 Hey, it's time for a tech talk because we got lots of cool stuff coming up tonight talking about tech Oh, man, we answer tons of questions on the show tonight. We've got Richard from the UK asking about IVR We got Kyle asking about the zoom H5. We've got questions about audacity converting files We got questions about levels and using dropbox and other tools to sync your files So if that's stuff you want to know about make sure you stay tuned tonight All right coming up on voiceover body shop right now two men twin sons from different mothers with a passion for voiceover recording technology and The desire to make recording easy for voice actors everywhere together in one place George Whidham the home studio engineer to the stars a Virginia Tech grad with an unmatched knowledge of all the latest gear and technology in voiceover today Dan Leonard the home studio master a voice actor with over 30 years experience in broadcasting and recording and a no-holds-barred myth-busting attitude for teaching you how easy it is together to bring you all the latest technology today's voiceover superstars and Leaving the discussion on how to make the most of your voiceover business This is voiceover body shop Voiceover body shop is brought to you by voice over essentials calm home of Harlan Hogan signature products Source elements makers of source connect source connect pro and source connect now Beo to go go calm everything you need to become a successful voice artist voiceover extra your daily resource for VO success The VO dojo take your voice over career all the way J. Michael Collins demos when quality matters and by voice actor websites Dot-com where your voice actor website shouldn't be a pain in the butt And now live from their super secret multimedia studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are George Whidham and Dan Leonard And we're back here on voiceover body shop time for some tech talk Tech talk, that's what we started the show and that's where we're gonna keep giving you guys Absolutely can't stop talking about tech. Yeah, we and we got some great stuff. We've got your tech update we want to talk a little bit about Nam and I want to demonstrate a couple of things about The new audacity which is really kind of kind of cool and really they've changed it a little bit and And we've got a couple of questions to fantastic. All right. What should we start? Let's start with your tech update. All right. Well You guys love passwords, don't you? No said no one ever Password giant pain the neck and that's the problem with passwords is because there's such a pain in the neck We get really lazy with passwords and if you're like a lot of us even myself I will reuse the same passwords for certain things over and over again. The problem is is sometimes those passwords Get picked up along the way and put into the hands of guys that want to steal from you And this can happen and the thing is you don't know if it's happened to you, right? It's pretty much impossible to know. So one thing you do is like Psychotically change your passwords constantly, which who's gonna do that with 400 websites, right? I can't remember the ones I have that's one way to deal with it another way is to use a service called last pass and And they're not a sponsor here They do sponsor a lot of webcasts, but I've been using them for probably five years and last pass is a password manager So what you do is you you can use it in a couple ways one You can just have it memorize your passwords the ones that you use already and If you have websites that are like, you know a newspaper you read online or a place where you buy beer or something like that Having a super strong password. Maybe isn't a big deal for that, right? But for banking stuff the IRS things like that you want really strong past I like the thumbprint on my phone. That's pretty handy But still it's only doing all it's doing is recalling whatever the lame password was that you came up on the first place So you might want to check out some tools in fact I found some resources that might be helpful for you guys and one of them I have it on my notes here is called Have I been poned dot com? Have I been poned? Have I been poned poned so poned is geek speak for owned Take the O and they replace it with a P. Why I don't know ask a millennial geek that you know nearby in your basement You have one right now. Go ask him. Why is it written that way? But basically what it's saying is have I been owned dot com with a P Have I been poned the whole point of this is a place we can go and enter a couple different things You can go in there and enter your email address first of all and it will tell you how many databases online your email address has Existed and been leaked from so it'll say this particular website where you use this email has been hacked And your email is now in the wild so just say you might want to know that so that's freaky enough But then on their drop-down menu they have one for password and this is where it gets fun type in those passwords that you use for everything type it in there and Search and see what it says Chances are and the one that I use all the time It's in there. Hmm because some website that I I used that password with had been hacked and that password and email address Went out in a database which is now available in the black market or God knows where so that password is out in the wild So if you had if your password shows up and have I been pwned calm Change it if it's a website you care about It's not something where you bought your mom flowers 12 years ago, but something really important You change the password away. It's amazing how people are