 Hey, I'm Anfa. I've been recently recording some voiceovers and I thought it's a good opportunity to record a video About my workflow and all the tricks I've learned in making that kind of recordings Of course, I'll be using open-source software and Linux I would just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux is in fact GNU slash Linux as always so in this video I will record edit Process and export a voiceover track all done in Ardor 6 and Open-source lv2 plugins all running on Manjaro Linux. Let's go Okay, so before we start I want to talk about things you need to take care of to actually record a decent track Because if you record crap, we're not gonna be able to edit or process anything good out of that Okay, so the first thing is to make sure your room is as quiet as possible Turn on any equipment you don't need to run close any windows or doors Warn the people you're living with that you need some silence right now and you'll be recording, etc. Second thing is Treat your room so there's minimum amount of reverberation happening if you clap your hands in your room You will hear a reverb tail If this reverb tail is long You're gonna have a really hard time recording a usable voiceover Because voiceovers by nature need to be extremely dry So if you can bring some clothes bring some bookshelves And hang it all around your stuff If you don't have access to professional sound treating materials then you can do this kind of stuff if that's not possible Maybe open up a wardrobe full of clothes and sit on the edge of that So that your microphone is pointing towards all the fabrics hanging in there and the mass of that is going to absorb a lot of reflections coming in From outside and from your voice bouncing from from the walls and it's going to cut down on the reverberation And this is very important. Third thing is use a directional microphone Most microphones you'll buy have a so-called cardioid pattern So if the microphone is pointing up, it's going to capture most sound from the from the front So if I'm here, you can hear me very clearly It's not gonna capture as much sound from the side. So if I go here you can hear that It's not as loud and if I turn around the microphone and make it completely face the opposite direction You can hear that I'm much quieter So use this to your advantage and for example point the back of the microphone at the loud computer that you cannot turn off because it's recording fourth thing is To record get as close to the microphone as possible. I'm going to show you this from a side So you don't want to be recording your voiceovers from here. You want to be recording them from here as Close to the microphone as possible without touching it okay Why is that important because it's going to give your microphone more of your voice and less of the room's Response to your voice and we want that we want as dry as possible. So let's reverb more of your voice Okay, also if we get close to the microphone capsule What's gonna happen is that the low frequencies in your voice are going to get emphasized and we could of course do this artificially in the post-processing with an EQ But this is a natural Thing that's happening. It's called proximity effect and it's very helpful in getting that deep Radio tone of your audio to your voice. Okay, because you know Many male vocalists are gonna have that low tone, but it's gonna be quiet And if you get up close it's gonna get amplified if I record this this from from a little bit farther away Even so I'm speaking just as low you can hear that there is not as much lows in my voice present at the microphone. So Getting up close is gonna help you sound deeper Now make sure we don't touch the microphone because if you do We're gonna record a bunch of this stuff and you don't want that fifth thing Use a pop filter or a windshield This here is a windshield or a windscreen And it's made for this specific microphone. This is sure SM 58. I believe and this is the windshield is called aws AW2s or something like that And it's made for this microphone, but it only works if you talk to it from the front I'm going to blow into the microphone and If I go to the side these pluses are going to get through go through and create unpleasant sounds at the microphone capsule Which we don't want So make sure like like that your pop filter is doing the job You can't be like catching your pop filter because it's not gonna do the job because your Pluses are going to go right through it You need to have a little bit of distance, but it can be very close to the microphone Like you need to listen record and balance that okay if you don't have any pluses protection You don't have any windscreen or anything the least you can do is simply Move So that your the microphone is facing your mouth from the side and this way You will still be able to record quite a clean vocal with a very good response But all the pluses Are going to go in another direction and not hit the microphone capsule, which is important. Okay, seventh thing is Is warm up your voice before you start You can do that. There's many different warm-up routines You can I don't know you can beatbox for a while or sing your favorite song for 10 minutes or read the text as Expressively and overemphasize everything Like if I'm gonna read my script make sure your room is as quiet as possible close any doors windows turn off Equipment you don't need to run warm people at home that you need to them to be quiet for a while, etc You need to like warm up your voice so that you're not sounding like that your sluggish and And like you can't articulate stuff because you're just your your muscles are not warmed up That's one thing so articulation needs some warm-up But also your voice range is warm up to for example If I don't warm up correctly, I'm not able to hit these radio like deep facing notes and I'm just gonna I'm stuck a little bit higher and it's not as satisfying to listen to So don't rush it like I'm not gonna teach you a warm-up routine. I'm not a voice coach, but Let your voice warm up gently and then it's gonna give you the best Don't stress it though eighth If you