We love our VO shop-talk don't we? Cans. Headphones. So right off the top, let me say, this blog entry will NOT get into the sometimes animated, but always inconsequential argument about whether you should wear your cans while you're recording. Some say doing so makes you too much aware of your...
Android devices have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to quality audio recording. For the better part of two years, hardware and app designers have been coming up with elegant solutions for passable voice recordings on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad). I've written about many of them here,...
Barely had the digital ink dried on my blog from Monday's unveiling of the RØDE iXY before my good friend Tim Keenan (owner of Creative Media Recording) chimed in with some welcome news. Most portable mics designed to work with iPhones, iPads, iPods, etc. come with the 19-pin connector common on...
In the exploding tablet wars, one new entry stands out...and it's from a familiar name: Microsoft. The global computing giant made it's fortune on software...not hardware. The most serious hardware offering it had heretofore was a series of keyboards, mice, and webcams. But with the almost...
Don't get me wrong...I love DropBox, and Box.net, and SugarSync, and ZeroPC, Cubby, SkyDrive and any of about 30 other great "cloud" solution for saving, backing-up, sharing, and accessing your data. I love the idea of "cloud" so much I've blogged about it several times: A Hard Drive is...
You can see the holiday shopping buzz building already. If ever a price was going to be knocked-down on hardware items it's between now and the end of the year. Below is a brief collection of some stuff I've noticed in just the last day. Tools like this can make your VO job easier, and even ...
Yesterday, Stephanie Cicarelli of VOICES.com asked a question on her FaceBook group "THE VOICE ACTING HUB" about reading copy in the studio. "Do you read voice-over scripts on screens or do you prefer printing them?" she asked. Honestly I was floored to find that many still print, read, and mark...
Everybody's first choice in audio technical help is stepping it up. George Whittam is re-branding his top-flight audio services as VO STUDIO TECH. This is a smart move by George, and certainly shows a growth in his expertise, his clientele, and his ability to build off EWABS noteriety. Read more...
Voice Acting is apparently not big enough to prompt equipment makers to hold their own convention just for us (YET)...but NAMM comes close. NAMM originally stood for North American Music Merchants, but now it's an international show for manufacturers, affiliates, resellers, and other vendors in...
My total time at CES this week was 4 hours one morning...maybe more like 3 hours and 25 mins. That may sound like a lot, but time goes like: (I think you get the idea). The microcosm of the Exhibit Floor is like a futuristic city of commerce with all the finest in hucksterism, sales,...
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