Easily improve your podcast, audiobook, and voice overs to attract new customers and increase sales with professional voice recording.
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Who this course is for:
- Voice over artists
- Anyone who wants to start a voice over career
What you’ll learn:Â
- How to quickly and easily improve your podcast, audiobook, voice overs or videos
- Improve your technique for professional voice recording
Requirements:Â
- A microphone and a stand
Get better at recording speech, dialog and voice overs at home. Without spending a fortune!
This really is a complete guide!
It’s easy for anyone to start recording at home with modern affordable equipment.
But there is a huge problem. Information is spread all over the internet and it’s hard to find good advice. There is a lack of awareness of the importance of high-quality audio.
The internet is full of podcasts, videos, and courses with awful sound quality. The speech is hard to understand and irritating to the ear. In some cases, it’s simply unintelligible!
Record your voice with improved technique and clarity. It’s the easiest step to increase the quality of your product. Yet it is so often neglected!
Voice overs are often understandable but sound distant, thin or odd. This has a proven negative effect on the perception of your work. To give that premium feel, you need high-quality voice recordings.
Follow the simple steps outlined in this course. You will quickly and easily improve your podcast, audiobook, voice overs or videos. In fact, anything that includes spoken word or dialog can be improved without difficulty.
This will impress your current fans. Attract new customers. Increase sales, downloads or streams.
All you need is the best microphone for voice recording and a stand which can cost you as little as $40!
What’s Inside? You might be asking – what exactly are we going to cover in these lectures? And the answer is pretty much everything you need to know from square one:
- Microphone Basics
- The Human Voice
- Mic Choice
- Mic Placement
- Recording Techniques
- Room Acoustics
- Acoustic Treatment
- Sound Isolation
- The Recording Process
- DAWs and Software
- Editing
- Mixing
- Compression
- EQ
- Noise Removal
- and more!
The course is split into 6 easy to follow sections. It would only take you a few hours to speed through the lectures, but I advise you go through no more than two sections per sitting. There are tasks set out for you that you need to complete between sections so you’ll need a bit of time before moving on.
I highly recommend that you take notes during the course. This will help you to remember the key points.
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About the Instructor:
Rob Mayzes
- Professional audio author & journalist
- 1st Class Degree in Audio Production from The University of Kent
- Worked in a large range of studios in London over the years, both as a professional engineer and musician
- Recording at home for over 11 years. Built my own professional studio.
I’ve worked in a range of recording studios, live venues and film sets as both a musician and sound technician. I have also worked in numerous large venues as an audio-visual engineer and lighting designer.
I’ve worked with (and been taught by) boom operators and sound recordists that have worked on large budget feature films (such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Clash of the Titans, Layer Cake, Shaun of the Dead, World War Z) and popular TV shows (such as Ricky Gervais’ Extras and Gavin & Stacey). They, in turn, learned from some of the top Hollywood sound guys and legends!
I now spend most of my teaching and freelancing from my home studio in London, England.
I currently hold a First Class BSc Degree in Audio Design and Production from the University of Kent and I’m an Avid Certified Pro Tools 11 User.
Course Curriculum
| Section 1 - Introduction | |||
| Introduction – Title Breakdown | 00:00:00 | ||
| Course Overview | 00:00:00 | ||
| Voice Recording Checklist | 00:00:00 | ||
| Activity: Print The Equipment Checklist | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 2 - The Source | |||
| Section 2: The Source | 00:00:00 | ||
| 3 Key Elements | 00:00:00 | ||
| Understand The Human Voice | 00:00:00 | ||
| One More Tip For Performing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 3 - The Room | |||
| What Makes A Good Room? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Easily Estimate The Reverb Time Of Your Room | 00:00:00 | ||
| Summary Of ‘The Source’ And ‘The Room’ | 00:00:00 | ||
| Action Steps | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 4 - Understanding Microphone Types | |||
| Introduction To Microphones | 00:00:00 | ||
| What Is A Microphone | 00:00:00 | ||
| Understand Dynamic Microphones | 00:00:00 | ||
| Understand Condenser Microphones | 00:00:00 | ||
| Understand Microphone Patterns | 00:00:00 | ||
| Hear The Proximity Effect In Action | 00:00:00 | ||
| Which Pattern Should You Use? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 5 - When To Use Certain Microphones | |||
| Know When To Use Dynamic Mics | 00:00:00 | ||
| Know When To Use Large Diaphragm Condenser Mics | 00:00:00 | ||
