 Hey there, it's time for voiceover body shop tech talk number 45 have I got that backwards? I never know Kazoo refris is reverses the camera or maybe 45. How's that? That's that's right. Okay Well, if you got a tech question for for us about your home voiceover studio Throw it in the chat room right now if you're watching on Facebook or over on YouTube Or if you're watching this on smoke signals send them up that helps a whole lot And we'll get to those questions in a little while but George and I got lots of cool stuff to talk about tonight like big sir and new max and Well, that's pretty much it. No, no, no, I got a couple more things at the end to trust me for all you non-mac people But yes, there's a few things to talk about. All right, and we're gonna talk about Deep-breathing or breathing. We're not breathing at all Everyone always asks do I deep breath? Well, we'll get into that just a little bit So stay tuned voiceover body shop tech talk coming up right now from the outer reaches They came Bearing the knowledge of what it takes to properly record your voice over audio and Together from the center of the VO universe. They bring it to you now George Wittem the engineer to the VO stars of Virginia Tech grad with the skills to build set up and maintain The professional VO studios of the biggest names in VO today and you Dan Leonard the voiceover home studio master a professional voice talent with the knowledge and experience To help you create a professional sounding home VO studio and each week They allow you into their world making the complex simple Debunking the myths of what it takes to create great sounding audio Answering your questions showing you the latest and greatest in VO tech and having a dandy time doing it Welcome to voice over body shop Tech talk Voice over body shop tech talk is brought to you by voice over essentials.com home of Harlan Hogan signature products Source elements remote studio connections for everyone voice actor websites.com where your VO website Isn't a pain in the butt VO heroes.com become a hero to your clients with award-winning voice over training J. Michael Collins demos when quality matters and voiceover extra your daily resource for VO success and Now live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are the guys Well, hey there, I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whidham and this is voice over body shop or VO BS Tech talk Yes, tech talk. Everybody loves tech talk, especially George and I because this is when we get to talk shop Fun stuff now you were gonna mention last week because you're you're rebuilding your website. What's going on with that? Yeah, I so forgot I feel bad. I didn't get forget to get a little plug to Karen and the team over there They are building the new George the dot tech website and that is no First of all that is no voice actor website. No and second of all it is way more complicated I mean they said yeah, you have like a hundred something pages and I'm like I do They accumulate after a while don't they ease so it's been a big project But we're chiseling away at it. It's just a lot of systems to build and make it work. Well But I you know, maybe way end of the year will have something we can we can share with the world but just I'm Karen's putting in a huge amount of time and having weekly check-in meetings with me and it's just They're really, you know, it's been a real challenge because it doesn't fit any of the molds of anything They've done but it's really coming along and it has a whole new look a new graphic design everything So I'm excited about it. Thank you To Karen Joe and team over there that are making this the new site happen Yeah, word voice actor websites calm and of course, why do you need a website George because what do we do? we talk about and teach people and do technical support for people who have home voiceover studios You don't think about Really, what a specialty with this is I mean you and I have been doing this, you know, probably, you know, 30 years combined Nobody else has been doing it that long. I mean some people like yeah, I got a home studio It's like but you and I build them, you know, and we get people from from zero To getting up there and recording in a very short period of time or if it's a little bit more involved or it requires some Construction that's kind of like some of the stuff you do if they want to work with you and and You know to learn stuff, but also if they want to build a voiceover palace Where do they go when they want to talk to you? Yes, it's that's George the tech If that makes your brain short circuit, you can type in the good old domain name George the dot George the Tech see your short circuit it right. I know well, I've reprogrammed my brain and say George the dot tech But both of them work and again the website is still functional the old ten-year-old square space site Still works. It's gonna give you warnings saying The sky is falling and God knows what when you go to the site, but trust me If you do send money to book services with me, it is through secure channels. Trust me on that. Don't worry Again new websites coming, but you can book me over there for sound checks and studio consultations and Processing chains and audiobook mastering workflows and whatever it's all over there Dan you've got your own site. It's still kicking over acts Home voiceover studio.com. There it is. There it is home voiceover studio.com. It's uh, yeah You know, I I try to show people, you know, what it is that I do which is Instruct I'll take you if you don't know what you're doing I'll get you knowing what you're doing very quickly. So you don't have to worry about I think it's Probably one of the things that voice actors who were just starting out or they've been voice actors But haven't had a home