063 - Vocal Exercises

Jey's Podcasting Journal

English - March 07, 2021 23:29 - 3 minutes - 3.21 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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I want to improve my presentation skills, starting with my voice. I'm going to start with the exercises in the links below. Let's hear I sound after a week.

I hope you join me, but please start gently and do not strain yourself.

1. NPR: Finding Your Voice ( https://www.npr.org/transcripts/803841798 )

2. Cheryl Porter: 10 Minute Daily VOCAL WORKOUT! Vocal Exercise ( https://youtu.be/1XHXezdnL0A )

PRODUCTION NOTES

Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic

Recording device : Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder

Recording location: Dining table, seated, no pillow-fort.

Recording format: WAV (32 bit float mono)

Editing app (and EQ) : Adobe Audition

Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com

Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz

I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.

Episode art: Canva

Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps, stereo, .m4a file