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For those of you who come by often enough to know that I haven’t posted in a long, long time – this may come as a shock – but I’m still here.. I’ve been buried in all sorts of projects – the new studio being one of them. It has the old studio beat [...] 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 to. As usual, I would like to share some of my real world voice over experience in hopes that it may help someone survive a potentially embarrassing situation – or best of all – avoid one all together. You never know when a client will call just as you’ve hopped into the car to take the little lady shoe shopping, asking for something you might not be able to deliver. 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 get hired or booked for a gig without looking at one of the core reasons, outside of professional training, why they don’t. That reason is how the product they so desperately want to sell sounds.
 Acoustic Treatment for Voice Over Schematic
Though daily, many people wander out into the VO world with audio that sounds like it was recorded in their bathroom – and they wonder why it is they have so much trouble. 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 directly apply to digital audio in general and there are some areas where I declined to fully embellish all of the details. This article wasn’t meant for audiophiles or scientists, so if you are one, please look beyond some of my gorilla tactics when it comes to explaining some of this stuff. 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 my criticism as well as advice. Part of that advice was to go ahead and let me re-work his demos for him, which he quickly agreed needed to be done. |
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