This is a picture of the cords under my desk where I work at the TV station. I confess, I care less about how it looks than if it were in my home. But seriously, folks...when something goes wrong, I'm on my knees in my suit, doing my best imitation of separating the spaghetti.Fess up... your...
...Or it could be the VO Version of a Golf Bag, or a Mechanic's toolbox, or a skier's pack.We're into our "stuff", and voice actors tend to be as geeky as the best professional photographer or plumber when it comes to equipment. Yes, we like our GEAR...and nowhere does this come into play more...
Dan Lenard made me a believer.He makes a strong case that very few audio engineers are equipped to adequately give technical advice for today's home-based freelance voice-actors.The proliferation and the challenges of today's individualized recording booths are a relatively new development that...
Isn't it lousy that we can't get hardware vendors to recognize and market to voice-actors exclusively? I guess it's because they just don't think voice actors constitute a big enough market. Instead we see all sorts of reviews for musicians, engineers, singers, studios, etc.That doesn't mean we...
Do I have to state the obvious? WiFi-enabled portable recorders include smartphone and tablet devices. Auditions on iOS and Android devices using apps now available are landing gigs, and satisfying customers who can't tell the difference. Not only are they Wi-Fi enabled, but they're...
Maybe you're absolutely satisfied with the anti-piracy technology known as i-Lok. If so, you're one of a disappearing breed. The dizzying hoops you have to jump through in credentialing your newly-purchased, and i-Lok-protected program mostly feels clicking "I agree" to the 21-page Agreements and...
Well!...maybe Christmas DOES come in the Summertime! First, don't forget that the special $799 pricing for the Sennheiser MKH416 on Joe Cipriano's arrangement with BSW lasts only through the last day of this month! (See Blog on "The Time is 416, and the Clock is Ticking"). Don't forget to use...
Entrepreneurship is a big part of the energy sustaining this world. God bless each and every person who has the guts to go forward with a great idea. Adil Aliev is that kinda guy. You can hear his story in his own words below in the interview I did with him. The bottom line is that he stumbled...
While in Ft. Worth, TX for my daughter's college graduation, (see yesterday's blog) I got the call we all love/hate to get: a voice over job, and they needed it yesterday. Since we all seem so overwhelmingly infatuated with creative solutions for recording on the road...and since device...
Back at the end of the last decade, my initial search for a quality mobile recording device resulted in my purchase of the Zoom H4. I loved that thing. I'm sure many still use it. It had some mic emulation modules that I thought were pretty cool. Of course, that was before Android, and iPhone,...