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Update on the new studio…

MM — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:31:35 +0000

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 [...]

Audio Proficiency: You better be ready to fly little donkey…

MM — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:02:15 +0000

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 [...]

Acoustic Treatments for Voice Over Production Environments

MM — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:56:24 +0000

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 [...]

Sample or Sampling Rate – The rate at which the audio is sampled by the recording device.

MM — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:43:46 +0000

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 [...]

The Transformation of a Voice Over Talent:

MM — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:04:30 +0000

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 [...]