{"id":291,"date":"2015-09-11T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T09:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtres.aiobranding.live\/?p=291"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:04:02","slug":"voice-over-essential-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/voice-over-essential-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Over Essential Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting started as a voice over actor requires more than a basic microphone and a recording tool. If you are serious about moving forward with a career in the voice over industry, you will need to invest on your essential tools.<\/p>\n

What equipment do I need to record voice overs?<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Here are the essential components of a voice over studio.<\/p>\n

Microphone<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Microphone is required to capture your voice; you need to pick a quality microphone as it has a big impact to the overall quality of your recordings<\/p>\n

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Headphone<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Though some talents forego the use of headset all together, as a beginner it is best to use a headphone to be able to understand our sound better; observe your pronunciation, enunciation; listen to any stray sound; use headphones when you playback your recording and in editing<\/p>\n

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Microphone Stand<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The microphone stand holds your microphone in place to have a consistent and even sound<\/p>\n

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Preamplifier (Preamp)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A preamp provides a phantom power that amplifies the audio signal coming from your mic; it is said that to get an industry standard voice over recording, 50% depends on the quality your mic and then 50% on preamp<\/p>\n

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Windscreen\/pop filter<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Pop filter is essential as it helps minimize picking up plosives and cutting down on sibilance (the Ps and Bs sound pop and the hissing noise of S sounds).<\/p>\n

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Shock Mount<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A shock mount suspends the microphone and helps reduce noise from the surrounding area, without affecting the sound of a microphone.<\/p>\n

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Acoustic Room Treatment<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Acoustic room treatment for audio recording means that the microphone should only pick up the voice and not the echo bouncing around a room; a beginner may find it easier in the budget to find a quiet room, or use heavy blanket or sound blanket<\/p>\n

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Recording and Editing Software<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The most basic of audio recording and editing software is normally more than enough to do the job as a beginner, as most sound engineers request the raw audio file; you may invest more on this as you go along with your career<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t jump in online and start purchasing anything related to setting up a home studio. Take time to shop around and test the equipment personally. A good advice to take is not purchase equipment that you do not have any idea how it works. To start, you may want to check out this microphone selector<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting started as a voice over actor requires more than a basic microphone and a recording tool. If you are serious about moving forward with a career in the voice over industry, you will need to invest on your essential tools. What equipment do I need to record voice overs? Here are the essential components […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-tools-and-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voiceover-talent-resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}