optimus
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Does Anyone Use Cakwalk For Voice Over Recording?
Does anyone use Cakewalk for doing voice over work? I've been watching on YouTube how VO artist Mike DelGaudio (Booth Junkie) does it using Reaper. He seems to have set up a template just for editing narration, and so, is able to edit quite quickly. I have set up a similar template in CbB, but would like to know if anyone else out there uses CbB exclusively for this type of work, and how they approach it. I downloaded Reaper and tested his system, but I really don't want to learn a new DAW if I can get similar results in CbB. Cheers.
post edited by optimus - 2018/12/05 04:03:26
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Steev
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 08:23:05
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☄ Helpfulby galeom 2018/12/04 10:03:07
Absolutely, anything you can do in Reaper can be done in CbB. I've done literally 100's if not 1000's of voice over sessions with SONAR over the years.
The trick is to get the right mic for the right voice in an acoustically treated room environment.
I've found that mic to typically be the Electrovoice RE 20. It's the world class Swiss Army Knife of vocal mics.
And just like CbB it's versatile enough to be custom tailored for any timbre of voice, it can easily be used for a plethora of other recording applications.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 08:42:59
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Steev, how do you approach editing?
Watching Booth Junkies videos, I've found his ripple editing technique, but applied in CbB, to be very quick.
However CbB has an advantage over Reaper, in that you don't need to split a clip to remove a section. Selecting the unwanted section and then hitting Delete is sufficient to join the clips back.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 12:52:57
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I believe forum member Yorolpal does a lot of v/o work with Sonar.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 13:23:37
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I've done V/O work both for HitRecord.org, and a handful professional projects, all using Sonar.
If you've got a decent input mic; pop shield; pre-amp & know how to gate and compress a voice, you can get that V/O sound easily; but it all depends on your voice.
I used to work for a V/O company (biggest in its field) and the voice-over artist is what makes the recording great. If you've got a nasally annoying voice, no amount of tricks will make you sound like a pro V/O.
Practice dropping your voice to a BBC V/O level. That makes you sound pro right off the bat. Also control your pronunciation of plosives. There are ways to say 'p' and 'f' without popping the mic. There used to be a BBC handbook all about how to do this.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 14:55:54
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Ive been doing VO recording, editing, mixing for 3o+ years as a way to fish for music composing jobs. I started on tape and have used a Roland system, Protools, Cubase and Cakewalk/Sonar. I've mixed hour long TV shows, commercials and Industrial videos. Maybe because I'm more familiar with Cake I have found it way easier and quicker. Cakewalk has always been a step ahead tech-wise...like 64bit as an example. Technology is constantly evolving and I tend to see things as long run and at any given moment Cake has seemed to be ahead.
Protools is more compatible with Video editors (AVID) and is designed more as a mixing app so pros tend to use that. Cubase has some really good advanced features like pitch correcting and time stretching that is hard to match and those things can save your life if a narrator reads a line wrong or you need to "Frankenstein" a sentence.
I've been relegated to doing more of this than I'd like due to the proliferation of music libraries these days. I just did a ruff mix yesterday and was marveling at how cool the new version of Cake with the ripple editing is and how cool the plugins sound. I used iZotope Nectar Elements on the vo track which I think I got for free, the LB multiband compressor on the master (I think was free?) plus a couple of Wave plugins. That along with iZotopes RX plugins to fix any bad audio thrown at you, creating exceptionally sounding pro VO mixes is so easy.
I'm looking at my big screen monitor, Cake with its themes and all the colors, all the great sounding plugins...and just marveling at how cool this all is and sounds.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 15:37:24
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+1 get the Izotpe Elements Suite. Great bang for the buck for voice over work, and will do most of the work for you automatically in a lot of cases. Really saves time.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 16:28:05
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I used to.
I had a VO pro come here for family ski vacations. He would come in with copy, get in the booth, bark out his lines and toss cash on the console. (4 bcf2000s) and go. He left me the email address of where to send the wav files.
Saw him every winter.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 21:06:17
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I've done a TON (a metric ton, even) of narration using Sonar and now CbB. The key to me for speed is keyboard shortcuts. Just analyze everything you do during the editing process, and create a keyboard shortcut.
I do have a workflow, but trying to describe it in words in a forum post would be difficult at best. Also it involves having a script...all my VO stuff is scripted.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 21:30:03
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I've been working on an audio book for over 2 years using Sonar. Things got WAY easier once ripple editing became a feature. I use a custom template for a stripped down interface and find I can get around pretty quick. I suppose some of the more in-depth features like lenses could work quite well but I've not tried it to create a custom workspace.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/04 21:31:07
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ampfixer
I suppose some of the more in-depth features like lenses could work quite well but I've not tried it to create a custom workspace.
Hmmmm...I think you're on to something there.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/05 02:12:33
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Anderton
IThe key to me for speed is keyboard shortcuts. Just analyze everything you do during the editing process, and create a keyboard shortcut.
+1...before ripple editing I had my keyboard shortcuts pretty much cover that issue, but the ripple is better. I just wish there was a warning sign or something to let me know its on.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/05 10:07:51
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Anderton
I do have a workflow, but trying to describe it in words in a forum post would be difficult at best. Also it involves having a script...all my VO stuff is scripted.
I second that. The company I worked for recorded and edited thousands of hours of audio narration. Everything was scripted which meant that the engineers could mark the script with cut & edit points during the narration, saving loads of time in the studio. I'm guessing that many YouTubers don't use scripts (though I'm happy to be corrected), just edit on the fly. I depends on how you intend to work. I also second Jimbo. Many studios use Pro Tools so that sessions can be shared between studios. Ours had Pro Tools on Mac. I never really liked it myself, hence I'm here. There are pros and cons to all systems, but I cannot really see a major advantage to Reaper over the New FREE DAW by Cakewalk/BandLab.
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/06 18:00:48
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I have used nothing but Sonar and then Platinum for many years for television and radio commercials. It sure makes things simple when you are writing custom jingles and the voice over and foley sound fx all in the same DAW project. I have not run in to any situation that Cakewalk has let me down, so far!
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/06 18:04:44
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I used to use cakewalk all the time for television commercial voiceover work. It worked as well as anything else I have ever used
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Re: DOES ANYONE USE CAKEWALK FOR VOICE OVER RECORDING?
2018/12/06 21:47:26
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Thank you to all. Your remarks have given me great confidence.
Cheers.
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