 Hey, it's time for tech talk here on voice over body shop We got a bunch of cool stuff to show people tonight some stuff on twisted wave You know talk all about the new features such as punch-in recording. All right, and some nostalgic stuff About the humble beginnings of you abs. Yes or v. OBS We'll on before a little bit on how to take care of your microphone and some great questions from our audience So stay tuned voice over body shop tech talk is 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. 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Michael Collins demos when quality matters and voice over 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 Oh Hi there, I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whitton and this is voice over body shop or VO BS Tech talk talk talk talk We got a lot of cool stuff to talk about tonight You you're gonna talk a little bit about twisted wave If you've got a question for us right now throw it in the chat room if it has to do it With the home voice over studio technology because that's what we do and we'll talk about that a little bit We also have a little bit of memorabilia tonight That for those of you they're history Yeah, because George and I've been doing this show for a while and it's fun to see what happens Over time it was officially years on March 22. Dan and I started doing our show together So we'll have a little trip down memory lane It's it's more like a nightmare down the memory lane, but it was an interesting Yeah, very very humble And you know and maybe I may have a little bit on how to take care of your mic good So let's get going because you've got some stuff on twisted wave. Let's talk Yeah, so if you're a twisted wave user or if you've considered using twisted wave But you're on the fence about using twisted wave because it's missing maybe one or two features that you really need Namely punch in or punch and roll recording. Well, it finally has it We mentioned the we mentioned it two weeks ago at that time. It was still in beta development. Not anymore It's been released. It's gone through its growing pains And it's it's pretty much locked in now So so the way Thomas the developer and we if you go on on for YouTube type in e-wabs and Twisted wave you will find an interview that we did with Thomas the developer like six something years. Yeah on time ago That's how long we've been using this off this software. I think it's been around as long as we have on the show It's really been amazing But he's very slow to roll out new features like he's really cautious. He's very much into it being stable pretty much looking the same from virgin to virgin which I Think he gets it like software. That's for professionals needs to be consistent This is why pro tools while it had some, you know cosmetic Changes and then it's also had under the hood changes You can sit down a pro tools from seven years ago or 12 years ago And now and it looks pretty much the same the hot everything works the same twist of wave same kind of idea It's consistent But he finally released this punch and roll feature something that a lot of people especially doing long form Audio book narration have been looking for so if you go on to your twist of wave app And you want to try something new run the update and as of today I think the current version is 1.21 point six. There was another new update just released So he basically what happens is he puts out a version of the software But he tries to release a version that runs on as many versions of macOS as possible And in doing so they'll find out like oh this feature doesn't work on 10 point like 10 point 10 point five or something like that And the only way he's gonna find that out is by putting it out there, right? So last week there was 1.21 then 1.21 point one point two point three Point four and point five. He's been answering a lot of emails But I'll tell you man, you can't think of a more on the on the spot Responsive software developer. Yeah, I love twisted waves, you know for especially for long format narration and I you learning eat It's all for you learning may magnificent for e-learning because you can divvy up files like that It's cut your production time tremendously And I you know, I tried the the new version and tried the punch and roll Not that I ever use it for anything because I just I record everything and then go back and edit it But for auto it's for audio book narrators. It's like it's like three seconds. Oh, look at that So you're pre-rolling off and it works great And that's you know, it might take a lot of people away from pro tools, which would be good because pro tools is You really have to know what you're talking about and what you're doing with you use pro tools It's becoming quite expensive Updating and all the things of it. Yeah twisted wave. It's just super simple for voice actors doesn't overwhelm your computer You know your Mac mostly But what I can you can pull out a Mac from a version with 10.4 Tiger? I think it is. Yeah, and if you email, you know email Thomas He will send you a download for the version of twist away that runs on tiger Which is what 10 11 years old something like that, but he's got it you can download and it runs. It works Yeah, I think for voiceover for the type of work we do it has everything you could possibly need to do your voice tracks Yeah, you know, I mean it unless you're