studio. They tend to panic or freak out saying I don't know anything work with me for a little bit for an hour hour and a half and It's always a relief to see the tension leave their face Like oh, that's all it is That's right But of course You I I guess it's important to you know We try to make the complex simple because it is simple It's complex if you look at it, but you know we We can break it down into individual things that Help you get your home voiceover studio up and running and not worrying about it You know don't obsess about it and whatever you do Don't go into all the forums saying what processor should I use should I get this and I get that? Not a good idea Talk to the experts talk to the pros It also if you'd like to have your audio if you've got a home studio and you want your audio analyzed If you scroll to the bottom of my home page at homevoiceoverstudio.com You'll find my specimen collection cup and you click on that and you can submit a specimen to me for 25 dollars I will give you a very thorough analysis Because I take my time on those and it's like here's what you need to do If you'd like more help if you're really not have not doing it right like if you're recording through the microphone on your laptop We can we can fix that kind of stuff and get you working the right way anyway That's the end of plug a palooza Yes, that was a palooza. It's as it says in bold type there What's in your tech update this week a lot of max stuff it looks like Yeah, I know you guys so many of your windows users and you kind of get tired of us talking about this stuff You know if windows if the windows sphere was doing something as innovative. I think Uh as this I would be talking about it So if you if I'm missing the boat on some windows news or windows things that are really innovative that would You know make a big difference to uh A voice actor's life. Let us know and I will definitely talk about it on the show But the news right now is definitely about um big sir So big sir is the newest mac os. We've been waiting for it for a really long time Actually, we've known it's coming. It always seems to come around october This came roughly a month late A lot of people blame covet Because of the you know It takes time to do this and some of the employees may not be working so But big sir is out. It's mac os 11 It's not 10 point 16 Catalina was 10 point 15 It they've gone to a new one now it goes to 11 So that's the newest os and it is now going to pop up in your software updates So if you're on a mac and you get the little alerts to do updates It might spook you a little bit reason being is when you go to the update window It's going to look like when you do those updates that are being told that you're being told to do like security updates It's also going to show big sir is now available and there's a button that says upgrade And it's just not painfully obvious where to install the other updates But when you click a little button that says more info You'll now see security updates safari browser updates and other System updates that you do want to keep installing But do not click the upgrade button and go up to big sir yet yet It is yet and yet It is brand new bleeding edge os You know all the companies that make local software we use the audio interfaces we use and everything Yes, some of them have been testing what they call beta versions of this But the real real version that goes out to the world is going to land in their desk at the same day as it does on yours And that means they're going to be discovering all kinds of problems and bugs And it's going to take them a couple of weeks to a couple of months to catch up Depending on the company in other words. Let's somebody else Have problems with it. Yes Exactly If you're a geek and or and or if you've got a couple of max and you have a You have one that's sort of a just sort of a an office machine That's not like your production studio computer If you're really adventurous go ahead and Install it on there with a backup already in place. Make sure you've used time machine You've done a full system backup that you can always fall back on or fall back to If big big sir has any nasty surprises If you want to read more about whether big sir will work with your softwares right now There's a website called pro tools expert and it's beyond just pro tools. They cover pretty much anything audio Production related. It's a pro dash tools dash expert dot com Just a little search for big sir over there and you can read their ultimate pro audio guide Check it out today so that you know that Your system might may or may not be big sir compatible. I will say even if it is completely quote-unquote compatible Hold off. Okay Every year you every os. Yes, you have been warned. You have been warned. Okay Um, I've already seen anecdotally somebody in the twisted wave facebook group say oops. I installed it But everything's working. So i'm okay. And so, you know, it's it's gonna work for some of you No problem The thing that really has me more excited way more excited than big sir would be the new apple Hardware or the the new So what they call the silicon the actual insides the guts the brains the cpu blah blah blah That makes an apple run and this is the first major change since 2006 When they went from power pc To intel and that was a big leap forward then for those that remember That's about when I leapt on to the apple bandwagon was right about then. I believe my first mac was a 2006 mac mini So that's when they really took a big boost in performance. Well, this time now flash forward They're having another massive leap forward in performance as a result of now using their own chip Which they're calling the m1 chip essentially think of the ipad of the iphone and the fact that apple Designs and manufacturers