VO Studio Workflow: Don’t Reinvent Stuff – Tuesday Voiceover Tech Tip
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...?
In the Voiceover Studio: The Well-Positioned Microphone – Tuesday VO Tech Tip
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.
The Critical Question: Should We Compress Our Voiceover Auditions? – Tuesday Voiceover Tech Tip
Compression in voiceover recording - this tool can become very apparent and may easily overwhelm the performance itself. Be careful!
Audio Compression Part 2: Putting A Compressor To Work in Your Studio – Tuesday Voiceover Tech Tip
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.
A Bit About Audio Compression – Tuesday Voiceover Tech Tip
Audio Compression is one of the least well understood tools available in the home voiceover studio. Let's start by learning how it works...
In the Voiceover Studio: Just enough complexity to keep things simple – Tuesday VO Tech Tip
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.
In the Voiceover Studio: An Accumulation of Skills – Tuesday VO Tech Tip
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.
Tempting Studio Gear – The Allure of the New – Tuesday VO Tech Tip
Are we wired to accumulate stuff? In our voiceover studio, new stuff keeps appearing tempting with a new feature we didn’t know we needed...
Studio Signal Flow – Understanding the Parts – Tuesday VO Tech Tip
Last week I talked a bit about clearing out the cruft, simplifying and identifying those things that truly matter in our workflow. It’s always instructive to take a few steps back and ask whether any particular part of the process is really necessary. Extra bits and indirect steps always manage to sneak in when we’re not looking. The end of the year is a good time to consider what’s actually needed.
