Voice Actor Reviews MORE Bad Voice Acting

watch this that sounds like you dropped your phone on a carpet not an elephant destroying three trucks the actor gets the line and they're like oh I have to do this part for how long hey beautiful leaves and if you're not familiar with my videos hi I'm Connor I'm a voice actor from London now my last video of me reviewing bad voice acting was received quite well so I figured why not milk it a second time but of course I need to look more professional than this and I'm gonna judge voice acting so a new one second like I said I'm a voice actor from the UK the majority of the work that I do here in London is commercial narrative and corporation stuff I do audiobooks as well and I do a lot of character work from the comfort of my own home studio which is a cupboard over there that soundproofed if you're interested in seeing some of my work you can go to my IMDB page even though it's very barren and never updated I also have a YouTube playlist with a bunch of stuff that I've voiced in although I haven't updated it in over a year and there's also a bunch on my channel without further ado let's get back into reviewing bad voice-acting and hopefully gives some insight and critiques into what went wrong same as last time I asked people to send me a link of terrible voice acting and of course there was plenty of my channel this is NBA 2k15 all right because if I have the line that is that you have to toe out the doors on the day that matter is what happened between the line about again do the word listen to the coaches and the result would say girl don't sell to me that doesn't sound like an actual take it doesn't sound like an actual attempt was made at the line that sounds like the initial thing you would hear in your head like you know if someone gave you a line to read of anything you would do a quick scan through it like I'm gonna do the word listen to the coaches okay results so take care of themselves it's also possible that this was the only usable tape I whenever I've done voice work in the past even if I go in and I nail it the first line which obviously I always do because I'm a professional but jokes aside they always make you do at least two or three takes in my experience it's rather they'll ever just be happy with one normally because you know it's stuffing wrong you know you never know what might happen you might have accidentally moved they might not have caught it when they were initially recording and then when they go to edit it in post they might find something wrong with the tape it's very possible that they could have just this was the only usable take for whatever reason this is only ten seconds in and I'm already extremely confused and struggling to explain why this exists but I'm having a lot of fun right let's keep watching yeah yeah that's right we all had the headed to the train we'll be rolling in no time let's do it this doesn't even sound amateur this is this is like calling this amateur would be an insult to amateurs this is just like they don't even try it okay they're not even attempting to act listen to the sound not what he's saying ref should have checked his cell he was trash on me now that is interesting because this taller gentleman here sounds significantly different in terms of an audio recording environment to this guy it's probably because I am imagining I'm gonna take a guess and assume that these are the actual players voicing them if that's the case it was most likely impossible to get them in the exact same studio as everyone and it sounds like this has been this guy especially has horrible audio quality listen to this so we're good to rip the fan even though pony he's way too close to the microphone you know normally when you do voiceover the recommended distance from microphone is this so you take you do this with your hand and this is how far away it should be from the microphone when you're performing okay does that make sense let's move [ __ ] move this it should be about this far from the diaphragm for the microphone and this guy he sounds like he's here now what happens when you get here is that you get this weird proximity effect where your voice just naturally sounds deeper and you also some words sound a little muffled because he's too close all right there's just so many like things wrong with all of this and it's hurting me it's hurting me so much also the equalization on both of their voices is so much more different because this guy sounds warmer closer and more I'd say to a studio sound whereas this guy here fan even of ourselves the ref should have checked his self he was trash on night it kind of sounds a little tinny almost I say his sounds better overall but this guy sounds like he's just got a good microphone with an OK environment and then he's just by getting a little too close in my opinion you got all this good to make a contribution but the proof will come between the lines the people like watch these cutscenes when they played I how could you watch this this is embarrassing yeah what's going on tonight I'm running free all over the corner and you didn't give me the ball man what are you talking about listen to this guy's delivery right then listen to the Shaquille O'Neal actor deliver his line it's so night and day in terms of like quality but the nuance in the Shaquille O'Neal line was just so much more there over the Korean you didn't give me the ball man what are you talking about he hits the man well and then he does the question like it sounds like a like a question is being a sec what are you talking about man what are you talking about don't get me wrong it's not a perfect delivery by any means and it's very hard to judge a whole performance off online but the difference in quality it's so noticeable that even one line delivered slightly competently sounds so much better when you put it next to someone who doesn't deliver it well last episode I talked a lot about how people slated bad voice acting for a lot of problems with just audio production in general and this is definitely a case of this is just bad voice acting now I'm sure they've hand selected the worst picks but I've been talking about this this section of compilations for about 