Archive for April, 2009
Morning Folks, today’s post will be a quick tutorial on how to use a few of the more important Adobe Audition plugins for us Voice Over Artists.
As voice over artists who work through the internet we are often forced to be our own sound engineers… and I have often praised Adobe’s Audition software (formerly Cool Edit Pro) which I have been using for years now in all its previous iterations. This tutorial is targeted toward a) people who own this software (obviously) and b) voice over talent who would like to learn more about the plugins that could possibly improve their recording quality. Read More
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Morning folks, today's post comes via Bob Souer's blog by way of the New York Times... This article is all rights reserved to the NY times online and I'm just sharing it... you can also find it here Megalomedia Hal Douglas, a highly sought voice-over talent for Hollywood trailers, plies his trade at Soundhound, a New York studio. April 12, 2009 Film In a World of Trailers, Unseen Stars By STEPHEN HEYMAN LOVETTSVILLE, Va. IT’S been almost eight months since the death of Don LaFontaine, and everyone who’s anyone in his business — the business of announcing movie trailers — says there will never be another Thunder Throat. Often...
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Morning Y’all.
I wanted to take a step back from my back to basics category of blog posts and take a look at what’s happening with the VO casting scene. I don’t think I need to interview anyone at this point in time since most of these are my thoughts and are very editorial like…
So yeah I was reading the Vox Daily blog from Stephanie at Voices.com and they were mentioning that they had to change the look of their front page to this…
What you’ll notice is that they no longer have that list of showcased voice over talent… most viewed… most listened… recently hired etc. Read More
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Hello folks… today’s post comes courtesy of Shure Microphone’s newsletter… this article appeared in issue #27. some of this stuff is wicked technical… so for those techno-buffs… this is a treat… for those who arent… some of it is actually legible!
Debunking Common Audio Myths
When we decided to devote this issue to dispelling common audio myths and legends, we had no trouble impaneling a group of experts. Culled mostly from Shure’s Applications Engineering Group, these individuals devote their days, and sometimes their nights, to setting the record straight. Chief among this talented group is Tim Vear, who served as our primary mythbuster and spokesperson. Read More
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Hello Folks, you might have noticed that I had not updated my blog in a couple of days… the culprit dear reader was a head cold that had me home sick for the past two days… Well I am back on my feet although my voice still sounds a tad congested… neverthless I wanted my 40th blog post to be something special.
So I decided to come up with a category called back to basics that explains certain things that we take for granted… like in this article… the science of microphones and how they work. Since the microphone is such an integral part of who we are as voice over artists and in many ways is as important to us as our vocal chords themselves… Knowledge is power and having some knowledge on what makes a microphone work and why there are so many different kinds of them is sure to help us understand this important part of our everyday life and how to better make use of it. Read More
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