Talking Audio Drama Sound Design With Kenny Neal | Booth Junkie 

Thanks for having me on, Mike!

Thank you Mike, for all great content you bring us. And many thanks to your wife and all others involved in Newfield!

It's great to hear all the things that support what I've been doing in my own audio drama. Sound placement, thematic music, Transitions, Foley, voice manipulation, all of the software and technology, these are the tools and techniques of the craft that support one thing, the story. Great interview.

I’m wayyy late to this party but that’s the beauty of youtube I reckon. What a great convo from two pros. As a producer of my own audio drama (see my channel) I learned some things here and much of Kenny’s philosophy and techniques resonates. And that witch drowning scene..bravo, Kenny, bravo 👏🏼 👏🏼 Glad I found this ! 🎧 👍🏼

Perfect timing on this episode. I’ve had ideas for a podcast audio drama churning around in my noggin for a little while and trying to draw a map to follow from idea to release. This helps a lot on the production side.

Great interview, Mike! Thanks to you and Kenny for that.

This was a fantastic interview. I have Newfield downloaded and ready to go for my family's road trip in July. Kenny, I love your philosophy of "use the least powerful tool necessary to do the job." I might frame that and place it above my computer monitor. It's so easy to want to throw all the things at everything!

Thank you for sharing, Kenny and Mike.

This is a fantastic video full of great inside information. I feel very inspired by your conversation!

Story is king. Great interview, Mike and Neal. I just got my first real vo job today via a self- produced project I did last year, a short story in first person. Given free reign, I stuck to the story, went a little overboard, and it led to this. That and Mike's Reaper tutorials. Thank God for you Mike.🤘🤘✌️ Story is king. Story is king.

This was great, thanks Mike & Kenny!

Excellent!!! Thanks Mike!

Can't wait to check out your AD!

Gonna go listen now!

Mike...You don't understand? You are a great guy...and people know it!!! 😍

Thanks for this, Booth Junkie! After watching your Reaper tutorial about nine months ago, I was able to start my own storytelling podcast. I'm nine episodes in now and as my confidence has grown, I regularly find myself doing something very similar to what Neal is doing with you, only I'm using Reaper of course ;-). It's so exciting to be able to create whole worlds that are completely believable and immersive - on a shoestring, that would cost millions to achieve in video. I'll have to check out Newfield. Greetings from the UK. Keep up the good work!

This is very informative and helpful. Thank you. This has given me a new perspective and more to think about. A friend and I are planning to make a small audio drama and this gives me a lot to chew on.

Great topic. I am trying to learn more of this stuff and this is a good introduction.

Congratulations on the results on your achievement Mr. Booth Junkie :)

Great video explaining how it all comes together. It's a lot of work and hopefully, people can appreciate what goes into doing a project like this. Not sure what happened at the 23:33 mark when it goes to black, and I'm not sure if we were supposed to hear the ending, but the last 4 minutes was probably my favorite part!

Thanks for this! Would love more content on audio drama!! I hope to eventually be able to have a podcast sound as good as some of the legendary audio dramas out there like 1865 or the Qcode productions.

Absolutely love it. I also do vo for a couple audio dramas and just got cast to do some vo for a movie

Hello Mike, You always encourage your viewers to go and record something amazing. I've always liked that, and I got into voice acting and voice overs after I discovered your amazing channel. I have my own studio for recordings, sound-treated and all. But yet I've never had a real project for a client. I have signed for many English projects in Upwork with a specific demo for the job and I have never, not even a single time, had an answer from any of those jobs, not ever a criticise email why I am not eligible for this job so I can improve my recordings. I've made a 20 minutes demo for an audiobook website (storytel) on my native language, Bulgarian, but they said they are not currently looking for new readers... (Maybe because I've never been a TV show host because that kind of people are usually reading books in this website. Even though I can do a much better job than them...) I think I do have a talent that I don't want to waste and most importantly a desire to create and record amazing voices, but yet, I've never had a chance to prove myself. As you can imagine this is very demotivating for me because I wanted to get into this to follow my dream job and make some extra money, at least to cover the studio bills. Can you advise me on how to get myself out there, and work on some real project so I can at least say that I had a real voice over project and get my confidence back again? I really hope you see this and give me your advice. Thank you for the amazing channel you have.

