Voice Over Hardware, Voice Over Software and other VO Tools
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...
When this blog grows up, it wants to be just like VoiceOverXtra. Actually, nothing is quite like VoiceOverXtra, and that's what makes it great. Founder and administrator - John Florian - with his publishing background, has created probably the greatest single resource of voice over information in...
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 ...
Windows 8 is in release. Will the new offering from Redmond: a) convince current Windows users to upgrade? b) convince current MAC users to switch? c) be a better OS for my VO business? Windows 7 was perhaps Microsoft's most robust and stable OS ever. Those who never upgraded from XP or Vista...
Ya think after you've been around a while, you kinda know what's out there...the equipment, the coaches, the agents, the producers, the software, the hardware. Sometimes a mic or pre-amp comes across my radar that I missed before. but for the most part when people talk about dis 'n' dat pertaining...
Most voice actors are pretty loyal to their audio editing software. It's nearly impossible to pry the fingers of Pro-Tools advocates from their keyboards. Others like the various iterations of Adobe's Audition software (Cs6.0 is the latest version). There's also Steinberg's CuBase, Ableton,...
C'mon...admit it! The thought of adding a new...er... something ...to your audio chain holds a magic allure. It may, in fact, actually improve your sound, but even if it doesn't...the effect it has on your morale and attitude is worth the price, no? Well, not always...so that's why you have to...
Voice Actors bring a lot of skills to the table...much more than just raw talent, but at the core of things, we're adept with words, and words are formed by culture and history...trends and civilization. We HAVE to know the meaning of a word or phrase...the importance of its context, and its...
God Bless Apple, Google, and Microsoft. In the global scheme of things, these three tech giants keep us ahead of the also-rans and the copycats. Everyone who is a voice actor uses products from one, two, or all of these tech giants. Apple was recently ranked the most valuable corporation in the...
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think RSS beats just about any other digital gateway for digesting daily content quickly. I check my RSS (really simple syndication) feeds everyday with my Google reader. Over years, I've acquired a list of around 175 sites that round out the information I need to...
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