essentially anything everything inside Now instead of using an intel part. They're using their own parts in the new Macs now not all of them have it but the new mac book air mac book pro 13 inch and the new Mac mini which i was really excited to see The newest late 2020 versions have these new chips. They're called m1 chips The thing is I have one coming by the way I I don't typically uh leap on a new mac the day it's announced let alone the minute it's announced but this time I did because I got caught up in the excitement of it. I was watching my old friend leal apport Getting all nerding out and excited About the thing I watched the the presentation that was fantastic And the second the went their store went online. I was like bye bye I bought I bought the most base base model of the mac book air for a thousand bucks so eight gigs of memory Just the bare basics. I wish it had more storage and only is 256 gig But you can add storage so easily with a thunderbolt drive or a usb drive. I'm not worried about that it's just will the computer perform and so here's the thing like When you make something new or better, you don't expect it to have to check a lot of different boxes. You might expect it to be Maybe quieter or maybe faster Or maybe have better battery life, right? I mean You'd expect at least one of those maybe two But these new ones have all of them because Their new chip and then I'll get a little terminology on you here. They're soc The system on a chip is so darn efficient And so power consuming efficient that you get more battery life And you get better performance. Um, I could go down a rabbit hole There's no reason for me to do it because apple does it for you. Go to apple.com Watch the presentation, you know gag a little bit on the overly produced production, you know values that they do But it is fascinating to see how these chips are designed So, you know, classically on a pc or any older mac You've got a motherboard and then you've got memory and a cpu chip and a gpu chip That's the graphics the graphics adapter But now all of that's inside the the main cpu now called a system on a chip because that's what it is It's a the whole computer is on a chip and everything else is just You know usb jacks a keyboard A display, you know, it's all on a chip. It's just it's just mind boggling What these guys are doing Um, not only that the the benchmarks and now a benchmark is something that's used to measure the performance of any computer The benchmarks are starting to come out. There's enough People getting the hardware now to run these things called benchmarks and the the the specs are mind boggling Um, so I'll just talk about what's called single core performance So the thing has um an m1 chip has eight cores Okay, so even the thousand dollar MacBook air that anybody's going to buy for their kid to go to school Has eight processing cores. Okay, that's amazing, right? Well, every one of those cores performs faster Than a single core in an intel i9 iMac You're like a 3000 plus dollar iMac a loaded iMac The macbook air is faster Whoa, um than that Right Hard to imagine. I mean so it's it's faster I mean it'll run a program. Does it doesn't mean it can run more complex programs faster or Is it if you add too much stuff to it? Is that that going to throw a little bit of molasses into the gears? This is what we have to find out so Theoretically everything it does will be faster Not just because the cpu is faster the clock what they call the clock speed of a single core Is faster. Um, it's because all of the moving parts that aren't moving at all anymore. They're just 9 trillion transistors in a little square like this Everything is happening inside that chip memory is in there Um, and so the the speed that things can travel through that chip is really really fast So there should be very little of that molasses effect. There should be really none Um, the spinning pinwheel should be completely a thing of the past. I don't think you'll ever see it again Um with these new machines. They should be rocket like grease lightning One more thing. I know i'm geeking out here, but this is just stuff that's pretty amazing The what you're going to be running when you get your new mac with m1 Is going to be something called It's called. Sorry. I lost that page on my notes rosetta 2 Dan do you remember something called rosetta way back in the day when intel mac came out? To me rosetta is is is a language program. I hardly remember the well. Yeah, I think that's why they call it that It's a translator right so They have to try so if you're going to run let's say twisted wave or adobe audition Or anything that's currently for a mac it has to translate That that language into something the m1 chip can understand Okay, they're not speaking the same language. So something else called rosetta 2 has to run at the same time What I just said the fact that the macbook air is faster than the i9 loaded thing That's while running rosetta The over so it's running an additional thing to translate. It's still faster With the translation so keep that in mind the the softwares you're going to be using for at least a couple of weeks to couple months They're going to be translated to run on the new machine and still it's going to be faster Than almost anything if you're running a native app. What's going to be called a universal Binary, I think it's what they call it. It's going to be even faster. So it's going to be like another 20% faster It's just kind of amazing like so if you're rendering a file or something like that and it'll go like that as opposed to mp3 saving You guys know mp3 takes a while, right? You're used to wave files saving pretty much like that and mp3 are like come on Let's I just You know that's going to go bloop It's going to be a lot a lot faster when