Archive for September, 2009
Good morning Peoples of the world, Today I would like to invite you to visit my new project website called I Love Voice-Over Work the site is dedicated to voice-over professionals who would like to share their stories with the rest of the voice-over community. Currently I have it up as subdomain on voiceemporium.com: http://community.voiceemporium.com If you would like to leave a story you can do so using your name (by registering ... its free!) or you can leave the story without registering and that will be automatically filed under anonymous. This type of website is not my original idea... it was originally started...
Read MoreA few posts back I had showcased a few comic strips by multi-talented voice over artist Jeffrey Kafer. Jeffrey sent me an email a few days after I featured his comics on my blog and told me the following: Thanks for featuring my strips here (Taji's Voice Emporium). I've moved away from Stripgenerator (for licensing reasons) and simply created my own characters. They live and breath at their own website now: http://voice-overload.com. Thanks for the article! Drop by Jeffrey's site and show him your appreciation. Best of Luck to Jeff and here's the url again: http://voice-overload.com Taji
So you got voice over problems. You have equipment you'd like to better utilize or you just want advice on how to deal with certain jobs. Or you just have a personal issue that you'd like someone to give you some unbiased advice about. Who you gonna call? The Ghostbusters? They're too busy busting ectoplasmic entities. Try to drop Uncle Taji a line instead and see if he can't hook you up with some solid advice! (I love talking about myself in the 3rd person). And hey if I can't answer it... I'll contact one of my more knowledgeable Voice Over guru...
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For the past few month’s now I’ve been researching laptops because I don’t have one. The one I currently use belongs to the advertising company I work for and I don’t want to mix my private business with my day job. So I have decided to purchase a new Laptop.
It’s not an easy decision because the new laptop I buy will need to be powerful enough to do design work (I do freelance web design and corporate Identity work along with my blogging and voice over work) and I need a computer powerful enough to run some voice over plugins in real time.
That basically means that while I am recording I might want to run a noise gate or a noise cancellation filter which means the computer has to both record my voice as well as run it through a live plugin and not skip a beat. Its not that complicated and any computer made in the last two years with enough ram can handle this.
The design requirement means that I need allot of Ram and allot of processor power because all the new photo editing and layout software are very processor intensive.
During my research for the right laptop for me I’ve come across allot of configurations. The best (arguably) is the MacBook Pro. Unfortunately its made by Apple and I hate them because of how expensive they are and how retarded their operating system can be. The only advantages of the Mac OS system (to me) is that they give their hardware amazingly long battery times. (up to 7 or more hours) which is one of the features that I want in the laptop I am looking for.
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Goedemorgen Everyone, Today I decided that its about time I talk about Voice Over starter kits for those interested in starting their own home studio. As a few of you might know I have a daily routine of reading through my Gadget blogs and voice over articles and whatnot... and one of the interesting new products that Engadget wrote a blog post about was by M-Audio Right now, we have three Pro Tools Essentials packages for you, including: the Pro Tools Vocal Studio USB condenser mic (includes a stand and a case for $99), the Pro Tools Recording Studio comes with a Fast...
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