 Hey, it's time for voiceover body shop tech talk number one hundred and ten tech talk Tech talk tech talk tech talk Tech talk tech talk tech talk tech talk tech in case you were wondering what Jeff looked like And if you've got a question for us throw it in the chat room on Facebook or YouTube or wherever it is you're watching the show and Jeff will reload the relay those questions to us and we will get to those in just a little bit But you got lots of stuff to cover tonight J. George. Oh, yes, I do. I always sit down and go is there anything to talk Oh, yeah, you found something. Yeah, there is. All right. 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Yeah, very good We got lots to talk about tonight You know, it's there are so many things that you could talk about when it comes to voiceover tech We like to have you have you keep it simple, but you know Sorry, yeah, we'll get to that though People there are other people out there that want to make it You complicated you got to have this and you got to have that Just remember that most guys who are going to give you suggestions on your home voiceover studio are experts in One studio their own right and every room is different every voice is different Everything is always different and how a certain microphone will work with somebody's voice I think it's like the mic you have is the mic you have There are as long as you have a good one, you know things like that But if you want to learn how to do it right if you want to get it set up, right? If you need repairs if you've got buzzes or hums or stuff you don't understand or your levels are really small And it's like I got a gained all the way. Where do you go? You can talk to one of us because we're the experts in this stuff. We've fixed everything We have built everything in all sorts of places in In houses in I you know, I've worked in a place in Cairo where it's all tile I'm like, how do you create a nice quiet space with the tile? We figured that out though. Yeah, and Tile is one of the most reflective services you can come up with that's true People want to set up in there. Well, that's their problem, but there is a way to get around it Anyway, if you want to work with George, where do they go? They I guess they go over to George the tech That's our home on the web for Performer friendly techs. All right, our slogan. We want you to be taken care of by our team who Understands you as a performer and we're not going to intimidate you and berate you into buying things You don't need we're going to Try to make sure you're using tools that are simple to learn efficient work Well and are reliable and we'll we'll give you the best advice we possibly can so that you can get through the Intimidating stuff as quickly as possible. So we get you that's George the tech. Right, Dan well, if you want to work with me if Yeah, if you want to put up with me cuz I'm going to tell you how it is you go over to homeboysoverstudio.com and There I have my My specimen collection cup. I want to hear what your audio sounds like it You know a lot of people will say I got a buzz. I got a hum. I got a this. I got a that what's wrong with it I nobody knows how to describe things because everybody hears things differently and there is a way It's supposed to sound which gives us the the acronym Whistle what it's supposed to sound like and I can generally listen to your audio in like five seconds I'm gonna know what's wrong. Usually it's turn your mic around Popular that's a real popular one Or or you've got some RF interference. I haven't heard RF interference in years You know, I think because people use good shielded cables They're not gonna get they're not gonna get unless they're next door to an FM transmitter or something like once every Six months. Maybe I hear RF noise. Yeah, or planes going by or stuff like that planes. Oh, baby. Yes But there's ways to take care of that. We're gonna talk about that on the show So go over to home voiceover studio Dot-com and you can you can talk with me or submit a sample of my specimen collection cup $25 You can't beat that because you're gonna hear exactly what it's supposed to sound like or at least I am and then I'm gonna Tell you how to make it sound that way Anyway, uh George time for your tech update looks like you have a fair amount of stuff to hit us with go for it Yeah, so well the first big thing that was announced that you know again If you're under a rock or you don't care about Apple then you don't care about this But Apple does have new iPhones. I don't personally They're awesome right there better lighter faster blah blah blah the thing that they did that was the real splash Has to be of course the changing of the port what What have they done? No USB-C my friend there is USB-C on the on the iPhone 15 both the pro iPhone and the standard iPhone and So that means that yeah, that means um, yeah, sorry those chords you got All those devices you have with lightning cable. Well finally You don't need lightning anymore So I know for a lot of you and for me too I have to say lightning cables are just I've always been a well You just got to have one or two They end up starting getting getting shredded and coming apart and then in the meantime You've been buying other gadgets other equipment other USB this and that's interfaces microphones Speakers blah blah blah and everything has moved to USB-C European Union thought well, maybe it would be a good idea if iPhone also had that and stopped making people have so many wasted cables And had some universal connectors and and what do you know? They did it So what's the message the best thing about USB-C to me personally is that now a phone with a USB connector Can do more things than the lightning connector for example Because it's USB-C the phone can now charge things and I know all you Android people are gonna tell me I've been able to do this