Voiceover Answerbase
A collection of my answers to VO and Voiceover questions. Ranging from basic "how-to's" to detailed VO studio fixes and hacks.
Weekly VO Workflow: Dedicated Controls
With a number of audio interfaces, there's a tendency to simplify the control panel. While this gives a very clean look to the device, it means that what a given knob or button controls changes depending upon what mode you are in. Well designed separate controls show exact settings and allow immediate adjustments. Analog interfaces can aid creativity in the vo studio.
VO Weekly Workflow: In Praise of Scarlett
While maintaining that operational simplicity, the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Generation 4 then solved two major issues impacting many voice actors and podcasters: reliably setting input levels with Auto-Gain, and dealing with sudden changes in performance volume through the "SAFE" mode.
VO Weekly Workflow: What Gear Travels Well?
Once you decide to hit the road with your voiceover recording gear, how do you bring along "everything you need, but nothing you don't"? Here's what I've found works well...
VO Weekly Workflow: Recording On The Road
How much VO gear do you need when you travel? Or more importantly, should you be bringing anything with you at all? Before focusing on what recording equipment to take along, it might be helpful to ask just what we are trying to accomplish. Challenging conditions lie in wait when on the road.
VO Weekly Workflow: Crafting a Creative Space
Our studio working environment matters a great deal. The ability to be instantly creative behind the microphone strikes me as the oft-overlooked variable when developing a home recording space.
VO Weekly Workflow: Switching Sides
In choosing software, our needs are niche... Narrators, podcasters, storytellers, and voice actors remain a small subset of those people who record audio at home using their own equipment. The bulk of the product or software development remains geared towards singer/songwriters or home music recording enthusiasts. Our home VO studio requirements remain an outlier. So, how to choose?
VO Weekly Workflow Notes: Ratios in Production
When considering how to deliver long form audio, such as audiobook, eLearning work, or even podcast monologues, it becomes apparent...
VO Weekly Workflow Notes: Workflow Determines Studio Gear
While new stuff can certainly be cool to consider, those new gear announcements may also make us wonder whether what we have already is enough. It might be more helpful to ask what exactly we need to do in our home voiceover studios.
VO Weekly Workflow: Got My PASport!
The PASport VO Dual Audio Interface has arrived! So many VO-specific challenges are solved by this unit. It sounds great and I"m looking forward to digging in under the hood to learn this device.
