Can I start with this gear?

Scott Greenia · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007, 23:11 (GMT) Post subject: Can I start with this gear?

I'm just thinking about starting to think about getting into VO. Laughing

I have a small studio that I use to record original music, and was wondering if I could use some/any of the gear I have now.

Mic: BEYERDYNAMIC M88NC
Mixer: Mackie 1202 VLZ Pro
Recording: Tascam DP01 8-track Digital Portastudio
Effects: Alesis Quadraverb, Alesis 3630 Comp/Limit/Gate
Editing Software: Cakewalk products? *
Cans: Sennheiser HD414

* S/W opinion has changed to Adobe Audtition. ( I tried the demo version ..WOW )

Scott Greenia · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007, 19:23 (GMT) Post subject:

bump?

Should this be moved to GEEK?

Claire Dodin · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007, 22:03 (GMT) Post subject:

Hi!
I'm not an expert but it seems ok to me.
I don't know Cakewalk products but I can tell you that adobe audition is brilliant.
Have you got tiles or sound absorbent of some sort around your mic or in your room in order to create a dead space? It's often one of the things that goes wrong.
Usually condenser microphones are preferred, but some dynamic mics can sound surprisingly good, I don't know this one.
The best thing to do is to record something and post your sample here, then we can hear if it sounds ok.

Scott Greenia · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007, 22:10 (GMT) Post subject:

Claire Dodin · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007, 22:13 (GMT) Post subject:

if it's to check the sound quality, just post a dry read with no effects (just normalize and compress if you want)
A demo is a very different thing that needs a lot of work. first thing first, check the equipment Very Happy

Scott Pollak · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007, 22:31 (GMT) Post subject:

Scott, I haven't responded because I'm not familiar with most of the equipment you listed, but I will say I use an RE-20 and love it. I've gotten great feedback on the sound quality of my demos thru it, but I think it depends to a large extent on the tonal quality and 'punch' of your voice as to what mike will work best for each person.

Scott Greenia · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007, 20:34 (GMT) Post subject:

Here's a clip with the mic and a little compression.
Huge hum going on somewhere, and still too much high end....I think.
I took some breaths out as well (just to shorten the clip ...dial-up)
Just me and straight voice. (Vermont accent on some words) Laughing

:Edit: Noticed some "thumping" in there after upload. I'm not sure where that came from. It wasn't on the sample. Maybe after I converted it from 128 to 96k...or when it was normalized....not sure.