There’s one thing I know well: recording a great sounding voice over is difficult.

Some tips that I found useful:

La Voz… (How To Achieve a Great V/O Without a Great Studio Setup)

Getting a good voiceover seems to be a mystery for some digital storytellers. This spawns from a wide variety of reasons that can usually be narrowed down to three basic issues;

1. Poor monitoring or recording environments
2. Lack of knowledge
3. Lack of understanding existing tools.

A good voiceover recording doesn’t require that you have expensive gear or a super-well designed recording room, nor does it require a tremendous amount of schooling to achieve. Common sense, a little effort, and a trained ear are necessary, and everything else is gravy.

Recording the voice-over

To the uninitiated,recording an announcer or “voice-over” artist would seem to be relatively simple compared to other things audio. But for those who have done it, it’s a creative/technical task not to be taken lightly. Speech sounds are harmonically and dynamically complicated because of the way vocals are produced-by the chest; lungs; diaphragm; larynx; the oral cavity, including the tongue, hard and soft palates, the teeth and lips, the nasal cavities; and by the dynamic interaction of all those elements through time. Explosions of air bursting from the mouth, the lips and tongue can sound wet, and “sss” sounds can overmodulate a track.