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ignareint

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  1. Yes Reaper is a bit hard to learn however it is worth it trust me.

    The reason I’m saying this is mainly the price of $60.

    The second thing is incredibly stable, no matter what happens to your pc or whatever you throw at him he is not gonna crash.

    And is very generous with the amount of power that it requires even with the massive projects.

    I have a project from 2 years ago, a very complex one with 20 tracks and tons of plugins, the length of the project is 30 hours.

    God bless the guy who created it.

    The only issue that i have with it is the out of the box theme, i hate it. But there are a lot of themes to choose from so it’s not that of an issue.

    Yeah, I will try to learn it when I have time. I’m just not very tech savvy in general, hahaha. 😂

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  2. I do a lot of Post Production for Audio Program for salesmen, doctors, lawyers etc.

    Much of what you see online about wall padding and mics etc is total BS. What matters is the Selling Power of the Story - and of course the audience. No point making cute-bunny slasher-epics for 13 yo girls.

    A properly set up SM58 style mic like a Behringer XM8500 in a room with enough soft furnishing to stop it sounding like a shiny ballroom will do a fine job. The fancier the mic, the harder you make it for yourself. Same with mics on phones.

    Post editing is not necessarily your job. And if your client thinks it is then charge them for it and pass it on as it is not for the feint of heart, or the lazy - no manner how much the software sellers promise. Roll that price in or remind the buyer that you are Voice Talent (therefore not a specialist mix tech) and let them hire some cheap idiot and die with it after your work got massacred.

    Yes, the air con will have to be off, and the dog, and the thing people almost always tap against the mic stand (which they should never touch). Make sure you have an easy way to read scripts and turn pages when NOT Speaking. Don’t forget a quiet chair. Squeaks, creaks and bangs in voiced don’t magically go away.

    🙂

    Ah, in the audiobook (and most voice act/over) community, it’s actually more or less a given to post edit your own recordings. I mean, you can outsource that or sometimes the company would have their own audio engineer(s), but that is very rare. If you deal with indie publishers/game companies, for example, they would want ready-to-use recording.

    Personally, I would want to learn it myself too because I can be particular on how I want to sound like, haha. 😂

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  3. Very true! I’ll second that. As a voice over artist, I’m not terribly proficient in character voices at all. In fact, I don’t even offer them on Fiverr right now. But, I’m still able to work full time on the platform. There’s plenty of commercial work, audiobooks, eLearning gigs, etc. that can take up your time in the booth.

    I’d love to do long narration (audiobooks, etc), but I still need to learn how to post-edit and have the proper room treatment. Also, since I have to turn off my air-conditioner for recording, it would be a sauna by the end of it, lol. 😂

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  4. I would like to know, how are the ways I can change my voice up, to get different sounding characters? I can sing, but I want to try voice overs, but I cannot change my voice to sound like a different person.

    You don’t have to drastically change your voice to become a voice actor. A lot of newcomers think that being a voice actor means having an array of different voices - while in reality it’s more important to know how to act and enunciate properly and just play around with your vocal colors.

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  5. I’m used to using Audacity, so when I downloaded Reaper it felt like a struggle to adjust

    The concern with Audacity is that it is really not a DAW in the same sense as Reaper, Logic, Cubase, Reason etc. Audacity does what it does well enough but doesn’t do a lot of the things that Sequencer DAWs do.

    Reaper is not really that easy to use at all. Not trying to start a war or diss anyone who likes Reaper at all but it is very unintuitive and complex in a techie Excel kinda way. If that is what bothers you then try Reason or Studio One as they are more elegant in workflow (even if that makes them seem less feature-rich on the surface). Bitwig is rather elegant too in its own way, esp for very electronic music.

    🙂

    I’ll check them out one of these days. Thanks! 😃

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  6. I’m used to using Audacity, so when I downloaded Reaper it felt like a struggle to adjust (but I heard RX Elements isn’t compatible with Audacity so yeah). Not really keen on paying for the Adobe Audition license and not really into pirating it as well.

    I guess if I can’t adjust to Reaper I can always use RX Elements as a stand-alone…?

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  7. ************, said it will done for free but it was the same video​:roll_eyes:Complained about how it took her almost an half an hour to do​:confused:😩She says we’re taking advantage of third world countries​:thinking:Ma’am, I’m not sure where that came from but I came here for business nothing else​:roll_eyes:I told her I don’t want it because it’s promotional material so she’s still refusing to cancel. I emailed Kathy from Fiverr CS and she was no help. Fiverr CS said that it didn’t fit my personal taste​:thinking:Excuse me, again I’m here for business and everything has been unprofessional on the seller and Fiverr CS. I’m beyond unsatisfied & all the above.

    Mod Note: Username removed.

    @mschristina12

    Hello Christina, I’m sorry to hear about your experience, but you might want to censor the name of the seller as it is against the forum rules.

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  8. Hi and thank you for your kind response.

    I also thought of him as a scammer but then I checked his Fiverr profile and found that he is member since 2012 and have some feedback from sellers. He had his last 2 feedback posted a week back with 5 star rating and I am now totally confused.

    As per Fiverr rules, I should get paid for 2 milestones as he marked completed but I don’t know what kind of game he’d play here. I am totally novice in such situations.

    As per the TOS as well, they are not supposed to cancel based on quality of gigs as long as the gigs were delivered as described on your gig page.

    Maybe err… @imagination7413 could advise on this? I have faith in their suggestions. 😂

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  9. I have no experience yet on Fiverr - but from various accounts I’ve read on the forum, it seems like your buyer may be a scammer.

    Think of it this way: if they aren’t happy with your first 2 artworks, they wouldn’t compliment them and stay quiet until the last milestone was reached. It was evident they wanted you to keep working until they got all the artworks before cancelling your gig with reasons such as “unsatisfactory results” or “late delivery”.

    I’m not sure if CS can help as they are quite short-handed at the moment and may take awhile to reply. Perhaps the more knowledgeable members here could advise further.

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