produce a lot of smacking noises clicks pops from your mouth like This kind of stuff you can bite your tongue Gently and it's gonna trigger your saliva emission and that's going to water your mouth a bit and it's gonna help with that We of course can cut out these Noises to a certain degree in post, but it's a lot of work So if we can get it better at the source, let's do that. Okay, and ninth thing To record you'll need as low audio monitoring latency as possible. I Switch my jack server to the buffer size of 128 or 256 frames per period There's a command line program to manage your jack servers buffer size and it's called jack underscore buff size I'm going to move this microphone here. So you can hear me better If I run it without any arguments is gonna give me what is the current buffer size if I run it with an argument I Can change the current current buffer size and Now we're running jack at a smaller buffer size now mind that Sometimes I've had ardor crashing If I do that while it's running, okay So savior work before you do it some other programs using jack may also crash at times like it shouldn't be a problem But sometimes it is so be careful, but usually I do it and it's not causing any problems So now I'm recording the video as well. So I'm going to keep that a little higher Because my CPU load might prevent me from going with the lower buffer size But we need as low latency so we can hear yourself through the headphones as you speak and hear What is actually being recorded and if it's gonna have a little bit of delay? That's going to be very distracting and you won't be able to give a good performance Most audio interfaces external audio interfaces have an option of direct monitoring So you can use that also you can disable monitoring in ardor or any other problem if you're using and Use that instead, but it's not gonna give you any processing. So well You might be able to if you can get a low buffer and pro monitor your audio through ardor Then you can you know have the compressor and EQ and all the other stuff working as you speak and hear the final results in your ears But for now, we're gonna record it without any processing And we're gonna set the processing after we record and edit the material. All right and the 10th thing I want to mention before we start recording is You need to set your mic gain properly. I like it might be obvious some of you but it might not be so the mic gain is the amount of amplification you apply in your pre-amplifier for the microphone and usually audio interfaces have some indicator of The sound level being Okay, or being too hot meaning it's clipping or it's saturating the signal Which is not good because that means distortion. I'm going to turn this down in post But I'm gonna let you hear what a distorted voice sounds like okay So I'm going to turn up my mic input gain Until it starts distorting and I'm gonna speak speaking speaking more. Okay. Now. I'm distorting my Audio interface is showing me distortion. I am turning this down in post so you don't have your ears hurt But now if I speak and I turn down the volume. I'm watching a little LED. Okay, it's start. It stopped Okay, right now. I'm not distorting. But if I see something louder, it blinks again Okay, louder louder louder All right, that's that's now I've set it to a volume where I don't see any clipping even if I do a louder sound so generally you want your Preamp gain to be as high as possible So that you have less noise because if it's lower then you will have to boost it more and you have more noise coming from the preamp and Audio interface itself But if it's too hot, you're gonna distort it and that's no good So make the loudest sound you possibly can Lower it until it's not clipping and then you're good to go to record. All right, that's all the prerequisites Let's record the vocals Depending on how much text you have. I think it's best to first rehearse Read the text out loud. For example, you can like rehearse a couple paragraphs at once then record them then rehearse the next couple and Process them in chunks until you get to the end of it. Sometimes when there's not much text You can just rehearse it and record it in one go So I'm going to record a little bit of text a little bit of a famous text This kind of text and let's record only the first paragraph. Okay, because it's not about Recording it all and like making it complete. It's about showing you the process and How it's done and hopefully that's gonna give us enough room to actually do that. All right, so what I'm gonna do is put on my headphones Note that these are closed back headphones They are not going to produce a lot of sound outside of the capsules And that's important because you don't want your headphones to be feeding back sound to the microphone again Because that's gonna sound bad And if you hear that happening turn down Your monitoring volume. I'm going to enable recording I have an audio track in Ardor. My microphone is assigned and I can already hear my voice and it's pretty okay It's not bad. I can hear my voice Okay All right, now I'm going to rehearse this paragraph So I'm gonna read it very quickly so I can record it fluently without too many errors All right, I made a few little mistakes there But right now I should be able to record this in full So let's start capturing and I will go on if I make a mistake I'm gonna back off a little bit to give myself the way to cut so that I have an overlap between different takes and I'm not going to stop the recording until I'm done. So it's a it's a single chunk It's a single region of my timeline. You can't do that You can stop and resume, but I like to do it this way. It's a bit easier to edit after that All right, let's go Also an important thing water I'd just like to interject for a moment. I would just like to interject for a moment What you're referring to as Linux is in fact GNU slash Linux or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus Linux Linux is not an operating system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU core libs shell utilities and vital system components comprising of a full comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX Okay, that was pretty flawless. So I'm going to record another Paragraph without rehearsing it so we get more mistakes so I can show you some editing tricks, okay? Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day without realizing it Through apart through a peculiar turn of events the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux and Many of its users are not aware that it is basically that it is basically the GNU system developed by the GNU project That it is basically the GNU system developed by the GNU project Let's go on there really is a Linux and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use Linux is the kernel the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources To the other programs that run that you run to the other programs that you run The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself It can only function in the context of a complete operating system Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system The whole system the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added or GNU-Linux L The whole system is basically GNU with Linux added or GNU-Linux all the or GNU-Linux All the so-called Linux distributions are really used in the GNU operating system Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU-Linux All the so-called Linux distributions are really Linux distributions are Are really distributions of GNU-Linux are really distributions of GNU-Linux All right, so we've got our material recorded now. It's time to edit it um For editing voiceovers specifically It is very useful to switch order to the ripple mode In ripple mode, if you delete something like I'm splitting this region. I'm deleting here Everything after that on the timeline is moving forward or back depending on how you think about it Which is very useful for deleting mistakes in the voiceover I'd just like to interject for a moment I would just like to interject for a moment What's your All right, let's start with this one I would just like to interject for a moment What you're referring to as Linux is in fact GNU-Linux or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus Now there's a little bit of Now we can cut it off cut it out If I just do that Calling it GNU. It sounds better already GNU plus linux Linux We could also remove this bit Linux is not an operating system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU core libs shell utilities And vital system components comprising of a full comprising okay, and vital system components comprising. Okay comprising comprising Let's cut here and delete this system components comprising a I think we should move this back a little bit Yeah, we can also make a little bit of a fade Some components comprising a full os as defined by POSIX Great, we don't want these crabs here All right, but this is good signed by POSIX Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day without realizing it through apart That's there's a little bit of clicks and pops Remove this one realizing it through apart through Oh Okay, I need to preserve this breath here. So I'm going to move it a little bit And crossfade without realizing it Through a peculiar turn of events the version of GNU, which is widely used today is often called Linux Now this is ugly, I don't want that and I know what this is and called Okay, this is cold, but this is a piece of garbage. I want to remove that I'm not sure if this is going to be a problem. This is a steep click Well, let's hear if there's going to be a click then called Linux. Okay. No click because auto creates these default Default fade outs and fade ins. We can also inter overlap these regions and it's going to crossfade between a is often called Linux And many of its users are not aware that is this basically that it is basically Okay, that it is That it is basically that is this that is That it All right, I need to That that is it So in this kind of situation what you need to do is find the spot in two takes that is identical So you can layer them all one on top of each other or that is That that and here is that it. Okay. I need to layer these two Oh my goodness. I'm sorry and Where that it Now let's Find a place where these two can meet where that it is basically Okay, I think we need to back off a little bit the where that it is Where that it is basic. All right, you see we managed to to find a spot where the two takes can be transitioned between without You hearing any any discrepancy are not aware that it is basically the GNU system developed Ah another ugly stuff Maybe let's mute this one instead of deleting a system developed by the GNU project Now why muting is because I don't want to shorten this part. I just want to have a pause there And in this ripple mode it's it would be Automatically shortening this part new project That it is basically the GNU system Aware that it is basically the GNU system developed by the GNU project Okay, this is another take by the GNU project I like this system developed by the GNU project There's are not aware that it is basically the project That it is basically the GNU that it is based All right, so we have another take which is better. So I want to find it where that That it is where that is there's are not aware that is that it is okay that it Where that Oh, I can see by the waveform that we are having the same part here. Okay. I'm gonna delete this. Oh, oh, oh um and this is where the Ripple mode is kind sometimes fighting against you And sometimes slide mode would be better because wouldn't automatically slide this thing Not aware that is basically Are not aware that is basically the GNU. Oh wait Where that is this basic? Oh, okay. Okay. Where that is this basic that it is basically There that is this base there that is this Oh, that's slip up. Oh, we need to combine more of that stuff. All right It is basically the there's are not aware that is this base That it is basically Okay, so we need to um Eat that Yeah, we're in the slide mode. I think we're gonna be good in the slide mode for now So the are not aware that is We need to fix this with that part, but