Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Making your voice recordings sound better

Although we produce voice overs and production music at Audiobag, our specialty is post-production work (audio editing). In fact, we have a section on our website dedicated to audio editing at http://audiobag.com/audioediting.html. We love to improve the sound of your voice recordings.

The most common problem in recordings customers send to us is background noise (room ambiance) such as air conditioners, refrigerators, reverberation caused by nearby walls, and of thumping the microphone. We can eliminate most of the thumping noise and decrease the other background noise, but it's impossible to totally eliminate it all. However, there are a few things you can do to improve your recordings.


Place pillows against nearby walls to help decrease wall reverberation noise. If you're in your home or office where you can turn off hum generating equipment without causing any problems with your associates or family members, temporarily turn off the air conditioner, refrigerator and any other noise makers. Just don't forget to turn that refrigerator back on.

One more item that will definitely improve your recordings is a windscreen on your microphone to knock out the plosives (or "popped P's" as we call them). We eliminate plosives every day (sounds like Rolaid's, doesn't it?), so don't worry too much about them if they happen even while using a windscreen.

These are just a few tips to help you improve your recordings. If you'd like expert editing of your recording, visit us at http://audiobag.com/audioediting.html. You'll find a description of what we do to improve audio.

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