for three years. Okay? We get it Android phones tend to be on the bleeding edge of a lot of things and Apple tends to be behind the curve on certain things We get it we know but with USB-C it means the phone can like charge your AirPods for example, right? So if you're flying and you're like, oh crap. I forgot my charging cube Now one can charge the other right that's the kind of nifty things you can do But also it means that your phone can connect to external Things in a different way than before now your phone can plug into USB audio interface If as long as it's class compliant it should work It can plug into an external memory card reader or an external hard drive things like that So it's great that it finally came to To the iPhone now you can get that on the iPhone standard the 15 you can also get that on the pro The pro now has USB-C with 3.0 or 3.2 blah blah blah Really really really stinking fast usp So the real real good geeks out there will be able to shoot What is it 4k 60p pro res video from a phone? Straight down the cable to a storage device So like an external drive or something? Yeah, because the problem with these super high res amazing whiz main cameras on an iPhone is they have limited storage, right? Yeah, so you don't have to buy a super high-end version with tons of storage now You can just hook up an external device and it will stream that Super super high quality video right to your device So this is matter to us not so much. I just wanted you guys to get coming some of the finer points The other thing is the a 17 pro processor. That's in the is this confusing enough the 17 chip is in the 15 phone Yeah, I know The a 17 pro is their first three nanometer Processor meaning that every trace inside there is now not five nanometers But three nanometers and that may not sound like a big deal But it's a huge freaking deal because it makes it more efficient You can pack more circuitry into the chip. It makes less heat uses less power It's just all kinds of amazing stuff and it's the first device You can buy with this kind of a processor and what's amazing really to me is that the processor you're getting in this iPhone Pro Is basically the predecessor to the processor that the Mac computers are going to get next year So you're getting the newest tech is in the phone before it makes it to the Mac book and the laptop the desktop Which is pretty bizarre. I mean, what's their big seller anyway? The iPhone? That's where they made their money. It's where they're gonna go. The fact is is having the USB C cable That's gonna save marriages, especially on road trips. Wait, what well especially in In the families that have an Android and and iPhone first, right? It's like what what cord did you bring? Wait, we've got this block. We've got the two But now it's just USB C USB C. Okay, it'll get you right there. It'll get your iPhone and we'll meet Yes, exactly. So it's good to see that. So it's incredible technology. I mean six core GPU Six core processor on a freaking phone. It's insanity. Okay Moving on to things that maybe feel a little bit more relevant to us The new scarlet is out Focus, right? Yeah, there was time scarlet the fourth generation scarlet 2i2 by focus, right is available now and What is new about that? Well, I try to sum it up with a few things. It looks a lot like the other ones But one of the things that the scarlet 2i2 fourth gen has is that It has an auto-gain setting. So if setting gain is always Freaking come break out in hives. It has auto-gain setting. So what does that mean? You hit the little auto button hold it down for a few seconds a little ring around the volume knob turns starts flashing saying I'm listening to I think it flashes red or something and Then you perform and this is the key thing you do need to perform at performance volume Whatever that is for you. Are you singing? Are you doing a character? You got to get at that volume, right? It will hear you it'll set the gain for you done your set You don't have to mess with it again Secondly, if you don't like that idea and you just want to set it yourself, that's fine But it still has a helper thing Called safe mode and what that will do is if you have safe on if you actually do still manage to get to that 0db clipping stage it'll knock down the gain It's not a limiter in the way that we think of it a limiter would mean it would knock down the gain briefly Then it would come immediately back to where it was this actually knocks down the gain permanently until you reset it So it's just it and I think this it's gonna be interesting to see when people start using these what engineers think of this Are they gonna like having a recording level at x level and then having it drop at some point to y level Is that better than the alternative which would be a really really low level or a level with some clipping or what right? So I'm curious to see what engineers are gonna think of it But the good thing I think is that it generally means that you're gonna have one point in the file with a level drops and Then it's love and then it's consistent. So it'd be very easy to adjust later So I don't know it's an interesting concept the auto gains not new the evo 4 and 8 and 16 from Audience has it the new Mackie DLZ mixer has it. You're seeing it a lot more But it's nice to see it in a you know basic two-channel audio interface And it's about 190 bucks. So it's a little bit more than the last one But it's supposed to have better headphone monitoring. It does have some form of loop back I haven't verified whether that's a useful loop back or a non useful loop back But I had the the air setting on the on the other one. So it's they do have an air setting still That has two modes now one of them is like the other one We're just kind of brightens things up and the other one is more like a v-shape Or it really gives you that big bigger than life