Category: Industrial Projects
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Concept to Broadcast: Producing a Podcast is More Than Just Talk
A Guest Post by Leanne Elliott A few months ago, I did one of those free online boot camps that got me all fired up about becoming a podcaster and I thought, how hard could it be to go from concept to broadcast? With 2.4 million podcasts in the world, and a whopping 75% launching…
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How to Compliment an Audiobook Narrator
I read the books as they’re written. Occasionally I mess up, and I have to go back and fix something that isn’t good enough, but other than that, I read it out loud, doing the character voices, exactly the way you would. Except in a closet. With a microphone. And a lot of notes.
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Gear Time
I think my studio recording this week was cosmically affected by goings-on in the Pacific Ocean. Sound is a “wave,” and the ocean has “waves,” and hurricanes make BIG, sometimes destructive waves. So many waves. This week’s waves were hard-hitting, even while I enjoyed the challenge of them: High peaks of achievement, praise, and competency, alongside the troughs of…
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Notes From The Studio Audience: Conflicting Direction
I took a short break from recording The Death in the Drink to do some industrial recording; Updates to training videos I voiced last year. After book chapters that take between 10 – 40 minutes to record, often with three to ten voices per chapter, the “micro-clips” of content seemed SO EASY. I just had to “make them…
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Trust the Process. Follow the Process. Do NOT skip any step in the process.
In my work-life, I continue to learn the difference between an amateur voice actor and a professional one. Amateurs may “know” what to do, but haven’t repeated the process enough times (or recently enough) to do a task without a checklist, cheat sheet, or laborious pre-work. Professionals have gone through the process so frequently and fastidiously that…