This time we look at something I’ve had a few questions about and that’s the speech volume leveller. It’s essentially a compressor that levels speech up to a target level. There’s three basic controls to set, target level, levelling amount and target dynamic range and these three settings affect the […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
This week in the Best Bits of Mark Denholm’s Drivetime In episode 79 we discussed panic buying, a would you / would you not gamble and what do you miss from your childhood plus a little bit more too! Don’t forget to subscribe! Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and Google [spreaker […]
It’s the final (for now) in a three part series on stuttering. In part 24 we looked at basic stuttering, in part 25 we set that basic stutter to a set BPM and in this part we look at some other ways to stutter and glitch audio. As with all […]
In part 1 of the stutter we looked at basic stutters and glitches. This time around we set the stutter to a set BPM. You could calculate the BPM into milliseconds, you could change the time line to be bars and beats or you could use the simple trick of […]
This week in the Best Bits of Mark Denholm’s Drivetime the importance of names, sad showbiz news, unusual bathing habits, a marketing con, unnecessary panic buying and very posh names! All that and more! Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and Google [spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=23578383″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” […]
This time out on the audio journey we’re producing a basic stutter effect. I’ll show you how to get the basic stutter and a glitch effect too. This can be done both destructively in the wave form or non destructively in the multi-track and takes virtually no time at all […]
Part 24 of the Audio journey focuses on distortion for production. Listen to radio station imaging and you’ll often hear distortion in the production. This hasn’t happened because the voice over was careless and over modulated while recording, nor because the producer overcooked the levels in production. Distortion can be […]
This week in the Best bits podcast there’s loads including a tourist attraction that’s not what it seems, laughing when you shouldn’t, getting your own back, rants on a Thursday, dating in 2020 and fake friends plus more! Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and Google [spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=23287723″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” […]
This time on the audio journey we look at distortion or clipping. Distortion is when the audio goes above the maximum ceiling of 0db and will sound horrible. There are two different kinds of distortion, analogue and digital. First we’ll deal with analogue. Analogue distortion most commonly occurs at source […]
As we created a cinema trailer “butch” voice this time we’re looking at creating the opposite and making your voice sound like a chipmunk. We use EQ and the pitch shifter to create the effect before once again adding reverb to finish off the production. Remember once again I’d recommend […]