Thank you so much. A really interesting and informative insight into the world of sound design. I've just started to dabble with recording my own scripts and I have so many questions - I hope you revisit this topic. For another example of great sound design I recommend listening to The Whisperer in Darkness series on BBC Sounds.

Interesting to hear that different EQ profiles were used to delineate your announcer / charachter voice; I hadn't considered or picked up on that as a use. I must admit, having heard you so often with your usual processing it took a while to sit right in my ears.

Yeah, I like Sound Ideas libraries too.

Sound and smell 💯

I feel better about how I put my show together - this is exactly how I've been doing it for years in GarageBand. Always nice to know I'm on a good track! LOL

Wow this came at a great time! I'm making my own God of War audio experience type deal and this was a great help to give me a perspective on how to handle the sound design!

Hey Mike... the Golden Age mic is gorgeous. I know it's really inexpensive. However, I can't find your review. Can you point me to it? Thanks for the great videos from another long-time VO guy!

Hey, thanks for the work you are doing. I am a big fan. Could you share your iPad workflow for voice over? Thanks anyway!

Hey boothjunkie would you ever make a video how to use RX8 standard/advance or how you use it with your other stuff would be super interested.

What are good alternative mics to the good ones that ,eventually, will be too expensive for most people?

Congratulations on the new field podcast. Great content as always Mike. Does anyone know of a way to get in touch with Mike? I recognize that he likely receives a very high volume of communications, so the chances of getting a response are slim, but I would still like to try. Anyone who reads this, I hope you’re having a good day.

Hellow, please tell me what microphone is that ! It makes your voice incredible

What kind of microphone did you use? Dynamic or condenser? And which kind would you recommend if you don't have a treated room(just a small room so not a lot of reverb noise)? I have a Rode NT1A, a Shure SM7B, a Sennheiser e835 and a bunch of Behringer XM8500(which I am planning to use to make a 2-4 person podcast show). Would it be best to record everyone on a Behringer XM8500 to make the scenes more authentic and then later rerecord each line on the Shure SM7B to get better quality?

man, as it already exists, and it's just arrived on Spotify, I actually wanted to send an Audio Series there, I mean everything, from the little content that talks about this series model, on RU-vid, still I didn't see anything related to how to take Audio Series there, that's all, all the help I need, can anyone help me?

For a stubbornly independent storyteller, this is essential

Hello, how are you, Can you please recommend me any large diaphragm microphone for deep voices?, usb if posible, if not its ok, cheaper and expensive ones, pls im try to do voice acting and im looking for a new mic, actually im using audio technica atr2500. I hope you read this message, thank you very much.

Hi Mike, I’m interested why you have dropped the cad e100 s from your mic list.

What the heck is that mic in front of you?? It looks like something out of Xanadu starring Olivia Newton John, a 1980 version of a 1940's mic! Oops, I showed my "vintage", 😆.

What's that fancy Microphon in the booth, if I'm allowed to ask?

Audio drama is my primary interest in audio production.

what is that yellow mic??

Check your link.. It's not working. I would love to listen to it.

Good stuff. Thank you. I have a question for you Mike or Mr Neal, regarding sound design planning. I'm writing a drama and developing my scenes and characters, and I am imagining sounds as I write, but I have not written any detail about any of it. I'm wondering at what point the sound design should ideally go from the inside of my head to paper? Is there an industry-standard way to approach the 'sound design script', or is it common to make it up after the character script and scenes are complete?

It's kind of ironic how an audio expert had a cheap tablet mic or laptop mic XD

WTF? Lol. When are you going to start producing your Booth Junkie videos again?

I don't think we were meant to hear anything past 23:35

Am I the first?