broadcast. He sounds so if you want to sound more broadcasty That's your button. So it's got that so a lot of new things on there my buddy my buddy My buddy that's so great. I can't remember S. Jim Jim Edgar he I know he's got one and he's prepping a video review of his so stay tuned Check ask Jim's YouTube when he has that video out. So he'll have a review soon It what it still does not have though is a monitor mixing knob, which I hate I really really appreciate when you can adjust the monitor blend between the mic and the headphones with a knob Still cannot do that. It's just an on-off direct monitor button like the Last one. So I think we're missing out on that anyway moving on speaking of audio interfaces Zoom is not a company that a name at least when you think zoom maybe we think about the zoom You know conferencing software But zoom has also been making microphones portable recorders and all sorts of gadgets for a long time But I just never frankly considered them up to par for pro level studio recording Well, they're working really hard to change that and actually a buddy of ours Byron Wagner Decided to get one. Yep And he put it through its paces and he says it does what it says it does and it sounds really really good So what does it do? It's basically a two-channel audio interface a la the Scarlett 2i 2 But it has no gain knob at all. There is no gain controls Because it records in 32-bit float And so what it means is you connect your mic turn on your phantom power and hit record now the levels you get in your DAW Could be really Almost anything. I don't know. They could look like almost nothing. They might be off the edge of the screen The bottom line is when everything set correctly with 32 bit float The level is corrected in post and there is no distortion. There is no clipping. There is no loss of quality It just captures the full audible spectrum of sound. So it's gonna be interesting I'm gonna get one as a demo unit from my buddies over at Westlake Pro audio And I'll do a little shootout sort of comparison test between that and the road NT 1 5th gen which is a mic with 32-bit float So that's something I have in my queue to produce in the next couple of weeks Yeah, we'll find more about the reality of all that stuff and lastly This isn't for voiceover specifically, but you know, we're kind of branching out into more types of media production here on the show and in our businesses and I've been using the road wireless go me Microphone and I used it extensively at podcast movement a couple of weeks ago And it's a very clever little package because what it does is it has a transmitter You wear on your shirt or the your subject wears and you probably see these on YouTube all the time a little black square Sometimes a little black square a little fuzzy on top, right? and you can put that on your subject and then you the Shooter the producer the the interviewer the everybody else right has the receiver on the camera But the receiver also has a mic So the beauty of it is now you're recording yourself Speaking to your guest your guest is being picked up on their mic and even cooler than that I think is the accompanying app the app shoots both the front and the rear cameras To either a picture in a picture so your your your picture will be floating in the corner or Two separate video files on to the phone itself So when you're finished you have two full-frame videos of you and your your subject and the audio And you have it all separated and you can edit it all later So it's really neat and I've used it on a bunch of stuff if you go to George the dot tech or the George the tech YouTube The last I don't know four or five videos six videos everything from pod move and Everything since was all done with this little rig. So it's really cool very clever, and it's not expensive It's only a hundred and fifty bucks It's really quite awesome. It comes with all the cables. You need it has cables to plug into a Smartphone a lightning into a iPhone a USB into a computer or other phone reliably Reli I had a very good experience and because the app itself knows it's connected to the wireless It's showing you both VU meters for you and the subject. So, you know, it's actually recording, you know, it's actually recording There's no guesswork there. So I got to say I'm very impressed and again the price point is very friendly Road also does have a pro series wireless mic now, which is more range built-in 32 bit flow recording All this kind of cool stuff and if you're doing production sound, it's a it's an interesting product But this one is really for all of us Amateur creators, you know, we're not doing stuff for the big time. We just want to get some great sounding audio from our for our videos It's a good option to check out. All righty. That's it for the tech news All right And if any of you have a question for us about your home studio or some other piece of gear or something that You know, you want to talk about throw it in the chat room right now because I see jet Well Jeff's somewhere right now, but he's gonna be he'll be taking your question down And we'll get to that in our next subsection here But it's time for my basic basics and this is about as basic basic as it gets because this is the problem with just about Every home studio and that is because I can turn mine on here because it's getting really warm It's the air conditioning in your home or your neighbors No matter how hard you try in a home studio Whenever we look at it, we look at it on a spectrogram so we can see, you know, what frequencies things are at see now There's there's that sound a soft whoosh. Yeah, soft whoosh. Well, this is a really quiet air condition. But anyway How do you get rid of that sound because whenever I get I get files from people when they Submit in my specimen collection cup almost inevitably there is some brighter noise Underneath a