📌Quick reality check for beginners: Better audio usually starts with your room, not your mic. This video is part of The Voiceover Growth Challenge — a free, year-long series designed to help aspiring and beginner voice actors build real-world skills without overwhelm.
Thank you for this and all of your VO content. It is tremendously helpful and very well-made. Part of me wonders, "Why is she giving all this great info away for free? There's gotta be a catch somewhere…" Whatever the case, I'm a rabid consumer of your content.
I'm also a voice acting neophyte and, as is my typical MO when venturing into something new, be it a hobby or a major career change like this, I tend to go all-in overboard style.
As for my recording space, I most certainly went overboard. We don't have much in the way of closet space in our house, and my options were very limited. Over a month or so, I spent about $650 on the treatment/conversion of a basement workshop into my voice recording room.
It was a very bare bones room with concrete floors, unpainted drywall walls, and a wraparound workbench with a couple of cabinets—about 15' x 8'. I gave a bunch of cosmetic attention to the space, with painting, carpeting, some LED lights, and overall aesthetics, but to me, how the space looks and feels is as big a deal as the hardware and sound treatment.
Being in the basement helps with the noise situation. I've got brick walls and the Earth surrounding me outside; it's basically a bunker, my only window is glass blocks, and aside from a few things like the HVAC unit, a chest freezer, and a dehumidifier kicking on occasionally, it's very quiet.
Using the ACX check plugin in Audacity, my room noise is typically around -74dB.
I'm in for month 3! I built a small tent over my desk and kept adding padding around the room to absorb sound. It helped but not enough and it wasn't sustainable. I now have a Voctent and the overall improvement is noticeable. I am in process of optimizing it and my mic placement to eliminate slapback on my loudest exclamations. Cheers!
With such "naked" walls you have behind you, how come there's nearly no reverb in your recording? Every room in my house rivals Europe's largest cathedrals when it comes to reverb. Unless I surround myself with matresses and pillows it's nearly impossible to hear a "dryer" voice.
Thank you for this. You inspired me. I just signed up with a coach recently and getting thins ready. This is timely. I have been pondering my recording space. I have a 20ft x 6.5ft walk in closet full of clothing and has shelving to the ceiling full as well. I'm thinking of adding a portable blanket fort booth to to the space. I've measured with Niosh and receiving on average 28.8 noise floor.
Great video. Do you even use a booth? It doesn't sound like you need one, going by this audio. Always meant to ask. When I travel, I use Hush Audio and zero treatment, and it sounds 85 percent as good as my Whisper Room.
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📌Quick reality check for beginners: Better audio usually starts with your room, not your mic. This video is part of The Voiceover Growth Challenge — a free, year-long series designed to help aspiring and beginner voice actors build real-world skills without overwhelm.
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Thank you for this and all of your VO content. It is tremendously helpful and very well-made. Part of me wonders, "Why is she giving all this great info away for free? There's gotta be a catch somewhere…" Whatever the case, I'm a rabid consumer of your content.
I'm also a voice acting neophyte and, as is my typical MO when venturing into something new, be it a hobby or a major career change like this, I tend to go all-in overboard style.
As for my recording space, I most certainly went overboard. We don't have much in the way of closet space in our house, and my options were very limited. Over a month or so, I spent about $650 on the treatment/conversion of a basement workshop into my voice recording room.
It was a very bare bones room with concrete floors, unpainted drywall walls, and a wraparound workbench with a couple of cabinets—about 15' x 8'. I gave a bunch of cosmetic attention to the space, with painting, carpeting, some LED lights, and overall aesthetics, but to me, how the space looks and feels is as big a deal as the hardware and sound treatment.
Being in the basement helps with the noise situation. I've got brick walls and the Earth surrounding me outside; it's basically a bunker, my only window is glass blocks, and aside from a few things like the HVAC unit, a chest freezer, and a dehumidifier kicking on occasionally, it's very quiet.
Using the ACX check plugin in Audacity, my room noise is typically around -74dB.
I'm in for month 3! I built a small tent over my desk and kept adding padding around the room to absorb sound. It helped but not enough and it wasn't sustainable. I now have a Voctent and the overall improvement is noticeable. I am in process of optimizing it and my mic placement to eliminate slapback on my loudest exclamations. Cheers!
With such "naked" walls you have behind you, how come there's nearly no reverb in your recording? Every room in my house rivals Europe's largest cathedrals when it comes to reverb. Unless I surround myself with matresses and pillows it's nearly impossible to hear a "dryer" voice.
Thank you for this. You inspired me. I just signed up with a coach recently and getting thins ready. This is timely. I have been pondering my recording space. I have a 20ft x 6.5ft walk in closet full of clothing and has shelving to the ceiling full as well. I'm thinking of adding a portable blanket fort booth to to the space. I've measured with Niosh and receiving on average 28.8 noise floor.
Great video. Do you even use a booth? It doesn't sound like you need one, going by this audio. Always meant to ask. When I travel, I use Hush Audio and zero treatment, and it sounds 85 percent as good as my Whisper Room.