I WORK IN THE VOICE OVER INDUSTRY AS A(N)
Voice Actor, Studio Engineer
HERE'S A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY VOICE OVER EXPERIENCE
Studied with James Alburger and Penny Abshire at the Art of VoiceActing Workshop at the Voice Acting Academy.
Class from Bob Puthoff at VoicesForAll.
RECENTLY BOOKED PROJECTS
Just beginning
LANGUAGES
English - American (AmE)
VOICE DESCRIPTION
Male - Balanced, Comforting, Authoritative,
DIALECTS, Character voices and vocal impressions
Non-regional Diction American English
Southern (Georgia)
VOICES I AM ABLE TO PERFORM
Senior Male, Middle Age Male
Union Affiliation
Non-affiliated
AUDIO DELIVERY METHOD
FTP, AIF, MP3, WAV
EQUIPMENT
MacBook Pro 15" Retina, 2017 i7 3.1 Ghz Intel Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 2TB Internal SSD
Universal Audio Apollo X4 - Pro Tools LE 8.0.3 / Audacity 2.4.1
2 x LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ 1.5TB FW800
LaCie D2 Big Disk Extreme 1.0TB FW800
OWC 8TB Array USB 3.1 Type 2
2 x DBX 286A Mic Preamp/Processor
Neumann U 87 Ai Mic with EA87 Shockmount
Sennheiser MKH-416 P48 with AT8415 Shockmount
Atlas Sound - 2 x SB36W Studio Boom Stands, 1 DS7 Mic Stand
Sonamp 260
JBL Control 28 Monitors
2 Sony MDR 7506
Digital Delivery of MP3, WAV, AIF, via FTP, YouSendIt, or Overnight CD
Comments
I keep it pretty simple. I try to send a clean and transparent recording. What the client chooses to do with it is up to them.
For an audition, I will normalize if the levels need adjustment, but otherwise I leave the plug-ins to the Engineers.
Mark
I use NOTHING....all my sound is sent out 100% clean with no effects. Unless client requests. I have a great clean sound so I'm blessed. in fact I know most clients would prefer you didn't (unless of course they don't have production ability) so I stay clear of production. Besides, then i would charge them more for production.
When I do need production however, I leave it up to my tech gurus who make me sound magical.
I would actually love to take an advanced course in pro tools actually....but I just have my hands full as it is....
Great topic....can't wait to hear all the results. Thanks for including me
I don't use Normalize now nearly as much as I used to, in fact it's very rare. I find that if I have my levels dialed in correctly on the front end it's much a cleaner sound than using the plug-in. However, for really tight tweaks to a commercial script that's running "almost" but not quite perfectly to time, I find Time Shift invaluable. With shifts of up to between 5% and 8% there are no discernible artifacts in my recordings, though once it gets up to 10% or more I find it's pretty useless. Likewise, Pitch Shift is awesome for making small tweaks to character voices that help to enhance their differentiation form my normal voice, but as with Time Shift, only within relatively small tolerances - 1 to 2 semitones at the most. They're good tweaks, but certainly no substitute good front-end performance and mic technique.
Cheers,
Eric
Thanks for the friend invite. Looks like you've got some great equipment! I'd love to hear some of your stuff.
-Dan Harder (www.vo4u.com)
No word back from Cip on the 416 mount. But I believe I found it at BSW. Just can't recall the model at this time. In fact, I haven't bought it yet.