Odds are, you will stop feeling the rush of air at about 7 inches.

As you do this, move your hand away from your mouth. Place your hand in front of your mouth and start reciting “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” over-and-over again. Currently, my microphone is about 37° to the right of my nose and about 40° up from the level of my nose. Using that as a starting point, shift the mic slightly north, south, east, and west until you feel that you have found the truest sound. Set it 7 inches away from you and point it at your mouth (or slightly down toward your chest for a bit more resonance – but be careful with that). With your nose as longitude 0°, latitude 0°, move your mic to 45° north (up) and 45° east or west (right or left). So, let me give you a good starting point. You want it to be “just right!” Unfortunately, “just right” is a subjective thing. What we are really looking for is The Goldilocks Zone - not too hot, not too cold, not too hard not too soft. How about the theme to Gilligan’s Island? It’s a great practice text since it has most of the offending sounds (S, P, T, etc), and it’s kind of fun to say. Have an Average RMS between -23dB and -18dBĪnd, for today’s text, let’s choose something with lots of sibilant and popping sounds….ACX has very specific guidelines for file submission:

If you take it step-by-step, it’s really not that difficult to do.įor our example, let’s assume that your next project is an audiobook that you are working on via the Audiobook Creation eXchange (ACX).

You bought a new mic? A new pre-amp? You added some new sound treatment? Or, your set-up is the same, but the room its in is different? Any variation in your recording space means that you really should go through all of your settings again.

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