hundred Hertz are usually somewhere between below 80 75 70 Hertz and below Which by the way is not where your voice is unless you're Tim tippets And or spare or James Earl Jones or something like that. There's a really deep voice You know most most of our voices start at anywhere around 90 Hertz a hundred Hertz and up and with women Of course, it's usually well above a hundred Hertz So if you've got air conditioning noise, there's a couple of ways you can get rid of it one of my favorite ways is to turn off the air conditioning because when you do that it takes that sound that you hear in the background and It turns it off It's gone. I mean, it's pretty simple, you know And I always tell this story when people ask me about this I'm going to turn it back on because it's getting warm in here Yeah, my wife would come home when we were living in Buffalo and as you know in Buffalo it can get either very cold or very hot depending on the season and I would turn off the furnace in the air conditioner when I was recording and You know, you just have to remember to turn it back on because my wife would come home and say either Why is it so cold in here or why is it so warm in here and I would say My dear, I am making money and I am saving money at the same time So that's that's one way to prevent that problem, you know Now, sometimes we hear, oh, it's my neighbor's air conditioner because my studio is in a bedroom that overlooks my neighbor's backyard and his air conditioning compressor is down there. So aside from going over there and hitting it with a sledgehammer when he's not home You've got to be able to reduce that kind of noise or if you there's the other if you live in an apartment and you don't control the thermostat One you need to move but two if you can't control the thermostat You've got to find a way to get rid of that noise and the reason I was talking about the frequency of that particular noise is because it's actually very easy to remove Using a very simple filter. Everybody thinks this is like so sophisticated Called a high-pass filter or what's called a low-cut filter, which by the way is the same thing What you want to do is eliminate all the frequencies underneath where your voice exists from 80 hertz and up and most of the air conditioning noise is usually below 80 hertz and below the frequency of your voice Unless of course the air conditioning vent is right above your microphone in which case it might grow a little bit outside of that frequency But all you have to do is take a graphic equalizer and you know it's arranged in lots of different You've got all the different frequencies listed there like you know 20 hertz 40 hertz 50 hertz upwards to 20k And all you have to do is take down all of the frequencies below 80 hertz and that will reduce that air conditioner noise Or air movement noise down to well under you know get it get your noise floor well under minus 60 Now if you have a lot of traffic going by sometimes that frequency is just a little bit higher and you've got to find ways to get rid of that But the noise that we generally hear from air conditioners and furnaces is not the actual motor of the air conditioner or the furnace Or the fan it's the air movement through the ducts that makes that noise which is why it sounds like a far-off waterfall You know it's air going through the vents and it makes noise as if the turbulence of the air is there And that usually relates to about 80 hertz and below And so all you have to do is take out those frequencies it will not affect your voice at all And everybody worries about that but you know you can look you can use noise filters The problem with some noise filters is if you take a sample of something and you know there's like those noise reduction features You know you get a sample of the sound and then you tell the program all right get rid of all that sound everywhere But if your voice exists within the frequencies that you're trying to eliminate it's going to play games with your voice And it's going to degrade the quality of your of your audio So but if you take it out underneath 80 hertz or if your woman even under 100 hertz it will not affect your voice at all That's one of my favorite things to do because if you don't digitally play with your voice It's always going to it's always going to keep you ahead so Any thoughts on that because you have to deal with that too Yeah well what here's what I do at my place I again I don't know if I could get away with voiceover recording in this room all the time I definitely don't have quiet on demand unless I go inside this big box behind me But if I want to record out here I found the trick for me was we have it's an apartment building The air blower unit is in the hallway right outside my office door It's right you know it's in the ceiling When that thing turned on the first time the first few months I lived here I swear I would jump a little bit when it came on because it does that You know it would scare the heck out of me So long story short it's much too forceful much too much velocity I just ripped the grate off the wall while I took the screws out Took the grill off the register This actually took some experimenting but what I found was I took an old crappy ratty beach towel And I just shoved it down the duct as far as I could really reach with my arm I didn't want to stuff it shut because I still wanted to have some warmth in here And some cooling in here but the airflow was much much too forceful in this room Because it's a very poorly designed system it didn't load balance it everything When I had that towel shoved in there it basically did two things It slowed the airflow down like a damper and it quieted it way down So I wasn't overheating when the heater was on I wasn't getting frozen when the air conditioning was on And it knocked the noise level down dramatically So if you're in an apartment