VO Tips... Season Two

Carol Goode · **Voice Talent** Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 5

Colin,
I'm beholdin' to ya. The first link worked perfectly!
"So much to learn....so little time."
Cheers!
--Carol
--www.SoundsGoode.com

Debbie Deutsch · **Voice Talent** Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 1338

Colin...thanks! I love this!

Philip Banks · **Voice Talent** Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 404

As someone who has the technical knowledge of Peruvian Lisping Adder this is pure gold, well done!

Anna Vocino · **Voice Talent** Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 7

This is all fantastic! Thanks!!!

Cheers-
Anna

www.annavocino.com
www.breakintovoiceover.com

Nikki Saco · **Voice Talent** Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 465

Erik Sheppard · **Voice Talent** Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1317

Nikki,

I have been using Audition since the early Cool Edit days and still mange to find new features. The video series is great, by the way. I am one of those guys that can't read a manual. After all this time though, for some reason I shy away from the spectral view. I don't know what kind of mental block I have with it but it always seems to confuse me. Just me, or anyone else shun this view? Supposedly it can be quite helpful so I hate to be missing out because of some strange phobia.

Colin Campbell · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007, 14:34 (GMT) Post subject:

Levine is with Adobe now.

Nikki Saco · **Voice Talent** Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 465

First, everyone's with Adobe now -- or Google!

Erik, I'm with you. Still haven't found the way to benefit from spectral view. I also suspect I'm missing something but continue to explore the program for everything it can offer.

Colin Campbell · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007, 14:55 (GMT) Post subject:

Spectral view is way COOL. The example I saw of it's use was to remove a cough from a live recording. It allows you to remove a sliver of a frequency range from a sliver of time.

George Karnes · **Voice Talent** Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 905

Colin-
Do you write a script for these tips or do you just speak extemporaneously?

Colin Campbell · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007, 15:41 (GMT) Post subject:

Open the mic and let'er rip. As my ex-wife used to say... "you're such an f-ing know it all." (It was not a flattering statement.)

Erik Sheppard · **Voice Talent** Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1317

FOR SALE:

Full set of encyclopedias. No longer needed. Wife knows everything.

George Karnes · **Voice Talent** Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 905

Colin-
You are amazing man! Jadah runs around here shouting your praises, and I sit here scratching my head trying imagine how the heck you do it.

I have learned so much from these and on top of everything else you are just a nice darn guy.

Thank you from all of us.

George

Colin Campbell · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007, 16:14 (GMT) Post subject:

Well as far as the VO Tips (I really need to get back to them and make a season three) I guess ad-libbing comes from my old radio days. I do have "pick ups" and "out takes" but no script whatsoever. Sometimes I feel like I have so much to say and not enough time in the day to say it. I call it "busy brain" and it can be a curse.

Chris Heier · **Voice Talent** Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 13

Hey Colin, those are some pretty sweet tips. You should set up a WordPress or something and make those MP3s your making into a podcast or something. Very interesting stuff. I like how you tend to make things make sense for the everyday person.

While I was listening to some of your explanations, like the cause of digital clipping, I kept thinking down on the 1 and 0 level, the difference between 16 and 24bit in terms of numbers, etc. I would have probably bored you guys with really geeky tech talk on it... Very Happy

I work with accoustics all the time with seismic and ultrasound systems, and it is really neat finding the parallels between that and audio production. Anyways, good job, and I do think it would be really neat to see those tips podcasted for subscribing in iTunes or something.