How to Practice Tian Guan Zhi Fu Dubbing?3 Free Tools to Mimic Xie Ren's Voice Tips

What's so special about Tengen Chieh Ren's vocals?

Seriously, the first time I heard Xie Ren open his mouth, I felt that there was something indescribably gripping about the voice. It's not the kind of bass that is intentionally handsome, nor is it the bright to thin teenage voice. Jiang sir (Jiang Guangtao) match is too good, like the first snow fell on the warm jade, clean through the warmth, but also with eight hundred years ago the Prince of Immortal Music that the bones of the noble. The best part is the tenderness under the restraint, especially when facing Huacheng, that kind of helpless and indulgent strength, which makes your heart tremble. Want to imitate this voice? You can't just pretend to be gentle with your voice, you have to capture the essence.

I pondered for a long time, and found that Xie Ren's voice has several key points: first, the pitch, belonging to the medium-high but not overly thin male voice, you have to find the most natural relaxation of your voice in the middle range; second is the breath, especially stable, speak like a gurgling water, almost no sudden breath change murmur, especially in long sentences when breath control is a hard task; third is the tone, never anxious, even if the fight, also with a sense of "it's not a problem" calmly. Thirdly, the tone of voice, never in a hurry, even in a fight, with a sense of calm, "it's not a problem", the end of the voice is often light and soft, rarely hard to smash down.

Don't rush the recording! Let's get our ears on the soundtrack first.

In the past, I was also stupid, once I listened to it, I wanted to record it myself, and the result was not like anything else. Later, I learned my lesson and became a "voice detective" before imitating. I specifically built a folder, Xie Ren different emotions, different scenes of the classic line clips are cut down: gentle to appease the flower city, self-deprecating, calm command in battle, and even 800 years ago when the crown prince more detached. Do it the dumbest way possible - put on headphones and repeat! Repeat! Listen!

You don't just hear a feeling, you have to "break it down". For example, the line, "For me, you're the one who's in the limelight, and you're the one who's in the dust, and you're the one who's in the center of attention, not what you're like". Listen to how Jiang Sir handles the word "you", not re-reading, but breath wrapped with a little sigh of softness, the last "you" is almost only the sound of air. Use the recording software that comes with your cell phone to record yourself reading the same sentence, AB comparison, the gap is tragic, but especially can find the problem: Oh, I have broken the breath here; oops, the end of the confiscated too hard...

The First Artifact: Audacity - Your Free Sound Microscope

Don't be intimidated by the English name, this old free audio software (search Audacity's official website to get it directly) is a real treasure for practicing voice acting. It takes your voice and peels it back like an onion, layer by layer. After you record your own "Xie Ren parody", import it into Audacity and align it with the top and bottom tracks of the original sound clip.

Focus on two places: first, look at the waveform graph; is the waveform of the original sound like rolling hills, with even ups and downs? Has yours suddenly rushed high (shouting) or flattened into a line (not enough air)? Secondly, when I analyze the spectrum (click "Spectrogram" in the "Analyze" menu), the distribution of the original's high-frequency area (like the crispness of wind chimes) and low-frequency area (calmness) is very harmonious, like a light-colored painting. I found that my high frequencies were too harsh, and the low frequencies were weak and "floaty", unlike Xie Ren's warm and enveloping feeling.

It's practical to use its own EQ (equalizer) for fine-tuning. Try pulling down the harsh 2kHz-5kHz region a little bit, and boosting the inadequate 100Hz-250Hz region a tiny bit (note that it's a tiny bit! Turning it up too much will make it sound muffled like a cold). This is not cheating, it is to make you more aware of the target line of the "spectrum looks like", the ear is not allowed to hear, the eye to help you calibrate.

The second baby: VoiceChanger.io - real-time voice change to find "location".

It's not enough for Audacity to analyze it after the fact, you need instant feedback when practicing. This online site (just search VoiceChanger.io) opens and works without registration. The function is simple and brutal: speak into the microphone and it changes your voice in real time.

Instead of using its quirky effects, we'll focus on the Pitch and Equalizer modules. Push the Pitch up a little bit (don't go over +2, or you'll sound cartoonish), and try to find Xie Ren's "comfort zone", which is slightly higher than your own voice. Next, adjust the EQ, the same as Audacity, attenuate the harshness in the mid and high frequencies, and make up a little bit of the thickness in the low frequencies.

Here's the magic! When you practice speaking with this effector on, you hear a "processed", closer-to-target sound in real time in your headphones. This helps you quickly build muscle memory, "Oh, speaking in this position, with this breath wrap, sounds just right!" Turn off the effects and try to remember what it felt like to just vocalize. This has helped me tremendously in finding the right "vocal position" and is 100 times better than just thinking about it.

Third earthly method: cell phone recording + bathroom reverb

Don't laugh! The highest-end techniques are often presented in the plainest way. Xie Ren's voice has a pure ethereal sound, which is almost too dry to be recorded in an ordinary room. I found a zero-cost "ambience tool" - the bathroom.

Close the bathroom door (make sure there's no weird background noise) and turn on your cell phone voice memo. The natural reverb effect of the tiled walls will soften your voice and add a touch of "fairy", especially close to the texture of some of Xie Ren's empty monologues. Don't be too intentional, just speak normally, the reverb is just the icing on the cake. Recorded immediately playback, focus on listening: reverb has not covered your breath unsteady problem? Did it make the tail end drag and lose the cleanliness of Cheri's voice? Bathroom recordings are more like a "soft mirror" to help you check whether your voice is sounding good or not.

Imitation is not the end of the line, but capturing "God" is the key.

Tools are only auxiliary, practice in the end you will find that the technical level (pitch, breath) can imitate a seven or eight, the most difficult is Xie Ren voice in the "God" - that after all the vicissitudes of life after the translucent tenderness, and the deep hidden toughness. This has to rely on "into the drama".

I've tried a little trick: before reading your lines, close your eyes for a few seconds and imagine you're Xie Ren. How did 800 years of loneliness precipitate into the present calm? In the face of Flower City's passionate love, how can you hide the helplessness and preciousness of that heartbeat under a calm tone of voice? Even if you just recite "Saburo, stop", without that image in your heart, the voice is just a voice, without a soul. Practice your expression in front of the mirror, Xie Ren's eyes are often gentle and helpless when he speaks, and it's hard to relax your voice when your face muscles are tense.

Imitate Xie Ren's voice, like polishing a piece of jade. Tools help you cut out the prototype, but the warm luster, you have to rely on your heart over and over again to "disk". Don't be afraid of not like at the beginning, when I recorded the "infinite scenery is you" listening to their own toes digging the ground, adhere to the right way to sharpen the ear, adjust the breath, to find the feeling, suddenly one day, the sound coming out of the headset will make you froze for a moment: "Eh? It seems... It's kind of like that?" The joy of that moment is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

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