this deep "cinema trailers" voice

[looder]

hey guys.. I was wondering how to achieve this deep cinema trailer/letter reading like sound...
any idea? (beside the deep-low-voice man hehe)

example:

on 3:38


thanks in advanced!

 

[bryan_kilco]

Naturally deep voice.

And sounds like a hint of reverb. =P

Actually, that one isn't even that good. The movie trailer ones are way more badass.

I have a friend or 2 who can pull it off with ease.

Let me know if you need some lines recorded

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

 

[Kohugaly]

It's very easy... the proximity effect of microphone... pick a mic and talk to it really close... + that reverb

 

[Sethis]

Get Morgan Freeman to do it. Anything else is a compromise. No really, you could pitch shift a voice but it would probably sound crappy.

 

[looder]

Ok so I guess I'll just have to try and play with it, luckily my voice is deep.
Not Morgan Freeman deep, but yet deep.
Thanks for all the answers!

 

[Bay Studio]

Hit up Don Lafontaine, he´s the guy that does all the hollywood trailers haha. But, there are alot of guys on quite some forums that have a voice that´s 99% close to his (Dons´) voice.

 

[LiberaScientia]

did*

He died in 2008

 

[DerHonki]

had to think of that trailer

 

[Fandus]

stay up really late and do it, or when you first wake up. gives a more raspy cool fucked sounding voice

 

[Nimvi]

A combination of a good voice, proximity effect, dry-as-possible recording (room reflections really kill a good voice over), and quite a lot of compression.

What also helps is stuff like Renaissance Bass. It sounds a lot more natural to me than just boosting the low end. Easy to go overboard but it can help to enhance the proximity effect and/or give the voice some more weight if it is lacking. I've used this a few times when mixing documentaries and some of the voices where a lot thinner than the others. It made the jump less awkward.

 

[slo77y]

a guy i know does those kinda voices for a big production company. from what i remember the signal chain looks something like this:

very dead room, big condenser mics like neuman tlm,u87 brauner etc -> subtractive EQ -> heavy 1176 -> C4 (bands devided at 150, 2k, 4k, top ) -> L2 until it is a block. emphasize <150hz stuff in the c4

 

[B36arin]

I've gotten closest to this with a Neumann LDC through a Studer preamp. U47 is the tits for stuff like this, but we don't have one in the studio so I use our U87. Make sure that you don't have any background noise and room reflections, since you'll need heavy compression and noise will jump out.

 

[arvoitus]

Or just be bad-ass:

 

[StefTD]

Or just be bad-ass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5exPIHtmsmI

damn, if that dude was really 14 when he recorded this...he's fucking badass.