Just Ask Jim VO Studio Podcast

Following up the last two episodes which were focused upon setting up your input chain, we take a step back and see just what kind of mess we've made. Questions this week: "Should I update my OS? Should I update my DAW?", "How can I guard against losing my recordings?" and "What exactly are iterative saves?" I love to answer your questions! Ask your voiceover recording or VO studio questions at JustAskJimVO.studio/questions. If you missed any previous episode, you can find that here: http://justaskjimvo.libsyn.com/ Or subscribe to this podcast through iTunes, Spotify or your preferred streaming app. Instagram | Facebook

Part 2 of "Setting Up Your Set Up" - In this week's episode, I go through how sound gets into your computer - one of those things everyone thinks they understand... until they think about it. What steps have to happen to get from your words to those waves in your recording software. And just why the heck do we call them sound "WAVES" anyway?  Questions this week: "What is your input chain?", "How can I sweeten my audio?" and "What happens when a client wants your recordings to be louder?" I love to answer your questions! Ask your voiceover recording or VO studio questions at JustAskJimVO.studio/questions. If you missed the last episode, you can find that here: Setting Up Your Set Up - Input Chain Part 1

In this week's episode, I cover three basic tenets of your input recording chain. The stuff you want to get right before you begin connecting microphones to preamps and setting up your voiceover studio. Questions this week: "Why is there an echo in my headphones?" and "Where the HECK did all this noise come from?" Ask your voiceover recording or VO studio questions at JustAskJimVO.studio/questions

JustAskJimVO.studio Episode 2 Though it's tempting to try to fix recording issues by using the latest whiz-bang Effects, that practice can definitely take you down the wrong path, obscuring core issues in your voiceover recording quality. Questions covered this week include how to identify issues in your recording space, and just how the heck a shotgun microphone does it's trick of being highly directional.  Resources this week: Essentialism by Greg Mckeown  Image of various microphone pickup patterns Sennheiser 416 showing the "side fins" Free Audio Review at JustAskJimVO.studio Submit your questions for the next episode here

Getting things rolling with some thoughts about "classic" microphones and whether those matter for voice actors or voiceover in general. Plus answers to your VO Tech questions. And, I like words, but order and meaning are important too...