Audio Tech: Recent Episodes
Julie Williams and Gary MacFadden
The VoiceOver Insider Podcast The voiceover industry is growing by leaps and bounds! Hear interviews, hints and tips from established voice-over professionals, newbies, casting directors, industry leaders, and more. Julie Williams and co-host Gary MacFadden bring you a new podcast every two weeks.
Tech guru George Whittam returns to the Voiceover Insider Podcast to introduce the new PASPort VO. This audio interface developed by voiceover and VO technical talent as a "group-think" product has moved from "wouldn't-this-be-nice-to-have" discussions to an actual product ready to be built in the space of only a few months.It's also something of a crowd-funding project, in that only 100 units are being produced, and the circuit boards don't start getting soldered until those 100 units are sold. This is an audio interface project George has been thinking about for a number of years, and contains as many voiceover-specific capabilities as could be jammed into a unit with a small footprint. (Perfect for a voiceover road kit, by the way.)George notes that Windows users are going to be particularly excited by the PASPort VO interface, because it can work around the audio drivers issues that many Windows users often experience when multitasking.After listening to George describe the development of the audio interface, jump over to centrance.com/pasportvo and take a look at the new unit.
Gary talks with Don Baarns, a busy VO tech guru and instructor in all things concerning Izotope RX. In fact, Don is the "grandfather" of the well-known and widely used Mouth DeClick function in RX. In this episode, Don discusses the benefits of upgrading to later versions of Izotope RX if you're still back on RX 5 or 6, and some of the changes in the popular software. Don also talks about getting clean audio BEFORE you need to turn to programs such as Izotope RX for eleventh-hour fixes. Plus, he introduces his new resource, the VO Tech Simplified Facebook group.
In this episode, Julie talks with Dani States, the creator of Voiceover View, a suite of business management tools designed for the voiceover industry. Voiceover View lets voice talent track auditions, jobs, income and expenses, handles invoicing tasks, and more.
Listeners can check out Voiceover View and sign up for a free 30-day trial at https://www.voiceoverview.com/. You can also watch Dani do a walkthrough of Voiceover View with Julie at this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeOX30DXNJI
Gary talks with VO Tech expert George Whittam about noise floor: what it is, why it's an important number to know for your VO studio, how to measure it, and how to lower it if it's too high.
If you want to check out the Spitfire CRM program mentioned in this program, visit: https://voiceoverpodcasts.com/spitfire
VO Tech Guru George Whittam and active VO talent-turned-businessman Rick Wasserman discuss their new product, the Tri-Booth, a portable voiceover booth with all the trimmings. Find out more about the Tri-Booth at https://tribooth.com/. Or check in with George Whittam at http://www.georgethe.tech/, or Rick Wasserman at https://www.bookablevo.com/
Emmett Andrews, voice talent and author of the book VO Studio Companion--The Home Voiceover Recording Instruction Manual, talks with Gary about studio acoustics, studio size, and the varying attributes of acoustic foam and acoustic panels.
Co-host Gary MacFadden talks with voiceover technical guru Don Baarns about a piece of file post-processing software that many voiceover talent are now turning to: Izotope RX. Don himself had a role in the development of one of the software’s functions most used by VO talent: Mouth DeClick.
In this episode, Gary MacFadden talks with Jim Edgar, a voice talent who also consults with other VO talents on a range of studio issues. Jim and Gary discuss the top three problems Jim hears in the hundreds of audio samples that have been submitted to his site, https://justaskjimvo.studio/.
Julie talks with industry legend and VO entrepreneur Harlan Hogan about remote recording, when on the road using hotels, vehicles, etc.
Julie talks with James Alburger who has been an "audio guy" since he was 12 years old, when he taught himself to edit music with a grease pencil, scissors, and Scotch tape. James now works as a professional voiceover artist, and in creative audio/video services. He is co-founder of the VOICE conferences, and author of The Art of Voice Acting. Julie talks to James about microphones, traveling studios, and all things tech.
Julie talks with full-time voiceover talent Larry Hudson, based in LA. In addition to voiceover work, Larry teaches other VO talent audio editing skills.
Simon Lopez visits with host Julie Williams about a new alternative to the disappearing (and expensive) ISDN system: ipDTL.