A big part of voice over work is the editing after the recording. The voice over or audio producer will remove each and every breath from the raw audio file. This is time consuming and can only be done manually (if it is to be done properly). When it comes to large narrations, such as audiobooks, the amount of editing required is huge and removing the breaths alone can take … [Read more...]
Santa Voice Over… Ho Ho Ho
Well, it's cold and windy here in the UK, Winter is well and truly here. Not only that, with shops advertising for Christmas you can not help but think about it. It is also the time of year when we get those seasonal voice over scripts; the time of year when a number of our voice overs clear their throats and do lots of Ho Ho Ho'ing. This video that I found on YouTube is … [Read more...]
My Simple Secret to Giving an Accurate Voice Over Quote
Knowing how much to pay for a voice over is not always easy to work out. The web has many places where voice overs can be hired and voice over rates vary greatly. With many things in life, you kind of know what price you need to pay for things, for example... a sandwich, a new TV, a new car etc. The competitive market and laws of supply and demand make this information easy … [Read more...]
Microphones! The voice overs’ friend.
As a Royal National Theatre trained sound technician, I spent many years listening to all sorts of mics from rifles to condensers, hyper cardiods to lavaliers and reckon I know a thing or two about decent sound quality. As well as live sound reinforcement, studio work was also a large part of my job and I was regularly driving the desk producing cast recordings and editing … [Read more...]