The Lion is an award winning short film. One can only imagine those who created it and also those who gave awards have been in one such client attended session.
The film shows the challenges facing both voice over talent and producers when dealing with clients. It’s hilariously close to the truth, even down to one client tapping away on their phone instead of paying attention to what’s going on.
Check it out, and perhaps share your horror stories of attended sessions too.
In this article, ADR specialist Emma Butt offers an expert tutorial and review and shows how to use ADR Master from Non Lethal Applications. If you are involved in ADR, Overdubbing or Dialogue Editing this article in a ‘must-read’.
As a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, post-production house, Bigmouth Audio has produced an infographic showing how they are able to continue working remotely, and showing the steps they go through to record original dialog, ADR and dubbing. We thought it would be good to share this, with their permission, to help others see the workflow Bigmouth Audio has developed and the tools they are using to make it possible.
With the release of v1.3, the Townsend Labs Mic Modelling System plug-in became available as an AAX DSP plug-in. With v1.4 released today, they have added 10 new mic models including one specifically aimed at the audio production sector, a 416 model. In this article we are going to show how the Townsend Labs Sphere L22 mic modeling system can fit into audio post-production workflows including voiceovers and ADR.
Have you ever wanted to mark up a script or ADR recording session with your edit notes whilst recording with Pro Tools but have had to resort to pen and paper? Well, I have and I am sure I am not alone. The team from Quiet Art have also spotted this limitation and developed a solution centred around an app called Recorditor.
Dan Cooper has produced a number of video reviews and tutorials for The Pro Tools Expert Community. We generally produce video content by means of screen capture - Capturing what we see on our computer display (such as Pro Tools) along with our live voice over commentaries being recorded. In this article, Dan lists the studio gear and plug-ins he uses to record and mix his voice overs for Pro Tools Expert Community videos.
Oeksound is a new plug-in developer out of Helsinki in Finland. Their first plug-in release is Soothe which whilst originally designed as vocal processor, has been designed to give you an in control, vocal sound.
Audified have released their latest plugin - the TNT Voice Executor which they describe as a "unique utilitarian plug-in offering no-nonsense processing of vocal and spoken word tracks to sophisticatedly solve any issues instantaneously".
Todd-AO have released Absentia DX with an algorithm that is designed to analyze production dialog recordings and then remove obvious hums, wireless rings, and ticks, while maintaining the integrity of the human voice.
In our continuing series profiling the companies on our Audio Market page we are going to turn the spotlight on Steve Cripps, Voiceover Artist. On the Audio Market page we offer smaller developers and service providers the opportunity to reach the Pro Tools community at a much lower price.
In part 1 of 10 Ways To Improve A Voiceover Without Spending A Penny we discovered 5 ways to help recording VOs as they are one of the hardest things to record. Here are the second 5 ways without spending a penny….