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John Highman Thanks for your insight. Dynamic mics are used a lot by broadcaster. In that situation your voice goes into the mic and out over the air. In voice over your voice is recorded and sent to the client who may then process it and add it to video, a podcast, and audiobook, etc. I prefer to give them an initial recording that has the highest fidelity possible. The frequency response of a dynamic mic is limited by the fact that the "voice coil" has mass and it needs to be moved by your voice. As a side note, this "voice coil" is also susceptible to picking up RF noice from fluorescent lights, motors, etc. Finally AM radio has a bandwidth 10khz so a dynamic mic is fine for radio talk shows on AM. A decent condenser mic has a frequency response of 20-20,000 hz because the element is essentially massless. They are not susceptible to hum because they are electrostatic. All unidirectional mics have a proximity effect, dynamic or condenser. BTW I'm not against someone using an Electro-voice RE-20. It is designed with a low-mass coil and a hum-bucking coil to counteract the shortcomings of dynamics. But please don't use a SM-58. Finally practical experience. I've recorded VOs in hundreds of L.A. voice over studios. I've never recorded on a dynamic mic. Ha ha, I think I just wrote the script for that video you recommended I create. Best of Success -William

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You do not need to be fluent in English to do English Text Voice Over. You just need to be able to read and pronounce English well enough to be understood. Of course you do need to understand the meaning and the context of the words. But you don't need to create the words. They are provided in the script. Practice reading English. İyi şanslar!

Thank you sir, I was always told it would not happen, so I stopped practicing about 1 year ago, I will start again as soon as possible, thank you for your time, it gave me hope. (I apologize if there were mistakes because I wrote using translation)

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Thanks for responding.It's best to clean up your recording space to eliminate external and interior sounds and room echo. A dynamic mic just adds electrical noise and possibly hum and buzz. Using a low quality mic is like pouring brown gravy on a burned steak. Nowadays the first thing clients listen to is your recording quality, before considering your performance or your voice. James Earl Jones is not going to be hired if his recording is low quality.

True on the dynamic choice, which is why I also use my dynamic when recording in my booth inside my L.A. apt. But condenser is preferred for VO in majority of situations. - and, yes, noise & hiss on this vid. (forgot to clean up, WW?) :-o

Well, that’s what I thought, and bought a Shure SM7b. But an audio engineer suggested I use my Sennheiser MKH-416 shotgun mic, which I also had, and that has worked much more effectively than either the large diaphragm condenser or the quality dynamic mic. It’s a hypercardioid, highly directional, and does a great job of rejecting off-axis noise. My booth is my walk-in closer, facing the clothes, moving blanket over the door and acoustic tiles on the one bare wall. The noise floor went from bad to excellent (better than -60dB, ACX requirement), without having to apply noise reduction, most of the time. Occasional showering neighbors’ fan noise filtering is built into my post-processing effects stack. I got my 416 off eBay for way less than full price. Otherwise, one of the much cheaper, but good Rode NTG (1, 2, or 3) shotgun mics would probably work as well. My issue with the Shure is just the slightly reduced spectrum. Great for Michael Jackson and R&B, but maybe not so good for intimate speech. Just my opinion.

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You have several questions. I believe that the Tascam DR-05x has better frequency response than the BM8000. But it has a connecter that plugs into the line input of your computer which uses your sound card. This probably has more noise. A better choice would be a USB mic. You can get a Yeti Nano for ~$100. USB Mics don't use the sound card to input the audio. The digital audio goes directly into your recording program. a free voice over lesson here where you can send your mp3 recording for my evaluation: www.onlinevoiceoverclasses.com/free-sample-voice-over-lesson-and-evaluation

back down on the gain

@Chris Berry For recording the video I didn't want the mic in front of my face or the shadow of the mic to be on my face. Ordinarily you want the mic capsule (which is the circular object inside the screened part of the mic directly infront of you and level with a spot between your lips and your nose. Thanks for watching!

The Shure SM7B; an icon, or even an SM58. Great condensers. You don't necessarily NEED a condenser, but it's very preferred in the v/o or music industry

@@catalinadog157 Both Shure mics mentioned are dynamic, not condenser.

Gates and editing don't work because the hiss is still audible in the unedited or ungated portions of audio. OK, I'm going to recommend something that I usually DON'T recommend: Noise reduction. Noise reduction doesn't get rid of breaths, keyboard clicks, barking dogs, trash trucks or leaf blowers or your kids playing Guitar Hero. But it does work on steady state noise such as hum and hiss. Not every recording software has it but it is included in the Audacity app, which is free download. Using it is a two step process. First you sample a few seconds where there is ONLY the hiss (In Audacity-Get Noise Profile) (a sharp recording engineer named George Whittam recommends that you hit record and then leave the room! Then select a section where you are not in the room. That way you only record room tone and the electronic hiss inherent in amplification). Then using this sample you apply noise reduction to the entire track. Use the least amount possible, maybe 6dB or less. Too much and you get a swishing effect in your vocal that is unacceptable. But just a touch is inaudible but reduces the hiss considerably. Hope this helps. William

@@AlisoCreekVoiceOver William, thanks much for replying so quickly and for this info. I will go back to the piece I'm working on and use noise profile per your advice! Appreciate your courtesy! :)

@@AlisoCreekVoiceOver Hi William! Update: I applied your advice using noise profile . . . recording is great, very clean and hiss is gone! Thanks much! :)

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