You may have seen this scene before in Predator, but did you know that before his voice was
edited in post, it actually sounded like this.
Hard to believe I know, but it’s true.
Hey guys my name is Dylan and this channel is all about filmmaking and editing and let
me show you a way that you can make your voice sound fuller and richer in post.
If you have headphones, nows a good time to put them on so you can hear what we’re doing
a little better.
Drag channel eq, which can be found in your effects tab, onto your audio.
This tool should be the main tool you use to shape your audio.
I’m going to make a video covering the ins and outs of it in the future, but for now,
just know that this can’t be used to change the tone of your voice, but it can be used
to highlight the deep bass-y parts of your voice to create some warmth in your voice
audio.
We can create some warmth by grabbing one of these frequency bands here.
And you could use any of these by the way, it doesn’t matter which, but we’ll use
this one.
And that’s because it’s close to this frequency range.
By raising the 100-200 HZ frequency range by a couple decibels, we can bring out that
low, rich part of the voice that’ll make you….irresistible.
Kidding not exactly, but you will sound better.
So raise the decibels of this region by about 5 or so decibels.
Keep in mind that no two voices are the same so I suggest playing around with this yourself
based on your talent’s voice.
After this, we’ll narrow the boost so it’s not so wide.
And that’s it!
Don’t go yet because a lot of you will find this more useful.
Say don’t care to make adjustments yourself and you don’t really care if your talent’s
voice sounds perfect, so long as it just sounds better.
Add ‘voiceover enhancement’ onto your footage and you’ll notice we have some options
here.
In my opinion smooth male and smooth female are the best because the punchy options raise
the high frequencies of the voice too much.
But adding this to your audio is nice because it’ll give you a solid, quick adjustment
to your audio without you having to play around with it too much.
Now I’ve done videos on perfecting your voice audio with the compressor, channel eq,
and de esser in other videos so I’ll link those in the description, but you’ll notice
if we click on a tool like channel eq here.
Some basic adjustments are already made.
We have the slight boost in those low frequencies like we just learned how to do.
Maybe I’ll raise this a little more However you shouldn’t rely on these automatic settings
because like I said, every voice is different.
So for example the way I speak produces a lot of sibilance.
Which are sharp S and T sounds in my words.
So with this high shelf raised, it’s making those louder.
There is a de esser in voice over enhancement which can help, but for my voice, I’d need
to go in an make a manual adjustment to reduce those sharp sounds.
This videos already getting long so check out my video on using this tool if you want
an in depth tutorial on this specifically.
Basically with this voice over enhancement, use it when you need to bust out something
quick, but still have good sounding audio.
Go in and adjust those tools like channel eq, compressor, and de esser manually when
you want your audio to sound the best it can.
Now, if you’re wanting to entirely change the tone of your voice, unfortunately either
you go back and re record and try and relax your throat muscles, make sure they’re wet,
so drink some water before, and speak from your diaphragm.
Or, you could use ‘pitch’ in post, which can be found in your effects tab.
Then drag the slider ever so slightly to the left, and you’d have a deeper tone, BUT
distortion problems can arise when you try and use this tool, so I would suggest owning
the voice you have or your talent has, and shape their audio with the methods we went
over previously.
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