Hello this is Mike Russell from MusicRadioCreative.com. I am staggered by your generosity. Over half
a million views on this channel. Please keep watching and to celebrate, on this tutorial
I'm going to show you the exact settings I apply to a voice over once I've recorded it
into Adobe Audition. Now if there's one person you need to thank for this tutorial. It is
voice over Darren. Go to his website at voiceoverdarren.com click the contact page and thank him personally
for this tutorial. That's voiceoverdarren.com.
In the latest versions of Adobe Audition CS5.5 and 6 you are able to put your favourite processes
onto a hotkey. So right here I'll select this part of my voice over hit the V key and my
settings are applied immediately. You'll see them here in the history box. There really
is no great science it's just a straightforward process, EQ, normalize, compress, normalize.
E N C N. I really need a better acronym don't I? With these simples steps you can turn a
voiceover that sounds like this "This is a voice over" to this "This is a voice over".
Let me walk you through those steps now. First of all, EQ, I'm going to select the unprocessed
voice here and go to my effects rack over here where I will select filter EQ and the
Parametric Equalizer. Here it's just a simple case of selecting the Loudness Maximizer in
the presets. All this does is add a subtle little bass and quite a lot of extra treble
to give you a nice presence in your vocals. So once you've done that, hit the cross and
then apply and you'll see that the EQ is now applied to the voice over. Next you go to
the effects menu amplitude and compression normalize process, that will bring up this
box then you can normalize the voice over to your favorite late 90s radio station frequency
so 98.8 there you might choose to go back to perhaps 95.8. Anything in the late 90s
is good. Next is the compression or as it is called in the Adobe Audition, the Dynamics
Processing. So head back to the effects rack go to amplitude and compression, Dynamics
processing and then i've got a preset called "Mike Compressor" that's something I set up
myself. I'm going to zoom into my settings there take a look them note them down and
you can set them up yourself in Adobe Audition. Now cross out of the Dynamics Processor effect.
Click apply to put it onto the voice and you'll see that makes it nice and fat but a little
bit too loud so then we go back to the effects Amplitude and Compression in the menu and
then Normalize process again normalize to your favorite radio station frequency in the
late 90s and there it is the compressed voice over sounds like this "This is a voice over."
Now how do you get all of those processes onto one hotkey so you're not doing 4 things
each time you want to process a voiceover. Well you simply add it into the favourites
menu in Adobe Audition CS5.5 or 6 and select start recording favourite. When you do that
you get the opportunity to then go ahead and record all of those processes. Kind of like
a macro or it used to be known as a script in previous versions of Adobe Audition. Once
you finish you simply go to favourites, stop recording favourite, give it a title and to
assign it to a hotkey hit the ALT K key on your keyboard to bring up keyboard shortcuts.
Go to your favourites, find the favourite you recorded. For me here it's Voice Filter,
and then just assign a hotkey by hitting the key you want and I usually use V because that
reminds me of voice every time i'm processing my voice. And there you go that's the easy
way to process a voice over once you've recorded it into Adobe Audition. In cooking terms,
I like to refer to it as oiling the pan because you're preparing the voice over for it's purpose
now there is a secret source or the seasoning that you can put on top of the voice over
when you're creating radio imaging sweepers and IDs and maybe I'll reveal that to you
in a future tutorial. If you'd like to see that process leave a comment on this video.
Thanks for watching. This is Mike Russell from MusicRadioCreative.com