just hacking into everything There's countries out there who have no military power, but what they do is gross national product is what they have is Damn straight so you really got to have it together So anyway last pass you can if you get tired of coming up with passwords because that's some people do have clever Password schemes which more power to you if you do if you don't use last pass and just have it generate a password And it's gonna generate one crazy password could be 812 16 You can make it 24 whatever how many digits it needs to be for that website And you can say whether it has to have special characters when it's done It's gonna make you a random password that you are never gonna remember ever, but that's okay last pass remembers it But you got to remember your last you got to remember that last pass Write it on something and put it in your safe deposit box or somewhere safe because that's a really strong password I I particularly use a password. That's an entire sentence really for my last pass thing You're probably thinking that's a pain You mean every time I go to my web my you know go to a website I got a log in the past last pass with a 25 word sentence to know you don't you can you can you have your computer set to Unlock your passwords using different things like a fingerprint like on my smartphone all the iPhones now do it Or they use the face recognition right my smartphone does it I have a lot last pass login using my thumbprint That's pretty hard to hack not impossible But pretty hard to hack right and then last pass recalls the password for me It does more stuff too like if you're on a team of people and they all have to access a website Instead of giving everybody on the team the password They all have a last pass account and you secretly share the password They actually never see it last pass knows what it is and it fills it in for you So there's there's some really cool tools out there if you've been hacked or if you're concerned about it I would highly recommend this. I mean I can't tell you how many times even if it's not about security Just freaking remembering your passwords. Yeah, I can't tell you times. I'm with the client on the phone like okay Go ahead and log in your iTunes account. Which is your iTunes account? Is that the same as your eye cloud? Okay, yes. Ah, dang. I tried. Oh man. It's making me do a new password Like I hear that every week from somebody I hear it from my wife every morning Yes, if you had it stored in a secure place like this that wouldn't happen to you You can also put other Sensitive data in there. I have my social security number in there. I have a lot of sensitive data in this database I mean, you're probably thinking it's dangerous to have it all in one place But I'm telling you last pass is something that's being trusted by a lot of IT geeks and security people. I mean, it's it's it's legit It's really really secure. So I would trust it. I'd give it a shot Excellent. All right. Yeah securities all over the place. Well, you and I are hitting the road this week That's right. And we're going down to Anaheim. That's right. I know our friend Murag Yeah, my person will be with us and that's gonna be a lot of fun. And we're going to NAMM N-A-M-M which stands for the National Association of Music Merchants and We've been there. I've been there twice. You've been this will be your eighth time. At least Losing track man. Yeah, I've been going since before I lived in LA. Oh, I actually flew out one time to come with my dad It's It's everything. It's about musical Instruments and musical technology because it's guys who sell Music stand anything that supports the music is this disco lighting for DJing everything. Yeah, so it's it's huge I mean our first time going into the convention hall going it is Literally the Disneyland of audio equipment. I mean it is like Yeah, so much stuff. Yeah, and of course all the stuff that we use in voiceover was designed primarily for making music pretty much Except for the voiceover headphones and the voiceover microphone pretty much everything else was originally for music, right? but we go there because we want to see what's the latest and what's the greatest and You know and report back to you. It's like here it is, you know, but you know, we think it's okay or It's interesting just to learn about those things. So we're gonna talk to a lot of these manufacturers individual We see people we've seen there many times before we see old friends. We also see You know, we stumble on things and there's one whole hall. I think it's called Hall E Yeah, it's down in the basement. Yeah, we found some cool stuff Yeah, you go there because that's less expensive booths and so vendors that can't swing the really big flashy They go down there and you discover new stuff. It's kind of fun sometimes, right? That's where I saw isovox Right, which is you know a really unique product developed by a really unique guy from Sweden Which isn't selling really well yet because it's not quite the right thing for voiceover, but still Really cool design really interesting product, you know and we discover really cool stuff And when we do find something that's super relevant Then we make sure we cover it and you guys get to see it Alright, and we'll be we'll be be releasing all these interviews in the next over the next couple of weeks We'll have them here on the show. We'll have them on YouTube so you can see for yourself all the fun that it is That we're doing I think Sue is gonna actually be there too. Sue happens to be there on Thursday I don't know how when you go to the show if you see somebody, you know, it's a Unbelievable random here. Now. I'm