In one of my projects, we are aiming to create a set of audio assets that imitate a breakfast/morning show that you would expect to hear on the radio. The of the show aims to be humorous and entertaining as the player explores the game.
While we took steps to have effects on the voices as we were recording them (by having a range of different microphone choices), I also did some editing post-production to make them sound even closer to a radioshow.
My main point of reference when thinking about how to replicate a radio recording came from Mo Volans tutorial (2010).
Firstly, all of our vocals were given a high pass filter. Because most commercial radio only operates between the frequencies of 3kHz to 300 GHz (University of Tennessee), you don't hear a lot of bass tones on the radio, so we took these out in our recordings. On some vocals, I also boosted the 3-4kHz range, which is where the clarity of human speech is. I also added a limiter on only the loudest points/waves of the recording so that there was less dynamic range which is more enjoyable to listen to, while at the same time I wasn't losing the ability to distinguish when the speaker was talking loudly or softly. Some compression was used to bring up the overall levels of the mix also.
And that's it! Short and sweet, the way I like to edit. If you set up the performance to be as clean and perfect as you can, then everything else automatically gets easier. If you want to hear how one of our recordings turned out, click below to see an outtake from our sessions;
References
The Electromagnetic Spectrum, University of Tennessee, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Volans, M. (2010, August 13). How to Process Vocals for Podcasts or Voiceover. Retrieved from Envato Tuts +: https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-process-vocals-for-podcasts-or-voiceover--audio-6969
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