How to Choose a Voiceover Microphone

Choosing a Voice-over Microphone There are a lot of great and not so great ways to get advice on the equipment you should get and will need to be sure your are putting your best “Vocal Chord” forward. At this weekend’s Faff Camp event that we are happy to be a Key sponsor of along with other wonderful sponsors who care about helping voice over actors will be one of the Main Stage...

Quality of the Recording for VOICEOVER

Voiceover and the Importance of the Quality of the Recording Any where from brand new to the industry to the consistently  working Voiceover talent questions are still asked about the best way to record, recording environments, microphone selection, and technical “tweaks”. There are many wonderful and helpful audio engineers that can help but in this post I am going to focus on one gentleman...

Holiday Giveaway Winners!

Drawing to Win the iRig Mic, Snowflake Mic, and $25 Gift Card! Happy New Year Everyone! Over the holiday vacation, Voiceregistry launched a special drawing for some really cool prizes. We asked for audio or video feedback on how Voiceregistry’s weekend workout has helped our Platinum members with their voiceover careers. For their entries, they were entered in a drawing and we gave away an iRig...

Weekend Workout Fun #2-WIN a Snowflake Mic!

Weekend Workout Fun #2-WIN a Snowflake Mic! **You Must Be a PLATINUM Member to Participate** Over the Holidays We are Doing 2 Fun Give-Aways in lieu of the Standard Weekend Workout Format   WHY PARTICIPATE IN THE WEEKEND WORKOUTS? Further develop your voice over auditioning technique through practice. Receive constructive critiques of your practice audition. Learn from others by listening to...

Voiceregistry Users – Please update your search criteria asap

Our Voiceregistry developer just completed rebuilding the search criteria engine on the site and launched it this weekend. The new enhancements improve the search results for talent agents who use it to find new talent to add to their roster. In order to rebuild and enhance the search, the database for the search criteria had to be remade from scratch and all the previous data was removed. Please log...

Home Studios – What The “Masters” Say About It

One of the most talked about and daunting problems in the voiceover industry is “How to setup a good home studio”. Even here at Voicebank, we often get calls inquiring about how to setup a home studio and what kind of equipment we can recommend. Being that we are not sound engineers, there is very little direction we can give anyone who asks. At events like Faffcon and other voiceover conferences,...

That’s Voiceover! Is Coming To Hollywood!

Nation’s Top Voiceover Actors Reveal Career Secrets For Charity West Hollywood, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 6th — AN EXPERT PANEL OF TOP VOICE-OVER ACTORS, TALENT AGENTS CASTING DIRECTORS AND AD EXECUTIVES PROVIDE A CRASH COURSE FOR THOSE SEEKING CAREERS IN THE EXCITING WORLD OF VOICEOVER ACTING. AND THREE LUCKY AUDIENCE MEMBERS WILL WIN VOICES OVER CONTRACTS RANGING FROM A CBS TV AFFILIATE PROMO...

What Do Most Voice Over Artists Use To Record From Home?

Some people build elaborate studios inside their homes to do their voice over recordings. They spend thousands of dollars for top quality equipment and have enough work to justify it. Most voice over artists do not have enough income flowing in to justify that kind of expense, so what kind of equipment do most voice over artists use to do their home recordings? This is not one of those blog posts that...

Don LaFontaine Voice Over Lab Lecture: Tuesday, September 7th

Stewart Wilson-Turner On Tuesday, September 7th, 7pm PST, I will be giving a lecture for the Don LaFontaine Voice-over Lab titled New Technologies: Pros and Cons in today’s VO Business.  For more information, click here. For anyone outside of Los Angeles or unable to attend, The SAG Foundation will be streaming the event live.  Click here to access the LiveStream link from the website. You...