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My Standard Signal Chain
Microphone
RØDE NTG5
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Interface
ZOOM F3
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Primary DAW
REAPER (on PC)
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Headphones
beyerdynamic
DT 770 Pro 80 Ω
Alternative Gear Available / Owned
Microphones
RØDE NT1-A (4th Gen)
Shure Super 55
Blue Yeti
Zoom H4n
Korg CM-300
Interfaces
Universal Audio Volt 1
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
DAWs
Pro Tools Studio
Adobe Audition
Audacity
Headphones
Sennheiser HD 300
Other Software
Source-Connect Std
Source-Nexus Suite
Zoom / Skype / Teams / Google Meet / Slack / Discord / Other
My VO Booth (Treated Room Space)
Details:
- 2,438mm x 1,523mm (8′ x 5′) treated space with angled ceiling.
- Walls / Ceiling lined with thick black polar fleece fabric.
- The angled acoustic foam & bass traps are focused on a specific corner to achieve a totally acoustically dead space.
- Philips 271V8/75 27″ monitor
- Logitech PTZ Pro HD Camera
- Extra Keyboard & Mouse for in-booth / mid-meeting PC control.
My PC Setup
Details:
- Bank of 4 x ASUS VC279H 27″ monitors (connected to main PC)
- Single portrait ASUS 248H 24″ (connected to ASUS ZenBook Duo UX481F)
- Stream Deck (original 5 x 3 model)
- Logitech MX Ergo S mouse (to control both PCs – keyboard to follow)
- Panasonic SA-BTT755 featuring – 2 x front speakers, 1 x centre speaker, and 1 x subwoofer; arranged for audio playback review.
Main PC Specs:
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
- GPU: ASUS RoG Strix GeForce GTX 1080ti 11 GB
- RAM: 2 x Klevv KD4AGU880-36A180U BOLT X Gaming 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) 3600 MHz DDR4
- Case, Power Supply, Fans, and CPU Cooler: all be quiet! brand
Studio Audio Samples
This audio sample was recorded at approx. 2:25pm AEDT on 8th January 2025.
Raw Studio Audio Sample
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My typical daytime noise floor sits around -60 dB, and this can drop to as low as -75 dB depending on whether local bird life & traffic plays nicely.
Basic Clean Up FX Chain Sample
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Same recording as the Raw Studio Audio Sample, only with my “basic clean-up” FX (plugin) chain applied at render – lowering the noise floor down further to around -73 dB.
Complete FX Chain Sample
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Same again, only this time with my “complete” FX chain applied, making me sound nice and smooth and with just enough loudness added, (at least as far as my ears like to hear it haha!)
The noise floor sits at around -58 to -60 dB here because of the post processing done. For more info, please see below.
- -5 dB True Peak
- -27.9 LUFS-I
- 11.4 LRA
- -60.06 dB Noise Floor
- -5 dB True Peak
- -29.1 LUFS-I
- 17.5 LRA
- -73.16 dB Noise Floor
- -3 dB True Peak
- -21.5 LUFS-I
- 17.2 LRA
- -58.46 dB Noise Floor
My FX Chains - Process & VST Plugins Used
Basic Clean Up FX Chain
- Reductive EQ
- High Pass Filter @ ~75 Hz;
- plus several resonant frequencies notched out (if required).
- using Infinity EQ from Slate Digital.
- High Pass Filter @ ~75 Hz;
- Basic de-click (if required)
- Noise Floor tidy up & further attenuation of unwanted intrusive sounds / frequencies
Complete FX Chain
Basic Clean Up Chain, as detailed above; then →- Final bit of clean up of room tone reverb (if required – bypassed by default)
- Subtle upward expansion & downward compression
- using MV2 from Waves.
- Subtle excitment of the mid and high frequency content
- using Fresh Air from Slate Digital.
- Slight boost in lower frequencies to bolster my fundamental frequency
- Medium-speed compression
- Super-slow attack compression
- Light de-ess sibilance reduction (if required – bypassed by default)
- using DeEsser from Waves.
- -3 dB True Peak limiting
- using Ozone from iZotope.