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hahaha i'm a VO but i can understand it, he's like that 1 awesome teacher at school that made learning actually interesting

This is why talk radio is so popular. :-)

Haha same, just hit the subscribe button even though I really have no use for this information. But the man is fantastic and fun to listen too.

I'm just here to check out the mic reviews to help with my podcast but I end up just watching all of them. deerstandhill.com

Not the only one. Lol

- (NO software involved)

John Slater tfg

I was in radio from 1983-1989. The splicing was horrid. Not to mention the magnetic erase function. The best thing was the soul of vinyl and having the 11 minute version of Tuesday Afternoon by the Moody Blues when you had to use the pisser or relax with a beer and eat your pizza.

I landed my first radio gig in 1988. I miss radio! Yes, spot production in the late 80’s and through the 90’s was challenging, but those were such cool times. It seemed like I was nearly flat broke most of the time, but being an on-air talent was just COOL! Lots of fun...and so many girls, so little time! 😉

I remember a guy cutting down a song from Billy Joel to a 30 second intro. He had it down to the beat. Sounded real. The production room had a turntable, reel to reel, and a cassette deck and board. It helped that he was a musician. He was amazing. The other guy had worked AFRTS in nam. He was almost as good.

The Ojibwe spoke about him. He was also the wind beneath Marilyn Monroe. True story.

Oberon Pan FYI, Mike has mentioned that he uses and prefers Reaper and he has a series of tutorial videos on setting up and tweaking Reaper for voiceover work.

Most things in life boil down to how you package and present yourself.

@@TokyoXtreme - How true! Some of us took way too long to understand what you so simply said.

No man, it's 50-50. If your voice "sucks" aka you have no training and you don't know how to VO, then you can do all the audio editing in the world it's still gonna suck

@@vhaleryanadamant1975 Absolutely. I heard one vo's demo and his delivery and cadence were so bad it wouldn't have mattered if Danny Elfman did the music and Billy Porter engineered

Absolutely! No doubt. Especially, when you calculate their fees and realize they want to charge you $600/hour!

A comb would change his life.

Fake it till you make it! Apparently actors were the first ppl on the moon :p

I keep in in mind that a couple of those "pro" demo producers have also told people to go buy the Kaotica Eyeball... so... meh..

Sereno Mirado i'm curious to know what you don't like about the Kaotica Eyeball. Mind sharing? Mine's been working pretty well for me.

That's the point... You never will get truly efficient acoustics by practically wrapping your mic in foam. Condenser mics need that room to 'breathe', when you limit that you're basically cutting into the frequency response, much like cutting a groove from end to end, through your waveform. It will, to the trained ear, sound enclosed and introduce harmonic artifacts. Besides, Mike here has already proven that even a shower can be made acoustically sound by using very few sound panels, so long as you locate them in the right spot. Mind you, I'm talking about not using it for voiceover, it may be just fine for singing, that in spite of the similarities, is an entirely different type of recording.

You mentioned a link to "Kenny Joices" compression video. I don't see it. Please send it to: spanishvoiceover@gmail.com

A slate is the: 'my name is yada yada, and I'm auditioning for yada yada' part. The scripts are different than a slate.

@DJ NitreBlue Did you ever find a solution?

Drinking water and staying hydrated will help get rid of sticky mouth sounds. Always bring water into the studio!!!!

I work in audiobooks - some tips I've picked up from various people in the business along the way and from working as an editor. Don't drink coffee either before working or during. It really dries up the mouth and creates lots of clicks. Eating bites of green apple every now and then is hands-down the best way to control mouth clicks. Apple juice works also but not as well as a fresh green apple. Water helps with clicks but not as good as eating bites of apple. But you should drink water also to keep vocal cords hydrated. And read this, scroll down to question 3 "What do you need in the studio to function" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20070101/404-scott-brick-narrator-of-the-year.html I've edited Scott Brick three or four times and he is always pretty much click-free so I reckon his tips for mouth noise are top notch and work

@@bigdoghat3827 Great info thank you!!

+Snow that's the part of my studio you never see!

Please make more videos there! & was it hard to move the whisper room there ?

Very much this. The sidechain is a little severe.

Voices.com has a whole section of available demo scripts.

Alex Haralson THANK YOU! 🙏

Will Champlin, great question! You can write your own or even modify an existing on that makes sense with your sound.

he uses the sennheiser MKH-416 condenser shotgun microphone (supercardioid)

I'd make something up, you can't use currently existing adverts. If you tweak it enough, replace the brand name and basically use it just as a template, there's no harm in that :)

Yeah, everyone will miss 0:22 -- Pro demos are important! but until you have that spare grand you gotta make your own!

In spite of your wise disclaimer... The general consensus is "never"... we aren't worthy of doing our own demos... LOL You haven't heard? It's like brain surgery... irreversible! The humanity! Cheers Mike!

Write your own.

May I recommend recent auditions. Sometimes you don't get the part not because it was bad but because you just weren't the "right" voice. Ask an objective ear, however, in case it actually was a bad audition before you add it to your demo!