Hi Anne,
A few ideas come to mind -- maybe one of these?
1) Mic placement - if narrator is reading very close to mic their consonants
can be loud even if the overall volume is soft
2) Diction -- a narrator with exaggerated diction - again, loud consonants,
soft vowels
3) Voice problems -- narrator is hoarse and trying to make up for softness with
forced consonants
If you can look at the recording in SR, look at the contrast between consonant
and vowel sounds. Are the vowels thin sounding?
As mentioned by someone else on the list, compression while recording would
probably help, whatever the cause. We are using some light compression in the
Hartford studio. Check with PK for his input on the hardware.
Hope this helps,
Steve
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Subject: [studiorecorder] Volume Issue
Hi, this issue arose the other day. Any thoughts?
Hasn’t happened before.
Thanks!!
Anne & Sandy
I was monitoring a narrator yesterday. Several of my monitors noticed
something so I went in to see for myself.
The narrator is reading and her recording is registering in the volume high
yellow and into the red zone.
However, the RMS is reading -27.
