Don't Be Afraid or WAIT to do what you need to do!

At the AMA Session on Saturday, 3/25/23, Earl did a demonstration where he showed us how his expensive mic sounded with a blanket over his head and then how it sounded without a blanket over his head. The difference in reverb and echoing was very noticeable.

The main problem where I record is the reverb created by my voice bouncing off my walls, floors, ceiling where I live. Audition's De-reverb feature wasn't working too well as although it was cutting out the reverb, it was also changing the volume on my voice too much after application.

So after 4 years of my UNSUCCESSFULLY trying to create workarounds in post-editing, and based on the demonstration Earl did last Saturday showing how much putting a blanket over your head cuts out reverb, I FINALLY lol went out and got a blanket and found it cut the reverb so much! My audio editing went so much faster and my voice was so much clearer and I was a happy camper!

Last Saturday Earl commented that people don't use the blankets when they need to for whatever reason really applied to me! lol That has been me for the last 4 years. I kept thinking I could fix it by tweaking something here or there in post editing. I am a Capricorn and we can sometimes be foolishly stubborn in our beliefs. lol.

Because I can't add a whisperbox or add any acoustic panels or change anything on the floors or walls where I live, I will have to use a blanket until I can move to a new residence where I can alter the walls and floors and my sound space. (I won't be moving anytime soon as I am the caregiver for my 82 year old Mother recovering from cancer and doing chemotherapy, radiation, etc.)

In the meantime, I will use the blanket over my head. I wanted to share this post today with all of you to implore and encourage you to NOT BE LIKE ME and avoid putting that blanket over your head if you need to for whatever reason and allow your audio sound to suffer. I did that for 4 long years and suffered from it, needlessly.

I encourage anyone this issue might apply to....If you have reverb or echoing in your space, do WHATEVER you need to and can afford to do right now to fix that BEFORE wasting your time doing auditions or completing jobs that will have less audio quality than you would like and your beautiful voice deserves!

I have gotten lots of voiceover jobs due to my beautiful voice but even though the clients were satisfied, I was often less than happy about the end product because I could hear that it was not the best it could be and my true voice was not shining through. We want to be proud of and overjoyed by our audio creations, so I encourage anyone that this issue applies to to address and fix it now rather than later. And the cheap, easy way to do that RIGHT NOW is often using a blanket over your head.

Happy travels on your voiceover journeys! 🧡

Blessings to all,

LaTonya

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