Raspy voice is achieved by obstructing airflow from your throat when partially closing your glottis. This causes less air to come out and creates a gritty, raspy voice. Otherwise, you might attain a raspy voice by recording in the morning or irritating your vocal cords with screaming, dehydration or smoking. Limit the air coming from […]
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When voice acting you will occasionally have to convey a sad emotion. It might be tough to get into the appropriate mindset so here’re some tips that will help to better convey a sad emotion and misery when voice acting: Speak slowly Use interrupted speech Nod down Slump down Listen to sad music Sigh and
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The breathy sound is created by allowing your vocal cords to not close fully when speaking – decompressing them. This allows some air to come out as you speak creating the breathy voice effect. To master breathy voice you ought to learn to control your respiratory system and breathing through the diaphragm as you will
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You can measure noise floor (room tone) in Audacity by recording your environment without extrinsic noises. When recording noise floor make sure there are no unusual background noises and keep your audio recording levels at the usual settings. Here’s how you measure your noise floor in Audacity step by step: Record in a quiet room
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Audacity is a free audio editing software that supports many different plug-ins and allows you to set it up the way you like. In this article, I will show you how you can download and install different types of plug-ins in Audacity. These are the plugins that Audacity supports: Nyquist Plug-ins Module Plug-ins VST Plug-ins
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This is a list of websites offering free sound effects. The list is in order with the best websites at the top. The key aspects are sound quality, library size, licensing and navigation within the website. You can also find a summary table at the end of an article for a quick glance. For the
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Triton Fethead is an in-line preamplifier designed to give an additional 27dB clean gain boost to dynamic or ribbon microphones by converting phantom power into gain. Fetheads are mainly used to drive demanding dynamic microphones but serve other purposes as well. I’ve been happily using my Fethead for the past three years now, so let’s
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All condenser microphones have self-noise (inherent noise) due to their electrical circuit. Most of the XLR condenser microphones will have a self-noise within the 5-30dB range. However, there are some outliers with self-noise as low as 4dB. Conversely, most USB microphones don’t disclose their self-noise levels, but they are usually very high, often above 30dB.
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Mickey Mouse has an iconic voice that is high pitched, soft, energetic and upbeat. To sound like Mickey Mouse you will have to learn to speak in falsetto, use your throat to add warmth and resonance to the voice and finish your sentences in an energetic fashion. Mickey Mouse uses a high-pitched voice (falsetto) Mickey
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Corpse Husband has a very distinctive deep and raspy voice. To sound like Corpse Husband you will have to add lots of vocal fry, lower your voice as much as possible and add breathiness. Some voice deepening exercises might also help to achieve the voice. Finally, you can tweak your voice recording with EQ and
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