Recording the Voiceover

By Jackson Davis

Microphone

• We used the Rode NT2000 Condenser Microphone• We also used a pop filter to eliminate any plosive sound

that are produced during the recording• I stood quite close to the microphone to accelerate the

bass frequencies, this is called the proximity effect

Mixer/Interface

• When recording the audio, the signal goes into the mixing desk• This is then transferred through the mixer, into an audio

interface which is then plugged into a Mac Mini using a firewire connection• There are up to 10 inputs that we can use on the

interface, so we never run out of simultaneous tracks to record onto• In this case, we only needed the one input

Monitoring

• When listening/editing to the voiceover, you need to listen using high quality speakers

• Professional studio speakers are called ‘monitors’ because they allow you to monitor the sound of the audio

• The headphones used were Beyerdynamic headphones which I used for live monitoring when recording into the microphone so that I could hear my own voice clearly

• The Studio monitors used were KRK Rokit 5 monitors. These were used as playback monitors to hear the sound in very high quality

Editing Stage

• The interface goes into a Mac Mini using firewire• This signal is then imported into a DAW (Digital Audio

Workstation), which in this case, we used Cubase• This then allowed us to editing things such as volumes,

panning, EQ frequencies, reverb and so on• Once we were finished we bouced the file (similar to the

rendering process in non-linear editing software) to a WAV file• This is because a WAV file is high quality• The bit depth is 24 bit, the sample rate is 44100hz

That’s it!

• We are now ready to import the voiceover into our non-linear editor (Premiere) and start editing our film along to it