Brian Richy is a prolific voice artist from Canada. He started his career in Toronto and soon moved to Japan, following a rock band from that country. He worked as a guitar player, music writer and announcer of commercials in English.
So what’s the best way to monitor your voice-overs and audios, can you use hi-fi speakers or should you only use studio monitors? This is a question that surfaces from time to time in the VO industry and if you’re a newbie to the business it can be difficult to get some hard and fast …
It still seems odd in today’s digital age that we still do our voice over recordings in mono. When stereo sounds so much better, mono seems archaic and a throw-back to old 78 records and gramophones. However, there is a good reason why we record our vocal tracks in mono. Here’s why… The whole purpose …
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Are E-bay or Fiverr marketing outlets to offer your voice-over services? It might sound outlandish, but some people do use this network. As voice over artists we are always looking for new ways to market ourselves. Most of us will have websites and probably promote our work through pay 2 play sites, social media, YouTube …
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Nous avions vu dans le post précédent “Comment améliorer un enregistrement voix off ” l’intérêt de bien régler son préamplificateur, quelques astuces pour comprendre et atténuer les bruits parasites, puis les moyens de limiter les “pops”. Voyons dès à présent quelques autres astuces afin d’améliorer une prise de son en home studio. Une contribution de l’ingénieur son …
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Buy-out fee is the price that a brand pays to use your unique voice in a particular marketing campaign. You become the voice of their product or service and that has a price. You need to be compensated when your voice is associated with a specific brand: for instance if your voice is heard on …
S’il est relativement aisé de créer un chaîne de son fonctionnelle pour l’enregistrement voix off, c’est-à-dire qui permette de faire entrer un son depuis un micro jusqu’à une piste audio d’un logiciel de MAO, l’optimisation de cette chaîne est moins intuitive, nous dit Baudoin Ferrand, ingénieur son chez PrimeVoices. Voici quelques conseils pour les opérateurs …
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You may be surprised to hear that Google+ is now the second biggest social network in the world. Facebook is still the clear leader (at the moment!) but Google+ is definitely gaining some ground and with over 343 million users you can see why it’s getting some traction. As VO artists I think that most …
Translating is no longer an old-fashion craft, but a very profitable industry that measures the output in trillions of words and billions of US dollars. It’s not just about translating, it’s adapting a content (words, numbers, pictures, graphics) to make it appear as native, and that is call localizing. This activity has been considered an external factor …
La compression audio est un moyen pratique et efficace de relever un peu la sauce d’un son. Par contre cet outil est à utiliser avec beaucoup de precaution et avec une extreme moderation, si nous voulons éviter la degradation de l’audio source et bien entendu respecter le travail final en post-prod et mix. Voici les …