producing stuff But if you're just sending out what dry voice tracks doesn't be a tool for certain job What were some of the updates that he put in there aside from a punch and roll? Now something that came and then disappeared again was dark mode if you're on Mojave and you're all about the dark mode He tried desperately to support dark mode and twisted wave But what he was finding out was that some of the audio units plugins which aren't twisted wave plugins They're Mac plugins aren't dark mode compatible Explain what you mean by dark mode So if you're on Mojave you can now change the overall color theme of your desktop the menu bar everything So it's all dark tint like shades of gray You know from black to gray so like instead of everything having a bright look it has a dark look And if it's studio people love it because now you can have sort of a darker look to your screen if you work in low lighting It's easier. I've noticed that at night the sand dune turns into night. That's That's a different variation But so anyway, so he he released an update that worked with dark mode So twist of wave also had the dark theme, but some of the plugins which you know were developed by Either Apple or Apple's partners don't support dark mode So you'd load a certain plug in and it would just crash So he actually had to then roll out another version that disabled the dark mode thing again This is just one of those things you deal with and and he's dealing with it So it also it's got The ability to reapply the last effect. So if there's an effect you do a lot You just hit command f and it just keeps reapplying that effect over and over. Oh, if you do a certain effect for a mouth noise Plosive you can just say do it again. Do it again. Do it again And of course every time I mention a shortcut. These are customizable. It's twisted wave You can like an audition you can customize all of these settings It also has the ability to paste multiple times which for some reason you didn't have that in there before but now If you keep hitting command V, it will keep pasting an additional copy Sequentially, I didn't do that before You can delete a marker with a backspace stroke Yeah, you still had to like drag the marker until it disappeared Yeah, you can just now you can just click backspace or delete right and And then also twist a wave can optionally ask for a name when a new marker is added So that that means is every time you make a new marker It says what do you want to call it instead of clicking on the little red triangle in the triangle and typing is you know These are little features. That's a actually a very nice Yeah, so that's the kind of thing so and again You should make sure if you want to have all these features Make sure you do have the absolute most up-to-date version, which I think is 121.6 as of Monday, April 15 DAX DAY Sorry, I just sent a lot of money to the IRS this morning, and I'm still bleeding But yeah, make sure you have the most up-to-date version Excellent. I just downloaded on my new Mac my new Mac mini and Try it out like hey You don't notice a difference, but you do see the new features. Yeah, the future was really cool In the menus. Yeah, another thing is if if you want to see a tour of those I did a little tutorial video on George the tech On YouTube and Facebook. I shared it on the Facebook group for twist of wave as well You can see everything I just described described on screen and What was I gonna say? There was one more thing related to that. I don't know if I think of it I'll mention it stuff stuff about plug-ins moving on with. Oh, yes Some audio unit plug-ins would crash twisted wave on the older versions as well like sonics Sonic's plug-ins. So make sure again be up be up-to-date. Oh, this is what I was gonna say If you want to run the new versions and not if you don't want to fully commit like if you go to Twist-a-wave update, it's going to now overwrite the other version If you're concerned about that you can go to twist a wave comm click on the Mac version and download the new version And then keep the old version so you can actually have both old and new running on your Mac Just give them different names and then you're not committed So you're not too worried about a new bug coming in and biting in the butt the old version is still there to still work So good little hidden thing that most people think of yeah, it does good to know now You're somebody who you know you keep a database of your clients and all sorts of files and stuff Now you you've got a thing from Dropbox called oDrive. What's that all about actually? It's an and another company that came along to solve a problem. So if you use Dropbox and one drive which is Microsoft's thing and box.com or is it net and a slew of one if you go to go to o drives website o drive calm You'll see the huge list of systems that they support This unifies all that so everything is unified under one place It makes it much easier to manage all these things But for me what's most important because really now I've consolidated my life down to Dropbox I used to use like four different ones now Just on Dropbox. It really means the killer app for me is that you can very easily manage your your hard drive space If you're like me, most of us are on Dropbox and we have a terabyte size Dropbox because we use it every day We pay ten dollars a month How many of you have a