear.... it's just not as sexy.... :)
Hello, I left a few comments on earlier videos I’m going to be getting the sm7b and going to be using the roadcaster pro with the cl-1 ( cloudlifter)
Which program do you recommend I use I have Windows
I watched your video on voice over with sm7b and logic
Tho since I don’t have a Mac I’m stuck, also I am potentially thinking of becoming an audio engineer any help or if we could exchange contacts so we can further the microphone discussion that would be real nice of you
Adobe Audition could work, but I think that if you are planning to do mostly podcasting, you may want to check out the new app from Steinberg called Wavelab Cast new.steinberg.net/wavelab/cast/
@@HeyLennyB can I do all the things you do with voice processing and mastering, I’ve seen pro tools is a good alternative I am going to be podcasting and making talking head videos