also replace the other part later with this Okay, which part is this there's are not aware that it is basically aware that Aware that it is okay aware that it is not aware that it is basically the Basically the okay. I'm gonna split it here that it is and go here is basically the That it that it is basic aware that it is basic Aware that it All right, now we have the third take and we're going to find this place. Oh nice. This I can make a crossfade here That it is basically the GNU but users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system developed by the project Okay, uh That's the type of anything I wanted to show you Sometimes you have multiple takes which have like parts of words that are okay and parts which are not okay You need to combine them into a single flawless performance And finding the same spot layering the two and finding the perfect place to go from one to the other Is how you do it Now where are we project? All right, then developed by the GNU. Let's go on All right, and then there's the third paragraph I wonder if I should edit the third paragraph. I think that's going to be enough. I'm going to save this project I'm not gonna edit the rest of that because it's a waste of time. I'm just doing this to show you The workflow and the tools and I think we've I've shown you enough Okay, now let's go to the third part After recording Editing let's go to processing so to process this first thing I'm going to do is Have a little bit of noise That's going to be perfect. Okay What I'm gonna do is add A plugin that performs noise removal It's called noise repellent It's an open source lv2 plugin what it does is um It it does pretty much what audacity's noise removal does And that it profiles some sound to create a frequency response profile and then it uses that profile to remove noise So first we need to activate the learn noise profile option and play back some of the noise through the track Now it's learned. It's been learning. I can disable this and it's going to Attenuate the noise you can hear that we hear no noise right now in there I'm going to move that plugin before the fader Let's listen to the voice and see how that handles it. It can only function in the context of a complete operating system Now I don't hear any artifacts from this But we could lower the reduction amount Linux operating system Linux Let's mute it or bypass the defect operating system And now I can hear okay let's go with six decibels of um Maybe even eight decibels. I still can't hear at even at 10 decibels of that of re of noise reduction um Now there's always going to be a little bit of noise and after we apply equal equalization And compression the noise is going to be brought up. So if we can get it down That's good. That's always great So the next thing to do is I'm going to add a gate I've recently started using lsp plugins a lot and I think they're really good Okay, let's go lsp gate lsp gates mono because we're using mono and mono track lsp lv2 great Okay, so if you don't know what a gate is doing is it's Attenuating the sound when it goes below a certain threshold of volume I'm going to make this keep stay above other windows and let's play back some sounds Now let's move down the threshold With the gnu operating system the whole system The whole system is basically gnu with linux added okay, so What is really good about the lsp gate is that it creates this very useful graph I would just like to interject for a moment Oh, you see now we're we've cut off the end of the word too fast So I'm going to lower the threshold. What you're referring to as linux is in fact gnu slash linux now we didn't Let the start through or Quickly enough. I'm going to enable auto return so that I can play back a part of the timeline Gnu slash linux or as I've recently I want to remove reduce the attack time new slash linux So that it opens up the gate quicker. You can see this ramp if I make the attack long new slash linux Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus you can see that gnu was Gnu it was softened because of the low long attack if I shorten it or as I've recently taken to calling it Gnu plus linux let now we want this The gain reduction envelope to only duck when there is nothing being said, okay So it's cutting off or attenuating the silence between words And this is going to help us first reduce the noise even thirder and also Shorten the reverb tail of this room because this room isn't properly acoustically treated And there is some reverberation and we can get rid of that a little bit by using this gate Of course, it's not going to do wonders, but it's a little bit of a push towards a better sound and Whatever we can do we'll do it to have the better sound Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Now the gain reduction is 24 decibels And we could go all the way to negative 72 or as I've recently taken to calling it Gnu plus linux, but I think that often is very brutal and like doesn't sound very natural So we can go stay with negative 24 or even go higher Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Linux is not an operating system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning gnu system made useful by the gnu core libs Shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full os as defined by posix Many And it nicely attenuates the spot the pauses so we don't have any noise lingering there Okay, the next thing I want to do is apply an equalizer EQ and I'm also going to use lsp eq Parametric equalizer 16 mono. Yes Let's make it stay on top and Okay, so the first thing I want to do is boost the lows a little bit And So I'm going to use a low shelf filter I'm also going to turn on the analysis and make it post eq or as I've recently Now we can drag this in or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Or as I've recently taken to now we are like emphasizing the proximity effect and making the voice sound a little bit more radio like Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux We've got three Three decibels of actually I want to have less like or I'm gonna zoom in because three decibels is already a