terabyte SSD drive in your MacBook Air? Probably very very few of you super expensive I only have a 256 gig drive. So you're constantly full my Dropbox has got 900 gigs of stuff in it right now So with o drive you just simply unsink all the stuff you don't know. Oh, that's helpful. Yes with Dropbox Yes, you can go in and selectively sync folders, but you have to remember to go in there It's not as granular granular with this you can literally unsink an individual file Let's say you just Generated a video and it's 17 gigabytes. I don't know you can now just once it's been posted or once you've backed it up unsink it's still up in Dropbox, but it's not on your Hard drive taking up space anymore. This has been really useful for me because I on my desktop at home I have a plenty of space my entire Dropbox lives there, you know all one terabyte to stuff but on my laptop I have a selective amount of stuff and It has been hugely helpful There is a bit of a migration process to get your stuff into the drive drive system But once it's set up, it's it's been hugely helpful for me. So if that's your situation give o drive a try check it out Excellent. All right. Well, one of the things I wanted to talk about Is a lot of people wonder about how to take care of their microphones? You know now step one step one is don't drop it. Don't don't drop it You know occasionally you'll find a microphone like you know our friends here drop this down a little bit lower This one dense in the screen and stuff You know, but you know this guy here, you know, it's it's important One you got to mount it right and you know, I'm I'm still finding a lot of people still mounting it upright Mm-hmm and creating lots of plosives and then of course using a pop screen and stuff no pop screen is great if you really work a mic close and You know you spit a lot Which is really what those things are for I mean I spit guard. Yeah, it's you know It prevents, you know, someone like Celine Dion spitting on a $10,000 microphone and you know making that kind of rusty But yeah, you have to back off my levels just a little bit while I'm a little closer to this mic, but It's important to one make sure you mount it, right? Most of these are all solid-state things I mean occasionally people like to have a tube mic and I will have a tube in it and stuff like that But you know and then there was this theory that well you hang it upside down because the heat from the tube will dissipate upwards and not disturb not disturb the capsule, right? Well, that's true or not. I don't know, but they're all solid-state So I mean you could have it sideways you can have it any particularly way And yeah, it really isn't gonna matter because the diaphragms and these are so tight They're not they're not gonna stretch out or ribbon mics for one of those things too Yes, you wouldn't hang a ribbon mic sideways because the ribbon would sag or right exactly nor put 48 phantom power through it Yeah, don't do that would be bad unless it's an active ribbon mic Yeah, now there are some people who are real obsessive and they have their felt bags and they put them on their microphones You know out here in California. It's dusty. Yeah, I mean just you know, look you know look at my desk sometime You get a house doesn't have a whole house HVAC, you know forced air system with air filtration You're gonna have a lot of particulates and dust absolutely that can affect a mic Over time but you know with the way they've built them now with the screens and the mesh on them It's not a lot of dust getting in there. Now if you're chain smoker Not only do you have a nice deep voice, but you're also not going to live as long Also, your mic won't live as long so you don't want people smoking around your microphones and I don't think that's as much of a problem as it used to be These old ribbon mics. I've got one of these vapor problem with microphones I Would think vape would be bad because it's it's a mist but it has a Sort of what is the stuff in a vape? It's a it's a ask me well It's it's an oil like us. Yes. Yes. So that vape is gonna that smoke It's gonna have an it's going to accumulate. It's gonna accumulate. You may not notice that somebody smoking But they don't on your mic. Yeah, do not vape on your mic So you don't really have to worry too much about it now. What about phantom power running through it all the time? Is that a problem? not really I mean There used to be an issue where patching a mic cable into a cable with phantom power on could possibly damage the microphone I think that issue is pretty well straightened out. I mean sometimes headphones The one thing you don't want to do is have your headphones on while listening to a mic and patch the cable You hear a huge spike in your headphones it hurts you can even blow out your speakers Yeah, you don't want to do that or your ears. Yeah, you can get your mic cleaned If you've been using your mic for more than five or six years The tonality the mic can slightly change like it is like whether you like it or not getting a little bit of dust or Grime on the right capsule and with capsules designed they're all designed differently But the the basket or the head basket around the mic is what's really the most different from mic to mic So if you can look in and see the capsule really clearly like very clearly that means it does it's not well protected You know, it