What kind of equipment you use for recording and mastering VO's?

[Joonas Piiroinen]

So, like the topic says, what kind of equipment you use for doing VO's and mastering them?

 

I use Studio Projects B3 mic for voiceovers. Mixer is Behringer Xenyx 1222FX. I record with Adobe Audition, and I mostly master with Waves Diamond Bundle. (C1, L3 etc..) I don't use so much effects, but if I do, I use the Audition effects.

[frankallen]

So, like the topic says, what kind of equipment you use for doing VO's and mastering them?

 

I use Studio Projects B3 mic for voiceovers. Mixer is Behringer Xenyx 1222FX. I record with Adobe Audition, and I mostly master with Waves Diamond Bundle. (C1, L3 etc..) I don't use so much effects, but if I do, I use the Audition effects.

 

Hey There,

 

Equipment wise bearing in mind im still a noobie at this and normally radio broadcast, i use some cheap £7 mic i bought off ebay that works suprisingly well with a pentium 3 pc running xp that i have converted to use as a sound desk running out into a kam pro100 mixer . I use audtion for recording but i am playing about with audacity and soundbooth.

 

Frank

[Jinglemaster]

The key to good recordings is a good mic. The B3 is reasonable. The other end of the spectrum is the Neumann U87. Most VO's agree that the shure SM7b is a good choice.

 

Mixer, the Behringer Xenyx are pretty hard to beat for quality and price. What you do NOT want is anything with a cross fader. crossfaders are exclusively used with cheap DJ club mixers where quality is not important. For studio work you want a real mixer.

 

PC is not too important as long as it is reasonble in speed and has at least 1Gb ram. The key here again is a good sound card. Many are now opting for the external USB cards, I still sue internal Audiophile 2496.

 

Software, there is a massive choice. I personally use Adobe Audition 3.

 

Effects. Aha, that is where time comes in. I have built my collection of effects over 25 years and there is nothing that I don't have really.

[JBVoice]

I use different things for different recordings. My main set up consists of, a "built-from-scratch" Windows XP computer with sound blaster HD sound card. I have the stereo cables running into my mixers Tapein and tape out for monitoring purposes (allows me to hear the audio on the pc). From there I have 4 mics total. 2 AKG Perception 420's (use radio and the free work I do), 1 AKG Perception 820 TUBE (use the least) and of course my main mic, the SHURE SM7B (Use for paid work). I purchased a very nice preamp but when it arrived it was damaged and is now unavailable, lol so, I am waiting to order another preamp. That is pretty much my set up...I'm still slowly building up my studio and now cutting a hole between my studio and spare bedroom to put a sound proof window and the other room will be set up with drum, guitar and vocal mics ;) Hoping in the future to start back up Blue Stone Records.

 

-jb

[ceejay7777]

I've been using Samplitude for many years, so it's my first choice when recording/editing anything from single voicetracks to whole bands. Mic is a SE Z3300-A condenser via a Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 I/O preamp/interface. A bit of Samp's multiband compression and finish off with a Kjaerhus compressor/limiter.

[Brutish Sailor]

Im using a $20 radio shack dynamic mic with a coat hanger bent in a loop and a nylon stocking pulled over it for a pop screen ($2.50) held up by a $20 radio shack boom, A Xenyx802 mixer from Behringer ($40), and soundblaster audigy soundcard ($35).

 

Oh, and Audacity for an open source (free) editing program.

 

 

I really get a kick out of saying that.

 

OH, and soon to be $7 worth of material and a little sodering to make my phone coupling, currently just using adaptors from mixer to house phone to bring callers on the air.

[JBVoice]

OH, and soon to be $7 worth of material and a little sodering to make my phone coupling, currently just using adaptors from mixer to house phone to bring callers on the air.

 

Brutish, another alternative solution for taking calls is Magic Jack or Skype. Magic jack has a soft phone feature where you can use your sound card, run a cable from headphone jack - mixer input and use a webcam mic (or built in mic like my laptop has) and Tada. Just a thought

 

-JB

[Brutish Sailor]

Brutish, another alternative solution for taking calls is Magic Jack or Skype. Magic jack has a soft phone feature where you can use your sound card, run a cable from headphone jack - mixer input and use a webcam mic (or built in mic like my laptop has) and Tada. Just a thought

 

-JB

 

 

soldering it so it has 4 inputs for multiple phone connections, and a direct input for headphones.

 

Keep in mind I am an engineer, and a dummy at software at that.

 

So anything I can do to keep my setup external, the better off I am. PLUS less processing, and I stream with 1 computer for source and DSP encoder.