Home Voiceover Studio Setup: Listening With Studio Monitors – Tuesday Voiceover Tech Tip
Though I generally prefer headphones, freestanding studio monitors can be useful in the home voiceover studio. Here's what to consider...
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.
Audio Compression is one of the least well understood tools available in the home voiceover studio. Let's start by learning how it works...
How much complexity belongs in your home voiceover recording studio? Are you missing out? As long as the equipment and software is not getting in the way of the performance or the production tasks, everything will be fine.
Recognizing competency in one area can give us confidence that it will appear in others. Those studio skills we’ve built up will serve us.