Topic: D9 does crappy VA

[Dracula9]

Gonna dump any VA stuff I do here because why not

Undertale Flowey shenanigans

Bad impressions of Doug Rye and Pat Seitz Draculas

Smaug voice effect replication

[BLOOD MONKEY]

It really is crappy.

[piscesdreams]

The Smaug link doesn't work   

[Dracula9]

It lets me access it, and I don't put restrictions on my files...weird.

Reuploaded, link SHOULD work now.

[piscesdreams]

Works now. Very good stuff. What equipment are you using?

[Dracula9]

A Blue Snowball and Audacity/FL.

[piscesdreams]

Nice. I've got a Blue Yeti and have used it lightly. Blue makes good mics. We're going to need actors for VO and depending on the role, some may not be needed til way down the road but if you are interested send me a PM. I definitely like what I hear.

[Claimh Solais]

I didn't really check out the Undertale or Smaug ones, since I haven't played Undertale or even watched the Hobbit movies, so I can't really give a fair judgment on them. But I did check out the Dracula one.

I actually... quite like it. Mind you, it's not GREAT by any means, but I wouldn't call it CRAPPY either. The entire time I listened to it, I could easily imagine you in a PC Engine game. Not one of the crappy dubs like Dragon Slayer or Valis 3, but in one like Ys Book I & II. I imagined the voice clip in the latter game with Adol walking up to some villain and their face popping up on screen for them to give him a speech in their 2-frame lip-flap animation. lol

That being said, I think that your Drac voice would actually work for Darm in that game.

[Belmontoya]

Nice work D9.

I've been recording with blue microphones for over a decade now. From insane expensive ones that I've recorded with in professional studios, to the Blue Bluebird that own and record all of my stuff with in our home studio.

They are the best man. Good choice with the snowball but I would suggest going away from usb consdesors so you can run a pre amp.

But for convience and the price, I totally get going usb.

@Claimh he's doing better quality work than any PC engine game I've played. I'm not sure if that's a critique of the sound quality or his acting, but it makes no sense to me.

I owned a turbo grafx 16 and a duo back in the day. I had an ass load of games too. And what you said still makes no sense.

[Dracula9]

Yeah, it's mostly a price thing. I simply don't make the money for anything much higher grade than Blue.

That said, they do have some nice quality for the price. If I had my way, I'd have a Neumann U87, but I sure don't have four grand lying around.

I didn't really check out the Undertale or Smaug ones, since I haven't played Undertale or even watched the Hobbit movies, so I can't really give a fair judgment on them. But I did check out the Dracula one.

Honestly, the Dracula tests are the worst of the three, I think.

[Belmontoya]

Blue goes up to very high grade. I've recorded with the blue bottle. That's what I would buy if I could afford it.

They just make a line of affordable USB mics like the snowball.

My bluebird was a good range $300 and then another $100 for a good pre amp to power it.

Being a singer, it was really worth it for me. I've even recorded stuff for radio with it too.

[Belmontoya]

By the way you should totally do voice work for Anathema.

That game looks great!

[Claimh Solais]

@Claimh he's doing better quality work than any PC engine game I've played. I'm not sure if that's a critique of the sound quality or his acting, but it makes no sense to me.

Look up various scenes from Ys Book I & II. The voice acting in it was definitely way better than most games of that entire decade. On top of that it even had some major voice actors like Michael Bell, Alan Oppenheimer, Jim Cummings, and even Thomas Haden Church.

Actually, Behind The Voice Actors has quite a few clips up.

The point of what I said is that I can actually imagine his voice being in a game like this, particularly in the old 90's cutscenes that you'd see on the PC Engine. Also, the Drac voice clip actually is similar in tone to Alan's clip on here as Darm, which is why I said I can imagine his voice being used for said character.

[Dracula9]

Heh, no matter what Micheal Bell does, I can only ever hear Raziel.

[Dracula9]

REVIVAL POOOOOOOOST

Did a rough thing with Graham because muh evil suave missionary asshole!

Might do more depending on whether it's good enough to be worth continuation, since I really like getting in Graham's head.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/frh2fmb5z4zve62/grahamrecording.mp3?dl=0