Voice-Over Booths

Great info, Jason, and thanks for all the resource links! I record thus far from my closet. I’ve used carpeting on the walls, fuzzy carpet on the floor, a boom arm set on a folding stool with rubber feet for my mic, a folding screen covered on both sides with extra fabric, thermal blankets, tons of clothing, and the most brilliant suggestion from a musician friend for the ceiling. I have a high slanted ceiling in a long walk-in closet: He suggested hanging tension shower dowels about a foot or so apart and hanging fabric from those. Along with that, I topped the whole thing off with another thermal blanket. That and a few other bits of fine tuning so far has done the trick EXCEPT for hearing the low hum of small planes from the nearby muni airport right up the street (!). The other day I did a read for someone and wound up putting my fuzzy bathrobe over my head and that did the trick! The recipient of the file (I’m doing freebies for people on a subreddit site to build up a portfolio), couldn’t hear any plane hum or any other sound other than my voice. I’ve also learned to speak a good distance from my RODE mic – actually off to the side and not close to it at all, and there is no sibilance and no popping whatsoever.

I’m sure I’ll invest in a booth down the road. One VO talent that I know of purchased hers using a nationwide craigslist search (vs. by specific area) — while I can’t recall the exact steps for that search off the top of my head at the moment, when I did it a few weeks ago, I simply googled “how do you do a nationwide craigslist search,” followed the few simple steps, and voila.

Thanks for what’s been really informative podcast episodes! -Theresa (aka T Diaz<—much shorter and sweeter for VO than the mouthful that is the name Theresa Koenke Diaz!)