| Know When To Use Small Diaphragm Condenser Mics | 00:00:00 | ||
| Hear Examples Of All Types Of Microphone | 00:00:00 | ||
| The One Mic That Will Ruin Your Voice Overs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Hear How Weird This Sounds! | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 6 - Purchasing Equipment | |||
| You Don’t Need To Spend A Fortune | 00:00:00 | ||
| More Affordable Mics | 00:00:00 | ||
| Even More Affordable Mics! | 00:00:00 | ||
| When To Use An Audio Interface | 00:00:00 | ||
| Microphone Summary | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 7 - Recording Technique | |||
| Introduction To Recording Technique | 00:00:00 | ||
| 4 Key Considerations | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 8 - Room Acoustics | |||
| Room Acoustics Made Easy | 00:00:00 | ||
| Early Reflections | 00:00:00 | ||
| Microphones And Early Reflections | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Ultimate Free Technique For Improving Your Voice Overs! | 00:00:00 | ||
| WOW – Take A Listen! | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 9 - Microphone Placement | |||
| Exploit Mic Placement Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Exploit Mic Placement Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Mic Placement Examples | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 10 - Reducing & Preventing Noise | |||
| Awesome Sound Isolation (Get Rid Of Background Noise) | 00:00:00 | ||
| Use A Pop Filter | 00:00:00 | ||
| This Is Why You Need A Pop Shield! | 00:00:00 | ||
| Shock Mounts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Summary | 00:00:00 | ||
| Take Action | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 11 - Recording Process | |||
| Introduction To The Recording Process | 00:00:00 | ||
| Which Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)? | 00:00:00 | ||
| How To Set Up Your Project The Right Way | 00:00:00 | ||
| Start Recording | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 12 - DAW Step-by-Step Walkthroughs | |||
| DAW Walkthroughs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Start A Project In Audacity | 00:00:00 | ||
| Start A Project In Reaper | 00:00:00 | ||
| Start A Project In Pro Tools | 00:00:00 | ||
| Summary | 00:00:00 | ||
| Take Action | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 13 - Editing | |||
| Why Edit? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Understand Volume Automation | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Easiest Way To Use Volume Automation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 14 - Step-By-Step Editing Walkthroughs | |||
| Editing In Audacity | 00:00:00 | ||
| Editing In Reaper | 00:00:00 | ||
| Editing In Pro Tools | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 15 - ADR (Replacing Dialogue) | |||
| What Is ADR? | 00:00:00 | ||
| ADR & Editing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Hear ADR In Action | 00:00:00 | ||
| Take Action | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 16 - Mixing With EQ & Compression | |||
| Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| Understand EQ | 00:00:00 | ||
| How To Use EQ | 00:00:00 | ||
| Understand Compression | 00:00:00 | ||
| How To Use Compression | 00:00:00 | ||
| Summary | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 17 - Noise Gating & Other Tools | |||
| Understand And Use Noise Gates | 00:00:00 | ||
| More Tools You Can Use | 00:00:00 | ||
| Plugin Order | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 18 - Step-By-Step Mixing Walkthroughs | |||
| Mixing in Audacity | 00:00:00 | ||
| Mixing In Reaper | 00:00:00 | ||
| Mixing in Pro Tools | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 19 - Finishing The Mix | |||
| Bouncing/Exporting/Rendering | 00:00:00 | ||
| Summary | 00:00:00 | ||
| Sync To Video | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 20 - Behind The Scenes | |||
| Behind The Scenes – Acoustic Treatment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Behind The Scenes – Mixing Part 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Behind The Scenes – Mixing Part 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 21 - Conclusion | |||
| Cheat Sheet | 00:00:00 | ||
Course Review
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Excellent Foundational Course
I’ve been creating video tutorials for almost a year and the audio portion has been by far and away from the largest learning curve. I wish I had access to this course from the onset. I have, through this course, learned what I was doing right, doing wrong and what I can improve upon. Kudos to the instructor for creating a course that easy to understand and to implement!
I’m a complete beginner in this and this had some great helpful tips
Great course
very helpful, thanks!
Very Thorough Technical Background
I’m taking this course as I’m just starting out and I’ve learned so much about how to record in a way that will save me from having to spend the time of time editing. He teaches the necessary editing, settings and walks through three different software and shows how to use them.
From a learning perspective, he was easy to listen to, kept the lessons in easy to consume chunks.