15 minutes now there's so much to breakdown here on what went wrong and like what is being done incorrectly it's fascinating these compilation of clips also just highlight why director is so important I need to explain like a few concepts here this is actually insane how many concepts I'm explaining normally when you're acting with people who aren't as confident you'll do what you call line ly where the director will talk to you and tell you exactly how I wants to deliver the line so if for example you know I wanted you to do a line this certain way and I didn't have faith in you to be able to do it on your own I would show you exactly how I want that line to be delivered and then you would just mimic me now that's typically seen as like a last resort of direction you really don't want to have to rely on that because if the director has to do every single one of your lines with you it's kind of hand-holding and it takes a lot more time that way because the directors then has to go through every single line himself to not just you and bear in mind they're probably paying you an hourly rate and they want to get you done as soon as possible it's very rare it's used and it's only used when you desperately need to get a line in the exact way the actor just kind of can't figure out in their head because it's not always the actors fault but they can't figure out the line maybe the director just wants something really odd and very specific that the actor isn't used to another thing we can talk about very quickly is punctuation in a sentence now when you get a line for example like yo what's going on tonight I'm running free all over the court and you can get me that rock that sounds really weird with a British person saying that I know but bear with me so if I were to type in yo what was going on tonight punctuation plays an extremely important role in how you deliver a line punctuation signals when you should polls and how you should hit a word but there's also additional things that I would do when I'm in the booth I normally a very picky with clients as well when they put punctuation or they put a comma yes it might look correct in the sentence but if you want the line delivered a certain way and you want no pauses don't put a comma a comma to mean indicates a small pause but then I also might write things on the page like if they want me to smile at the end I will draw a little arrow at court but then also if they want me to emphasize a word I will ask that they put it in italics or if they want me to really hit a word which means to really like hammer the line home like I'm running like I will put bold or I'll put a line under it on the paper if they want me to speed up a line I'll put a horizontal arrow so if they want me to say this part quite slowly and then speed up this part I'll make a note of that by putting in a horizontal arrow above or below and that's normally why you have the script in the booth with the pencil to make changes on the fly it's also to give yourself better indication to make sure you deliver the line perfectly as they might ask you to come back to a line say 20 minutes into the session when you stop doing it and you might be confused as to how they want you to deliver it I explained a lot of concepts very quickly but I hope that helps the rock for the good of this team and I don't need nobody second-guessing me you ain't my coach Punk that's the kind of surface I'm talking about it's so bad if you guys would like to see a video of me reviewing good voice acting and hopefully giving my opinions on what makes it so memorable and mo makes it so good I would love to as I could probably gush over handsome Jack's performance in Borderlands for about a year the logical way to end your anime alright good morning what do you want to eat yogurt top it with vanilla ice cream raisins okay okay I bought some peanut butter too [Music] no way I cannot believe that is real are you kidding me yeah yeah yeah yeah peanut butter - on the ice cream top it with vanilla ice cream raisin what is this static man I imagine the actual audio wasn't that staticky I'm gonna guess that that's just from multiple multiple compressions onto a digital format because this was 1989 so it was 20 VHS tape I was gonna say this must be a terrible crappy USB microphone in my head but then I realized this is 1989 us bees weren't invented it's awful as well because it's they're so close to the microphone they're literally like yeah yeah whilst I did bring up USB microphones out of nowhere there I may as well just really mention them right now I'm recording with an XLR microphone now what that means is that Excel ours have a different system so first of all an XLR you need an audio interface which is an additional component the reason why an XLR will normally sound a lot better than a USB microphone is for a few reasons but the main reason is that with a USB microphone you'll get a lot of static and that's because you're plugging your USB microphone directly into your PC which means that the sound card in your PC is having to do the translation from actual audio wave to digital audio waves now that normally means staff whereas with an XLR input it's going right into an audio interface which that is a whole dedicated chipset to transferring the audio wave into a digital one with a XLR microphone you generally get a crisper sound you'll see a lot of people on YouTube using the blue Yeti I'm personally not a fan of the blue Yeti I feel that it's a little too sensitive and a little overpriced what it is I feel like there are better USB microphones out there for a cheaper price such as the Samson Co on you which has been around for over 10 years at this point but it's still I think one of the best USB microphones if you're going to pay more than $100 you may as well just get a low budget XLR setter they're very cheap and they're great and they will definitely sound better than a USB microphone that is my suggestion you're welcome if you want to start voice acting or doing anything just shout me out in your head all right this is the Hunchback of not freedom I'm assuming on the PlayStation and the police are coming to get me apparently it came to pass many hundreds of years ago