Removing The Boxy Sound From A Voice Recording

Lenny B
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Published 2022-06-14
A prevalent issue with voice recordings is a boxy sound resulting from a resonance. A resonance occurs from a low-mid frequency reflection based on a room's length, height, and width. This reflection can happen in both an untreated and treated recording space. Resolving the problem with a professional acoustic treatment designed to absorb the resonant frequency is best. However, minimizing the effect can be accomplished with a parametric EQ. This video shows how to identify and modify offending resonant frequencies for a voice recording to improve sound quality significantly.

Voice-Over audio engineer Lenny B walks you through a real-life scenario as he assists a professional voice-over talent with his voice recording quality. Finally, hear the difference it makes to the final recorded voice-over sound.

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About Lenny:
Audio engineer, producer, marketing specialist, and radio broadcast professional in Southern California.

A custom processing preset by Lenny B for voice-over is a series of plugins explicitly tuned for your voice, in your room, and on your microphone. To compete in today's voice-over world, you must ensure that your demos and auditions are extraordinary. Voice-over artists at every experience level from all over the world are fighting to win work. However, if you don't have a professional sound, you will lose out to someone who does. Custom voice-over processing can take your audio presentation quality to the level necessary to compete with the pros. Instead of taking it upon yourself to tweak the parameters like EQ compression, DeEssing, and saturation, you can hire a professional voice-over audio engineer to create it for you. Once you have the custom preset on your system, you have "The Sound" every time you press the record button.

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All Comments (21)
  • @isaacdeassis7810
    I immediately trusted you because you actually took the time to make your mic sound good. 😂 kind of a huge detail people making tutorials on YouTube miss
  • @weaboo7753
    Can't believe these videos are free, my audio quality just went through the roof after watching multiple of your videos
  • @sfrecaps
    Pro-tip: If your room is not treated then have as little gain on your audio interface as possible, and get a little bit closer to your microphone. This way you’ll be able to cancel all the resonant frequencies that get in the middle of you and your microphone when you are a bit away from your microphone and your gain is high.
  • @Astred
    this is gold, lots of people dont understand that the first and hardest thing to do is to get the right vocal tone. if not, all the rest of your chain is gonna be worst to worst
  • @jeffstewartauthor
    This is ridiculously great, Lenny. You nailed it when you referred to it as art. It’s actually high art to a lot of us. Thank you for this channel.
  • @beardsandbanjos
    Great to see another one of these videos. I could watch them all day. I’ve learned so much about audio processing from Lenny B.
  • @edclevel402
    I wish had discovered your channel a couple years ago - your pacing, delivery, teaching skill - and of course your deep domain knowledge - are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your expertise.
  • @MatthiasLenardt
    Excellent explanation - thank you for sharing your work and art with us Lenny Much love 💕 Mathhias👋
  • @arthurgolubev
    THANK YOU a lot for not just showing but EXPLAINING every action! I've learned SO much with this video!
  • @offthestone
    Wow! Straight up gold! Thank you for these videos, Lenny 🙏
  • @kkulmoon
    incredible! as a singer, i record and mix my covers and sometimes i get a little bit anxious about EQing my vocals and using compression, since i don't record in the best treated room. but your approach reminded me that i should pay more attention to details and not just rush the process. plus, the audio sounded AMAZING at the end. and just like you said, its an art. so i should be more mindful of that too :) thank you so much!
  • @ineedkandy
    Instantly stayed for the whole video after hearing how good your voice sounds..... great tutorial !
  • @waynefarrellvoiceovers
    I have a Studiobricks booth and that low-mid cut you made is almost exactly where mine was adjusted as well. Comb-filtering from the glass door was also an issue. Great video!
  • @sau4548
    BEST EQ VIDEO I'VE SEE TILL DATE
  • @G-Doggy
    Your room (audio at the intro) sounds amazing. Thanks for the tips!