JustAskJimVO.studio is Jim Edgar
My name is Jim Edgar. I’m a full time voice actor – that journey is a different tale…suffice to say that voiceover kept nudging into my life and finally tapped me on the head with a cartoon hammer until I finally paid attention. From a very early age, I spent many hours messing around with recording, first with cassette decks and reel to reel gear, then spending a lot of time in we used to call “computer music studios” as well as more conventional tape-based multitrack music recording studios.
When I began training in voiceover, it turns out that those many late nights and countless hours helped make things sound really good. I had spent a ton of time positioning microphones for recording, cobbling together networks of computers and synthesizers and effects and other gizmos, probably spending way too much time watching reel-to-reel tape rewind (that’s been a nice improvement…). All those hours (and some very clear instructions and corrections from the head engineers) gave me a strong understanding of good audio practices.
That all paid off when it became time to set up my own voiceover recording space. As I was learning the craft of voiceover back around 2007 or so, most of the local talent agencies told their voice actors to start recording auditions at home. Those voice actors started hiring me to choose gear, set up recording software, dial in their sound, and help them set up efficient workflows in their home studios.
Word got around and I stayed busy setting up closets, offices, dedicated studios and complex recording setups all around the greater San Francisco Bay Area. I started teaching VO home recording classes to get folks set up correctly and demystify the process.
About that time, people started reaching out and saying they’d been talking with another voice actor about their recording challenges and got told “…just ask Jim!”
I mean, c’mon… sometimes a website name just gifts itself to you…
Along the way I’ve continued to share ideas and tips through webinars, classes, and my regular emails and posts. Some of the common questions have been aggregated into my “VO Answerbase” resource. I’m happy to provide a no charge review of your audio quality, or we can connect one to one through zoom or in person.