with forced air heating cooling This is something you might be able to try on the source side And again it causes no damage whatsoever At any time I could just reach up and pull that towel out of there And restore it to where it was but it really made a dramatic improvement Yeah and some air conditioning vents have an on off I mean you can put a damper in there and it will shut off that vent But the sound is still coming through the vent Yeah mine does but it's such an incredible force So then what do you get? It just squeezes air through the cracks in the veins And so they're whistling you know and you try to close it So I couldn't win so this was my work around and it's surprising It's so cheesy but man it made a big difference Great Alrighty hey if you've got a question for us about this kind of stuff And you know we've been doing this show a while You guys still keep coming up with great questions If there's something you don't understand about your home voice-over studio Or a piece of equipment or something you should buy or shouldn't buy Put it in the chat room right now We'll be glad to address that question right after this break So don't go away we'll be right back with your questions On VoiceOver Body Shop Tech Talk right after this This is Ariana Ratner and you're enjoying VoiceOver Body Shop With Dan Leonard and George Wittem VOBS.TV Setting up for voice-over recording on the road can be a real hassle You can't bring your boomstand with you The solution? 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Lawrence with VO Heroes And wouldn't it be cool If there was a very simple tool Drag and drop tool that would guarantee That the audio you need to upload to ACX Or any other audio book platform Is perfectly set up in terms of the tech standards The root mean square normalization The peak normalization, the noise floor Guess what? There is And I want you to have it absolutely free It's called Audio Cupcake And you can find it at audiocupcake.com I helped create this software It was built to my specs and my standards For when I do audio books And I know it's going to work for you Now it's only available for Macintosh Because you Windows users You have the ability to use other tools That work for you But in this case You edit your final raw WAV file for a chapter You drop it onto Audio Cupcake And out comes the 192K Mono MP3 file You can upload immediately That's audiocupcake.com Audiocupcake.com I hope you love it Hi, this is Bill Farmer And you are watching VoiceOver Body Shop It's great And we're back here on VoiceOver Body Shop Tech Talk You know, it's fascinating How many different ways You have to process your audio You know, depending on What it is you're doing For the most part You know, I'm real old school It's like get it right up front So you don't have to do any processing Or filtering or anything like that But if you have stuff like for audio books Man, they've got standards that are like Let's destroy your audio Let's make it as loud as possible Without over-modulating And, you know, so Something like audio cupcake Or, you know, all of the compression tools That you have And all the different software They're great to have And if they're, you know If it's all simple stuff With, you know, templates And presets That's a good thing You just have to experiment And find out what's going to sound best Without it making sound Without making it sound bad Yeah, you gotta be careful Like any tool that's designed To level and increase your output Level to a certain point They're all going to increase The noise as well, right? That's when everything gets louder Noise comes with it So you still have to do Some due diligence To use these automated tools You know, the noise level Needs to be controlled They're not going to EQ correctly If your booth has a resonant sound Or it sounds hollow So I love the fact That it's an automated drag-and-drop But you want to do certain things Before that tool To ensure good-sounding audio As well So Yeah, so, uh, yeah Like air-conditioners Uh, there's There's a lot of different noises That you can get in your studio And, uh, you know And as I say, turn them off How many times has this been the fridge? You know, I mean, that's Like the fridge, I don't hear the fridge Well, no one ever hears the fridge Until you say, can I hear the fridge? Oh, yeah, I hear the fridge Compress it Close your eyes and listen You'd be surprised where you can hear Yeah, absolutely Okay, we got a couple of questions here And if you've got one Make sure that you throw it into the chat room Because I know Jeff Holman Is staring at us right now And saying, hey, we got questions And the first one is from Michael Bleja Curious, uh, is VoiceActor.com At all connected to VoiceActorWebsites.com Why, yes, it is It's an affiliate of that Uh, it was actually the original It was originally my idea For Joe Davis and VoiceActorWebsites.com To say, look, create templates Make it simple for people And the technology to actually do that Took a few years to develop After I first suggested it to him And his business has grown And finally they have all sorts of new templates too So that's, uh, you know We'll talk about that a little bit later on in the show But yeah, it's the same company It's just they let you design it And it speeds up the whole process a whole lot So, anyway Uh, FiberJazz, take it away FiberJazz Is something like the Chaotica eyeball Or an isolation shield Um, can that be a reasonable solution For sound treating a subpar recording space When not at home Funds are limited One, two, three, no Probably not, yeah The Chaotica eyeball Um, is honestly Is really designed to take An okay or decent room And making it sound much better Um, that's what its intention is It can't take a really bad sounding room Or a really noisy room And make it sound better And neither can any of the other things that Go