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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I took a few days off after writing up the interview with Armin … Remember you guys still have up till the 30th of September to go to bodalgo.com and get a free 1 month premium subscription… thats 1 month free auditioning at Europe’s only Voiceover Marketplace.
Ramadan is winding down… and the last days are upon us… Muslims hold the last 10 days as the holiest of the holiest month in the year so we spend a little more time in worship (yes in addition to the 5 daily prayers) and so my time is a bit scarce.
A conversation I had with a friend of mine about Languages and how many words in our lexicon are derived from words from other languages was the inspiration for this post. One of the things we has spoken (my friend and I) about was the surprising possible source for the English term So Long came to mind as some believe that the Northern expression was imported into britain by soldiers serving in Malayan-speaking countries. Malayan salutation, Salang, a corruption of Arabic Salaam = peace. This expression is of course used in all english speaking countries but this is one of the proposed origins for this salutation.
So I decided to go to our trusty old Wikipedia and see how many more Arabic words where incorporated into the English language… and here is a short compilation of some of those words.
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Goodmorning Readers,
Today we have a special guest with us. All the way from Munich, Germany Mr. Armin Hierstetter CEO and Founder of Europe’s First Voice Over Marketplace Bodalgo.com
Mr. Hierstetter has been quite busy since the launch of Bodalgo.com back in January of 2008… This intro was written after I conducted the interview and I have to say Armin reveals quite a few surprises. Stick around this is going to be interesting!
Also Please note that there is a podcast of this interview (that you can listen to) at the end of the article… so if you would rather listen to the whole interview instead of read it scroll down to the bottom of the interview and click play.
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In case you missed it. Peter O'Connell (voice over extraordinaire, business man, philanthropist, and blogger) wrote up a nice little tongue-in-cheek post (which is quite long and detailed actually) on behalf of us, the voice over actors/ talent / performers of the world. I'm republishing it without permission (forgive me Pete) but he did kind of imply that he's speaking in our name: World-wide Audition Completion Keys Enjoinment My dear brothers and sisters in voice over, There comes a time in each person’s life when they need to use their blog to bloviate, purge and otherwise sound-off on urgent pressing matters of...
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