it's doing that mathematically intensive stuff like saving mp3's Saving movies exporting videos from iMovie whatever it is you're doing Anything that's crunching numbers is going to be much much faster. Really everything's going to be faster waking the computer up It's going to be cool. I um Anyway, I'm going to one is literally coming from shanghai It's supposed to be here tomorrow Which would be a week ago because this show is being seen a week later So by the time you're seeing this I will have already gotten it and played around with it But you'll definitely be hearing more about it. So I will stop talking about it now because that's probably enough about talking about something I don't actually have Good a couple more little things If you're not going to go out and spend a thousand dollars on a Mac book Take the one you already got and do a little maintenance on it and namely clean it And I don't just mean like using an app like mac cleaner. I mean literally clean it I just took my daughter's mac book air Into the apple store not the apple store, but just like a local tech little tiny hole in the wall place Because it was a missing a whole bunch of screws and the battery door on the bottom was falling off, you know The guy's like, well the battery is swelling. You're gonna need a new battery soon But otherwise it's okay, but I look inside and I'm horrified because it's full of cat hair So because I know they have cats at her house Get your macs cleaned if it's overheating and her mom was saying her computer's literally been shutting down from overheating That's a big cause of that the thing can't cool If you're your cooling system is literally wearing a wool sweater Knitted it knitted out of cat hair dog air It is not gonna cool. It's gonna overheat the fans gonna run faster. It's gonna be a mess So it's a very very inexpensive fix depending on the computer To get it cleaned out and uh, if you can't get it into the store It's not handy get some compressed air and at least blow it through any opening You can see and hopefully some of it will come out the other side, but man does that make a huge difference We forget get a room hidden thing It's totally inside. You can't see it, but man Yeah, I was horrified get a rumba for your mac. We just got a rumba It's like It you gotta empty it every five minutes It's like either our floors are really dirty or you know, our new dog is shedding a lot more than we can really tell Yeah, those things do fill up quick. Yeah, but watching it like all right. It's trying to figure out where it's going It's all right. Go home Goes This is what happens when you get really bored. Yeah, I'm really bored. Just look for a cat on a rumba Um last thing this is completely universal advice like the last thing not just apple um I don't know why I know this device has been around for a really long time But I just don't know why it hasn't like clicked for me to start recommending it You guys know how much uh audio is affected by rumble Like if you're using your typical large diaphragm condenser mic like a neumann tl 103 is a huge offender of this The vo1a the road nt1 any mic that has no internal switch or taking out the rumble a low cut switch Or a high pass switch. It's the same thing Um, you're gonna have rumble in your audio And most of you don't have interfaces with rumble filters or low cut switches, right? You're just gonna be recording what comes in and seeing Noise in your file if you're in a multi unit building or an apartment or a condo Plugging in the sure a one five or a 15 hp It could be the the answer About 48 bucks something like that on amazon. I threw it up on my home vio studio now dot com page um if you're trying to find it And it just adds this gentle low end uh roll off so at 100 hertz It's sloped down a bit by about 3 db And then from there it just keeps going down So for some of you Maybe for some of you it may thin out the low end slightly too much if you have a very thunderous low end voice But for the vast majority of you and certainly all all the women voices out there It's gonna get you a cleaner audio signal. It's just a little device that plugs between the mic And plugs right into the mic cable and then into the mic or you can plug the other plug it at the other end Into the scarlet or whatever you're using that's probably what I would do because it'd be really awkward to have this This metal tube sticking about four inches up out of your mic You know going to a cable and that's what it is. It's just a metal tube that plugs in But that can help you get cleaner audio dan. Have you ever used anything like that? um No, usually it's it's like, you know, if I look at it and I can You know try to dial in exactly where there is some rumble and then take it out from there Uh, but never I usually don't do it on the front end You know how I am about front end stuff. Yeah, I know I mean in your place you're you're on a concrete slab and a pretty quiet space You probably don't have a big rumble issue. No, um, no, yeah, it's probably rare Like but I hear audio all the time from people in apartments and condos. Oh, yeah rumble galore sometimes really bad and um, You know, I'll tell them here. Here's how you apply a high-pass filter And you know set it up in audacity or whatever and that's fine But when they're doing that source connect or ibtl session and the studio You know pops up their $10,000 monitor speakers and the wolfers are going Right, they may not like that that much. So that's where you would use on something like that. Exactly. Yeah That's it for me. All right. Hey, you know, if you've got a tech question about your home voiceover studio You can throw it in the chat room right now if you're watching on facebook or on youtube I know jeff holman is hiding in there somewhere Taking down your