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...
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.
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...
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.
As we accommodate tiny complications, those minor diversions can become the new normal. It can be helpful to push everything to the side and start fresh.
When replacing a studio computer, there are a few key considerations not strictly related to RAM or CPU speed. Here are a few thoughts...
When it comes time to decide upon a new studio computer for recording, it’s hard to know where to start. What features are important for VO?
If we focus too much on the technical side of the recording equation, we can neglect the human component. Longer...