Always Keep Ideal eLearning Qualities in Mind My eLearning clients tell me that their ideal eLearning voiceover is one that is clear, concise, and easy to understand. When I record for them, I always keep these qualities in mind: Professional with Personality Professional eLearning Audio Quality to match
The Three Main Types of Pop Filters Choosing the best pop filter for voiceover recordings gives you confidence to have great session results. You won’t have to worry about ruining takes with excessive plosive hard consonant sounds. Plus, your microphone will last longer without wet breath and spit hitting the microphone. There are three main …
The Secret to a Warmer, Stronger Voice Would you like to know the secret to a stronger and warmer voice for voiceover? “Yes! Do I need to get a U87 microphone?”No. “Do I need a new fancy preamp or the latest plugins?”No. “Oh, I got it! Do I need to do vocal warmups?” That helps. …
Home Voice Over Studio Part One: The Set-Up Let’s keep this simple: you want to set up a home voice over studio with a low noise floor. Also, how to do you re-create the quality audio sound you have at professional studios in your home environment? Studios have a high-end production signal chain from your …
Vimeo for Voiceover: The Tool You’re Not Using Enough When voiceover actors discuss which social media platforms they use, they rarely say they use Vimeo for Voiceover. Instead, the usual suspects of the largest networks come up. Vimeo is a significantly smaller network, with 230 MM registered users and 1.6 MM paying subscribers world-wide. Georgi …
Best eLearning Voice Over Recording Tips Today we are going to go over the best eLearning voice over recording tips covering these three areas: acoustics, equipment, and EQ processing. We will especially keep in mind how to handle longer programs over a half an hour in length. With such modules, one would want to use …
Tongue-Twister Tips for Voiceover: Beating CST Today we’re looking at Tongue-Twister Tips for Voiceover: Beating CST. “What is CST” you ask? It stands for Cannot Say Today. As in, voice actors sharing on social media and message boards a nagging phrase that took them twelve takes to triumphantly trip through: “Hey guys, CST: stacked deposition, …
High Pass Filter: The First Step to Reduce Recording Noise Are you using a High Pass Filter for eLearning Voiceovers? Do you know what that is and if so, how to use it effectively? All of. your questions will be answered here! I was recently talking with an eLearning developer I’ve worked with for a …
Learning Polish for my Clients in Poland I work with voice over studios around the world, but one of my favorite jobs is recording as an American Voiceover in Poland, or as they say “Amerykański lektor w Polsce”. No, I didn’t look that up with an auto translator. I’ve been learning Polish since the start …
Toy Commercial Voice Overs: A Different Audience! When producing my new commercial voice over demo, we didn’t target toy commercial voice overs. Sure, we wanted to make it lots of fun, humorous, and show my friendly-dad personality. But the concept was to sell toys for grown up kids. Think: cars and pizza! And not toys for real …
