Okay Boys and Girls, Production Tips and Answers..By Tyler.

Tyler Jones · **Voice Talent** Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 29

Okay here is a production tip for any one looking for experimenting with
True Stereo and their voice. For this I will be suggesting Cubase LE however this technique will work with all DAWS ( Digital Audio Workstations ).

1. Record your voice in Mono on Audio Track 1. ( Simple ).

2. Do any edits you may wish to in track 1. ( Any questions PM )

3. Copy and paste recording to Track 2.

4. You should have Audio Track 1 and Track 2 the exact same.

5. Pan Track 1 hard right.

6. Pan Track 2 to hard left.

7. Stretch your audio project view. ( Bottom Right Hand Corner ).

8. You will want to shift or nudge track 2 over just a little. ( 1-2ms )
Doing this untill you get the desired stereo effect.

9. To do fine shifting in Cubase you will need to adjust the quatize box to
1/64 , Change 1000ms box to 1ms, and other box should be Events, Grid and Cursor. This will allow for finer shifting or nudging.
( Boxes are located near top window about middle to right side just above audio track 1 ). Coming soon..Fine tuning Pantheon Reverb Plugin and saving custom Reverb Effects.... Let me know how this works for all.

To mixdown your track to MP3 or Wav in Cubase you will need to go into "edit", " Select all" then "file" then audio mixdown. ( Make sure your Start and End Points are selected. ( Green line above Track 1, drag to end of recording, and be sure all items have a red border around them or things will be missing in your mixdown ). A Standard MP3 is usually mixed
down at 192kbit unless using MP3 Pro. You want Stereo Interleaved.
16bit is also standard for this task. If your working with loops or other music, and audio other than voiceovers I would suggest doing 24-64bit if your DAW can handle it, or as you gain experience with the production aspect of things. Most in this forum I'm guessing are voiceover Talents and not likely recording engineers, however this simple technique is used by several artists in the recording industry, eg : Beatles to mainstream Dance. It also beefs up sound for guitars and other aplications. Radio stations that broadcast in Hi Def will also benifit as you become more comfortable with the stereo shifting technique.

Surround Sound Advertising is the next BIG THING for voiceover talents,
I will keep you posted. Tyler. ( www.plexusrecords.com ) , I will be posting a link on my site to www.voice123.com soon, I'm re-designing.
Hope they don't mind me posting my website on the forum. LOL.
Cheers all....

Robert Jadah · **Voice Talent** Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 2627

Tyler:
You de man!
To volunteer such in-depth knowledge to the great unwashed masses is just a real, real nice thing to do. And I know you happily go one-on-one with advice for the technically dim.
Don't ask how I know.
Just want to thank you. Have a great 2007!
Produce On!
Robert Jadah