Hello there guys and girls,
welcome to another monthly channel update of mine.
Today I wanna clear some things up about my voice as it seems there has been a lot of
discussion about it.
Mostly it was positive feedback which I'm really thankful for because to be honest I
don't like my own voice all that much.
This is why I've been working a lot on improving not only the timbre and sound of my voice,
but also on getting rid of my german accent more and more by practicing to speak.
These channel updates and the tutorials are a big part of that practice because it helps
me learn how to speak more naturally and swiftly.
Let me show you a comparison of how I talked in a tutorial from 2015 and how I utilize
my voice nowadays:
Most of these are already well explained in the Social Club but it's good to see them
in action for better understanding.
In the third section of the tutorial I will present camera techniques and the type of
shots you can use for your machinima.
Most of these are already well explained in the Social Club but it's good to see them
in action for better understanding.
In the third section of the tutorial I will present camera techniques and the type of
shots you can use for your machinima.
It's quite the difference, ain't it?
There are a couple of reasons for that.
Not only has my voice matured naturally with me aging, but also I have been training my
vocal cords to go lower.
I did this when I was recording the vocal parts for my death metal debut record – link
to free download in the description by the way – and I haven't been doing these low
screams in almost ten years at that point.
But it really helped me to explore my capabilities in that regard again.
It got even crazier in early 2018 because I was rehearsing again with my band because
we played a reunion show.
Also, a lot of shouting and screaming there.
This helped me go lower with my voice and put more bass into it while still being able
to articulate myself properly.
More or less.
I call this my stage voice.
And I'm assuming that every radio or TV host does the same.
Now I am not saying that you should walk around and shout your lungs out until your throat
bleeds just to achieve a lower sounding voice.
It's risky and you could potentially damage your vocal chords.
I knew how to handle it though because as a teen I grew up with death metal and did
the whole grunting and shouting all the time and it built up slowly.
So please don't force your body.
Nonetheless there are a bunch of things you can do to improve your results.
For instance try to make recordings in the morning, right after getting up.
It will give you a naturally deeper voice.
You can try and prepare a test script and record the same sentences in the evening and
you'll notice quite the difference.
The effect can be maximized if you drink a couple of cold beers the night before.
Yaaay alcoholism!
In contrast some people who watched my Battlefield 1 montages were wondering where my "deep
sexy voice" went all of a sudden.
Well, there's also a simple explanation for that: The way I talk right now, so in
my tutorials and channel updates, requires a lot of focus as I am reading from a script
and want to speak clearly for everyone to understand.
When I'm playing a game I can't focus on all these little details within my voice,
also english is not my mother tongue.
It also takes away a chunk of concentration to talk in a foreign language and being funny
and witty while playing a fast paced video game.
Also I usually don't play as much so I get excited whenever I have a chance to do so.
I like to use the live commentary videos like Battlefield or Portal as an additional training
for spontaneous unscripted humor.
This way I want to train my synapses to fire quickly and create funny associations.
It's an entirely different approach to what I do normally.
These are the reasons my voice sounds a lot higher in my gameplay montages than in tutorials.
My actual voice with which I speak in real life is somewhere in between my stage voice
and my excite voice.
Well and then there are the character voices I do for the different kinds of machinima
I produce.
But I still have to learn a lot about this, too.
Copying accents of a second language in a consistent manner is pretty hard.
But it also opens a lot of options to experiment.
In the 5K subscriber special I talked about how a dream of mine was to become a director
for movies and how YouTube helped me fulfil that dream on a smaller scale.
Well, and another dream of mine was to become a voice actor.
Unfortunately I was born in a region of my country that has a very annoying accent, it
may be comparable to how Rednecks talk in the US or the Cockney accent in the UK.
Everyone makes fun of it here and it is generally looked down upon.
It is really hard to get rid of these traces of the accent in your mother tongue.
In english however, it's barely noticeable so once again YouTube allows me to fulfil
this voice acting dream on a smaller scale, too.
This is also part of the reason why I never produced videos in German.
And now I can gather experience by voicing multiple characters.
However, if you compare what I do to the work of real voice actors, even other amateurs
and semi-pros that voiced for machinima like Nucky's "Traffickers", my voice just
flobbering goobs bliss.
But I still enjoy doing this stuff.
If you wanna learn more about how to record and edit voice samples, I've got a tutorial
of mine linked for you in the video description as well.
I think that anyone can train their voice to some degree.
Even if it doesn't suffice for voice acting it can improve your gameplay videos a lot
and if you use more powerful speaking techniques it can also leave an impression on your peers
in real life to give you more confidence.
Don't underestimate that!
That's about it for this month's channel update.
Let me know what you think and I will reply for sure.
Thank you for watching and stay tuned, whanowa over
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