EQ Setting for Voice Recording

Try flat? ;-)

Scott Sheppard wrote:
> Hello Everybody ....
>
> Does anybody have a nice baseline EQ setting for voice work ??
>
> Recording in Protools and using the Digirack EQ
>
> Thanks
>
> Scot
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In article <c3anfn$1df$1@pcls4.std.com>, "G. John Garrett, CAS"
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> Field recording or studio?
>
> In the field I often roll off the low end -4dB @70HZ, 12dB/oct, to minimize
> wind, infrasonics and handling noise, or go flat.


In the studio, assuming field tracks: I'll also roll off below 70 Hz
(unless it's theatrical). Then I'll notch out any room boominess. Then -
only if it needs it - I might add one or two dB between 1k5 and 3k5. But
usually not.

Philosophy: apply corrective eq to make the voice sound natural on good
monitors, then don't touch those knobs again. Then eq -everything else- in
the mix so the voice can ride properly on top.

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"G. John Garrett, CAS" <jgarrett RemoveThis @world.std.comREMOVE> wrote in message news:<c3anfn$1df$1@pcls4.std.com>...
> Scott Sheppard wrote:
> > Hello Everybody ....
> >
> > Does anybody have a nice baseline EQ setting for voice work ??
> >
> > Recording in Protools and using the Digirack EQ
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Scot
> Field recording or studio?
>
> In the field I often roll off the low end -4dB @70HZ, 12dB/oct, to minimize
> wind, infrasonics and handling noise, or go flat.
>
> John

Hello John :-)

This would be in the mixdown in the studio. I want to brighten things
up in the mix. Bring the VOICE out. Sorta like a FM station would
sound (deep and rich).

Thanks

Scott
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> This would be in the mixdown in the studio. I want to brighten things
> up in the mix. Bring the VOICE out. Sorta like a FM station would
> sound (deep and rich).

Eq won't do it for you.

If the voice has the right characteristics to start with, then multiband
compression is the answer.

If the voice is Woody Allen, you need much more radical processing -
including formant-corrected shifting, and possibly vocal tract simulation
- to turn it into James Earl Jones.

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>>This would be in the mixdown in the studio. I want to brighten things
>>up in the mix. Bring the VOICE out. Sorta like a FM station would
>>sound (deep and rich).
>

It depends on the voice, it has to be deep and rich to begin with. I
voiced for years never became rich though. ;-) Ceretain voices just
"pop" and most voices don't. Diaghramatic breathing, tonal qualities
cannot be manufactured they just exist.
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