Voiceover Resources: Articles & Posts

Weekly VO Workflow: Process Over Perfection

As the calendar wraps around, we seem hard wired to take stock. There's a tendency to lean into numbers and give ourselves a pass/fail for goals achieved. Tracking numbers and identifying causes provides hard data to refine our approach and patch failing systems. As we tally our efforts, there may be some solace in recognizing the challenges of a difficult economy, impact of world events, immediate pressures of unique situations, and all those things out of our control. None of us pursue life in a vacuum.

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Weekly VO Workflow: When Skill Gets Comfortable

Nothing remains in a static state. Clients who have relied upon us for years may suddenly "go in a different direction..." VO Agencies may fold or retool. The tone of advertisements may shift. It's possible to suddenly look up and realize that our approaches are no longer viable. How do we address that? It may be as simple as failing.

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Running Your VO Studio: A Bit About Budgeting

Everyone loves to get out ahead of the competition, which has led to a cascade of "special early-bird savings" emails. It's easy to get overwhelmed and excited in equal measure. Although it may be cool to get an amazing deal on a new microphone, will that really help your VO business in the long run?

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VO Studio Mindset: Tech Fails, Our Reaction Matters

A bit of mid-session adaptation underscored a point I repeat often: things will always go wrong. As counterintuitive as it seems, starting with that mindset takes the pressure off of us.

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VO Studio Basics – More Distortion

Is distortion ever a good thing in the home voiceover studio? Getting things correct at the source is a key step in good sound. In our home voiceover studios we attempt to capture a very dynamic instrument - the human voice.

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VO Studio Basics – Distortion and What To Do About It

The term "distortion" crops up frequently when discussing audio from home voiceover studios. Distortion may be applied to a wide variety of recording steps, making it tricky to determine precisely what someone might be talking about. The effects of distortion can range from recordings sounding "not quite right" to a vocal track that sounds like a space alien has taken up residency in our booth.

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VO Studio Basics: Loopback in Action (Part 3)

The need for additional recording options can occur when we are in charge of the actual recording. In most home voiceover studio setups, the focus is on capturing high quality sound from your microphone. Understanding how to get the sound from your booth microphone into your recording software remains the first step in VO home studio setup. Needing to record someone else who is not even in the same space is an added layer of complexity once you've solved that.

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VO Studio Basics: Loopback I/O (Part 2)

Before we start trying to record different streams of audio, it's helpful to understand a bit about I/O routing. As I mentioned in last week's email, "I/O" stands for "Input/Output." The actual I/O routing determines how each piece of software connects with different audio signals. Some signals - like that from the microphone - flow "into" the app, while anything that is broadcast from the app is flowing "out." While this may seem like a simple concept, it can get a bit confusing when we start sending the output from one app to another.

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VO Studio Basics: Loopback In Action (Part 1)

While playing with some Audacity setups recently, I realized there was a feature that can be helpful in remotely directed sessions. Even better, it's not limited to that app alone, and can be replicated in Twisted Wave if you want to venture out past the documented features.

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