The NEW MineWurx Studio – Home Voice Over Studio Wiring and Construction

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It’s taken us a long time to get the “look” we wanted for our new workspace. We’ve had it up and running for some time, but the studio wasn’t shall we say, “client ready” due to the fact the booth and the other little construction projects were getting in the way of everything else. Now, we feel good about the overall look and feel of the studio and even though we still have a way to go to have everything up and complete, we’re at a point where we can switch on the lights and welcome people in.

The studio, as always has been designed around multi-tasking and multi-functionality. There are 4 Windows workstations and one Mac. The Mac and a few of the windows boxes handle video projects. The Mac is also the primary graphics machine and is what we use for all of the office stuff. One Windows box handles ProTools, the other Adobe. One is an exclusive video encoder and the other is a file storage device.
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Voice Over Isolation Booth Video – Part 5.1

This is the first part of a two part video detailing the final touches on our long awaited voice over isolation booth. The booth is finally done – and has already patched its first LA voice over session. I can’t believe were finally done…

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Voice Over Isolation Booth Video – Part 5.2

This is the second part of the two part series of the voice over isolation booth videos. The booth is complete and already serving VO patch sessions.

The importance of quality sound as applied to ISDN, including comments by Joe Cipriano

I had a session scheduled yesterday with a large national client (MTV/Viacom). The session was one of those “maybe Monday or Tuesday” type bookings and when the client is of that nature, you make both days available to them. Comes with the territory. Anyway, it should have been as simple as: client sends copy, dials in on the ISDN line, talent reads copy, takes direction, reads copy again, studio in New York records talent, session ends…Everyone’s happy… It should have been that simple, but at 2:05 in the afternoon, I found myself thinking that had this day taken place earlier in my career, I probably would have cried…
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Plans for New Voice Over Recording Studio in the Works

New construction plans are in the works for a new location for the studio. MineWurx Studio will be moving just a few blocks away, in Tiger Woods terms thats Driver, 3-Iron, 8-Iron to the front door. The current studio, as those who have been there know all too well, is small. It certainly get’s [...]