Archive for 'Student Tips'
Audio Proficiency: You better be ready to fly little donkey…
Yeah, yeah.. I know.. Flying donkeys.. Sure, that’s something you see everyday… I just wanted to get your attention so that you would sit up straight in class. Audio proficiency is what’s at hand here and the use of the phrase “ready to fly” means ready to move your can in the event you have [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2007 under Student Tips.
Tags: digital audio, editing, home studio, video voice over
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Acoustic Treatments for Voice Over Production Environments
One of the hardest things for new voice talent to overcome when they have little to no experience with sound isolation, acoustics or audio recording, is how to get the audio they do record up to standards that would be acceptable for professional production. Many times beginners will pout and cry about how they never [...]
Posted: October 28th, 2006 under Student Tips.
Tags: acoustics, foam, home studio, voice over
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Sample or Sampling Rate – The rate at which the audio is sampled by the recording device.
Some of you are going to have to excuse my methods of explaining some things in this article because it was meant to help newbies understand some of the basic principals of digital audio recording and effects processing. In an effort to foster this understanding I have used references and terms or words that don’t [...]
Posted: October 11th, 2006 under Student Tips.
Tags: audio editing, digital audio, home studio, sampling rate
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Its time to get that big fat head off your shoulders – Looking inward by Michael Minetree.
The other day, talking to one of my students about how he had the right attitude for success, reminded me of just how far I have come from my not so humble beginnings in this business. When I first started, my ego wasn’t in check, I thought I was much better than I actually was, [...]
Posted: September 15th, 2006 under Student Tips.
Tags: New York Voice, voice acting, voice agent, voice seminar scams
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The “Getting Started in Voice Over” checklist – these are the things you will need to get going.
The voice bone is connected to the microphone-bone,
The microphone-bone is connected to the mixer-bone,
The mixer-bone is connected to the audio interface-bone,
And that’s how your paid for your voice.
The audio interface-bone is connected to the computer-bone,
The computer-bone is loaded with the editing software-bone,
The editing software-bone is connected to the mp3 encoder-bone,
And that’s how your paid for [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2006 under Student Tips.
Tags: acoustics, digital editing, getting started in voice over, home voice studio, microphones, mixers, voice coaching
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UPDATE: Online Voice Over Lessons less than they have ever been.
At the urging of one of the members of the MineWurx voice over community, we are now offering a Workshop Lesson: a more abbreviated, less expensive version of our full online voice over lessons. Click title for further details.
Our normal online voice over lessons last 1 ½ hours and cost $100.
Because the lessons are long [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2006 under Student Tips.
Tags: Coaching, online voice over lessons, training, voice over schools
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The Transformation of a Voice Over Talent:
A real world example of how one voice over talent completely modified his sound at MineWurx Studio – from 300 miles away.
When I got a call from James, he was looking for advice on how to improve his sound. He had asked me to listen to his demos which I did, and then I offered [...]
Posted: August 4th, 2006 under Student Tips.
Tags: home studio, Online voice over classes, voice training
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