questions because we do want to answer those So put them in there right now so we can get them into the next segment You know, think about what question would I like to ask if I got a real problem throw it in there? I wanted to talk tonight Or whatever time you're watching this about de-breathing Uh because I get this a lot from people saying I de-breath Well, do you turn blue in the process? Um, you know, it's they they say de-breath like I record I de-breath I it like they it's like it's literally the every single thing they record right and the breath thing is just you know Impulsory. I always do breath. I have to de-breath. Here's the here's the thing though You know if you talk to uncle roy or a couple of other people who are you know audio engineers are like Do you really want to do that because? It doesn't sound natural I mean a lot of problems that we hear from a lot of audio files is that it's like it sounds very robotic Why because you're not breathing If you're doing if you're doing an actual like script with somebody else If you're doing like a little radio play for a commercial or something or for an e-learning thing When we talk to other people we breathe Now when when I was a kid And I used to watch eye witness news back in buffalo Maybe some people from buffalo or toronto remember irv Weinstein who was you know, unfortunately left us The guy was a great newscaster and my father said watch what he does before he starts a story and he would go Buffalo blazebusters went into a three-story frame dwelling and fled on foot into it You know that sort of thing it was he invented the eye witness news pattern But he would take a really deep breath What I'm finding is you know, I I tend to do that too when I'm recording and I'm like But I plan for it so I can read an entire sentence Without taking a breath maybe two sentences the fewer breaths you take The less work you have to do on the on the back end when you're when you're editing But I wanted to talk about do you deep breath? Well, if you're one of those people that finds that they have to breathe between every third word Yeah, maybe Or perhaps you need to look at your physical conditioning and think about that a little bit more But I wanted to do a little demonstration of what you can do If you if you have a a breath issue Let's go into our good friend audacity here And addition there'll be audition audition. Yes, and you know because I know this this will work There there we go. All right, so now now we're seeing my voice on here when you take a breath It looks like that Like a football Exactly you look like like an egg or a football. So let me read some copy here Here's here's the information card from the echo dot. It's like things to try Enjoy your favorite music Alexa play music Alexa play music for a party. Alexa play hip-hop music Alexa play the station k xcp. You know that sort of thing. All right, so Here we have this As you can see, I took a couple of breaths here. How do you get rid of your breath? You have several options one you could just delete the breath So so you can all hear this Here's the other thing you now you can delete it and that way it's gone Here's a really good trick that you might want to try You can highlight it and standard wise Take it down 15 db Which you know an audition you could do 15 seems to be a good range. Yeah, because why 15? because then It sounds like a natural breath It looks like that You know that extra one get rid of that You know, but if you go through it Read some copy here. Here's here's the information card from the echo dot Things to try Enjoy your favorite music Alexa play music. All right, same thing if I if I take all of these down 15d and you know, you can just type in minus 15, which makes it a lot easier You can also make favorites. I'll go the audition. Absolutely do that with a keystroke Exactly, you know or just take it down 15. I mean in a 30 second audition I mean how much time is this going to take you, you know, right? And now it's Alexa play music Alexa play music for a part it makes It sound far more natural So that's that's what I do when I when I'm when I'm recording and say I it's you know It's not like we don't see copy with no punctuation where you go through about five sentences and it's like I Sometimes you got to do that I've been helping people with this the conundrum of deep breathing or not or how or what quite quite a bit and You know one thing that occurred to me Dan. I don't know what you feel about this is What's the last time you listen to let's say a podcast or a web stream or anything live Or even a show and thought to yourself boy, I sure wish I heard a lot less breaths Uh, does that ever happen? Never not once. Okay. So unless someone is like breathing between every third word But I mean Do you have do you really ever hear that happen on like an actual show? No, no because people don't speak that way I mean unless you literally have a as dan mentioned a physical breathing problem that you're You know, um, god bless you. You're working around it and trying to get a project done. I understand Um, everybody else, uh, if you'd breathe normally, um, you're not likely to gonna gonna have a big Breath issue, you know, if you do have to slip a breath in because you just didn't take a big enough breath That might be one you want to remove for timing sake Um, that's another reason to remove a breath. It's just the timing doesn't feel right. There's a loss of the rhythm Um, but um, how often do they need to be removed? Is it really is it really that big of a deal? No, I ask it. It's not it's oracle. It's not a big of a deal So I I think people tend to over obsess about this kind of stuff I mean a lot of voice actors obsess about a lot of stuff But sure most of like why did I get hired? Why did I get