Greetings and Salutations dear readers,
I wanted to tap into the minds and experience of the VoiceOver collective and ask a question that sometimes bothers me. Is it just me or has working in the voice over industry sometimes made you feel like you are a fishmonger in the local market.
Whether its during a communication between a client or an agent proxy I find that sometimes the haggling can get tiresome and somewhere along the line I decided to get very very stubborn.
I am sure that the Global financial crisis (a gift from the last US president as far as I am concerned) has caused some serious financial belt tightening. The ripple effect from this crisis has devastated thousands of companies and has caused the laying off of possibly millions of people worldwide.
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Good Morning,
Today’s post concerns one of the business tools that I use daily to run my voice over business… my iPhone. I wrote a blog post about it a while back … for those of you who would like to read it Click here.
As you might know I own a 2G (first generation) Apple iPhone. Late last week Apple released system 3.0 for the iPhone and they promised a whole lot of new features that didn’t exist before in the old systems.
- Cut and paste
- Spotlight search feature
- Sending Contacts
- Landscape typing for messages and emails
- New voice recording application
- MMS
- Internet tethering
- Improved Bluetooth
- Support for over 30 new languages
- Read about these new features here
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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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Hello All,
I read this blog post a few weeks ago… and its implications have been stuck in my head ever since.
I wanted to share it with you in case you didnt have a chance to read it on Voice Over Universe. The writer is James Herron and he talks about his experience with BBS Syndrome:
” I had been finding that some days by 11 am my voice was beginning to fatigue. If you rely on your voice as your livelihood as I do, this can be particularly troublesome.
I first noticed this issue about a year ago. What was going on? What the heck was causing this to occur? Was it something serious? Was it environmental?
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There is an old proverb that goes:
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
What I’d like to talk about today is something that affects nearly all of us as Voice Over Artists. We cannot live without it and if its done badly can be one of the most torturous parts of our job.
The Script.
I believe that I recently mentioned that I was in the middle of recording an Audio Book. The script works on my two main strengths… English and Arabic. Its a bilingual text and usually a book like this wouldn’t take me any time at all to record.
Unfortunately, I had not read the full script of the book before accepting the job. I had read the original book in Arabic and thought that I wouldn’t have any problems reading it translated.
Suffice it to say that the book is an excellent Read but was not written to be Read Out Load. When reading a passage to yourself you can always go back and make sense of it … you can do this over and over until the whole structure of the sentence becomes clear to you. Now imagine doing this while recording a 182 page book…. out loud… Doesn’t work. Read More
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