064 - Vocal Exercises Part Two

If you don't feel silly doing vocal exercises then you're not doing it right!!

Let's explore more exercises to help strengthen our breathe. And move the power of our voice from the back of our throat to the front of our mouth. And don't even talk about Vocal Fry. Check out the link below for details of the exercises from NPR. 

NPR Training: Aerobics for your voice: 3 tips for sounding better on air ( https://training.npr.org/2017/06/19/aerobics-for-your-voice-3-tips-for-sounding-better-on-air/ )

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