Blueprints To Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio E-Book

Ian King

• Herausgeber: Tektime
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Seitenzahl: 44

Beschreibung

This book is a dummies guide to helping you develop the tools you will need for PROFESSIONAL VOICE-OVER WORK. This field is huge! You supply the talent and I’ll show you what to do with it. These are Blueprints; step-by-step plans, showing you exactly how to build your own Vocal Home Studio. It is filled with colour photos, measurement conversions and technical plans that will show you exactly how to build this important tool of the trade. (hr)The key thing to always bear in mind with voice acting and audio works is to fight the chief enemy of recordings… and that is ‘noise’. Electronic hum, fan noise, bumps, bangs, bad weather, echos and lawnmowers… whatever. So, I’ve developed a small recording space that gives you plenty of room to gesture wildly within as you articulate that most dramatic audio book, and yet you can still get up, close and personal, with the microphone to create your own take on, the 'Voice of God’, for that movie trailer you might be cast for. And don’t forget there is equipment you’ll need to share that space with as well. This Home Studio Space, or Booth, is a solid, well built and designed with all of these considerations in mind. (hr)This is filled with tips and advice throughout and will take you from woe - to go, in this very busy gold mine of talented narrators and voice actors.

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Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio

Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice–Over Studio.

For under $500.

By Ian King

Tektime – © Copyright 2019 Ian King.

Published by: Tektime Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE – Core Construction/Supplies

Introduction

LHS and RHS Panels

Top Panel

Measurements

Cutting Out

Test Assembly – Trial

Strengthening

Tip 01

Door Hinges

Special Holes

PART TWO – Insulation

Polystyrene Panels

Tip 02

Acoustic Foams

Tip 03

Blankets

Assembly

Attach Lid/Door

Tip 04

Completion

Tip 05

PART THREE – Backboard and Other Matters

Set–up/Equipment

Tip 06

Final Advice

Measurement Conversion List

Contact Author

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WELCOME:

This book is a manual on how to build your own studio for Voice–Over work and narration. It is a technical book, therefore, I suggest that you read it completely through to begin with before you go ahead and build your own Voice–Over Studio.

It may sound confusing at first, but stick with it and all the pennies will fall into place for you.

Also, for your convenience if you are not familiar with Metric Measurements (which is what I use throughout this manual), I have included a very handy chart, converting each and every measurement I have used into Imperial measurements (Inches).

INTRODUCTION:

There is a world of opportunity a stone’s throw away from you; in fact, once you are sitting in front of your PC or LAPTOP, you are staring into a gold field and all you need to do is pick a spot and start digging. You will need tools, of course, and the mine where you choose to start harvesting will determine the tools that you will need.

This book is a guide to developing the tools you need for PROFESSIONAL VOICE–OVER WORK. This field is huge! You supply the talent and I’ll show you what to do with it. But there is no point in digging these fields if your talent is not here. You’ll obviously need good articulation and confidence in your vocal abilities. You’ll probably need some proper training too, but this is not what I’m offering. I’m giving you practical guidance on how to build a space to work from, at a very low cost.

The key thing to always bear in mind with voice acting and audio works is to fight the chief enemy of recordings… and that is ‘noise’. Electronic humming, fan noise, bumps, bangs, bad weather, echoes and lawnmowers… you name it. So, I’ve developed a small recording space that gives you plenty of room to gesture wildly within as you articulate that most dramatic audio book, yet you can still get up close and personal with the microphone to create your own take on the ‘Voice of God’ for that movie trailer you might be cast for. And don’t forget you’ll need to share that space with some equipment. This Home Studio Space, or Booth, is solid and well designed with these considerations in mind.

I’ll clarify other things you will need to consider as you read this book and undertake this project, so you know what to expect. My book is filled with photos, plans with specific measurements, and detailed instructions and guidance.

First, though, is the ‘why’ we need to consider the enemy of quality recordings, and why we must battle it so vehemently. I’m talking about ‘that NOISE!’

NOISE: This comes in many wave–shapes, forms and sizes but, whichever way they come, all of them will destroy your recordings and render them unacceptable.

There are external noises like cars running up and down your street, dishwashers cycling through a load, people talking and babies crying. All these need to be reduced somehow. But try telling your whole street to be silent while you are performing your recordings… Good luck!

Then there are internal noises you need to get rid of too, keeping them out of your recording space, like computer fan noise, humming caused by electricity problems, echo sounds, or boxy–sounding results and so on. Internal noise is a significant concern in recording which is why the Personal Studio is specifically designed to assist you in achieving professionally acceptable results.

This Personal Studio has a minimum of three walls of defence:

1) Insulation to REPEL external noise

2) Absorption to, well, absorb and treat internal noise

3) Design to also reduce internal/external noise, leaving you with a cleaner and clearer result.

I’ll expand on these three:

i) Insulation. The 12 mm plywood walls used to construct the studio are lined with an insulating, muffling shield that you can likely get for free, much of the time. Visit some whiteware or brownware stores (fridges, TVs) and even furniture stores to source sheets of polystyrene 15–25 mm thick. The bigger and thicker the sheets the better.

ii) Absorption. You cannot cheat on these important elements; for proper absorption, you need proper industry standard Acoustic Foam Panels which are not overly expensive. Egg cartons or mattress foams do not have the right properties to deal effectively with ‘noise’ and use of them will lead to a ‘boxy’ or ‘tacky’ sound, or a sound that is lifeless and limp, leaving your recordings undesirable to the professional end consumer, and they are your audience who ultimately pay you for your work.

iii) Design.