doesn't have an internal pop screen, right other mics like Harlan's Mike. It's got more of an internal pop screen It's harder to see the capsule in there. So it's better protected. So those mics I think TLM 102 is one of those mics that comes to mind as a very open basket You can see the capsule super easily now one's gonna be easier to get dirty and right muck up So watch out for those but of course, it's gravity makes things go this way The only way dirt's gonna get in there is if you blow into it But anyway, yeah, so that's the secret to you can now turn my mic down as I put this back up I'm rather light there. You do. Yeah, it's right in front of my face. Yeah, okay No, it sounds good man. Yeah, all right Well, we got we got a question or two and some other stuff We want to show you in our next segment here on voiceover body shop tech talk. So stay tuned. We'll be right back This is Anthony Mendez. 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It's a really really great package and this year Hopefully where we've got a new version on in development for the last I think five years That when it comes out, it's gonna be revolutionary. So stay tuned for that But anyway source dash elements calm Thanks for your support of our great show your voice over body shop and we'll be right back with the tech talk right after this Yeah, hi, this is Carlos. I was rocking the voice of Rocco and you're watching voice over body shop And we're back here on voice over body shop tech Talk now. I noticed I noticed a lot of guys Who also do what we do or at least say they do a lot of them have their video series I know you have a lot of stuff where you're really you're demonstrating, you know video You know, you're like to unbox. It's kind of yeah, I've been kind of lazy on the videos once in a while It takes a lot of effort. It's time-consuming. You know, if you're gonna constantly put something out like like that out But I'm finding that there are a number of Individuals out there that have video courses, you know, and they talk about what they know and they show you how They do what they do But in order to learn how to do your home voice over studio properly To me it sounds like you really need to talk to people Who understand specifically a home studio, but more importantly who you are and How you do your work and what you sound like in the room that you're recording Yeah, your studio specifically right because most of these guys are experts in one studio their own Whereas someone like mr. Whitman myself where we have combined I was counting the other it's close to 50 years experience of Working in audio and you know probably 30 years of doing home voiceover studio It's a unique environment that didn't exist 20 years ago And you need to talk to people if you really want to have a good home voiceover studio get it set up right and Sounding right you got to talk to the guys that know what it's supposed to sound like whistle What is supposed to like what I still like that one? I still forget to use it, but I like that that's because I patented That's right, I'm taking it east Texas Anyway, if you'd like to work with somebody who really knows what a home voiceover studio is supposed to sound like In your environment because remember every voice is different every room is different Every single home voiceover studio has to really be uniquely designed for you for your lifestyle For what you sound like and how you want to use it every quilt you hang on the wall is different I'm your grandma Absolutely, it looks great, but and probably sounds fabulous too But it's fun to go into people's closets and you know not only see what they're wearing but also what they sound like in there and So if they would like to work with you George Where would they go you head over to George the tech comm and that's where all my world of tech support look is located I got menus on there for addressing specific software issues or just getting consultations you can schedule them there You can book on-site support as well It's all in one place and Dan also has a website with a different name and it's over at Home voiceover studio calm Where I talk about the things that I do how to set up a consultation or if you need to if you've got a problem with your studio You can do a troubleshoot for half an hour. We'll make sure we'll solve the problem I guarantee my work and you're gonna sound better afterwards and I'll show you examples of what people used to sound like And what they sound like now? Which will improve yours too. Plus. I also have the specimen collection cup where you can send me your audio and for $25 I will analyze it. We'll see if you need some improvements and that sort of thing and So check us out. We know what we're doing and we know what you're supposed to sound like How was that for a totally off-the-cuff commercial for what long I might add sorry Speaking of long You and I we've known each other for over 10 years. Yeah, since we we met and voice over 2008 2008 Yeah, yeah, at the is the the sensory plaza is still there. I think so They expanded the Westfield Mall and now it's like I figured absorbed it. Yeah, it may have done that but but we started doing this show believe it or not March 22nd 2011 and Which we sort of went past that date and you know, we've done anniversary shows before We just sort of ignored it not so significant feeling about