that the story of Quasimodo and the lovely esmeralda unfolded here in Paris it's not even in those days Paris was a great city and many of them believed in witches and the devil oh that's something we can talk about breathing don't breathe here and mistrust and many of when a lot of people record at home they think oh I can just leave the breath then if you actually now go and watch or play anything with good voice acting in it you'll notice that you never hear brats why is that breaths normally take up time time that could be used to deliver lines and although yes a natural conversation you do hear breaths in most projects you won't there's also actually a lot of plugins that are designed to remove breaths so for example here's my audio if you click breath control it will bring up a panel like this and then you can choose silenced breaths it will render through the whole software it'll silence all the breaths in the project but if you don't have very expensive software you normally just go through the audio manually and just silence all the breaths it can't be oh my god it's a hideous baby Holy Mary I am sure that it's a sin to look upon this child this fact and sister is no child but to miss shape and aim oh I was gonna say you know after hearing the NBA voice acting this is a breath of fresh air yeah it's not good but it's so much better than the NBA and then that guy opened his mouth like oh my goodness also none of the none of the lip flaps matched the speaking like English is very much a language where we have and do pay attention to lip flaps there are other languages where they just don't care about the flaps that we do it's one of the most frustrating and annoying things to watch the acting could be amazing but the moment it doesn't match the lip flaps it feels goofy it feels off it feels weird and yeah some people don't care but at the end of the day if you're doing an audio production and there are flaps with the lips and you better match that if it's in English that's all I'm saying also I wish my internet would stop going down what the audio editing is awful as well they cut his line off Midway if you want to scream and you wanted to trail off that's great do that but one thing that you never really do is end the scream earlier than it was done originally because you can normally sound or hear that the sound of the scream was cut abruptly and you normally want it to fall off naturally so you would normally just get them for redo it but they don't care Leo the Lion uncut English dub oh goodness the Dark Continent hey I wanna I want to monetize this video man come on you can't say that and you will tell the natives exactly what we want them to believe you were the only person who can prevent a very costly Civil War ah yes old people normally you get someone who's younger to just do a voice that sounds older for example if I wanted to do an out to be voice I suppose I could do some mannerisms in a talkative person you do a very interesting normally you'd think why don't they just get old people well normally one that there's not as many elderly actors out there and sometimes you know if the project is very long you've got to ask possibly a 60 to 80 year old man to stand in a booth for multiple hours with no AC and it gets very hot in those booths but the problem is is when you don't have very good actors or very well trained voice actors did you get people who sound like this who are people party my age who claim they can do an elderly cat sounding character and then they just sound like someone who's 20 who's doing the voice which is not what you want you never ever want someone who sounds like they are trying to do another voice you want someone who sounds like it whereas here you know the moment you listen to this guy he sounds like someone who's trying to be old not actually someone who's old listen again and you will tell the natives exactly what we want them to believe to me that doesn't sound like someone who's 50-plus years old that sounds like someone who's thirty years old who's trying to make their voice sound older which is not good or that kids about to get eaten that was a yawn it sounded like a squirrel being choked out don't worry about it I already arranged for a plane to pick them up why do they all sound like budget shitty New Yorkers with kissless so could we get a replay on that look at the sound designers what's this that sounds exactly how it would say that sounds like you dropped your phone on a carpet not an elephant destroying three trucks what the hell this is definitely a case of the whole project just just having terrible sound design not even just I mean the voice acting is terrible as well don't get me wrong but this is just the case of everything is awful this was broadcast on 1984 so let's double down on the 80s that sounds about right it's clearly like even at the time it was slapped together and I mentioned this a lot in the last video but again it's dubs like this which is why a lot of Japanese companies don't trust the Western companies to dub it on their own that's why they normally have heavily involvement and heavily moderate how the dubs being done is he just that he just not at his kid dying listen to this this guy just this guy just came my son is dying finally less child support why does it sound like he's screaming through a fan come on man screaming isn't that hard screaming is one of the easier things man like you know like it's gotta sound natural that's gotta hurt his fur holy [ __ ] dude just cause epic voice acting we have reclaimed this holy temple the ancestors will be pleased Oh oh my god and the description it sounds like it was taken right out of South Park yeah it does we have reclaimed this holy temple the ancestors will be pleased this is a Triple A game why does it sound like it's like a joke about Asian accents what's this that's cream oh my god that sounds like two cats having sex then one of them puts it in the wrong hole that's what that sounds like more of my videos thank you I know what you want you stir it's safe Billy so that's where it is it just means I have to gut you to get it Oh Oh God is there a game from Japan yeah No what do you want - does it sound like someone who