hoping I'm gonna see Steve be wonder Fifth or sixth time. I mean I've seen Stevie Wonder wandering the halls of Nam Aim aimlessly. Sorry bad joke. Um, I've Maybe I love you. I've told you that in person. I love you I've seen him wandering the halls like checking out mixing consoles and all kinds of gear He Stevie Wonder is a huge gearhead. He's a massive geek. He loves it I saw him sitting at a huge Yamaha console checking it all out. It was so cool, man I mean, I've seen him more live there than seeing him in concert So anyway, I hope to see a lot of cool friends like Sue and Martha cons gonna be there Yeah, a lot of people we know we're gonna be down. That's gonna be a lot of fun Looking forward to it and I get to stay at my mom's. Oh, man. That's cool. Yeah, she's real close She's real like 10 minutes away from there. It's like I'm coming down this week Anyway, uh, want to do some dog view and demonstrate some stuff. Should we do that after a break? Oh, we can do that Why don't we take a break? 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Yes, sort of you still can't scrub with it Okay, but I did notice a couple of interesting things that I wanted to point out one of the things that you got to do when you're setting up your software is Of course, make sure your levels are right and they give you the chance to do that there's the the icons are kind of new and If you could just show us can you show that full screen there? So There we go. Perfect. Nicely done up here. You can see there's the the microphone Icon that is right next to where the input meter is and if you click on that and says start monitoring It will start to monitor and you'll be able to take get the level on your voice where you should be modulating between minus six and minus four and And so that's a good way to check that before you have before you hit record then once you hit record By hitting the record button It will start recording your voice and by the way, that's what your waveform should look like like that Not little tiny things. It's amazing. I'm getting stuff a little little tiny waveforms from people and It's you know, what and once you've got that here's something that I don't think a lot of people this is new Right, this well now. This isn't really new But I'll bet you people didn't know that you could stretch it out like that. Oh, I do that all the time I do it I you know and but some people like they'll know they'll start piling up other tracks underneath but you now get a nice big view of it and It helps a whole lot to do that and then You know and then you can of course zoom in you know using the you know the zoom-in tool and It's it seems to be a slightly better program now And also I also found out it's got sort of a punch and roll on it now Sort of a punch and roll sort of a punch. How would you describe it? How would I describe it? Well, what you would do is you know, you would place a marker somewhere and then it's under I believe it's under Transport transport not played with it. I know they added it. It's Or there's an overdub on here now that makes sense. Yeah, if you hit record it would overdub what's already there That's right. Whereas in twist a wave when you hit record. It doesn't overwrite it inserts it right and now apparently you can scrub All right, so it's becoming more and I think right below that line I think is where the scrub is yeah, yeah, I think it's kind of twisted wavy Yeah, it so you should be able to do the space between that bar and the this empty gray line Right, it's like that. So it was right tried dragging inside there try that. Is that doing it? No, I like the audience Hey, there it is. How do you like that twisted wave very similar? Yeah, that's that's a major improvement on there So how about um How about points and roll recording? Oh, you have to your web page is open. That's why it's so how about that? Thanks How about um, the now I think another thing that it does is when you stop and hit record again It doesn't keep making new tracks Have you tried that yet? Let's see son of a gun Man what an improvement like we've been waiting for audacity to do that change that feature. Well since audacity since so Congratulations audacity for listening to the viewers and the listeners and the users and boom Yeah, now it works like everything else go play with it Yeah, I mean if you've got audacity, which all of you do since it was free go look at some you know Make sure you get the new update which is What is it? It's now 2.2 point 2.2 point 2.2 point 2.2 point 2.2 and I like it. Yeah, good improvements. Good improvement, especially for nothing Yeah, and you know what the noise reduction tool on it is pretty freaking good It's surprisingly strong like I've actually had people export audio into it for noise reduction And then bring it back into their other doll for editing right amazingly it works that well and speech and pitch and speed Right if you want to speed something up and twist a wave Okay Audacity does it really well. It's pretty pretty how did they do that? All right. Well, we got lots of questions. We should we should let's answer some of these questions Cool up on your screen because it's easier for me to Face the mic when I read off your screen versus mine. Okay, let's do that and my eyesight still hanging in there So I think I can read okay All right first question from Richard in the UK Hello, sorry. I did that. I apologize or we'll never do that again I heard that certain types of VO work Example of being like e-learning and IVR can involve creating hundreds of separate files and dealing with them needs a Digital audio workstation that can cope with batch