- Here are my three favorite
Adobe Audition vocal effects. (logo warbling) Let's start with this
voiceover I recorded earlier. This is a voiceover. And the best way to get any
voiceover to sound crisp, clear and cut across anything
like music and sound effects is using a drop-off below
a certain frequency. Now, you wouldn't do
this on typical podcast or dialogue for video but if you really wanna make
that real imaging sound, my favorite way to do this
is go to the effects menu. You want to go to filter and EQ and look for the scientific filter, and there's a great preset in there called drop off below 250 hertz. Let's listen. This is a voiceover. It adds that real clarity to the voice. Let's disable it. This is a voiceover. So, all those low-end rumbles go. This is a voiceover, and it sounds a lot better
just with that preset. So, you can compress the voice, enhance it and then add something like this and it will also cut across most music because it stops you competing
with the bass end of music. So, it's really, really cool, especially if you're
doing imaging and mixing. I highly recommend drop
off below 250 hertz in the scientific filter effect. Next, I love myself a
bit of chorus and flanger and if you go into the
effects menu under modulation, you've got chorus, you've
got chorus flanger, all of this stuff is good but if I had to pick something, I'd go into chorus, and I'd look for something like the rich
chorus, this is great. This is a voiceover. It makes the voiceover really
big and stereo and wide. Rich chorus is the best place
to start with this effect. But if you really wanna dial in, you can change your
delay time to be bigger. This is a voiceover, and it gets bigger. And if you want to
introduce some wobbliness, this is a voiceover. Bring the feedback level up. And if you want it to make sounds like it's from a different
planet, alien like, move the modulation depth and rate. This is a voiceover. Fluttering in and out
and I just love chorus. Just that whole modulation menu in Adobe Audition is awesome. So, that's effects, modulation,
chorus, chorus flanger, flanger, phaser, play with them all, they are really super
awesome for adding effects to your spoken word.
(screen whooshes) And finally, I really like this effect, but it's going to be demonstrated
to you in the multi-track, and I'll show you why. (screen whooshes)
If I go into multi-track and if I call this echo,
it is an echo effect. I called echy, never
mind. That'll do for me. (chuckles) I love my
typing. It's just fantastic. I'm gonna bring in... (upbeat music) A nice music beds that I'm
gonna put on track two. That's 120 BPM, I can see there. Now, if I bring in my VO and drop it here. (upbeat music) This is a voice... Let's see if I can sync
this up to the music beat. So, let's go right back
to the start and play. (upbeat music) Thi- Thi- Thi- Okay, let's really sync this up nicely. (audio warbling) (upbeat music)
This. This. Let's sync it up here. (upbeat music)
This is... Okay, let's back into
multi-track over here and we'll cut this bit and this bit and we'll make this nicely
sync on the beat here. (upbeat music)
This is a voiceover. And that works quite well. Now, I'm just gonna change the volume so that they're not competing
with match clip loudness and show you how good
this can really sound. Turn this up a bit. (upbeat music)
This is a voiceover. Okay, now, in the effects
rack, I'm gonna add echo. Let's go into the echo opportunity here. Delay and echo, echo. And I find the default is quite good but as I'm working with 120 BPM, I know that the left channel
would be on 500 milliseconds for one beat. And we could say make the
right channel half a beat, 250 milliseconds and I
like to use echo bounce, so it bounces left to right and we get something
that sounds like this. (upbeat music)
This is a voiceover. And the echo nicely fades
into the music track. Successive echo equalization here is great because what this is doing
is rolling off the base and with every echo, more treble
is introduced to the voice. So, it kind of fades into treble zone, which is really, really cool. So, remember, if you wanna
make your voices sound epic, start with number one, roll off below 250 hertz
in the scientific filter. Number two, play with chorus, but anything like chorus, flanger and phase is really good for
adding that stereo sound. And then over in multi-track, add echo and add the delay time to fit
up with the beats of the music you're working to, and you'll
get a really good sounding piece of audio.
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