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Your Phone Can Record a Voice Over. Here’s How to Make It Sound Good
What a phone does well, the settings to change before you press record, where to put it, and the point where it stops being good enough for paid work.
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Hot Booth, Foggy Head: Keeping a Vocal Booth Cool and Breathable
Why a vocal booth gets hot and stuffy so fast, what stale air does to your reads, and quiet ways to bring fresh air in without letting noise in too.
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Do Reflection Filters Work? What That Curved Shield Really Fixes
What a reflection filter catches, what it misses, where the mic should sit, and how to test one in your own room before you buy one.
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Cut First, Squeeze Gently: EQ and Compression for Voice Over
Where to cut, what to boost and how hard to squeeze: EQ and compression for voice actors, with starting settings that still sound like you.
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Turn It Down: Headphones, Long Edits and a Voice Actor’s Hearing
Safe headphone levels, where a voice actor's day gets loud, free habits that protect your ears, and what ringing ears and a hearing test can tell you.
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Pickups Nobody Can Hear: Matching Your Sound Weeks Later
How to record audiobook and voice over pickups that match the original: setup notes, mic position, time of day, listening first and checking the join.
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Sit or Stand to Record? Your Lungs and Your Neck Both Get a Vote
Standing gives your lungs more room, but your head position matters more. What the research says about posture and how to set up your booth.
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That Hum Under Your Voice: Hunting Down Background Noise
Find the hum, hiss and rumble in your home recordings, measure your noise floor, and fix the leaks, appliances and settings that cause them.
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Audio Interfaces for Voice Over: The Box Between Mic and Laptop
What an audio interface does for your voice, the gain figure that matters most, phantom power, direct monitoring, and the features you can skip.
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Which Recording Software Should a Voice Actor Use?
Audacity, REAPER, Audition, GarageBand and more, compared for voice work: what each costs, why punch and roll matters, and which one suits you.