the eighth. Yeah, you know, you know My wife and I have our 25th anniversary this year and we're like, maybe that's kind of important, you know But eh, but we figured we just go back and show you How experience makes things better? Time and technology. Yeah, so Here's a little bit of what episode number one looked like Live from a basement in Buffalo and the office in LA. Here are dan Leonard and george widdum Good evening and welcome to east west audio body shop. I'm dan Leonard in the east And i'm george widdum in the west East west audio body shop All right. Well, we got that out of the way anyway So good evening and welcome to our show. We are alive worldwide on the net We have been planning this for months and we're actually well, we're not on the air Well, I guess we are I suppose we're off on a satellite somewhere being boomed, uh, you know across the waves over to egypt and and lithuania and You know, I was gonna say the soviet union. It's been a few weeks Anyway, we're here to solve Your studio problems. Uh, if you're a voice actor or you're you do audio books Or you just like to record at home and you have problems with your home voiceover studio That's what george and I do. We are consultants and engineers And uh, we know how to solve these things. We've seen it all And we've been trying to uh Find a way to communicate with as many people as possible And we came up with east west audio body shop and we're here for you If you have a question for us, we'd love to have you on. We've got a couple of people already lined up for tonight But if you have a question for us, uh, you can go to our our facebook page. Hey chris west audio body Uh, either chris west audio body shop and we can uh, okay, stand by I can hear you george. It's a one of those things Like like I said, it's a it's a it's sort of a dress rehearsal and it's going to be worth it. Just Just for that alone Uh, but we're going to be here to answer your questions and if you have a question you can email it to us at ewebs e w abs One at verizon.net or go to our facebook page east west audio body shop Which is east west one word audio body shop another word And you'll get into our facebook page or our facebook group and you can join that And leave a question there and we'll get back to you and make sure that if we think your question is Airworthy We'll let you on So, uh, why don't we get things going right now? So good evening. Who's calling east west audio body shop? Um, actually I was trying to reach nunsio's pizza, but I'll uh, I'll I'll ask a question. Anyway, this is chris from north carolina chris from north carolina Yes, hi, uh, you wouldn't happen to have a pizza to go and no anchovies, I guess Anyway, we were trying to be funny. We're trying to capture the car talk thing going on, but we didn't quite happen But but look at the difference in quality now. We're sharp in the chroma key. We have light Light. Yeah, we're the same loading head in that one. Yeah, which is even better. Yeah. Yeah I mean it was fun doing it in those days because you know, I could futz around with things on my desk and you know But now we actually get to talk to the interviews are actually right Always have something in his fingers and he'd be just like fussing with it or Doing something like damn. What are you doing? Just cut my mic, you know, it's like But now no now I'm looking up people's nostrils literally and I have to figure it out But we we had a good time with that. We have a couple of questions. Uh tonight Again, if you ever got a question for us write to us at the guys at v obs dot tv Because we have the answers and if we don't have the answer there is no answer Anyway, what's our first question? Ah from gerard maguire form a star of prisoner and cell block h You remember I uh Hey guys, I've now set up my whisper room with the four inch thick Owens corning 703 acoustic Insulation on two walls And the ceiling in an endeavor to eliminate the man in a box sound with limited success The booth has minimized most outside sounds. Not all it is la I don't like messing with plug-ins, but with using some processing like a high-pass filter Knock out the remaining boominess that is still there or do I still need to fiddle with bass traps? I I always think Do everything you can physically To fix the sound before you start playing around with processing. Yeah, because that's a one like once you get that right You don't have to touch it again. It is locked down and it is set Yeah for until you decide to expand or something. Yeah, somebody sent me some audio Uh, and they were in a a new custom built booth and this booth comes with big bass traps and They're optional you can put them in and he sent us two different versions one with the bass traps in there one without And it was far boomier with the bass traps It's so bizarre I mean occasionally somebody will send me samples and I'll tell them what to do And they'll send back the audio and it's worse and I'm going That makes no sense at all. Are you messing with me? Yeah, it's fascinating and things don't always work out the way you expect them to yeah There's an experimenting. Yeah, so Gerard, I think it's really important that we get to hear it And you know and let's see what it sounds like Can you use eq to to reduce some of the boominess? Yeah a little bit. Yeah, I mean, it's subtle things Well, how would how do you handle that? Yeah? I