processing. If so, does Reaper have this facility? Hmm. I don't know. I does not I don't not using Reaper I really don't know George is going to research that question find out why you're well I can tell you that in twisted wave. It's it's easy peasy lemon squeezy Yeah, I mean, I know a lot of folks in fact This was a topic that came up in the twisted wave user group twist wave VO group on Facebook People were talking about how we love twisted wave because it works great with and they started naming all the other Dawes like Reaper studio one and they love editing or love they love doing certain things and twist away It's it's a great utility. I know a producer that uses new window. It's like a $1,500 program He still uses twist away for doing batch processing because it does it really really amazing that you can spend all that money and generally When you're buying when you're buying a program like that. That's really expensive You're buying it for a lot of functionality the chances are you don't need yeah So don't think that oh this program is gonna sound so much better It's all one anymore and zeros my friends. It was a day that may have been a big deal 15 20 years ago Not anymore. Yeah, but I was saying that in twisted wave You just put markers down you numbered the markers and you go split by markers and I've done 90 slide Presentations and it cuts the editing time down by like two-thirds It's it's amazing stuff. That's a really good man. And you can do it and in on in audition. It's You go to You click on you put a marker down and you right click on it And you get the chance to make turn it into a range marker and you stretch it out And you can put a bunch of ranges over the audio and lump and label those markers and then export by things in range or Markers and it names them and just does the same thing So those are that's a lot easier in batch processing because I mean you have to do it as you edit each particular slide Or each particular file But it will do it right. Okay George is now showing us under the file menu There is a batch file batch converter function in reaper It's there question answered. So I haven't used it before but it looks somewhat similar to the way the one that i'm familiar with And twisted wave works You bring a bunch of files in You can use effects. So that does actually work kind of like twisted wave You can click use effects and load an effects chain So actually it's very similar to the way twisted waves. So there you go. All right. All right. They all do it now Michael kennedy from palo alto california the smartest community in america Aside from los alamos. I think What security software and well number one what security software in two Cloud backup software might you suggest or thoughts where I could read further about these topics Okay, um security software. So i'm assuming he's talking about virus scanning Probably i'm not really sure what security software is talking about but maybe he's talking about that from a general perspective Well last pass we already talked about that's an absolute no brainer if you don't do anything at least start there Um, the next thing is running mac os which almost never is hacked almost never Never is rarely rarely ever the other. Yeah, it's it's extremely rare I won't say never because someone was like well, right? One thing that came out and no, it's trust me. It's never You're almost never have to worry about being um But on windows windows has defender and I know when I was a windows user I used avg For virus scan that was really popular. Um, and then what was the other part of that question? It says uh about um a cloud services over cloud services So assuming you mean file sync or file backup I'll just let me just tell you what I use and then you can decide if it's a I use crash plan And that backs up all my computers now crash plan I'm gonna give you a wag of the finger on this they changed their licensing up and in midstream all sudden Instead of five computers being backed up for 15 bucks a month It was five computers being backed up for $15 a month each So my bill went like that and I didn't notice for a couple months. Shame on me So crash plan not as cheap as it used to be but still I use crash plan to back up important stuff It has saved my butt many times and others. I know I've saved uh save their butts. Um, and then so that's cloud based Um, and then for file Back up or synchronizing. I use dropbox. I basically run my entire business in dropbox I cloud I use and then I use and I use a google drive google drive and I use all those too I use all and I physically make a backup of everything. I've got my hard drives back here time machine I do archives. So once my time machine drive is full. I replace it If my dropbox gets full I take all the old files and move it to another hard drive It's a process. I mean, I've got a stack of hard drives in my closet, but you got to have a workflow like that Yep, absolutely. Well, this is fun. I like answering questions. We want more questions. Uh, kyle goodnight Asks I just got a zoom h5 your thoughts on the zoom. We've talked about this one before It works. It's great. I mean, it's great for on the road for me. Yeah, if you're using it for a voiceover It's not that convenient. Yeah, you're recording and then you're taking the card or plugging it in and syncing it, but Freddie over here loves it. Eddie loves it. Sorry. Sorry. Uh, Eddie loves it. He loves it. He's over here. It's affordable It's affordable. It does actually sound quite good Um, I think the zoom fight h5 n has an extra trick where it will be Not just a recorder, but also an audio interface. So if you plug in the usb the one I