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Where in your home you choose to record your auditions (and record actual work, like when you get booked and you use your home studio and equipment) can have very different acoustics depending upon how that space’s walls, floors and ceilings are treated.
But none of those treatments will soundproof the room. So why use foam at all? Continue Reading →
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A while back, I let you know that if you use a Macintosh, and if you happen to upgrade to El Capitan, High Sierra, Mojave or above from Yosemite or below, The Levelator will simply stop working.
I have an update: the original programmer of The Levelator heard your cries…and fixed things. Continue Reading →
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Today, short and sweet. Here’s a great way to achieve success as a VO artist in Orange County, CA (or anywhere outside of LA, actually – Zoom is wonderful!). Continue Reading →
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One of my favorite people in the world, and a VO2GoGo Pro member, Carol, wrote me about a sometimes sticky issue: correcting the grammar in the scripts provided by our VO clients.
Here’s what she wrote. Continue Reading →
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Copyrights are sacrosanct to me. The theft of intellectual property has become the norm with people who download movies, music and software without paying for them.
But your commercial demo (or any other demo, for that matter) doesn’t fall under that category.
In fact, you get special treatment. Continue Reading →
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Someone on one of the audiobook narrator lists I’m on posted a comment about ACX.
The poster said it was “heartbreaking” what happens to our carefully crafted audio recordings once ACX converts them to AA files (their proprietary format) for sale to the public.
And he went on to say some pretty insulting stuff about how ACX and Audible’s product is so horrible to the ear.
I think that’s an uninformed, lunkhead move. Here’s why. Continue Reading →
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In another issue, I talked about not trying to specialize in VO, but being a generalist.
And I followed it up with further discussion.
Then, I got an email telling me I was crazy, that I didn’t know what I was talking about. Here’s what I got. Continue Reading →
