Equipping Your Home Voiceover Studio



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Let's take a look at the basics involved in setting up a home voiceover studio.

Selecting Your Studio Space

A studio of any size or recording purpose starts with the space in which it will be located. Set up your recording equipment just outside the closet and your microphone inside the closet.

If you live in a two-plus bedroom unit or a single-family home and can dedicate an entire room to your studio, then you'll have more options available for controlling the acoustics of the space. That may not sit well with some production house owners, because the home voiceover explosion has had a detrimental impact on many commercial recording facilities.

That's a basic home voiceover studio in a nutshell. With a little practice recording and editing, and some promotion of your home studio, you can quickly recover the cost of your studio and add to begin to add to your bottom line.

Happy voicing!

'Peter Drew


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To make a living, voice over talents used to have to physically go to gigs recorded in serial production facilities. Now, gigs can come to them-in home studios and through the Internet. But for many voice over talents, newbie and old pro alike, outfitting a home studio is technically baffling. So, how do you make that spare or corner of your studio cell (no pun intended) into a functional voice over facility, with decent solid-state physics and the normative equipment? Let's take a look at the principles involved in setting up a home voiceover studio.

Selecting Your Studio Space

A studio of any size or recording purpose starts with the space in which it will be located. Isolation from outside sounds is important. If you live in a studio or one-bedroom apartment, then try to locate your 'studio' in a corner as far from the door to the hallway and away from windows. Also, a executive office can work well as a recording booth. Set up your recording equipment just outside the straiten and your microphone inside the closet.

If you live in a two-plus unit or a single-family home and can dedicate an entire room to your studio, then you'll have more options accessible for controlling the physical chemistry of the space. You'll want to make sure the room doesn't sound too 'echoey' or 'hollow.' Treating these problems can be as simple as putting some overstuffed furniture in the room, beside with a rug and some drapes over the windows. Have a lot of old quilt sitting in an cupboard or basement? You can use them to create a recording 'booth' from every quarter your mic. Fill three or four rolling raiment racks with clobber and then position them on the sides and back of your mic position.

Of course, you can use professional audible materials to control sound reflections. You'll find an excellent primer on acoustical treatment-in plain English-at Auralex. articulation out these acoustical treatment production companies, too: HSF Acoustics; Silent Source; Vocalbooth; Whisper Room.

Selecting Your Equipment

Once you have your studio space selected, you'll need to properly equip it in order to deliver pro quality voiceovers to clients. With the latest in digital recording technology and reasonably priced pro microphones, you could spend as little as $1000 for a very basic, yet serviceable, home voiceover studio. That's presumptuous you have a decent computer sound card and speakers. The list is quite short: $200-$250 for a microphone. $40 for a mic pop filter to prevent 'popping' your Ps, Bs, and Ts. $45 for a mic stand. $200-$250 for a USB or Firewire digital recording interface. $65 for shareware recording software. $45 for headphones. $40 for cables. $100 for sundries. Bare bones, but it will work.

Plug your microphone rope into the digital recording interface, which is a little box that amplifies and processes the signal from the mic. Plug the interface into your computer's sound card. Plug your headphones into the interface. Load the recording/editing software. A couple of adjustments to volume in and out and you're ready to record. Voice the copy. bright it up with an edit or two. Then convert it the voiceover sound file to an .mp3 file, connect it to an email, and send it off to the charge via the Internet. To learn more throughout the equipment listed above, search the web or visit online pro phonic dealers. A few good ones are: Full Compass; Sweetwater; B&H Pro Audio; Boynton Pro Audio; BSW.

This simple studio set up is serviceable, but it has its limits. If a customer wants to direct you via the phone, then you'll have to either hold the phone to your ear while you record, or get a hands-free headset. You could also buy a gizmo call a phone hybrid that allows you to speak through your mic down the phone line to your vassal as you listen to the client's direction through your headphones.

Learning More

As with any investment, you'll need to research the equipment you'll need for your studio, and how to install and use it. See if you can locate a voice talent in your area that may let you visit his or her studio. Visit Mix Magzine or EQ Magazine and collation their treasury for articles on home studios. Local production houses may be willing to make suggestions, but, remember, by setting up your own studio, you're indicating to clients that they can cut out the production house by working directly with you. That may not sit well with some production house owners, as things go the home voiceover explosion has had a detrimental impact on many sustainer recording facilities.

That's a stark home voiceover studio in a nutshell. If you can operate a home stereo and have experience in front of a computer screen, then you can put together and operate a home voiceover studio. With a little practice recording and editing, and some promotion of your home studio, you can quickly recover the cost of your studio and add to embark to add to your mire line.

Happy voicing!

©Peter Drew



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