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This chapter will discuss the problems of recording the voice, both for narration and for drama, with emphasis on microphone choice and placement, local acoustical considerations, signal processing, and monitoring.

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Eargle, J. (1992). Recording the Spoken Voice. In: Handbook of Recording Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1129-5_24

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