behind the mic Have a semi-circle around the mic Reflection filters, things like that They just can't do it I have a video from seven Yeah, I know In the freaking years ago Where I compare and record with a few of these products Here's a little sample of me without the Chaotica And then with the Chaotica And you can hear the difference So there's our control Now we'll go to the Chaotica eyeball Edge Studio will help you improve the quality of your recordings Often without even setting foot in your home George Quiddem is globally considered a top authority In voiceover recording technology So let's jump back This is without He also has become an industry innovator By developing specialized services that cater exclusively To also become an industry innovator By developing specialized services that cater If anything, it sounds worse What are you hearing? I'll tell you what I'm hearing I'm hearing a boomier Less clear sounding recording First of all, is that what you're hearing? Yeah, it's more echoey with it And I'm hearing echo Just as bad If not possibly worse Yeah So yes, the Chaotica eyeball is not an instant fix Whatsoever There are definitely other things that are considerably better And just type into Google Wittem's World Portable Booth You'll find my video here This is from way back on the day when I was with Edge I do a comparison test with the Portable Booth Pro Our lovely Harlan Hogan's product Often without even setting foot in your home George Wittem is globally considered a top authority In voice-over recording technology Services that cater exclusively to voice-over professionals By developing specialized services That cater exclusively to voice-over professionals That makes a marked improvement, right? Right Well, the trick with the Portable Booth Whether it's the Pro or the Plus Is to talk just underneath the top lip No matter where the microphone is Because if you talk in the middle of it It tends to sound a little bit cave-like But it works great if you just talk right underneath The top lip of the Portable Booth Yeah, you'll notice I don't know if you can quite tell But the microphone's not very deep in there Yeah It didn't want it to be too far back in That's one of the keys to getting a good sound out of it But yeah, there are definitely solutions I know you, like you said, you're on a budget If you're recording on the road And you're on a budget It sounds like you're trying to get more work While you're on vacation or traveling And that's going to be even more difficult Like your chances of booking If you're already having a hard time booking at home Doing it from the road is the black belt Of voice-over recording That's even harder So it's just your odds of booking that way Are super, super low So think hard about that Before you're making a big investment in anything For a portable setup, right? It takes a lot of practice And you need to also be really, really aware of whistle Dan, what does whistle mean? What it's supposed to sound like Yeah, if you don't know what the end product Needs to sound like of your voice There's no way you're going to be able to achieve that When you're on the road You have so many more variables and factors to deal with Yeah, if you're on the road And you really need to find a quiet space And a good recording space We have discovered that the backseat of your car Works really, really well And actually better than an isolation I mean, those things are kind of bulky To carry around anyway And if you're on the road Remember, you can only do one-offs on the road You cannot finish an audiobook That you've been doing into your home studio And then you're in some hotel And you want it to sound the same It's not going to happen And that's a big mistake that a lot of people make Is they're like, well, I have to record on the road Well, one, you don't have to record on the road Especially if you're just starting out Every audition is important But I'm telling you the million-dollar audition Isn't going to come to you when you're on the road Although we do have the adage of When you want voice work, what do you do Make plane reservations Whenever you're sitting in the terminal It's like, not now! Yeah, almost guaranteed Just let your clients know That you're going to be on the road and not available You know what you do When you let your clients know That you're going to be on the road and not available What does that do? That puts you top of mind And all of a sudden they go, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah We needed you to do this thing Anyway, one last one At least one Unless you guys slip in another one Yeah, try to get some more questions in there, guys More questions Jeff says, well, we have to get a new road cable For the video might go to To connect to the new iPhone 15 Good question I don't know yet Because as far as I know The USB-C is a standard data connection Versus the lightning connection So I think any USB-C to USB cable should work Should Giant should So I don't know if that might came with a USB-C To USB-C cable But if it did, it should work The video might go The video, sorry The road wireless Comes with a lightning to USB-C And a USB-C to USB-C cable Both, right? Because they have cables for plugging it into An Android, a laptop, whatever And so that cable I know for sure Well, I don't know for sure Do you know anybody with a new iPhone? Unless your mark has brownly? Probably not So we don't know quite yet I can conjecture what I think is going to happen But we don't really know I just hope that the secret Kind of the secret side effect of the USB-C on an iPhone Means there's no more MFI Which is made for iPhone BS Because that is what made things a pain in the friggin butt With connecting data and audio and video And whatever to iPhones Was everything had to have a special certification And all this stuff to talk to And iPhone, I'm