Is your home voiceover setup robust enough to stand up to adverse conditions? Recent storms provided a strong stress test for my studio. It did not pass with flying colors. What matters when you want to be up and running? Here are a few things I found to be lacking...
Loopback routing in the home voiceover studio can be mysterious and confusing. How do we send audio back out of our computer to someone connected in a session? Since we often have to achieve this inside of our computer, rather than with physical cables, it's helpful to understand how we route our audio in the "virtual" realm.
It’s easy to overlook how we connect devices in our studios. Cable and cord routing is important. In other words, "how are you wired?"
Though I generally prefer headphones, freestanding studio monitors can be useful in the home voiceover studio. Here's what to consider...
In VO, listening and recognizing when audio processing goes too far is an essential point in the process in the home voiceover studio.
The urge to create can cause problems. We often “creatively" mess things up by reinventing systems for no clear reason. Can we resist this temptation...?
When recording voiceover in our home studio, we often work in imperfect spaces which are smaller than would be ideal. This makes fine-tuning microphone placement and position one of the key factors in getting great quality recordings.
Compression in voiceover recording - this tool can become very apparent and may easily overwhelm the performance itself. Be careful!
When we use a Compression effect on our audition, it’s important to ask whether that effect might be overwhelming the performance. Do we hear the processing rather than the performance? That’s a good indicator that we may be doing to much. With Compression, it’s easy to fall into that trap.
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