#Twistedwave echo upgrade#
#Twistedwave echo pro#
#Twistedwave echo professional#

#Twistedwave echo professional#

While these types of headphones wildly vary in quality, price, and sound - you'll at least be in a better ballpark going with headphones designed for professional audio work instead of music.įor a multitude of reasons, you'll want to go with 'closed-back' headphones.

Instead, you'll want to buy a pair of headphones that have terms like 'studio,' 'monitoring' or 'professional' in their product description. These can be great for casual music listening - but they are NOT good for professional voiceover work or critical audio tweaking. These are headphones you'll find at Best Buy, like Beats headphones. In general, there are two different worlds when it comes to headphones. Having a really solid pair of headphones for your home voice over studio is critical.ġ) Hearing your own voice while recording.Ģ) Listening to your recorded audio while you edit and clean up your VO files. There are SOOOO many types of headphones out there.

But again, my recommended low budget interfaces can still produce professional sounding voice-over recordings. Meaning they tend to sound smoother, less harsh, and have less 'hiss' or 'noise' compared to some low budget interfaces. But medium-to-high budget audio interfaces tend to be cleaner and quieter sounding compared to low budget audio interfaces. The difference, in terms of audible quality, between my recommended budget audio interfaces and high budget interfaces isn't HUGE.

#Twistedwave echo pro#

Luckily, you don't have to spend a ton of money on an audio interface to get amazing sounding audio in a pro home voice over studio. Which lets you listen to both your voice 'live,' while you speak, and also any audio that you play back through your computer. An audio interface has at least one preamp (which amplifies your microphone signal) and one headphone jack. Think of the audio interface as the 'brain' of where your audio is routed, both in-and-out, of your computer. The audio interface is what takes your voice from the microphone->into your computer via a USB or Thunderbolt cable. What do you plug your microphone and headphones into? An audio interface. The audio interface is one of the most important pieces of equipment in your home VO studio. Why no dynamic microphones? While dynamic mics can work great for podcasting - the amount of inherent noise or 'hiss' they make is too loud for most professional voice over work.

#Twistedwave echo upgrade#

If you're looking to upgrade your existing microphone - Jordan can analyze your current microphone, voice print, and room - and then recommend specific microphone models that will prevent harshness (especially sibilance), and more. You'll also need a microphone cable and an audio interface. But when it comes time to upgrade in the future - you'll have to invest more than just a new mic. Some USB microphones are ok if you're just getting started in voice-over. Get your acoustics right first and great sound from your microphone will follow. Your room and acoustic treatment have a huge impact on your overall sound. While there are some industry standards you'll never truly know how any microphone will sound until you try it on your voice and in your recording environment. So to answer my own question: 'A snap' is roughly 1 ms.There is no 'one size fits all' microphone for voice actors.

Here is the monster MP3 exported from the 1 ms selection above (1579 bytes including useless tagging info) (Edit: removed broken link to the audio file, but imagine it: it sounds like - you guessed it - a snap! Reproduction is left as an exercise for the reader.) So I decided to go empirical - if I listened to an ever shorter section of the snap, at what point did it cease to sound like a snap? I was surprised to hear that even at 1/1000 second it is recognizable as a snap: There are some challenges - what is the snap in the snap? Does it start with the sound of your finger gliding over your thumb, and where does it end? I recorded my snap under definite sub-optimal conditions, using the built in microphone of an iMac inside a 14x10 office with plaster walls - it was hard to tell where the snap ended and the echo began.Īnd even so, as with snaps above, there is a definite, very short primary sound that is much louder than the secondary reverberations which go on for quite some time. I took advice and downloaded Audacity and did a number of measurements.