have is that also Yeah, I it'll prompt and say do you want to use it as interface or just for Charging or whatever to try it for that, but it's there. I learned it from the boot. It's multi multifunctional device Yeah, no, I've used it for that too. It's it's it's interesting. It's it's kind of kind of, you know There's a lot of to it You got to go to we've got to run through a lot of menus and stuff because it's a standalone unit You know, I I wouldn't recommend it as you know, your strict voiceover gear Yeah, but uh, you know for it's you know, if you're on the road or if you're Recording sound effects for film or interviews or interviews podcast a lot of people use it for What do you what do you watch as the booth junkie's video on it? Yeah much easier than Doing it by yourself. Yeah. Okay watching the video on how to use it then learning to use it Right. Yeah All right. Booth junkies got great tutorial videos tons of them. Okay. He's been on the show. Yes Maurice a scott asks I've been using wave lab but thinking about switching to audacity However audacity keeps asking me to download a separate software program to convert a file to mp3 or mp4 Is that the same with the new audacity? Probably because audacity is free and the encoder that you use to Encode a file to mp3 is is a licensed program So that's why they make you step through an extra hoop Now what's interesting is the the mp3 encoder, which is called lame. It's an acronym for which I don't know what it means Is also free But for whatever reason because of licensing they're not allowed to include it So they have to make you install it separately. It's a pain. It's an extra step. It's dumb But it it's that's uh, that's how it works, you know, I used wave lab for years and years and years Um, I kind of it's nowadays. It's become so bloated and complicated It's it's not what I remember it being It was a lot more stripped down back in the day and it was very to me It was twisted wave before twisted wave, but I don't blame you for wanting to try some new tools All right, bill and so and sue and sue and so Ask the question. Yes. Sorry bill. You've heard all the jokes. Um at what level should my voice peak when recording from an analog mic Kenny from reaper Oh reaper mania must be a website says minus 18 db He explains this is the optimal level based on the way computer sound cards are calibrated or something to that effect I feel like this doesn't give me the best signal to noise ratio probably not plenty of headroom above minus 18 So why not record hotter? Thanks. Boy, we've talked about this one. Yeah, but hey, I'm glad you asked Dan, what's your opinion on that? Well, you're supposed to be you should be peaking upwards of minus six to minus four I mean, there's still plenty of headroom there and with digital recording Really, you can go up to zero when you're not going to over modulate Cross zero that because they're out into trouble. Yeah, you fall for clear But yeah, that's you know, somebody who says that You know, I think it seems to be a lot of people out there who are like, oh, I'm an expert on this But the proof is is not in what they're saying because it's like, well, I have an opinion on this We've you and I have worked on so many studios and worked with so much recorded material You know, there's you know, there's little variations in there But it really is not that low the key one There's really one key thing you did not mention what and that is what bit uh depth that bit that he's recording Is he at 16 bit or 24? Massive difference here if you record at minus 18 peak in 16 bit Yes, when you bring the levels up to where they need to be for going to be noisy. Yeah, you're going to bring up some noise It's going to add his when you record at 24 bit You will not bring up as much noise now if there's noise there to begin with because you have a noisy Mic or a noisy room. Yes when you bring the levels up, you're going to hear noise But you're not going to impart digital noise When you record in 24 bits, so that's an important step Okay, okay. Yeah, that's Levels or something people just don't seem to understand And uh, you know, maybe we'll do some webinars on that. I mean the analog audio days was very different like you Zero was not peak you actually went plus three plus six and you the tape manufacturer would tell you What levels you can peak at right very different world? Um, it's it's a little more it's simpler But also a little more complicated now because of bits and bit depth and everything else numbers, but never good at math Anyway, uh Get friends voice asks. What's the best way to sync with dropbox and it's is it automatic? I'm currently using bit defender and iDrive Um, it's so uh, is it automatic? Well with dropbox unless they've changed this You still have to put all your your work files in the dropbox folder Okay, so at first it's really annoying that you have to do that now someone in the chat room You can correct me if i'm wrong because they may have made it now So you can sync any folder on dropbox They may have changed it because a lot of other companies do that A lot of the companies now you can right click on any folder and say sync this to the cloud So if they've changed it let me know but normally you have to put all your work in dropbox now I did that years ago Just part of my workflow now and it's normalized. So it's always the files are always there They're on any computer get them on my phone, you know Once in a while I'll be out in the field and someone says do you have that file? Go to my phone and find it in dropbox and then send them link. It's pretty sweet Um, what else uh bit defender? I don't know anything