mean it depends on where the boominess frequency range of the boominess Um, every room has a as a specific with what what are called room modes So it's based on the size of the room volume the volume of the room. So If it's four by six feet by seven feet tall Calculate multiply get your volume and then you can look up on a calculator What frequencies that room will naturally resonate at? And if one of those is right smack in the middle of your vocal range, especially at the low-mid range It's going to be boomy and so bass trapping is going to be pretty important It also has to do with your mic placement and your mic proximity So if you're kind of in towards the corner Then the corner is where low-end builds up. So don't be in the corner move into the middle more towards the middle of the room Um, it depends on the mic you're using The pickup pattern and how far away you are as you get further away from the mic The distance between you and the walls and the ceiling and the mic start to become more similar And so the mic hears more of what's going on around you than you That sounds worse. So get closer to the mic So there's a lot of things to experiment with to improve the sound I think his instincts are right, you know four inches of 703 is a pretty good started That's going to suck up a lot of low a lot of low-mid range But what it won't deal with is the low low range the Eight the maybe the hundred hertz and lower stuff. It still won't help with that. So right bass trapping might might be in his future Well, gotta hear it and then we'll be make a determination But you know the thing is is you've got to know what it's supposed to sound like yourself Or have somebody else who knows how to do that to really listen to it because Sometimes people say well, I sound great in this but of course you don't hire you So yeah, Gerard's been around the block a while right this voiceover. So he he has a pretty good idea what he should be sounding like At a very deep point. He's hearing. He's hearing something. He doesn't like now I also have to ask you jar. Are you hearing it that way in your like just acoustically in the room? When you're talking with your headphones off or on your play or is that what you're hearing in your playback? And when you hear the playback is that what you're hearing through studio monitors or through headphones? If it's through studio monitors is the room you're playing it back in Causing some of that boominess because the speaker can now Interact and feedback with the room A lot of factors. So yeah, if you send audio to us, we're gonna be listening to it Through trusted monitoring and we're gonna know what we're hearing. They'll probably run it over here tonight Yeah, he's going on here Anyway, paula fey has a question Yes, um, oh and yeah, we mentioned high you did mention high pass If all the issue is at the very low end. Yeah, high pass filter will help If it's in the low mid-range, then it's gonna miss that and you're gonna make it sound thin It's not gonna work out because your voice exists in that freak. Yeah, you got to be careful with the high pass Um paula fey says I love twisted wave. Don't we all we do there is a is there Any tutorial on using the update available? She may have tuned in late. Um, right there is Over at george the tech the facebook, uh, or the youtube channel uh, just type in george the tech and Twisted wave you should have no problem finding it, but I go through all the new feature sets And walk through it one by one Also, she says if I update do I need to reload my rx six Stack that I currently use No, that should not be the case. Um, I know last week when I was on vacation I hopped online and I saw all these posts. So I got all these notifications from toaster wave groups saying broken Problem crash bug plug-in. There were a lot of problems last week as all these updates were being rolled out, but now Um, if you do the update Knock on phone. I knock on wood. Um You shouldn't have to do any reloading of anything Your stacks should still be there your plugins should still function You should be okay. Um, still you should probably listen, you know, if it she's got a stack there There's little adjustments to be made. Yeah, don't trust that it's going to work exactly the same make she listen to it But you should be okay. Um, mojave has its own set of issues because Mojave is now a 64 bit operating system purely is not Carson, do you know about that to be the case? It's been 64 bit for a while, but there was like ability to run in 32 bit software, I think for a long time. I think Yeah, so I think with mojave, there is no 32 bit Software function that functions on mojave. So, um, if you had an older plug-in that was 32 bit That might break when you're on the new versions of twisted wave 64 bit twist mac os 64 bit So much to keep track of just Just be careful be aware that you may be stuck upgrading a plug-in Right. Um, this is what we call the upgrade spiral. That's what I call it When you when you upgrade an operating system It can create a domino effect and now you have to upgrade this and then this and then this so Keep it twice before you upgrade too much. Yeah, I mean keep it simple Do what you can't physically don't rely so much on processing Unless you really know what you're doing or somebody who knows how to do the processing and set it up for you Yeah, yeah, otherwise if you don't know what something does, don't use it. I'll be shaking Almost like, all right. Well, we've got uh, a few things to announce afterwards. Uh, so don't go away We'll be right back to wrap things up right after this This is bill ratner and you're enjoying voiceover body shop with dan lennard and george widham v obs dot tv As a voice talent you have to have a website But what a hassle getting someone to do it for you and when they finally do a break or don't look right on mobile devices They're not built for marketing and seo. They're expensive You have limited or no control and it takes forever to get one built and go live So what's the best way to get you online in no time? 