speaks English natively to me that sounds like someone who is probably Japanese news pretty good at sounding somewhat English that's very odd that's really disturbing as well but that's kind of creepy I'm not gonna lie that's just Oh everyone spoke about this the Finnish Digimon [Music] what is the bitrate is this like one p [Music] yo finland fix your [ __ ] man what is this that just sounds like the brass sound effect but like a finnish variation of it and also not very excited like bruh that sounds so bad seems to be energy resources but i've never seen this type on earth i don't know where this energy Oh dr. Walley now if you have a lisp you can voice out do you definitely can there are ways that you can kind of manage a lisp in that there's ways that you can talk whit by like kind of what's there like suppressing the lisp a little bit you can definitely do voiceover with a list but it's not very common because normally you know they want enunciation on every word to be perfect or they want enunciation to be done in a certain way I've done voice work in the past where I'll do the whole line and they love it but then like we really don't like how you pronounced us we want it us you have to be really able to be flexible with how you pronounce words and be able to subconsciously just kind of destroy habits that you've made from speech like you know if you say what a certain way you need to be able to be like okay I have to say this word in a different way like like it's so seamless but the guy who's voicing the old guy is just so bad about all the energy immediately Megaman C Homelink that's also something that you come to appreciate that it's very much present in natural speech but it you just won't find the professional project which is stuttering or kind of pause I've no doubt I've been doing it a lot this video but when you do you know a line you have a set line you don't Stella it's rather you stutter and if you do stutter your director to do so you never do it naturally you must recover all the energy immediately Megaman that you must recover all the energy immediately you know that wouldn't be used maybe for an emotional effect it would be but definitely not here it's incorrect but where is God a mega man 8 fix your [ __ ] the best Italian accents in anime history well I'm just ready for this goal go 13 I've never - assignment check it out tell me how the glass looks incredible there's not a scratch on it at all even if he knows that there are guys like us waiting to take him out he'll still come he's a professional man I like that guy's voice a law I really do but it's not like I love his voice but it shouldn't be for that character but boss you don't understand the Mafia dons been shot he's dead you know what that's actually not that bad scenario must have been like that spot had been blown up by dynamite in the bullet passed right dude - the Dons head okay okay I know exactly what's going on here with this line this guy has that whole line that he has to fit precisely within that time frame now to me what it sounds like is that that line is a little slow pacing wise and then it makes complete sense when you realize that it's not that he like this actor obviously wants to deliver that line in that time frame it's so obvious that he's trying to match it it within the time that's given to him now we watch it again and have that with mine that he is trying to fill out probably a longest space of time than he wants to so listen to it again by dynamite in the bullet passed right to the dawn's head the rhythm to the way he delivers that line you can kind of tell that it's a little slower than it should be and that's obvious that he's trying to fit that that it's a mixed bag some of them do a good job the guy in the start good job he's matching lip flaps it's not easy this guy good wrong character shouldn't be on that guy overall not bad I've heard way worse accents in modern day projects obviously my videos gonna come up all right you just it changed it to see Dawg that's so fine I should've killed you already it's true you looking fake but what on earth are all agents every line that is 100% a symptom of trying to match the lip flaps and the actor gets the line and they're like oh I have to do this part for how long they deliver it like that and it's so obvious that the actor doesn't want to deliver that line for that long I feel like if you're gonna voice in Dragon for the one thing you need to do well scream the modern dubs nail it Japanese nail it this is just filled with Paul screams God what in the world are you doing here so far from home [Applause] that's not the kind of scream he looks like he's making hehe looks like he's going like that you know what I mean I know they do stop at nothing to satisfy your evil desires and in that I recognize the influence of your father the spitting image bro bro bro calm down learn so fast no I'm done I'm done I'm done I'm done no no I'm done I'm done I'm not I can't I can't I can't I can't anymore what is that well I hope you had fun with means gradually losing my mind and trying to explain concepts of voiceover I'm thinking of doing a video next time where I review voice actors online and their work so if you are a voice actor or you want your voice acting reviewed please go follow me on Twitter I will put them you tweeting out when this video goes live that I want a review voice acting from you guys or maybe you guys want to see me review good voice acting I'll leave a poll during this video and then we'll decide what we're gonna do next but of course it was an absolute pleasure getting to make this video for you guys if you did enjoy it please do smash like comment subscribe turn notifications on because that's apparently all the YouTube cares about now and check out my patreon I do a lot of voiceover I do a lot of videos and if you want support me there that would be amazing and share the video and oh my god there's a lot of things I need to mention but thank you guys so much for watching and without further ado remember matcha lip flaps and scream [Music] [Music]

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Length: 26min 38sec (1598 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 25 2019