Is it just me, or does the narrator of the Cakewalk instructional videos have a voice that's TOO deep and boomy? I don't know if it's just processing or the timbre of his natural voice, but it's kind of distracting. I usually listen with headphones and I pay more attention to how much his voice rumbles the speakers rather than what he has to say. I didn't have any problem with the earlier videos with Brandon or anyone else narrating them.

From what I hear, Melodyne can remedy that annoying dilemma.
 
I haven't really used it, I'm just saying is all.

Ha. Actually I find him quite great. Plus, the scripting and his delivery make the videos great for me. Usually these things are ten minutes of boring intro I don't care about and then some useful info. The Cake vidz are almost all meat, and our "Carl Sagan of SONAR tutorials" gives a confident line read!
 

That's Dan's real voice, he sounds like that "live." Don't know if he close-mics or not, which would accent that.
 
OTOH if he ever decides on a career as an Elvis impersonator, that extra low end could come in handy.

Or he could be the "voiceover movie guy"! We can never have too many of those.
 
"In a WORLD..."
"There's only ONE man..."

Grundberg
Or he could be the "voiceover movie guy"! We can never have too many of those.
 
"In a WORLD..."
"There's only ONE man..."

Actually, Hal Douglas, the voiceover announcer for the "In a world..." movie trailers, died in March. So I guess the Cakewalk voiceover guy should look out for that job opening.

I once aborted a Lynda.com video tutorial because the guy's voice was so boomy it annoyed my ears, and turning it down meant I couldn't hear the audio examples properly. It's at times like that I really wish my browser had some kind of EQ built in, or that my audio driver could host VST's. I can't comment on the CakeTV guy however because I've never heard him. 

Maybe he should do a video on EQ-ing vocals and start by applying it to his own voice.
 

It's just you. 

sharke
I once aborted a Lynda.com video tutorial because the guy's voice was so boomy it annoyed my ears, and turning it down meant I couldn't hear the audio examples properly. It's at times like that I really wish my browser had some kind of EQ built in, or that my audio driver could host VST's. I can't comment on the CakeTV guy however because I've never heard him. 

Agreed.  Compression on the browser could certainly come in handy.