Alright. Well, I am in post production with my behind the scenes documentary. I went to go to put a voiceover, and the audio echos and is very distorted. I am using primeire pro...any help?

What kind of mic are you using and how good is your audio card on your computer?

ohhh... voiceovers are tough. i found it's best to record them with a super high quality USB mic (48khz), on a laptop (because desktops tend to hum), in the largest FURNISHED room you can find. it needs padding, like rugs, soft furuniture, whatever, to prevent echo. and if it's distorted make sure you're not too close to the mic, if the audio graphs are peaking at the top it's gonna get clipped. which sounds bad. keep it lower then 0 and around -3 at the loudest parts if you have a digital decible meter. that's the low tech way anyway

I know it may seem ghetto but since all i have is a cheap mic I used my camera to record a voiceover for one of my recent films and it sounded great! I used my GL1 and was in a room with lots of carpet and furniture and it was crystal clear thats the way Im doing it from now on. All you do is recored it and add an audi track on your editor and put it there... simple but effective.

Hey Mike,

Sometimes reducing audio noise can be hard. I would take the suggestions already noted here in this thread. Also, if you have a mixer, I would reduce the volume if you are getting distortions. If you still have the camera setup, just record yourself speaking into the microphone for the voiceover, strip the video, and then you can import the audio for your voice over. This is sort of a low budget way to do things since you can use the camera's mic input attenuation.

Hope this helps! Or maybe you already knew this?

-Arya
http://www.aryavartakumar.com

Like Mike, I gave up on recording audio on my computer and just started recording it using my camera. It sounds better, it's more consistent and it's easy to import. The inside of a car makes a pretty good recording studio, believe it or not (engine off and parked in a quiet place, of course!).

Hey poptart thats not a bad idea, a car has a good amont of baffling built right in. The only downside to the suggestions you have all given of using the camera is that if you use the onboard mic you will pick up camera noise. If you are going to go this route then use an external mic if possible.

Ack...I forgot to mention that I've used a shotgun mic (Sennheiser MKE300) when recording using the camera. (I had an el cheapo handheld mic, but it sucked.)