hoping that that's gone now With this USB-C standard So we're going to find out You know, probably has that phone already Is Byron Wagner Waiting at the end of the assembly line Give me one of those He might be one of those guys Who gets the one But we'll find out We'll let you know, Jeff I wouldn't buy one of those phones If you have a 14 or a 13 I wouldn't buy one of those I love my 14 And I'm going to buy a new one At some point because I'm slowly destroying this phone It's got one little section Of burned out pixels in the top right As a result of falling on my butt In Colorado on my bicycle And landing on the phone That was in my back pocket at that moment About the worst possible thing you can do to your phone That's like falling on your keys It's a miracle that it didn't break Like the corner is all I mean, I had this case on it But the corner is all scuffed And it's dinged up Anyway, am I going to buy the iPhone 15? I don't know, I'm so frugal I'll probably buy the 13 You know, because I want to save money Right The 11 Oh, the 11 When they went from 10 to 11 That was a big upgrade The processor, it was a big upgrade In cameras, they added the double camera For the first time There was a lot of big improvements And those improvements still look Really great But my girlfriend with a 13 She holds her phone up and takes a selfie And it always looks better than mine The camera is dramatically better Now with the 14 and up Maybe it's the 15, I got lost track Now with the iPhone 15 standard They have that 48 megapixel Sensor So what that means Is you can crop in on your video And still get a really sharp image At If you're doing a 1080p video So that's going to be an advantage for sure But yeah Most of the improvements are really camera related At the end of the day Which is hard to do Because the cameras on those things are amazing I know, they are just Eeking out a little Because by the improvements are They're Like I said, from 9 From my phone 8 to 10, big improvement 10 to 11, pretty big improvement 11 to 12, decent improvement 12 to 13 They can't make leaps and bounds Improvements at the same Rate That they used to It's a telephone for crying out With the camera on Yeah, I mean That will make me replace mine besides Literally destroying the thing Is the battery life just getting worse over time Which is just That's what batteries do, you know After 4 or 5 years The battery life ain't what it used to be That will force me to buy a new phone More than anything But I'll still keep this phone Because it's still a great stunt phone It's still a great second camera It's still a great webcam When I don't want to use My iPhone and using that as a dedicated webcam It's an amazing webcam We may even start using Old iPhones in studio To act as cameras for our show soon So we'll see how that goes Yeah, well we'll find out in a couple of weeks When we get to that We're gonna train ourselves on some new software We like this one But we want to bring a real Professional feel to what we do We like how easy StreamYard It's been very nice to us Very nice to work remotely We just want to kick it up a notch If all goes well, we won't be on a new platform The next time you see us Perhaps And it will look like we're in work TV Every week we'll be Apollo 13 again Hopefully not Sue's like No Alrighty, well Thank you for all your questions And for tuning in tonight Or today or whatever time you're listening to this And again, if you want to get your questions in All you have to do Is write to us And you will get to the front of the queue And you write to us at TheGuysatVOBS.TV The timing of the graphic Absolutely I gave her lots of lead time To make sure that she knew exactly Where I was going with that TheGuysatVOBS.TV is our Email address If you have questions there If you come up with something in the middle of the week And you want us to answer that Throw it there because you will get to the front of the queue When we start answering questions Alrighty, well we're going to wrap things up in just a minute But we got a couple of messages for you first So stay tuned, we'll be right back on VoiceOver Body Shop Tech Talk This is the Latin Lover narrator from Jane the Virgin, Anthony Mendez And you're enjoying Dan and George on VoiceOver Body Shop Your dynamic voiceover career requires Head There's one place where you can explore everything The voiceover industry has to offer That place is VoiceOverExtra.com Whether you're just exploring a voiceover career Or a seasoned veteran ready to reach That next professional level Stay in touch with market trends Coaching products and services While avoiding scams and other pitfalls VoiceOver Extra has hundreds of articles Free resources and training That will save you time and help you succeed Learn from the most respected Talents, coaches and industry insiders When you join the online sessions Bringing you the most current information On topics like audio voice, auditioning Home studio setup and equipment Marketing, performance techniques And much more It's time to hit your one stop daily resource For VoiceOver success Sign up for a free subscription to Newsletters and reports It's all here at VoiceOverExtra.com That's VoiceOverXTRA.com You know a little earlier In the show somebody asked a question About VoiceActor.com And is it the same as VoiceActorWebsites.com Well, sort of I've told this story a bunch of times But my good friend Joe Davis Who is, you know, just He's a webmaster And he said Is there anything I can do in the voiceover business? And at the time This was about eight, nine years ago I said, you know getting a website Is always a problem A pain in the ass Because you gotta get a webmaster And they'll charge you for every Change and it takes A long time to create A website What if you could just do it by templates And have lots of different colors Lots of different backgrounds If