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Fast Talking – Reeeecording

June 24, 2009  |  Articles, Taji Related Incidents & Experience  |  2 Comments  | 

Bongiorno, Today I'm just gonna showcase a new advert I recorded for Egyptian FM. Its in English so don't worry and its for a company promoting NGVs (Natural Gas Vehicles). I wrote the copy and the client liked it. This has not been sped up... I only removed the breaths out of the mix. And replaced one part of the take with a clearer part from another take. Tell me what you think. .

Adobe Audition - Envelope Plugin

Adobe Audition – Envelope Plugin

June 23, 2009  |  Articles, Edumification  |  2 Comments  | 

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Today’s post is a tutorial on how to use the Envelope plugin in Adobe Audition CS3.

I reacently learned about this feature and it tackled a problem I had been having with my voice over files since I started using my home studio to send out work.

Often times when you are working on a long project and especially if you are doing the sound engineering yourself  … you will tend to take breaks in the middle and to go check on the levels ( I work in a booth to keep the computer fan noise as well as any other ambient noises to a minimum). So every time I leave the booth and come back in… I sit in a slightly different position than the time before… its not intentional and I try to keep the position displacement to a minimum. But its there.

So what that translates to is for some slightly irregular volume in the audio wave file. Correcting this irregularity has been a quest of mine until I stumbled on the Envelope plugin in Adobe Audition. Read More

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A Little Bird Told me

June 22, 2009  |  Articles  |  3 Comments  | 

Kind of a waste using that title for a short post like this. But I got a message over twitter yesterday ( I think it was yesterday) from username Travsonic ... who are actually TravSonic Studios... this is what they sent me: We are updating our voice-over talent directory. If you are a pro talent and would like to be added, please send us a message with info. Their website is http://www.travsoniconline.com/ and you can contact them and add yourself asap. I'll be adding their URL to the VO directory for reference. Taji

Peter O'Connell's VO Business Card Gallery

June 22, 2009  |  Articles  |  3 Comments  | 

Here is an interesting post from Peter O'Connell's blog voxmarketising... I thought you guys would find it interesting: voice talents – show us your business cards Posted on June 18th, 2009 by peter o'connell voiceover OK gang, fun idea time! As this blog is about voice over (vox), marketing (market) and advertising (tising) I thought we should have some summer fun here and combine all three into a voice talent business card gallery. Simply email me a decent quality jpeg picture of your business card (front and back if you print on both sides) and we’ll show them here. Email peter (insert the at

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Bettye Zoller's New Audiobook Workshop

June 22, 2009  |  Articles  |  3 Comments  | 

Morning Peoples, Just a quick note for those interested in developing and improving their Audiobook Skillz! The Great Bettye Zoller emailed me a few days back and asked me to inform you folks of a new course she'll be giving in the Dallas Area.  Here are the deets: DALLAS AUDIOBOOK INTENSIVE WORKSHOP WEEKEND: JULY 11-12 By popular demand: AUDIO BOOK INTENSIVE WEEKEND July 11-12 Improve your narration skills and learn where the publisher jobs are for readers today. What should your audio book demo be? What are those who hire looking for in a reader? How can you prepare for "long form audio" (audio books)

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