about bit Bit defender, I don't um iDrive if you're an iMac if you're a mac user iDrive is oh that's different from iCloud. Yeah, that's like yeah iDrive is I don't know iDrive. Yeah No, I don't know. Oh, no, I do know iDrive. iDrive is a synchronized and backup program that works on anything I think it works on mac windows android I used it for a while actually and then I just didn't want to pay for yet another license When I have crash plan and dropbox and I you know and all the others so I but They're all fine But just make sure your files are in there to begin with so that they already start syncing automatically. All right Uh, Dave Clark asks Dave Clark. He's still alive Dave. All right a while back. You talked about using a jawbone headphone Set as part of a phone patch in your booth. How did that work out? So I think I talked about it But I don't know if I ever really did it yesterday So um, so if you guys don't know the jawbone. Okay job. Well a jawbone I think you might that name may not be what you're talking about A jawbone is a is a brand of um, bluetooth that's yeah jawbone, right? Um, bluetooth would not work well because bluetooth has latency as delay So if you're trying to listen to yourself over that forget it, you never want to do that And it's also going to interfere because it's going to interfere with all your routing because you've got output from bluetooth And you've got it not a good idea No, don't try to don't try to get clever with a bluetooth transmitter and plugging that in your mixers You can have wireless headphones bluetooth not not gonna work Um, he I wonder if he's talking about the the bone conduction headphones the bone phone Yeah, it was called the bone phone. Yeah, you would wear like to go skiing You would like rest on your collarbone and then it would resonate through your bones into your ears The one that I have I think it's called aftershocks with a z on the end And um, I think the problem with it was it was a cool idea It basically sits over your ears and then it presses right here in your tmj or whatever you call this right here And you definitely hear it you feel it which is weird But the problem is it also radiates sound itself Ah, so they're not that you cannot hear them. Yeah, they're not silent. So that could be a problem for you guys I mean, you know get them on ebay cheap 20 30 bucks and try them out See what you guys yeah, he meant the one that you don't put in your ears. Yeah, I think that's aftershocks Yeah, if I if I I have a pair I bought them a long time ago to try Thought it was a cool gimmick, but they sounded lousy So I was not going to use them for anything maybe podcasts listening to podcasts, but yeah, didn't didn't blow up my dress up, you know, I mean Okay We'll edit that one out. No, we're not It's never gonna happen. All right. Well, that's fun all sorts of we like the questions That's what this show is all about and so we need your questions if you have a question During the week that you want us to do a couple of these were mailed in email is at The guys at v obs dot tv And we will answer that question like we just did and if you want to have one-on-one support. Yes These are the guys We've been doing this a long time long time You know, you guys can google it to your blue in the face and get a you know, do not get tech support through committee Yeah, yeah, don't sir. Don't source. It is not the way to go. What's it called? Don't crowd source crowd source your tech supporter Trying to figure out why your focus right interface has a bad input fine Go on to the form But if you're trying to figure out how to set up a studio for voiceover Come to us right? This is the way you should do and if they want to talk to you, where do they go? Well, you head on over to george the tech dot com And if you like shorter domains, it's george the dot tech And uh, I've got services on there. There's a menu where you can order by the service You can also book time Request a certain amount of time that you want to work with me a one-on-one Remotely or in los angeles and if I'm traveling like I am next month. I'm going up to seattle And I'm gonna make a stop in portland Then you can have me come to your place when I'm in your area So uh, stay tuned to my website follow me on twitter and stuff So you know when I'm gonna be around i'm george the tech everywhere on instagram twitter facebook That's where you can find me dan. Alrighty. Well, you can find me at Oh, there I am home voiceover studio dot com join me over there. I talk about what I do I've been updating the site. I have of course the legendary specimen collection cup there Click on that you put your audio in there and I will analyze that for 25 bucks If you need more help or if you demonstrate to me that you really need lots of help We can talk about a full consultation And uh and get that going but or if you really know you want some help and you really don't know where to start Check me out over there and uh, there's a contact me button there and you can get to me that way All right. Well, we'll be right back to say goodbye and wrap things up and tell you who's coming up on voiceover body shop Right after these This is bill ratner and you're enjoying voiceover body shop with dan lennard and george widham v obs dot tv all right, it's time to talk about harlan hogan And voice over essentials sit here like calm and show off that there they are Yeah, harlan, of course always wants me to talk about the harlan hogan Uh signature series headphones because they are perfect They're more perfect than they were before because they've been redesigned. They have a The the actual cord just pops out now Just like