How come Voice Acting doesn't have a professional magazine of its own?! (note to self: possible future career path filling this void). Lord knows photographers, writers, musicians, audio engineers, and just about every other creative endeavour known to humankind has it's own periodical. Why not...
There is no one single piece of iconic equipment we identify with more than the microphone. It's so hard NOT to put it in your branding material, your website, on your business card... even though it's cliché in the extreme. So what?! The microphone IS an extremely important part of the equation...
Guys...I'm talkin' mostly to you. Some of us (ahem) tend to be geek/tech heads about voice acting (you know who you are!). We can easily make the mistake of believing that a better mic/preamp/DAW/mic cable/mixer/shockmount/USB interface/yada/yada/yada will make us sound better. That's true up to...
The day you spend hours searching-out a scratchy sound or electrical hum in your audio chain is the day you start wondering if the hi-priced mic cable is REALLY better than the bargain brand. Right? "Microphones output a very low signal by nature. Using a really high quality cable on your mic...
[No offense to the female gender of course...but the play on words just doesn't work any other way. :)] No other iconic symbol overshadows our business more than the microphone. Even the most satisfied Neumann or Lawson or Peluso Microphone user has a nagging suspicion somewhere in the back of...
ElectroVoice's new RE-320 is in my studio for testing as we speak. Although my "ears" have steadily improved since I began VO work, I'm by no means an audiophile. The finer points of audio engineering escape me. But I've read enough forum threads about mics to know choosing one is a subjective...
Geekhood status does not mean you have an osmotic mind...it just means you love the idea, the smell, the feel, the allure of technology. Much of the hardware/software challenges that come with being a voice actor are fun for me...but for some reason, the finer points of microphone pickup patterns,...
VoiceOver colleague Wayne Nelms provided a bounty of links to mic-evaluation sites on the "Voice Over Friends" group page on FaceBook Wednesday. 'Must be something in the water...I just blogged about a Mic Shootout the other day. No, reading these sites won't decide for you what mic is right for...
Can you really read enough articles about microphones for voiceover? Yeah, probably...but the inclination is to at least glance at these articles, 'cause the technology keeps changing, and the companies that make microphones keep churning out new models. In that spirit, you might want to read THIS...
As a veteran of many a remote-recording session, here are some tips I’ve learned regarding the acoustic space, mic selection, the signal path, and monitoring.