Re:Voice Over - With Original Music by Mooch ... not like Bapus all cover songs
2012/11/26 08:55:04
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Dear Mooch:
Here's my serious review/input on this.
It's wayyyy too slow.
You ever actually listen to a radio ad? They speed them up with Reaper or something. The guy could have, and should have fit at least 50 more words in to those voice overs, not including the 20 paragraph disclaimer that they always whisper at the end of the radio ad.
He sounds like he's doing comedy.
He sounds like Alan Alda on Quaalude's.
Do away completely with the saturation. It sounds terrible.
Compression is ok. Set it so you get that 'snap' in his voice. I hear no 'good' compression in this.
High cut, low boost. Whenever I hear a radio ad in the car, the voice is boomy. Very boomy.
Think ... 'that black dude from the Allstate commercials' or the new black guy NBC has announcing for them. I remember when he first started doing their voice-over's. I couldn't understand a word the guy said ... then they changed how they processed his voice and he's much easier to understand now. Seriously ... I pay attention to this things.
You're friends voice 'might' be ok for radio voice-over work, but you really need to record and process him better.
Go buy a $5,000 mic from Guitar Center, do your recordings, take it back and say you didn't like it.
There's more than one way to skin a cat my friend ....
Bub.
"I pulled the head off Elvis, filled Fred up to his pelvis, yaba daba do, the King is gone, and so are you."