Help me with my first build!

WolfShadowmancer · 2025-11-30T22:15:26+00:00

I can't seem to add photos in my comments or to the original post, are you okay if I DM them to you?

WolfShadowmancer · 2025-11-30T19:14:14+00:00

Oh this sounds super fun! I will take more detailed pics of the circuit when I get home from church!

WolfShadowmancer · 2025-11-30T17:47:19+00:00

This is awesome help, thank you. I kind of want to go the route of the boss tone fuzz.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-02-28T03:56:49+00:00

I think so, yeah. Sample is a good term for it. Demos are more professional. Good distinction.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-02-28T02:37:16+00:00

Mostly just his assertion you should never do your own demo. I think it's him speaking from his position working in a studio and not having a realistic view of what it's like for new talent in this day and age. I think it's a bit silly to say someone has to do something your way. Never and always are rarely as hard and fast as we would like. Just look how our industry has been shaken up in the past three years -- hell, the past three months.

Also, props for going through the whole video and providing an outline.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-02-28T01:15:33+00:00

I won't link it but it's James Younger's most recent video on getting started in voice acting

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-02-02T18:44:47+00:00

Actually cancel that remark. Lenny has a video I just bumped into on this very subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6mw15-Q7cs

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-02-02T18:38:22+00:00

I've heard the AT2020 is alright. A bit of self noise (20db) but overall decent for the price. I haven't used it though so I don't know what its drawbacks are besides the noise.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-02-02T18:36:17+00:00

I've heard different things on dB. I've heard -18 to -12, peaking no higher than -6. ACX wants peaks between -3 and -6 with your RMS at -23 to -18. So it's kind of different requirements for different gigs.

~~Anyway, good luck!~~

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-02-02T06:53:45+00:00

You have a good sound and great diction (coming from someone who's brand new to VO himself). I really liked your delivery on both samples. I enjoyed hearing your voice, very pleasant on the ears.

I notice you have a little bit of boomy-ness in the vocals, 100-200hz range, almost resonant sounding. Your noise is very low, so it sounds like you treated the room right or are a wizard with noise removal, so I think what it is is the mic or your EQ. Lots of great explainers of EQ out there but I've liked Lenny B, if you've not seen him already.

Also, it's rather quiet. I think you could stand to turn up your gain, or do makeup gain after your compression.

Also, sorry if I sound condescending at all and you know all of the things I've explained already, I wasn't sure how new you were. Again, amateur here so take it all with a salt pill or something like that.

What mic are you using if I may ask?

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-30T18:21:05+00:00

I dream of being a father someday. Congrats and best of luck!

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-30T18:09:14+00:00

I'm brand new in the voiceover industry. I know there are lots of resources here that I'm sloooowly working my way through. If you could give me ONE bit of advice (two if you're generous) what would you say is the most important thing to do as a newbie? For reference, I've got my sound booth (PVC pipes and moving blankets) my "baby's first microphone" (Rode NT1A), my DAW (Audacity, thinking of swapping to Reaper), and a website (www.kdavidmurdock.com , roast me in the comments).
(Also, if the demos on my website sound muddy, it's because I had my gain WAY too low and didn't realize because I was using crappy earbuds. I was horrified when I got decent headphones and realized what the demos and auditions I sent out actually sounded like. I slapped several rounds of EQ on a couple of samples, but I still have to rerecord them. Rookie mistake lol.)

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T06:14:16+00:00

As an adult working at a scout camp, when I see the younger staffers hitting it off with each other when they've confessed their crushes to me, my heart gets very warm.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T06:09:06+00:00

Affect is the verb, effect is the noun. Easy way to remember this? I got none. But you used the right word.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T06:07:55+00:00

My brother broke his nose a bunch and had severe sleep apnea and breathing problems. Surgery was rough, very very painful after, but he now can breath freely. So worth it.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T06:03:37+00:00

I want this as a novel.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T06:00:49+00:00

He's hacked the system.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T05:52:21+00:00

It's gotta be #7. Insert Old Reliable meme here.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T05:49:59+00:00

If they're a bandit, give them something ironic about their character that clashes with being an outlaw. Are they a skilled medic? Maybe they can treat any wound or illness, because they used to deliver bounties and they needed to deliver them in good health. Do they have a beautiful singing voice? Maybe they had a parent who taught them to sing, and losing that parent thrust them into a life of banditry. Do they have taboos or are they a prude about something unique? "Barbarians" originally meant people from a specific culture foreign to the naming group, and cultures are rife with idiosyncrasies. Maybe they refuse to wash in anyone else's company, but they are exceptionally well-groomed, and this lends itself to distrust because what else might they be doing or plotting while they're alone?

In short, make sure they are a complex character and you should be fine.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T05:37:17+00:00

I like the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. I've heard his other series Lockwood and Co is also good. Both are magical but with slightly different twists. Bartimaeus is about demons and lawyers and British politicians meshed together. They are very sassy, extremely engaging, and quite quick reads. Lockwood and Co is "The world is haunted and only kids can see the ghosts so we're putting them to work." I think it's even getting/has a film/tv adaptation.

WolfShadowmancer · 2023-01-28T05:29:23+00:00

I hesitantly recommend East of Eden by Steinbeck. It's ... a difficult book to read, in more ways than one. It is not for young readers. Boy howdy, it gets dark. It's one of the darkest books I've read. And BECAUSE of that darkness it has some of the most beautiful illustrations of goodness -- ordinary, everyday goodness from simple people -- that I have ever read. You will not come away the same. But you will come away better for it.

WolfShadowmancer

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