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Unboxing - Recording voice when there's other louder noises (cutting, ripping)
Context is king here. If you are seeing your mouth and the unboxing action, then you need to hear both.
If we are only seeing the unboxing action, then you record only the sound of the unboxing action ...
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How to create a Mickey Mouse voice from computer Text-to-Speech output?
There are different aspects in "the Mickey Mouse voice (effect)":
One is the relatively high general pitch of the voice. Mickey has always been spoken by a man, but the speakers voice's pitch or ...
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How to create a Mickey Mouse voice from computer Text-to-Speech output?
Have you considered flex-pitch in a product like Logic X? I don't do music and therefore haven't used it a lot, but you can make some interesting effects with it. You record the phrase in your normal ...
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How can I improve this chain of filters to make a better voice with Audacity
Processing always has the negative side effect of either increasing noise or taking away from the quality. The secret to processing is you want to do as little as possible to achieve what you want, ...
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Emulate phone speaker
I think that what you are looking for is something like SOX, through which you will be able to script a solution.
The solution will be to simply apply an EQ curve to the recordings to emulate the ...
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i need a singer simulator or virtual singer?
Alter Ego Bones (free) Standalone, VST % AU 64bit - wi;; sing and speak whatever you type in to it, same presets are provided in English and Japanese, there are also add-on voices which are not free.
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Voice - how do you go about making it nice?
Assuming the recording and levels are good in the first place. I will almost always roll off lows and shelf the highs, even if its just a little. Human voices don't really have much below 120hz or ...
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How to make your voice sound like another persons voice?
For what it's worth, Adobe announced a tool (Project Voco) at Adobe Max last year that goes way beyond the typical 'voice changer' apps and EQ setups. It can literally change one voice into another ...
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How can I improve this chain of filters to make a better voice with Audacity
I'm guessing there are going to be as many variations on this chain as there are answers. [It could reasonably be claimed to be "too broad" but here goes...
My brain doesn't work in numbers, it works ...
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How can I improve this chain of filters to make a better voice with Audacity
The Audacity manual on this page has this to day about the order of applying effects:
Amplification or normalization may be done before or after Noise Reduction.
Do any Notch Filtering or Click ...
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Recording our dreams: Ideas for speeding up post-analysis?
Many handheld recorders have a feature that automatically starts a recording when a certain dB threshold is reached. That might save some time and file space. You'll have individual files of hopefully ...
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Recording our dreams: Ideas for speeding up post-analysis?
Use a gate! The following process will let you isolate what you need.
First of all find the frequency of the voice, i suspect for a female voice an area between 250-800 should capture the main body ...
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Mic'ing character inside full animal costume?
As it will not be seen, you have the freedom to attach it to the actor's head or face, rather than any clothing/costume.
You could use a boom version, over the ear & just to the side of the mouth,...
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What is this sound effect? (Lady Gaga's Monster)
Essentially, the pitch of the sound is being progressively reduced. It used to be that the most straightforward way to do this (e.g. with analogue equipment like tape, or simple computer programs) was ...
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How to record voice and guitar with Zoom H6
You will almost always want to use two microphones. Yes, you could do it with one, but it will require you getting it perfectly placed, and it will not give you optimal sound quality for either guitar ...
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Components of a convincing voice impersonation
Speaking about relevant aspects for the way sounds are being formed it comes down to the individual forms of the vocal cords, mouth, tongue, nose and lips as well as the way how they all play together ...
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Balance woman speaking close to mic against man speaking far
You're going to hear lots of attempts at answering this question, but in reality the sad fact of the matter is that there is really nothing that you can realistically do to save this audio. I am ...
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Make voice sound smoother
Its a combination of a lot of things but mostly mic, position and performance are key. There are some things you can do in post but without the key ingredients you are limited. Post production is ...
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Is there any software/tool to covert computer generated audio (TTS) into professional voice over?
No, Ashok, there is not. If you are doing this for a client then you need to pass on the cost of the voice talent.
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How to make somewhat similar radio sound effect from Battlestart Galactica?
That's a combination of effects.
Firstly, the obvious ones: use an EQ or a bandpass filter to remove the low frequencies and a little off the high end and add a touch of distortion. There are some ...
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Unboxing - Recording voice when there's other louder noises (cutting, ripping)
Along with marks answer, without knowing the setup, if you have a cardioid pickup pattern and place the item behind the microphone then it can reduce the noise a good amount. Also using a compressor ...
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Good portal / app / technique to reduce ambient sound
It would be easier to test if the audio was set to be downloadable rather than having to use Audio Hijack to grab it…
but I think yours is a lost cause.
On first listen I wasn't for quite sometime ...
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How to simulate distance with lavalier mic in post-processing
Contrary to some of the other answers, I wouldn't start with removing high frequencies with EQ. I would instead start with removing low frequencies.
If the lav mics are cardioid, then they will ...
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Is there a way to remove a single singing voice from a duet video?
I'm afraid this is unlikely to be possible with current technology.
In the past few years, removing a voice from a music track has turned from pipe-dream into reality, using machine learning ...
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Zoom Q2HD for podcast-quality recordings?
I think you could get great quality with your zoom device, and it will all come down to the room. So I think the living room is probably out of the question, but you can try it.
To get a professional ...
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Improving digitalized tape recordings - more than what I've done
Wav files are better quality but unfortunately converting a compressed
.mp3 to a .wav doesn't improve quality.
I would interpret the "blanket" over the voice to sound like it's muffled which means ...
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