hired? Yeah, why didn't I get hired? You know, it's Uh, it's like is it my sound? Well, if you look if you think it's your sound send georgia. I some audio and we'll go It's what you're listening on Because your audio sounds fine But breathing is one of those things that we we we do naturally Uh, and if you're in good shape, you don't have to take a Take a breath you can You know a quick little breath and you know, if you run out of air somewhere in a sentence Yeah, you can edit that out, but it also helps To pre plan your breaths as you're reading copy And these are the things you don't really think about because it's like well, I can technologically take care of it How about doing everything you can physically to avoid having to do something technologically? Right because you're probably a better voice doctor than you are an editor just guessing yes It's it's editing takes years to really master. I mean I've been doing it well since the fort administration So it's I I know what it what it takes to do those voice acting But you know, you're probably spending more time practicing the craft of voice acting Absolutely than the art of or the art of the craft. I should Careful how I use those words, but you know what I mean like Editing is a thing that also takes a lot of practice. Which would should you be better practicing? Which should you be practicing? I should say Probably voice acting boys. We have a music background. By the way, you have a huge advantage Absolutely because you're already accustomed to Finding where breaths fit in and musical note music notation. They do tell you where to take breaths They actually will have a little apostrophe, right? I reminded that as I practiced trumpet and clarinet with my daughter this morning I saw breath marks in the stunningly stunning rendition of Hot cross buns That we were playing for just a few notes Don't Anyway, sorry. 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You don't need to watch this ad so we'll keep this short point is You should have source connect if you want to be considered a professional voice actor Many many many many many of the big pain gigs are using it So go over to source dash elements dot com get signed up learn how to use it Be ready to rock. You don't even have to buy a license anymore. That's that's old school. You don't have to Buy the software outright. You don't even have to have a subscription anymore. You can now pay By the day or I think it's a two-day pass So you have no excuse make sure it's up and running Go watch my videos on how to make it work at george the tech dot com slash s c And be ready Because you're gonna when you're called upon you want to make sure you know what to do Source dash elements dot com. Thanks for your support. Let's get to those questions All right, why don't we that's why we're here. We love to answer questions anyway, let's start off with niznik joe or is it joe niznik? Because himself niznik joe We'll go with that go with it What's he asking here? I'm using a moving blanket pvc pipe setup with a for fine mic One of those for fine for fine from china. I think okay Um, how good is that for a starter setup? And can it be used for a good demo? Sure, why don't we don't know because we don't know what it sounds like and if it sounds good It is good. And if it don't sound good, it ain't yeah, so whatever the for fine mic is if it sounds awesome Clean clear no noise no distortion If it startles you when you play it through speakers your cat thinks you're talking to the cat It's probably a good mic Really, I know you're going to google a for fine right as I am speaking here without a Because you're fast on your fingers are fast when when we get to that kind of stuff That name looks familiar. That looks like one of those direct to amazon products that you see Showing up online. Yeah, yeah, I'm seeing a lot of those a lot of people say I'm using This or that and I'm like I never heard of it and it's like 54 bucks. Oh, I'll bet it's just wonderful There are some oddballs out there. I've seen youtube reviewers who get these mics sent to them even me with my poultry Number of subscribers get offered microphones from god knows where to be reviewed Yeah, and I almost always turn it down Um You know, there's a lot of those out there and once in a while they luck into them not being crappy Yeah, occasionally, you know, if you you know, but again to me, it's always what's the physical setup and what yeah What what niznik joe is asking here is is will that work? Well, it depends good and this is the other thing that Whenever you ask a question whenever you have a concern about will this work will that work There's only one way to find out And that's for us to hear it And which is why we have, you know, our our on our sites. I've got my specimen collection cup You've got, you know, your your system for for taking files We're listening to see what's going on, you know, people say it's a buzz. It's a hum. It's a this It's a that and I'll go. Well, it's not a hum. It's a buzz And and what's the difference what's the difference between a hum and a buzz? Well, uh-huh. They're different frequencies. They occur for different reasons. We know that stuff You don't but if you don't if you just use a descriptive word it sounds, you know, metallic Okay, it sounds orange and I wanted to sound more yellow yellow. Yeah, it's like So what does that mean? Yeah, if you're going to ask a question about something like that it always helps To send an actual sample so we can hear exactly what you're talking about But a pvc booth with moving blankets if you're in a quiet room those things work fabulous Yeah, they're there. It's a it's a quick and easy solution But you have to be in a quiet room if you're in a noisy room or something like that It's going to cause a problem