Last week, what should have been a simple software update has pretty much forced a hardware expense. My old MacBook Pro laptop which has been hardware limited from newer MacOS updates finally reached the point where key applications are no longer supported. It's finally "upgrade time..."
Differences matter. Sometimes they are surprisingly small, like the angle of a microphone, a pause or shift of pace focusing listener's attention, or simply recognizing that something doesn’t sound quite right. If you were to ask me a key to finding success in voiceover, I’d have to say its noticing those differences.
Twisted Wave has brought out a fully functional Windows version... oh, and they changed to a different pricing model. Which I'm fine with...
VO work balances the creative and technical. it’s easy to focus on your gear and wonder if it’s doing everything it could... Does that help?
It’s easy to get stale... another similar script appears in the inbox and we trot out an approach that worked before. Repeat that a few times and it’s easy to lose the spark of excitement when stepping into the booth on the next audition. That’s OK… it happens to everyone. Here are Three Simple Things to help reinvigorate your next audition...
Before anything gets to be part of my core setup, it has to behave consistently. The latest flashy gear loses its shine in a big hurry if it needs constant tweaking to deliver predictable results. We need our studios to work reliably every day.
If you use Audacity in your home voiceover studio workflow, there are three "hacks" I'd recommend. These settings changes let you visualize Input levels more easily, implement the industry-standard decibel scale for your audio, and assures that your MP3 quality is high.
In our home voiceover studios, we know noise is not going away anytime soon. Acon Digital's new Extract Dialogue is a solid tool that is worth a look. In addition to an AI engine trained on location sound recordings, it has an EQ section...
With home studio voiceover setups, my bias is to be just complex enough that core needs are covered. This has beneficial and far-reaching effects...
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