Hi, Jeff,

Max is only a rabid hobby for me. During the day (and well into the night)  I run a midsize recording studio. I have a couple of suggestions.
1.    You'd be suprised, if the guy's an experienced pro, how many of the acro's
        he already knows. If not, skip the acro's and script it in straight pronunciation.
        i.e.: "This is the scuzzy card..."
2.    As for the recording there is several ways to approach it.
        First, I'm guessing that ForgeXP means you're inputing with a SoundBlaster?
        If you are serious about the audio quality get a small digitizing system like an
        Aardvark, DAL,  LinxOne, MOTU, Digi001 or (this is what I use) a Paris.
        (there is a known bug in the 'Blasters digital I/O's).
        It will be far easier if you record directly onto your hard drive. Skip the dat.
        Skip the noise adding transfer to HD.
        Don't use the analog In's on your sound card. Noise...
        If, for one reason or another, you are restrained to using, uh... geez, how
        can I say this tactfully...crappy gear ; ), then at least get the Forge
        Noise Reduction plugin and a good EQ plugin. Use both and kick the
        heck out of the freq's above 8k. That'll kill yer snake sounds.
3.    I can only assume that you are using Premier as your editorial software.
       ( I do). But, soft-wise, also consider moving to Steinberg's Wavelab 3.0, or
        better an A/V friendly package like Cubase VST 24 or Cakewalk 9.

There is actually Far More to it and I'd be happy to lend a hand. I know a bit about wringing 110% out of your gear, regardless of the professionality level.                  Feel free to email me privately.

Jef Knight
[email protected]
All-Knight Music
Ontario, Canada.
 

"Jeffrey M. Harper" wrote:

Good Morning Everyone,

    Yes, once again, I am in need of more help.  I've searched online
with Excite.com but was unable to find anything that helped me out with
this problem.  In the further developing of our project here, we now
have sudden need to add voice -vers to many parts of our project.  We
have contracted a professional to come in and record the lines, but the
text that has to recorded is technical with many acronyms that have
definite pronunciations.  My questions I guess are, do any of you know
of resources for finding out how to write a script in phoentics that a
professional voice-actor can read and speak correctly? And, following
that, resources for help on editing the audio down to get the cleanest
possible sound.  We are recording to DAT using a professional mic, then
capturing the audio in SoundForge XP(the lite version).  We are
converting the audio from 48 kHZ 16 Bit Stereo down to 11,025 Hz 8 Bit
Mono (necessary for CD- access speed and space in our project).  In our
initial tests, we starting picking up a lot of hiss with the final wav
files, which is not really acceptable.

    If any of you out there know of links to resources that may help me
I'd be greatful if you'd email them directly to this address, as I don't
get the list here at the office.

    Thank you very much in advance for your help,

Jeff Harper
Training Support Products
Albuquerque, NM

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