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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0539 – The Magic Balance Between Mic Position, Projection and Recording Levels
Description: 2022.06.23 – 0539 – The Magic Balance Between Mic Position, Projection and Recording Levels You can increase the basic loudness of your voice by turning up the gain[1] on your mic, but this will make you sound thin and weak, partly because more room noise is also being picked up by the mic, for which you have increased the sensitivity. In other words, your voice will be louder, but it won’t have more energy, projection or robustness. We’re talking sheer naked ‘volume’. Audio processing makes sure that recorded voices are heard by the listener at roughly the s...