because moving blankets are transparent sound-wise, but they do absorb sound So it doesn't reflect back to you But I found a lot of people who have an outbuilding Like uh, you know like a a small cabin behind their house or you know a utility shed that's actually pretty big Those are great because they're away from the house And if you're not in a noisy neighborhood you put one of those up there It sounds better than some studios. I've heard around here. Mm-hmm. So Yep It's true. Yeah The one jeff holman asks Thanks george for putting up the comparison from mac rumors about geek benches speed tests of the m1 chip But it says that the processor speed is 3.2 gigahertz on all three machines mini macbook air and macbook pro No, sorry. I took a breath there Do you expect the processor speeds to be The same on all three machines rather than following the past protocol of the air having a slower processor than the mini and the pro Wow, well, I there is no way I can know that yet um, the fact that they're using from what I can see It's an m1 chip. It's an m1 chip. It's an m1 chip. I don't As far as I know, there's no variations between m1 chips yet I could be completely wrong about that when the specs come out for all the machines, which I think they already are But for what I've seen They all have the m1 chip Maybe there's going to be like an m1 pro or an m1 x Or an m2 or some other higher level more complex chip, which I'm sure there will be eventually You know on the phones, where are we at the a14 x bionic or whatever the processor is now So, you know, there's going to be upgraded chips eventually But this is what's really bizarre is the macbook pro the macbook air And the mac mini as far as I can tell have exactly the same brain Inside so you're getting the same performance on all of them macbook pro has a has a fan How did I not even mention this the macbook air does not have a fan? I completely forgot to mention that one of the reasons I'm so damn excited about it The macbook air doesn't have a fan. It's silent No more random fans coming on because of zoom and google hangouts and Ah, thank you Fanless macbook the macbook air has no fan the macbook pro does have a fan because Watch the video go to apple watch they'll explain why it has a fan, but it's basically allows it to sustain higher clock speeds over time without overheating And the mac mini also has a fan for the same reason I would love to have all I'd love to have the mac mini to replace my 2018 here Maybe I'll do that someday, but it's fine for what I'm doing. I'm not doing a lot of heavy lifting Right the only time I've ever heard the fan go on on my computer is when I'm rendering video Yeah, never with audio it's Yeah, never it's just never it's always a video related task because Now more of the cores are being used and the gpu processor is being used and all that stuff is going to play That gets really really hot. That's why those fans come on Well, yes for questions. They flood in Yes, let's roll through some of these j. Horace black has a bunch of questions Hey, so I have questions from two other people who watched the show tonight and the last one is my question One on your website. Yes on your website. Do you have the akg pro audio headphones on your suggested headphones? Do you still like the bare dynamic dt 770s or has that changed? Oh, I guess he's referring to my my home studio now. Yeah calm page. Yeah, um Why didn't I put the dg 770s? I don't know why I didn't put them on there I guess just because they're a lot more expensive than the audio technicas and So I just didn't bother putting them on there But yeah, I'm I still use them like as you can see I'm wearing them right now And I do still recommend them I have gone through a couple pairs of dt 770s when the drivers start going buzz buzz buzz And it comes and goes it's kind of weird mine. My right one's been doing it lately um But you know, I haven't used the audio technicus for 10 years like I have these so I don't know But I I yeah, I still use them and I still like them. Yeah, all right He asks you also have the personas or the personas in the news Aeris near field studio monitors. Is there another option you like? Oh man, of course, of course there are No, there's no studio monitors out there Yeah, I mean, it's like There's so many dang options. I mean, you know and so many companies are making similar speakers at similar price points and But I just I found that, you know anecdotally from as many people as I've worked with I'm hearing more that people like those So I recommend them more than others um I haven't heard a lot of people saying that they fail on them or burn out or buzz or anything So that's probably why I've been recommending them and they're they're not expensive So again, I'm I'm big on recommending things that are cost effective um Very, you know high value and I find these to be that to to be the case So, yeah, that's why they're the ones I've been recommending But there's nothing wrong with the krks and the mackeys and the yamaha's I I use hs fives Yamaha hs fives. I love them. They're great on and on And and loved my rocket fives until I blew out a woofer in one of them. It happens. I won't say how Uh twisted wave is there a way to easily add music a music track to dry audio in twisted wave? No, not really If you're on a mac and you want to add music just do it in garage band exactly Use a free program garage band or use audacity Um, but no it's not easy. Yes, there's hacky ways to do it and people sometimes do it because they They like saying I did it in twisted wave, but no, it's not a multi-track software. It's not made for multi-track production Moving on. Yes. No, it's it. Yeah, it's really for single track audio. Which is why we like it All right, you get to read number four since you know, I