Tools

Jodi Krangle has written an excellent article on search engine optimization for voice actors that Mahmoud Taji has published at his Voice Emporium site.

And you need to record audio, check out the list of apps at Actors and Crew and in particular the FiRe app by Audiofile Engineering, that’s on their list. My thanks to my friend Mary McKitrick for posting the link on the VO-BB.

Here’s another microphone shootout for you, this one featuring several condenser microphones. It’s features Aaron Lyon on the Recording Hacks blog.

Matthew McGlynn emails with news about a new video and blog post that features three tube microphones in head to head to head comparison.

The full story is at the Recording Hacks blog. By the way, as part of that blog post, you can download the uncompressed WAV files for each of the microphones to you can hear for yourself the full audio details.

Check out what my friend Brian Haymond has to say about his experience with the Harlan Hogan VO-1A.

Shure took the mic shootout to the limit.

My thanks to my friends at the VO-BB for the link.

Audio monitors that is. For your audio studio. My friend Brian Hart details his work building said stands on his blog. Great work, Brian. Thanks for posting so we all can see and learn.

Dan Lenard, the Home Studio Master, offers solid advice and answers questions at VoiceOverXtra.

Harlan Hogan has announced the Porta-Booth Pro (r). You can see a preview and place a pre-order at this page on Harlan’s site.

George Whittam has prepared an excellent post with the scoop on how to connect your phone hybrid/phone patch to your mixer.

David Brower offers some thoughts about the cost of building your own voiceover studio on his blog.

From my friend Andi Arndt comes the following excellent information:

If you can read IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) or have a good ear for accents, you might enjoy practicing dialects of English at http://accent.gmu.edu/ where there are examples from all over the globe!  Another great source is Paul Meier’s website at http://www.paulmeier.com/ which has great resources and links to all kinds of accent-related information.

Thank you, Andi. Good stuff.

You might want to check out the Giant Clearance Sale at BSW.
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Ever run into a word in a voiceover script and not know how to pronounce it? With my thanks to my friend Stefania, who posted the link to this site on the VO-BB, here is a site called howjsay.com.

My friend Dave DeAndrea is featured on the current VoiceOver Experts podcast, talking about The Necessity of Social Networking.