Better Voiceover Audio Using Adobe Soundbooth CS4 | elearninglive.com

I inherited an Articulate Presenter-based piece in which the audio was recorded at different times, using different microphones, etc. The voiceover talent was no longer available so I re-recorded using new voices. I always record using Audacity, but I find it’s built-in effects are limited and weaker than the ones in Soundbooth. After much trial and error, I landed on the following settings for cleaning up and improving the sound of the audio wav files, in Soundbooth CS4:

1. Apply Vocal Enhancer: Default effect.

2. Normalize process

3. Apply Reduce Noise process:

What I found was that I had to always click ‘apply’ for effects before moving on to the next one. In other words, don’t get cute and just load up the ‘effect stack’ and then apply them all – in my case it didn’t sound good if I did it that way.

Unfortunately, Soundbooth does not offer a ‘batch processing’ feature for these effects, so for the 27 or so wav files I had I had to do each individually, which took some time.

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