Hello. I am looking to buy a decent mic for voice over recording, considering Rode NT1-A, so I can record voice over talent & develop my skills in the field of recording & processing dialogue. Few questions I would like to ask you guys if you are able to help. Any mic you like for dialogue recording? How much post processing do you do for dialogue, do you like to use the natural eq of the mic or do you like to EQ it to enhance the “god speaking” effect. How about reverb, do you like to keep it pretty dry? Perhaps my main question, how good is your setup sound isolation & acoustics wise? Unfortunately my room is pretty poor for this kind of stuff, but I am looking at building a cheap isolation setup myself to use...Perhaps isolating the mic rather than the room. Just hoping to get a bit more info on voice over recording, to help get a decent setup going at a budget. Thanks, ps really appreciate having people willing to help me out on places such as here, the amount I have learned in a short time & the amount still to learn is both overwhelming =p Without the internet, this would be so much harder. I realize not everyone would do voice over recording here, but hey i ended up buying a studio projects c1 condenser, so i'm looking forward to that very much =p. [Edited by - Jay Taylor on February 23, 2009 5:26:04 AM]

I always feel it's important to get a mic that doesn't color the vocal too much. For music, vocals can be given a lot of character, but with voice acting, a lot of the character, in my opinion, should come from the actor or from the mixing work in placing the vocal aurally.

Mixing-wise, I like removing all the unusable elements and I like taking advantage of my own mixing software to give the vocal placement in the work.

Remember, not all voice acting is simply the God-narrator, most voice acting is ADR as most on-location shooting yields audio conditions that are too unfavorable for a final cut, or work for animated or game-work.

I don't think that I would ever rely on a microphone's on-board EQ to change an original recording.
Recording dry audio is the way to go. EQ can be applied by software.

I meant rather the mic's natural sound, or post eq either by software or mic preamp. I guess as long as it sounds good crisp & clear, it shouldn't need much eq if any.

But yeah i'm quite happy with the mic, I bought a behringer ultravoice preamp along with 2nd hand - cheapy but gotta start somewhere. Actually gets a real good sound. My main focus will be mic isolation now.

Cheers ;)

Jay