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That's voice over x t r a dot com Before time began there was v obs dot tv Watch or else And we're back got another question I just happened to pop in and look at the email and one came in right here at the end from kate rollin um Her macbook is crashing When she has twisted wave open and then she unplugged the ur 22 Um, what's the solution? Well, it's kind of like the old joke with the doctor doctor It hurts when I do this and the doctor says stop doing that No, that's not the answer you're looking for is it? um Well, let me just take a minute it generally do not unplug hardware that's being used by a program That's never a good idea like just just don't do that frankly Um, but it still shouldn't be happening. Um The ur 22 steinberg interface is great, but it does have a driver Um, and that driver should probably be updated make sure it's the most up-to-date drivers for your os You didn't say what os you're on what version of mac os you're on So I don't know make sure the driver you're using with your steinberg is the same and matches And make sure again that you have the most Bleeding edge up-to-date version of twisted wave if you are running a new version Make sure it's at least 1.21.6 1.21 gigawatts 1.21.6 Uh, and hopefully if you get everything up to speed that will Resolve that issue fingers crossed let us know good luck comment down below and if if that fixed it. Yes, excellent Next week our guests. We're not sure who our guest is going to be But we would love it if you would first take our survey on the website and tell us what you think about the show What you would like to see what we could improve upon do you like what we changed this year We changed things up for the 2019. 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Yeah And those guys drove up from anime to help us put it together great Now somebody did send in a picture this week, but we make it very clear send it in landscape Not portrait because we're this is a 16 by nine Picture and another little uh side note on that as well Don't have yourself right in the center I mean, it's kind of funny It might be literally weird having you in the background dead center between dan and i the whole show Just saying, uh, you know, but I think we got another one from that same are the same contributors So next week we can fly it. Yeah, we will we will mic. Thanks mic. Excellent. So show us your booths All right, uh George the tech How do you get a voice over studio? We talked about it. It's a dot com. Just calm that thing and you're in there. You're fine. You're fine. All right Hey, you want to be in our studio? Write to us at the guys at v obs dot tv. We actually have an audience night. Get shoot the audience cam there One of them was a guest. Is he count but he's on the couch and that counts as a guest during this show So that that's important Let's see now. We're we're live alternate mondays like so we won't be live until For another two weeks. So let us know it's monday of april april. Yeah, and uh, but you know, we do it We're doing the show live. We we tape it live. So It's totally spontaneous and we don't have to edit it too much And then uh, we'll we'll do the tech talk next week But our interview all this week with our guest will be on all this week. Uh, let's see We need to thank our sponsors because without them We wouldn't have a show like harlan hogan's voiceover essentials voiceover extra Soros elements zio to go go voice actor websites dot com j michael collins demos Alrighty and of course, uh, the dan and marcy lennard foundation for the betterment of webcasting Live webcasting you live webcast. Thank you. Uh, our producer kathryn curtain who's out because of some family issues But she does a great job because mike merlino Sue's son on the uh chat room duty tonight And of course our amazing technical director who's just got it down to a t Sue merlino at least she likes the things Yeah, well exactly. So, uh, thanks to them. Uh Let's see. What else we got to talk about here. Um, oh, we got to say good night. Oh, we got to say good night And especially lee penny for me. I don't forget penny but never forget lee penny Well, all right, hopefully we gave you enough information on our show this week to uh To better your career just a little bit and we appreciate you watching It's not an easy business, but george and i are here to help you and we're here every week on voiceover body shops So, uh, thanks for joining us tonight. I'm dan lennard and i'm george winnow And this is voiceover body shop or vo BS That was real enthusiastic. Hello. All right. We'll see you next time. 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