Lenny B’s Knowledge Library for Creators
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Mastering Voiceover Recordings with Acoustic Treatment
Hi, I’m Lenny B, an audio engineer passionate about helping voiceover artists, actors, and content creators achieve professional-grade recordings from their home studios. In my latest video, I dive deep into the often-overlooked key to gr...
What is a voice recording diagnosis?
A Voice Recording Diagnosis from audio engineer Lenny B examines five different recording quality factors. These five categories are critical to capturing professional-quality audio and include noise, acoustic treatment, equipment, recording level, and mic techn...
Learn how to approach every voice-over so that you will feel 100% confident you are delivering the best read! If you need a better direction for a script read, I show you how to make the client happy, get the job (or audition), and make the message effective.
Voice-over artists, content creators, and others who make content by recording their voices come to me for help. I can improve the audio quality of voice recordings captured by a microphone. A voice-over artist from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, approached me looking for help with his home studio. Alt...
In this video, I examine an audio submission from a voice-over artist using an Elgato Wave:3 USB microphone. He’s come to me to improve the sound of his voice so he can win more auditions and get more work. Although the Elgato Wave:3 USB microphone isn’t a professional-level voice-over microphone...
If you record any type of voice-over, you are familiar with the recording level struggle. Setting a good level is easy for consistent conversational speech. However, setting a good recording level while capturing dynamic performances can be challenging. A recording level that captures soft or qui...
The Pultec EQP-1A might be the most famous studio hardware EQ of all time. Voice-over audio engineer Lenny B walks through the Universal Audio plugin (modeled) version of this unit and shows you how to take advantage of what this EQ is famous for and use it on Voice-Over recordings. In this video...
The best de-esser setting for voice-over is not one specific frequency or threshold. Every voice, microphone, room, and processing chain is different.
The goal is to identify where excessive sibilance is actually occurring, then reduce only as much as necessary without making the voice sound dull, ...
If you are a voice-over artist, how do you know if your voice-over recording quality sound is professional? You might think, how do I know if my voice-over sound is competitive? How do I know if my voice-over recording quality prevents me from winning auditions? In this video, I answer that quest...
There are a lot of different recommendations about the “best” recording level for voice-over, and that can make something fairly simple feel confusing. My approach is to set the input gain on your preamp or audio interface so that your strongest natural peaks land as close as possible to –6 dB witho...
The fourth stage of Voice-Over production workflow is Mastering, which occurs at the end of your production process. You must record, edit, process, increase the loudness, and deliver your voice-over audio recordings in a specific order. Failing to follow the proper order and procedure may result in...
Can plugins fix my untreated room echo?
One of my most popular requests is to resolve someone's room echo in their voice-over recordings. This challenge is prevalent, especially for beginning voice-over artists recording from home.
Can plugins be used to fix an untreated room echo? Here is the ans...