that There what don't we don't want you to lose your rehearsal. Yeah, really there we go Uh, and they're comfortable and all that but what harlan really wanted me to talk about this week is the fact that he's got The hangers for those that you put on your On on your mic stand. So you just take your headphones and just place them gently on there I know it sounds like a silly accessory. I can't tell you how helpful that is Has so many studios the headphones are barely hanging off the mic stand or they're laying on the floor or whatever It's helpful. Yeah, and and I have a couple and I just put one in my new booth What used to be our guest booth now. It's now totally just my booth. It's my space Isn't that nice to have your space back? Yes. So now I gently hang my headphones there And you can get those at voiceover essentials dot com Just go over there best way to do it go to the bottom of our homepage here Click on the link with harlan hogan talking into his porta booth pro And it will take you right there and you can get those check them out. Uh, he's got them on special this week And that's important because everything he's got is at a great price. He backs up the stuff he has You don't like it send it back. What's not to like if you buy it there You know, you're gonna get the good stuff voiceover essentials dot com Thanks for being with us harlan. This is anthony menders. You're watching voiceover body show And we are back to say goodbye, but we got lots to tell you about first uh in two weeks We're depending on when you're watching this on February 4th Larry davis will be with us great guy a great, you know, he great impersonator of morgan freeman But he does a lot of other stuff and he's a brilliant It's not morgan freeman. It's his high school history teacher. Right. Get it right. Okay I'm morgan freeman morgan freeman. Yeah, that that's he's good He'll be he'll be a lot of fun. You want to you want to you want to be there for that? Uh, we need to thank our donors of the week our donors like tracy h reynolds uh, eric aragoni It's so weird how it formats them somehow differently. Sometimes you see the name on the subject thomas pinto Shelly avaleno, I mean, thanks. Yeah, all these folks are subscribers. That's why you're hearing their names every show almost tremy moseley trey Good guy Um, philips appear. Yeah, we haven't met yet. I don't think but we should meet him when he's dead Uh, and since the last time we also have Sarah borges, Sarah borges. All right. So thank you So so much everybody one and all and if you want to donate is the donate button still on our website Let's go find it. Shall we let's go look at our website Yes, it is. Okay. So right below the chat room. Please donate. All right I'm glad we're on the same page. There's also a survey link on there too. So up top next to contact their survey We check it out once in a while and we see what it is. You guys are thinking about what we're doing Right, and we'd like you to subscribe to our email list. We do Uh, which I think there's also a link to that on the it's all on the website. It's all there dot tv All right, make sure you go check that out. Uh, hey, you know show us your boots guys I know we're having a dig through my archives. This is Howard parkers Nice place two and a half years ago. I think we can get some fresh booth photos. So guys send them in we appreciate In landscape not portrait Landscape all right Let's see. Okay. Well, as you know, we're now live on alternative mondays So we'll be we'll be showing you all this week Uh, an interview with our guest and then the following week we will replay The tech segment and that's all you want to hear Which you know, we know some people really like hearing the tech segment Uh, so a week of interview The following week tech and then we go live again on february 4th with larry davis And we know most of you guys consume the show as playback Yep, you can hear on a podcast Or you can listen to it on or watch the show on facebook and youtube we post every show online after the show All right And uh, if you'd like to be in the studio audience because we had this marvelous new Studio couch in here lots of space show this show the studio there, sue And there's eddie furrier who's in and his son chris. There's this chance He's been sitting here all night for that moment. And there he is Baby So we got all this room in here and we'd like to have you in here live for watching the show live Uh, so write to us at the guys at v obs dot tv and put audience And tell us, you know, if you're going to be in the greater los angeles area, which is pretty great Uh, Get greater all the time all the time Uh, we need to thank our sponsors like harlan hogan's voiceover essentials voiceover extra vo to go go dot com source elements voice actor websites dot com and j michael collins Demo all right. We also need to thank the dan and marcy lennard foundation for the betterment of web casting Yes, uh, our producer catherine curtain for getting us great guests And and they just keep piling up. There's a huge list of great guests who keep getting me even better Mike merlino was in the chat room tonight. Did a great job got all those questions on there way to go, mike Uh, and of course, uh, his mom our studio director and technical director sue merlino I can't sing any higher screwed that up. Oh, and of course lee pennie simply for being lee pennie Uh, well, that's gonna do it for us. Uh, thanks for joining us tonight on voiceover body shop and uh, remember if it sounds good It is good. Hey, we got that right. Uh, i'm dan lennard and i'm george wood and this is voiceover body shop or vo bs Have a great week everybody