This guy, Mike. Friend, foe, lover, hater. Such a relationship we all have with this thang! A mic will bring out the best and worst of you and your performance, accentuate your nuance, amplify your lip smacks, punctuate your P’s and B’s, muddy your pronunciation,play up that texture in your mid – low range, faithfully …
The vast majority of voiceover recording is done FLAT, with the idea of hearing nothing but a quality recording of the voice in a completely neutral environment. Which means youneed to be careful about where you place your mic and will likely need to experiment in finding the best way to record in as quiet …
Nevermind that you don’t WANT to record noise. Point is, it’s there to muddy and mess upyour take. So first, let’s discuss the environment. The two key aspects in where you’rerecording are your actual location and what sounds make it onto the take.You obviously want to record in an atmosphere that’s relatively quiet. It doesn’t …
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By Overwhelming Demand! – VOLA Virtual Open Mic is back! The VOLA Virtual Open Mic Salon – Saturday November 14th, 3-5 p.m. Drop into our Zoom salon to practice reads with our casting director and producers. Ask questions about the professional standards of the voiceover business for commercials, films, video games, podcasts, promos, and more. …
The obvious advantage to getting good at cold reading is that it builds CONFIDENCE. And that’s something you want to rely on in the heat of the moment when you’re in the booth. The more you read out loud, the better you get at… reading out loud. Which… is what voice-over, like, is. So: Once …
The heart of voiceover is about reading copy. And the wondrous aspect of that is in the endless variety that winds up on the stand in front of you. You never really know what’s coming next and the gamut runs from straightforward to over-the-top, to ridiculous to sublime and then right back to… straightforward again. …
By James Mandel, CEO – In my years of booth directing, the quality of the final product always came down to the quality of the read. Once you get the acoustics of the room down, the placement of a good mic, the skills of a good editor, it’s up to the actor and director to …
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