"Joe Sensor"
onholder wrote:

same result - still that whistling sound, and by the time I convert to
.ulw to put the audio on the phone, you would swear the female voices
have a lisp. Again, this is 3 different females. so, I'm still
hunting for a solution. the mic all the females use (Studio Projects

3 of them? You have a problem somewhere else in your system. Do you get
this whistling with a flute? How about an orang-utan?



** Orang-utan ?????

So you think "onholder" is maybe into some sort of monkey business ??

Like lots of female heavy breathing down the phone line for $$$$$ ???





.............. Phil

orangutan

n : large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits
[syn: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus]

"Joe Sensor"
orangutan

n : large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits
[syn: orang, orangutang, Pongo pygmaeus]



** The name is spelt about five different ways - "orang-utan" is the one
in stored in my MS Spellcheker.

The Pocket Oxford and Macquarie dictionaries give "orang", " orang-utan"
and " orang-outang" - while "orangutan" seems to be an American method.


See also:

http://www.yptenc.org.uk/docs/factsh...rang_utan.html




............... Phil

Phil Allison wrote:


** The name is spelt about five different ways - "orang-utan" is the one
in stored in my MS Spellcheker.


Ok, but the real question is do they speak with sibilance. Or perhaps
have a lisp. Maybe even a slight whistle.

Just don't make them mad. They can really tear you apart when upset.
Perhaps if the engineer is taking to long to lay down the track..

"Joe Sensor"
Phil Allison wrote:


** The name is spelt about five different ways - "orang-utan" is the
one in stored in my MS Spellcheker.


Ok, but the real question is do they speak with sibilance. Or perhaps have
a lisp. Maybe even a slight whistle.


** Only the gay ones do that ........




................ Phil

In article .com writes:

Here's an update from the OP. borrowed an RE-20 and gave it a shot --
same result - still that whistling sound, and by the time I convert to
.ulw to put the audio on the phone, you would swear the female voices
have a lisp. Again, this is 3 different females.

Sorry to be so blunt, but either you're doing something very wrong
that I can't guess or you have three bad narrators.

And each of the 3 females records at their own location

Hmmmmm . . . . do you know exactly what they're doing? Do they know
what to do right? Sounds like you need to get better control over this
project before you turn them loose with tools that they aren't using
properly.


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I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

"Phil Allison" wrote in message

** The name is spelt about five different ways - "orang-utan" is the one
in stored in my MS Spellcheker.

Orang = man and Utan = Jungle in Indonesian and malaysian. I'd go for
orangutan for English

How does your spell-checker spell spellcheker ?

geoff

"Geoff Wood"

"Phil Allison"

** The name is spelt about five different ways - "orang-utan" is the
one in stored in my MS Spellcheker.

Orang = man and Utan = Jungle in Indonesian and malaysian. I'd go for
orangutan for English



** Who gives **** what some dickhead, sheep shagger goes for.

Orang-utans pass for mail order brides in NZ.





........... Phil

Phil Allison wrote:

Orang-utans pass for mail order brides in NZ.

Hey, the man made a good funny for a change! :-)


Bob
--

"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein

"Bob Cain"

Phil Allison wrote:

Orang-utans pass for mail order brides in NZ.

Hey, the man made a good funny for a change! :-)



** The favourites are still blonde alpacas !!!





.............. Phil

onholder wrote:
Here's an update from the OP. borrowed an RE-20 and gave it a shot --
same result - still that whistling sound, and by the time I convert to
.ulw to put the audio on the phone, you would swear the female voices
have a lisp. Again, this is 3 different females. so, I'm still
hunting for a solution. the mic all the females use (Studio Projects
condenser) has a big ass windscreen on it already, so I can't imagine a
sock would work.

Okay, so you know the big problem isn't the mike. Next step up... listen
to the output of the preamp directly with headphones without going into
the converters. Do you hear it there?

Do you hear it in the room with your finger stuck in one ear and the other
one being used? If the room is super bright in the 6 KHz region, it could
even be a room issue.

using Adobe Audition (Cool Edit Pro), which has a variety of tools in
it. The de-essers seem to make the problem worse. tried using the
notch filter, reducing frequencies at 6100, 6200...7100 by 60% - and
set it to affect only very narrow band of frequencies (wider band of
frequencies and it sounds like mud) -- and the sibilance is still
there! I thought the female "S's" were in the 6-7000 range.

Dunno, set the notch filter to boost, and set it very narrow. Then
sweep the control back and forth until the problem is made as bad as
it can get. This will allow you to find the problem frequencies, and
it will allow you to find how wide the range is.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Do you have to be so nasty Phil.
It kind of places you in a position that you really have no idea what
you are talking about.
Just tell the guy what projects you've worked on and let your work do
your speaking.
What's the old saying, action speaks louder than words!
kevin

no preamps -- just the condenser mic straight into a tascam us-12 usb
audio interface. they are recording in bedrooms, with lots of
furniture, carpet and drapes etc. no echo that I can hear on my
monitors. using a yamaha digital board at my location, with yamaha
monitors.

I've tried rolling everything off above 4k - really takes the balls out
of the recording. I understand that the phone passes only frequencies
between 300 and 3000, but a recording listened to on the phone
definitely sounds different (thinner, weaker) when I rolled off above
4k.

bruce

onholder wrote:
no preamps -- just the condenser mic straight into a tascam us-12 usb
audio interface. they are recording in bedrooms, with lots of
furniture, carpet and drapes etc. no echo that I can hear on my
monitors. using a yamaha digital board at my location, with yamaha
monitors.

I've tried rolling everything off above 4k - really takes the balls out
of the recording. I understand that the phone passes only frequencies
between 300 and 3000, but a recording listened to on the phone
definitely sounds different (thinner, weaker) when I rolled off above
4k.


At the risk of getting really tiring on the subject, !what! !happens!
when this thinner-and-weaker-sounding file is converted to a .ulw file?

Everyone knows what HF rolloff sounds like, and you're right, it's not
going to sound like Ashlee, but what about the sibilance-lisp sound you
object to? There are good reasons why it's there and you're going to
have to do what you have to do to make it survive the sample rate and
bit reduction and µ-law algorithm.

[MuseVox]

Hi Bruce and all...

I hope you are getting down to the crux of your sibilance issues. I'm a voice actor with one little crooked tooth on the bottom that makes for a pretty sharp S often enough.

You stated these chicks were using a pop screen - do you know which one? Stedman makes one that runs about $48 - though Humbucker.com has it for $39, and honestly the PS101 does what no other does...just make sure the logo is facing the voice or it will not have the same effect at all.

PLUS, it's totally washable, and does not "offend" - you won't know that the last person to use it had tunafish and doritos - because it's not fabric.

Here's a liink to my commercial demo. You can hear some sibilance (didn't know about the PS101 at the time!) recorded at CRC here in Chicago.

http://sarahwilson.voice123.com/

Blessings,

~Sarah

Thanks for the pop screen info, Sarah. The women are not using a pop
screen, but a wind screen.I'll give the pop screens a try!

Bruce