Some (hopefully) constructive criticism.
I don't own Tracktion but I do often watch your videos to keep up with stuff about it, nice videos, except for the fact that the voiceovers are way too low. I often watch those things on my iPad and (without earbuds) I can barely even hear what you're saying.
You should really get the RMS levels up on those voiceovers so that (like with the adverts that preceed some of your YT vids) you can actually hear it without headphones or powered speakers.
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- KVRian
- 544 posts since 6 Jul, 2009 from Washington D.C
Thanks for you watching, also your Likes and comment. Let me ask first have you watched any of my latest December videos, are the voiceovers in these videos also to low. I Know all my videos before then is low on the voiceovers. I will work at getting the tutorials better this is my rookie year in tutorials so to speak, hopefully 2017 we get way better results. Thanks again for your comment I need help and suggestion in this field so also feel free to give me your thought good or bad I need it.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6159 posts since 4 Dec, 2004
Thanks for taking that in the spirit intended.
Tip wise, assuming there's not a lot of ambient noise in the place where you record your VO's, just record it hotter (to reduce the amount of limiting necessary later), maybe peaks up to -3, and then add some limiting in post to get the average level up even more.
If you have a smart phone or tablet, test it there without earbuds. If it's loud enough you should be able to clearly hear it from the smartphone or tablet speaker like most YT ads. If you have a dynamic range meter you probably want something like DR4.
Tip wise, assuming there's not a lot of ambient noise in the place where you record your VO's, just record it hotter (to reduce the amount of limiting necessary later), maybe peaks up to -3, and then add some limiting in post to get the average level up even more.
If you have a smart phone or tablet, test it there without earbuds. If it's loud enough you should be able to clearly hear it from the smartphone or tablet speaker like most YT ads. If you have a dynamic range meter you probably want something like DR4.
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- KVRian
- 544 posts since 6 Jul, 2009 from Washington D.C
Thanks a lot will give this a shot. I would normally keep my mic volume on my 6i6 the same. But I rap on my main mic witch is a consinder that is in a stationary position and I do my voiceovers on a sm58 or 57 dynamic mic. Will give feedback when I limit or compress the input signal. But as soon as you mentioned about my RMS Levels it hit me to turn on my mid sid mode in a plugin and wa la I can Turn up the mid signal a great amount without feedback so the feed back now only happen if I boost the side to much.LawrenceF wrote:Thanks for taking that in the spirit intended.
Tip wise, assuming there's not a lot of ambient noise in the place where you record your VO's, just record it hotter (to reduce the amount of limiting necessary later), maybe peaks up to -3, and then add some limiting in post to get the average level up even more.
If you have a smart phone or tablet, test it there without earbuds. If it's loud enough you should be able to clearly hear it from the smartphone or tablet speaker like most YT ads. If you have a dynamic range meter you probably want something like DR4.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6159 posts since 4 Dec, 2004
Yeah. What I said above about levels would be directly contrary to advice for recording a vocal track in a song or something similar. It's more a contextual thing.
Knowing that tablets and smart phones are a large part of the target audience for training videos or similar things and (of course, you're not sending it out to be mastered or anything to make it louder) you'd kinda break those other general rules (I'd never record vocals for music that hot) and maybe just record hotter, and also play the loudness war with it a little in post with a limiter.
The first thing kinda plays into the second thing. The more level you can get when recording those kinds of things, the less you'll have to limit it later to get the RMS levels you want, and, as we all know, too much limiting can have a somewhat bad effect on audio quality.
Anyway, nice videos man.
Knowing that tablets and smart phones are a large part of the target audience for training videos or similar things and (of course, you're not sending it out to be mastered or anything to make it louder) you'd kinda break those other general rules (I'd never record vocals for music that hot) and maybe just record hotter, and also play the loudness war with it a little in post with a limiter.
The first thing kinda plays into the second thing. The more level you can get when recording those kinds of things, the less you'll have to limit it later to get the RMS levels you want, and, as we all know, too much limiting can have a somewhat bad effect on audio quality.
Anyway, nice videos man.
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- KVRian
- 544 posts since 6 Jul, 2009 from Washington D.C
LawrenceF wrote:Yeah. What I said above about levels would be directly contrary to advice for recording a vocal track in a song or something similar. It's more a contextual thing.
Knowing that tablets and smart phones are a large part of the target audience for training videos or similar things and (of course, you're not sending it out to be mastered or anything to make it louder) you'd kinda break those other general rules (I'd never record vocals for music that hot) and maybe just record hotter, and also play the loudness war with it a little in post with a limiter.
The first thing kinda plays into the second thing. The more level you can get when recording those kinds of things, the less you'll have to limit it later to get the RMS levels you want, and, as we all know, too much limiting can have a somewhat bad effect on audio quality.
Anyway, nice videos man.
Thanks again, I is really appreciate the Tips and feedback
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- KVRist
- 428 posts since 21 Jun, 2015 from India
Do these work in Tracktion 5? Also, your videos inspired me to make some of my own Rack instruments (Using Sampler and 3rd Party Effects). Never knew it was such a powerful Tool.
Keep up the good work.
Keep up the good work.
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- KVRian
- 544 posts since 6 Jul, 2009 from Washington D.C
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- KVRian
- 544 posts since 6 Jul, 2009 from Washington D.C
The True power of Tracktion is Definitely The Racks and also you can remake any Rack with you own 3rd party plugins the rack will still show the setup of any Rack even if you do not own the plugins in the Rack it will have the missing plugins connected in same order theRrack was setup, This give you the choice to change any plugin in the chain with your favorite 3rd party plugins to make the Racks you use more familiar to you.