Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio
By Ian King
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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.
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.
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.
Ian King
Ian King is a music writer and publishing professional who has contributed to Nylon, Slice magazine, Stereogum, The Line of Best Fit, PopMatters,KEXP, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, as well as other music media. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and their son.
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Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio - Ian King
Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice–Over Studio.
For under $500.
By Ian King
© 2019 dotandtittle publishing
eBook ISBN: 978–0–463–34915–1
Smashwords Edition – © Copyright 2019 Ian King.
Published by: dotandtittle publishing
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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
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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