you have a picture, you can change the picture And change the colors You have all this control Using templates Because you don't want your voiceover website To be nuts Yeah, you want to show people how creative You are and stuff like that But generally you're going to book work From how you sound And the most important thing to have on there Is your demos And a good easy presentation For your demos And at VoiceActor.com You can put that into your website really easily Along with maybe something even more helpful Your name and contact information Because what good is your voice Where to find you or who you are So go over to VoiceActor.com That's VoiceActor.com And Check out what they have You can start for free Absolutely nothing And then if you like the website you have You can move it on to an even better server With your own URL And then you've got a website And you did it like that Not in six months Go over to VoiceActor.com Right now if you don't have your VoiceActor website We are the World Voices Organization Also known as Wobo We're the not-for-profit industry association Of freelance voice talent VoiceOver is a complex entrepreneurial business Wobo is there to promote The professional nature of voice work to the public To those already established In their voiceover practice And to those who want to pursue voiceover as a career Membership benefits include A supportive and creative community A profile and demos on VoiceOver.biz Our searchable directory of vetted professional voice talent Our exclusive demo player For your personal website Our mentoring program Business resources and our video library Our annual WoboCon conference A fun and educational weekend With other members With the chance to learn and network Webinars and great speakers And weekly social chats with other members If your world is VoiceOver Make Wobo part of it World Voices Organization We speak for those who speak for living This is Bill Radner And you're enjoying VoiceOver Body Shop With Dan Leonard and George Wittem V-O-B-S dot T-V Alrighty, well it's time to wrap things up And say goodbye and For another week Next week, I believe Harlan Hogan Is going to join us We have a lot to talk about We haven't seen him for a while Which is Harlan's in Chicago Which reminds me the next World Voices Conference is going to be Next October In Chicago In 2024, October 2024, we're going to be in Chicago That's cool because I have so much I want to see And do in Chicago There's a great town Just signed the contract The other day Because I'm the president and I get to sign those things You have to That's right We're here to tell you about your home studio And fix it and if you want to work with one of us You can go over to my website Which is Homevoiceoverstudio.com And see the services I have there Or if you want to work with George Whose business continues to be Bigger and bigger and bigger Where do they go? 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Yeah, I can fix that Especially while I'm driving Let's see here At Jeff Holman We got his IMDb Put Jeff Holman's IMDb on there IMDb.me Slash Jeff Spell Hey, you know, you can donate to the show If you want to maintain the amazing Technical quality Actually, we're going to take it a step higher In the next couple of weeks We could use your support on this And you can donate to the show Whatever you want to give us It's not tax deductible We're not, you know, PBS or NPR It helps us defer the cost of this show And we've got a lot of people to do that for us Like Greg Cooper Grace Newton Christopher Epperson Robert Ledham Steven Chandler Casey Clack Jonathan Grant Thomas Penso Greg Thomas A Doctor Voice Ant Land Productions Martha Kahn 949 Designs Sarah Borges Phillip Sapir Brian Page Rob Ryder Shawna Pennington-Baird Don Griffith Trey Mosley Diana Birdsall Maria Makis And Sandra Mann-Willard Alright Yeah, it's voices a little rough From the cold I had, but But it wasn't, you know, we had A family dinner the other night And I'm like, oh, my mom's going to be here My mother-in-law, you know Nah, not COVID Yeah, absolutely We need to thank the people who Really make this stuff happen Like our sponsors Harlan Hogan's Voiceover Essentials Voiceover Extra Sorus Elements VoHeroes.com VoiceActor.com And WorldVoices.org Actually, tonight the sponsor was Audio Cupcake Which is a product of VoHeroes.com Yeah, it's an interesting product For you Mac users out there Which you should all be I just ticked off a whole pile of people Again, we need to thank Our amazing staff here Who keep the show running Jeff Holman, show his IDMDB again Jeff Yeah There it is Make sure you watch everything he's in Because he seems to be in everything these days Dude, look him up Yeah, yeah Anyway, he helps us in our chat room And on Facebook And he gets your questions from there So we can answer those questions Sue Merlino who just Gets it done She was sharp as a tack tonight Getting all those cues in there And we really appreciate all the stuff She does for us Sue's got stuff to plug But she never tells us to plug So one of these days she'll remember To tell us to plug what she does She has stuff on She has her own podcast She's a happiness coach She's a jovialogist Yeah, jovialogist Yeah Oh, we also have to thank Lee Penny Just for being Lee Penny Wherever the heck he is Where is he? Come on France or Arizona Yeah Anyway, cooking up a storm Anyhow, that's going to do it for us this week This is, you know, voiceover is a very Complex business You know, you have to learn how to be A great voice actor And your studio has to be right But we've come to the conclusion If it sounds good It is good I'm Dan Leonard And I'm George Whitton And this is voiceover Body shop Or VOBS Tech talk Tech talk Tech talk Tech talk Tech talk Tech talk Tech talk Tech talk Tech after strong Alright Okay, we'll see you next time Have a good one everybody Bye