

Shhh…Get a quiet computer with a decent sized hard drive and memory. Don’t be tempted to meddle with the simple thing they want from you. The less done to your recorded performance on your end the better, as far as the engineer is concerned. They want raw and unprocessed good sound. Here’s a revelation that’s also a relief: A sound engineer doesn’t want a modified or “produced” track from you. If it’s work, it needs to be a 24 bit, 48 kHz. Deliver a useable, clean, unmodified mono track of you. They aren’t evil, they just don’t understand a voice actor’s specific needs. If you walk in to a music store know going in exactly what you want to buy, otherwise you will be oversold a lot of expensive equipment not designed for VO, sold to you by a musician, not a voice actor. The hardware recommended by your typical record store dude or musician dudette will almost certainly be overkill because they sell/use equipment designed for the complicated multi track production of music, not the simple needs of mono track of VO. Most advice you’d get at a music store (or from a musician) is not tailored for a voice actor. Most of that intimidating and expensive audio equipment along with most audio recording software is superfluous overkill- designed for making music, not the simple task of delivering a clean non-produced mono track of your voice. Your mission is relatively simple.ĭon’t worry about compression, pre-amps or plug ins or recording multi tracks. Thankfully, a home VO studio isn’t about expensive technology or you having advanced sound engineer skills.
