0489 – 12 - Volume and projection

2022.05.04 – 0489 – 12 - Volume and projection

12 - Volume and projection

A conversational read is low key, subtle, friendly, authentic and so the voice you need is one of sharing not shouting. You need to engage not enrage. It’s a ‘closer’ voice, one you use when someone is near you and when you are giving calm and reassuring help or advice. Not the voice you use from the other side of a crowded pub when you spot a ‘long lost’ schoolfriend.

Consider either taking your headphones off altogether or taking just one ‘ear’ of the headphones (that is, moving the cup from one ear slightly to nearer the back of your head). Doing this will help you hear yourself naturally rather than through the artificial construct of the microphone, and its boosted-level of every breath and mouth click, and through the headphones. You’ll be concentrating more on what you’re saying and who you are saying them too, rather than how you sound.

If you hear yourself as you usually do naturally, then there’s a good chance you will talk more naturally too.

(Obviously in a recording session you will need at least one ear on so you can hear directions from a producer. And in a live radio studio you need at least one ear on to hear any other source that you bring ins, such as music, or a caller…)

Let the microphone do the work.

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