lot Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux. Okay. Now we have two decibels of gain in that on that Another thing I want to do is cut off low frequencies that we don't need and that's going to be anything happening I'm below my lowest like Fundamental so I'm going to use a hypers filter And we are going to want to use the steepest one available So let's go for I don't know if it's l r l r x And times four. Yeah, this is extremely steep or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Linux is not an operating system Now that reminds me of the video I made about achieving the radio voice transmission effect or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Linux is not an operating system I'm going to Unzoom so I can see more or as I've of the frequency spectrum analysis or as I've recently taken to calling it Gnu plus linux. Okay. I like that. Let's have a bell Filter to boost the highs a little bit. That's something I do often Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Now don't pay attention to the sibilants just yet sibilants the sounds They're going to attenuate them after this But I want to get the general vowel tones to sound a little bit brighter Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Linux I'm using the mouse wheel to widen this filter or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux All right. Another thing I want to do is Have a Okay, maybe not the notch filter. Maybe a bell filter first I'm going to search for resonances So I'll have this filter and make it narrower or And I'm going to sweep through the spectrum and listen to anything that goes that jumps out at me Let's maybe sweep with this frequency knob. So I'm not changing the amplitude. So I so the actual thing jumping out is not the Cause by me just move wiggling my mouse app accidentally Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Linux is not an operating system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning gnu system made useful by okay. This this sounds like Something is going on in there and I want to attenuate this part. So Let's go and lower The gain to negative values or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Now we can mute this filter and listen to How it sounds without it or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Okay, I think it sounds a little bit cleaner. We could do this a bunch more times Create a bell filter Narrower it Sweep up the frequency spectrum Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu plus linux Linux is not an operating system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning gnu system made useful by the gnu core libs Shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full os as defined by posix Many computer users run a modified version of the gnu system every day Okay, I think this sounds a little bit nasally and I could want to attain with a little bit And then we can see and compare if it sounds better with that filter on or not Let's listen it to it without Or as I've recently taken to calling it and with gnu plus linux Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component I can barely hear a difference, but I think this one sounds a little bit cleaner Now any room you're going to record with has some room modes or resonances and that in smaller rooms. That's going to be Um higher frequencies. So if you're in a tiny tiny room, you may have reason resonances up in, you know 800 hertz 500 hertz. I don't know in a little bit bigger rooms. You're going to have resonance at 50 100 at 40 at some size of a room The resonances go so low that you don't hear them anymore And it's the best place to be in but not everyone can afford a huge room And also then afford the sound treatment Materials to put in that room because if it's big you need a lot of that And it gets expensive quickly. Okay. So that's dq action for us Now what I want to do is Apply compression Actually, I'm going to apply multiband compression lsp multiband Compressor mono. Yes now what the multiband compressor does is It uses a bunch of clever shelving filters that attenuate or Emphasize different frequency bands separately based on their amplitude. That's what a modern multiband compressor does I have a full two videos about compression in general. So I'm not going to talk detail here What I want this to do is even out the the sound and like make it fuller It's going to sound bigger And more radio like again or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux So what we need to do to actually make this thing do anything is Rise the ratios and you can just do it by clicking on this dial So let's click on that angle to dial in 2.5 Ratio of okay Highest good or as I've recently taken to calling it now what I usually do is Instead of tweaking the thresholds Which are ratio and knee knee decibels if if you turn this down It's going to start compressing faster like this or Or does it or as I've recently actually we need to like rearrangeer. Okay. We need this to be about four and a half Okay, let's go a four thousand hertz. This could be a bit higher. This could be a bit higher Or as I've recently Yeah, let's go or as I've recently Okay, if I rise or if I rise it it's not compressing at all But it's still very low and I think I'm just going to rise the input volume Give ourselves 15 more decibels Lower that afterwards so we're not getting smashed with the sound or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux Linux is not an operating system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system Okay, I think the highs are nicely attenuated, but it's a little bit too aggressive and I think I'm going to back off the Ratio or as I've recently taken to calling it Also shortened the release So it's immediately retracting and not like spilling the the attenuation at the sounds after it Or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux Yeah, let's go and mute that or Or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux. Listen to the GNU plus linux Or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux It's not hurting anymore. And that's what a dsr would do for us now