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Do most voice artists leave their LO, MID, and HI settings at zero for the majority of recordings?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: EQ question |
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| Bailey wrote: | | Do most voice artists leave their LO, MID, and HI settings at zero for the majority of recordings? |
I think it really depends. When I am auditioning I will apply compression, EQ, etc. For the final read I leave that up to the producer. If they will be doing all of the post production I will give them an unprocessed read and let them do their magic in post production. |
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Most of the time I leave things a 12 o'clock high at the request of the producers, so they can sweeten things on their end.
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it depends. I do ask the question, but regardless they get a clean read (often as a separate copy... just in case they didn't like my take on it), in addition to whatever EQ or compression I used.
It's easy to add something to a take (compression, EQ, effects, etc.), but it's not so easy to take them out, so use your best judgement and when in doubt, keep it clean.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Yoda117 wrote: | it depends. I do ask the question, but regardless they get a clean read (often as a separate copy... just in case they didn't like my take on it), in addition to whatever EQ or compression I used.
It's easy to add something to a take (compression, EQ, effects, etc.), but it's not so easy to take them out, so use your best judgement and when in doubt, keep it clean. |
Agree with Yoda. As a general rule, you want to record as clean a signal as possible.
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| Deirdre wrote: | | Most of the time I leave things a 12 o'clock high at the request of the producers, so they can sweeten things on their end. |
I agree.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| TheVoiceOfBob wrote: |
I agree. |
I agree.
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I nearly always ('bout 90% of the time) record everything flat.
However, I do have a couple of customers that I do take the liberty of sweetening things up for them a tad as they do no post whatsoever.
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| Dave wrote: | I nearly always ('bout 90% of the time) record everything flat.
However, I do have a couple of customers that I do take the liberty of sweetening things up for them a tad as they do no post whatsoever. |
ok, but I assume you still record flat and then sweeten in post before giving it to them...
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| Mike wrote: | | TheVoiceOfBob wrote: |
I agree. |
I agree. |
I agree.  
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12 O-clock High ... Baaaa!
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I agree.
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Well, Thank God SOMEONE agrees with me!
You were agreeing with me, weren't you?
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ANAL TECHIES DO NOT READ OR HAVE MEDICATION STANDING BY
Remember that your room, mic, lead and chain will all add something to the EQ and other audio qualities .....OH NO! Now what are you going to do?
I think that improves things! |
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