guess this is actually now This is horse j horse's actual question I have a five by four booth as I know I need to get a mount to put the 27 inch 4k monitor that I have in my booth as well as something to hold the keyboard in place right now I have it jerry rigged on a stool um book Good and the monitor stand books, I guess From floor to top of the monitor. It's about 68 inches. Do you have any recommendations? I can use for my booth Depends. Do you want it on the wall or do you want it freestanding on something that you can move around and raise and lower? I'm more and more of a fan now of having adjustable height desks that you put everything on so you can sit or stand There's a bunch of them on amazon now that you just literally squeeze a little Hydraulic lever like a chair like one of these They have those on desks now. Oh now i'm higher than I was before Down they have those on desks now so you can raise and lower a desk with a Pool of a lever and an electrical left. There's electric lift ones I'm more into that. I like that everything moves up and down. You can be at any height And it's more universal you can mount everything to the wall which is fine But then it's a lot more difficult to move everything up and down when it's mounted to a wall There are very few really good systems for having a keyboard monitor mouse On an arm that can go up and down or you know, so that that's why i'm not as much into that Solution and it ends up being a lot more expensive usually to do it that way. So uh, yeah, yeah Go with the desk. Yeah, fred north says What would your reaction be if I told you I run windows 7 professional on an iMac? Would your head explodes like in the book scanners? Actually, I have I have vmware running on my mac that loads windows 7. Okay, when I have to run sound forage Right or audacity audition 3.0 for somebody, you know, yes, well professor north says I'm comfortable with my favorite programs and don't want to change Nobody says you got to do anything. We're just making recommendations Yeah, I mean, uh, yeah mandatory It's not mandatory. You don't have to be the cool kids. You don't have to buy the new thing You don't have to get sucked into the upgrade vortex Uh, thankfully as long as there's virtual machines and bootcamp You can stick with your old audition 1.5 or cool edit pro or saw or I don't know. Whatever that thing is really it only runs on windows. Yeah, you can keep it. Yes Ms. B asks mr. Lennard. Are you still selling those vo suits or oh, man the, uh, studio suit It was it was called not at the moment It was it was a fun thing to do for a year And I sold a lot of them and I know a lot of people still using them and they work great There's still some in this studio and in my booth and stuff like that But trying to manufacture that stuff is not what I want to do I am a voice actor and a technical advisor And I'm not very good with the sewing machine So It's dang hard. It is ask ask rick washerman's wife who sews The caps for the tri booth Absolutely, that is not easy to broke a lot of needles on that canvas sure has Uh, my gort yeah, Mike gordon says, uh, thank you What forces this stuff works great The first time I put this up my nose I thought it's called to the back of my eyeballs reason I asked didn't want to scald my throat Why because we're talking about alcohol Uh, if you thank you for telling me that I I was going to get to that Wtf. Yeah What are you talking about? Yes, we just happen to have a bottle here alcohol It's al k a lol you find at the drugstore. It's not it's you know, just asked the pharmacist for it Mix it 20 to one with water 20 parts water one part Put it in a sprayer this stuff gets rid of mouth clicks It's pay attention over there. All right Anyway, yes, it reduces his editing time. Absolutely That's the editing times reduced to a listen through with timing changes for the most part. What a blessing. Thank you for the tip You're welcome Great last question last question from sonia Sonia. Oh, yes. I recognize that name Um, george, you've already helped me a little bit with my setup for my home studio Thank you for that. I have maybe a dumb question But I am recording until lenova think pad laptop and I know that when you see source connector There's no commas what am I supposed to breathe? Sorry, we're just ties into the deep breathing thing. Um Okay, I'll do that again. George. You've already helped me a little bit with my setup for my home studio. Thank you for that I have maybe a dumb question, but I am recording into a lenovo think pad laptop And I know that when you use source connector any of those platforms You are required to be connected via ethernet for a more reliable connection I don't have ethernet on my computer. What do I do? What do you know nobody does? I mean ethernet ports are are considered obsolete by the tech industry apparently Apple specifically They don't really have them anymore. Um, but even yeah the all of the ultra books lightly light the lightweight laptops Have no ethernet ports part of the reason being that those ports are big So you need a pretty thick computer is to fit the thing in there Not a big deal Um, there's a million usb to ethernet adapters. They're generally under 20 dollars. They're on amazon I do have one on homebo studio now.com There's one for usb. There's one for usb c um, which I don't know which one yours has but um, there are plenty of them just Do a quick search for a usb to ethernet adapter Um, I like to get one. That's a hub as well. So because if you're gonna take up a port Just for ethernet you might as well. I'd also have it have multiple functions So I like it when they have a couple usb ports And an ethernet port That's what I look for. Um, but uh, yes, not a big deal. Okay. 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