I'm going to probably add also a dsr after that, but this pretty much does what a dsr would do in a split mode So I think we actually don't need a dsr because we view this multiband compressor to do the job of a dsr for us Or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux Okay, what I want to do after that is Apply a compressor and not not a multiband compressor anymore To even out the levels Finally or as I've recently take Let's lower the threshold or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux I also want to rise the attack time a little bit or as I've recently taken to call and rise the makeup gain Or oh my goodness. That's loud. Sorry. Um, or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux Linux is not an operating system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU core libs shell utilities And vital system components comprising a full os as defined by posix A posix and by posix Okay, I think the posix is a bit too high by posix. We get a little bit of a click by posix As as defined by posix. All right. Yeah. Yeah that that managed to do it computer users run a month without realizing it Now there's a bunch of compression and it sounds really like meaty and huge and you might not be after that kind of sound but That's kind of the sound of a voice over you'll hear in a commercial And since I've been doing some Video game trailers. That's what I was doing uh Of course, you can back off the multiband compression and the compression and Like make this sound a little bit more natural And also the acoustics of the room again are not perfect system unto itself So maybe you could try and tweak the gate a little bit to Cut off the reverb tails even more Maybe if I like lowered the release time System unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning new system made you Maybe I'll need to lower the threshold of release so that it's system unto itself, but Oh, I can increase the zone range system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning new system made you Okay, so that it's like it has it like a Less of a steep slope, you know if I embrace the zone system unto itself But rather it's it's clicky and if I lower the zone System unto itself, but rather it's a bit more gentle and there's also a way to enable hysteresis so that we have like two different Curves for like attack and release, but I don't really understand how it works I'm not gonna use it then Oh, we could lower the reduction a little bit to also make it a little bit gentle system unto itself But rather another free component now, what if we just disable this now does it actually contribute anything good? Let's check system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning new system made useful by the GNU core libs Shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full os as defined by posix system unto itself, but Well, yeah, I can hear that there's less reverberation being being audible in this recording when we enable the gate So it is doing something good. I've heard some Denoising artifacts near the end though. Let's check that out as defined by posix Many computer you okay. Um, I guess the gate also attenuates the parts where the Denoising artifacts are most audible All right, uh, the last thing I will do is add a master limiter before we export this And again, I'm going to use lsp limiter this time. It's gonna be stereo So we could export this to a mono file as defined by posix now our levels are really low We're not touching the compressor the limiter at all. I'm going to turn this down in post But now let's dial in the actual levels As defined and I'm going to lower my headphones volume as defined by posix Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day without realizing it Through a peculiar turn of events the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux And many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system developed by the GNU project There really is a Linux and these people are using it, but it is just Okay So that's that i'm going to set my export marker. There really is a no project My goodness it sounds no project. It sounds really over the top you may uh, either be like delighted with that sound or being a gag reflex from the sound but Well, if you need to get that sound and voiceovers that sound like this Then now, you know how to do that with free and open source software Let's just export it I am going to do it for 24 bit flak We don't need a normalization because we're running a a limiter Let's call the session snapshot and disable the time span and analyze the exported audio I will export it and I will look at the analysis screen All right. So here is our export and report analysis And we can see that our volume has went over the zero decibel limit Um, we should have limited our we should have had like negative one decibel of Output gain on our limiter actually to limit that Because no limiter actually is going to be perfect even if I use oversampling and this is our vocals the Integrated loudness is negative 15.6. I'll ufs and I think that's a very good level if you want to like Have this voiceover be uploaded to youtube or some other stream services because it's going to be loud and clear But also it has plenty of dynamics as you can see in the waveforms There's There's a lot of room for this to breathe Even if it's multi-band compressed and then compressed and then limited We're still like we're not smashing it Um, we could be going way harder at this and actually destroy the sound and make it unbearable But it's not that bad really So I think that's a very good level And I did that like just by looking at the limiter's gain reduction So Yeah, funny All right. 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Bye I would just like to interject for a moment What you're referring to as linux is in fact GNU slash linux or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU plus linux Linux is not an operating system unto itself But rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system Made useful by the GNU core libs shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full os