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Some of these posts are 20 years old – and are here for nostalgia, occasional cringing, and entertainment purposes.

  • Voice Over Insider – Q&A with Joe Cipriano

    Welcome to the Voice Over Insider Interview Series. In these interviews we’ll attempt to go beyond the typical questions and get to the real performer behind the microphone, and bring you their insights from an educational point of view. This week: Joe Cipriano Interview Media – Web/Internet Interviewer: Michael Smith

  • Fair warning about voice over coaching…

    I’m an opinionated ass… I’ve been called a lot of things over the years, and I think some people have drawn some fairly accurate conclusions concerning my attitude about the voice over business in a few cases. I know well enough that I come of as a bit brash on a few topics – as…

  • Voice Over Insider – Q&A with Don LaFontaine

    Welcome to the Voice Over Insider Interview Series. In these interviews we’ll attempt to go beyond the typical questions and get to the real performer behind the microphone, and bring you their insights from an educational point of view. This week: Don LaFontaine Interview Media – Web/Internet Interviewer: Michael Smith First off let me start…

  • Some of my favorite voices and voice over talent – Issue #1

    Often times I’m asked by my students, which voices are out there that I like. It’s a hard question for me to answer because there are so many I like – and most of them for very different reasons. I don’t like telling people to go out and copy someone’s style but when it comes…

  • Audio Proficiency: You better be ready to fly little donkey…

    Yeah, yeah.. I know.. Flying donkeys.. Sure, that’s something you see everyday… I just wanted to get your attention so that you would sit up straight in class. Audio proficiency is what’s at hand here and the use of the phrase “ready to fly” means ready to move your can in the event you have…

  • Acoustic Treatments for Voice Over Production Environments

    One of the hardest things for new voice talent to overcome when they have little to no experience with sound isolation, acoustics or audio recording, is how to get the audio they do record up to standards that would be acceptable for professional production. Many times beginners will pout and cry about how they never…

  • Sample or Sampling Rate – The rate at which the audio is sampled by the recording device.

    This article is was meant to help newbies understand some of the basic principals of digital audio recording and effects processing. It wasn’t meant for audiophiles or scientists, so if you are one, please look beyond some of my gorilla tactics when it comes to explaining some of this stuff.

  • Its time to get that big fat head off your shoulders…

    – Looking inward by Michael Smith. The other day, talking to one of my students about how he had the right attitude for success, reminded me of just how far I have come from my not so humble beginnings in this business. When I first started, my ego wasn’t in check, I thought I was…

  • The “Getting Started in Voice Over” checklist – these are the things you will need to get going.

    The voice bone is connected to the microphone-bone, The microphone-bone is connected to the mixer-bone, The mixer-bone is connected to the audio interface-bone, And that’s how you’re paid for your voice. The audio interface-bone is connected to the computer-bone, The computer-bone is loaded with the editing software-bone, The editing software-bone is connected to the mp3…

  • Home Studio Design: Details of a network quality sound isolation booth.

    After years of sitting on this project, we finally blew the dust off of it and got it up on the Internet. If you have ever wanted to see the background design work that goes into building a sound isolation booth capable of delivering at least a –80 dB noise floor if not greater, this…

  • The Transformation of a Voice Over Talent:

    A real world example of how one voice over talent completely modified his sound – from 300 miles away. When I got a call from James, he was looking for advice on how to improve his sound. He had asked me to listen to his demos which I did, and then I offered my criticism…

  • The importance of quality sound as applied to ISDN, including comments by Joe Cipriano

    I had a session scheduled yesterday with a large national client (MTV/Viacom). The session was one of those “maybe Monday or Tuesday” type bookings and when the client is of that nature, you make both days available to them. Comes with the territory. Anyway, it should have been as simple as: client sends copy, dials…

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