 Hey, it's time for tech talk number 18 Boy, it's like we've been doing this since January. You guys just dig tech talk and tonight We've got a great show because we're gonna talk about where you are George, which is in Jerry Pelletier studio That's right down in West Palm Beach, and it's a well equipped studio beyond what many voice actors have So we'll go through with some of the a lot of the tech that's here We get to really geek out and we have a special special guest also Happens to be in town at the same time is Guillermo from Studio Bricks He runs the the North American USA Department and it's just cool to have him here. We got this is a unique opportunity everybody Get in here. What give us your questions, right? Get them in the chat room right now voice over body shop tech talk right now from the outer reaches they came Bearing the knowledge of what it takes to properly record your voice over audio and Together from the center of the VO universe. They bring it to you now George Wittem the engineer to the VO stars of Virginia Tech grad with the skills to build set up and maintain The professional VO studios of the biggest names in VO today and you Dan Leonard the voice over home studio master a professional voice talent with the knowledge and experience To help you create a professional sounding home VO studio and each week They allow you into their world making the complex simple Debunking the myths of what it takes to create great sounding audio Answering your questions showing you the latest and greatest in VO tech and having a dandy time doing it Welcome to voice over body shop Tech talk Voice over body shop tech talk is brought to you by voice over essentials comm home of Harlan Hogan signature products source elements remote studio connections for everyone voice actor websites comm where your VO website isn't a pain in the Vioheroes.com become a hero to your clients with award-winning voice-over training J. Michael Collins demos when quality matters and voiceover extra your daily resource for VO success and Now live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are the guys Alright, I'm Dan Leonard out west George Whidham back east. All right, and this is voice over body shop or VO BS S Tech talk Talk talk talk So so you're down there in Florida Visiting a really nice studio. I am I am Jerry a pellet here down here has a fantastic Studio in his home and he's in an area where there's a there's just aren't great production studios Or really any voiceover production studios, especially studios that are equipped with ISDN And so he's got a unique location and he's reached out. He's he's made himself available to To those who need studios and he can deliver Definitely like full-blown commercial grade quality audio out of this place So I came here five years ago did my first go around now. I'm back now He's got a new bigger larger studio brick studio We'll go through that and so many of the things that are in this place that make it special very cool And if you've got a question throw it in the chat room either either on VOBS TV or in Facebook depending on where you're watching live Any tech question at all in your home studio George and I would love to answer it and make sure that you You get the right answer even if we've made it up, which we never do Because if George and I don't know it you don't need to know it if we make it up call us on it really yeah No one ever has Anyway, so in your tech update tonight When you were up in Toronto a couple weeks ago You got to talk to a rep from Steinberg and what's what's that all about? Yeah, Yamaha is the parent company of Steinberg and they brought out some new Audio interfaces that have a unique twist to them. That's what I'm gonna talk about In the video so we might as well roll it and chat about it. All right go for it, Sue Everybody, this is George the tech for voiceover body shop. I'm here at VO north the second year. They've done this and A little space off to the side. There's a mic and gear shootout room and it's sponsored by And supported by Yamaha Steinberg and from that company today I've got a rep who's gonna give us a little information about Their Steinberg interface that is kind of an interesting twist to it So we've got some gear to today and to introduce it to us. We have a Christopher O'Reilly from it's Yamaha Steinberg, how are you guys related? Well, I actually work for Yamaha Canada, which is the Yamaha distributor subsidiary in Canada Steinberg is actually one of the companies that Yamaha owns So that's kind of what we're here to talk about a little bit today is our you are our T series of interfaces So a lot of people in the voiceover and podcasting community are probably already familiar with our you are a series of interfaces Which are very budget-friendly, you know one two four and eight channel versions So what we've done with the RT series is we've actually partnered up with Rupert Neve Designs For those of you who aren't really all that familiar with Rupert Rupert goes back a long way He's sort of a mecca and a legend in the audio industry known for building consoles and preamps to need 1073 was probably one of The most sought-after preamps ever So once he sort of he hasn't retired, but he started his own company called Rupert Neve Designs a few years ago And we've actually partnered with them So what Rupert did was he actually designed a custom transformer to work with the D pre and the electronics in the UR series of interface to make The mic preamp sound just that little bit better The nice thing about it is though is that it is you can either engage it or take it out of the signal path entirely So you either have just the standard D pre which Very very clean very very versatile, you know good headroom nice level preamp That's going to sound good on everything and very usable for whatever Feature you need it for but then it also gives you the opportunity to add the Rupert Neve transformer into the signal path It's a little difficult to display explain what transformers actually do. They just make the audio sound better And most people once they push that button and engage the transformer never again turn it off It just adds a bit of richness and harmonic content to the sound that makes the voice almost sound a little bit bigger Let me ask you this so it's a transformer sounds better Why isn't it already in everything? So why is that a feature and not just like part of the gear? Well transformers certainly add extra production costs to to gear in general So I mean with the you are and the you are RT It's a it's a definite jump up in price You know it's a couple hundred dollars more expensive to get the transformer aspect in there But I mean transformers are very sought after some people really like the sound some people don't If you're looking for very clean and pristine the nice thing about this is that it does give you that option with just the D pre but if you're looking for something that's just a little bigger You know maybe give you that little one up on a on an audition or something else then they the transformer Will certainly add that little bit of punch to the sound the a lot of the simpler interfaces like the you are 12 They're sort of a install the driver it's plug-and-play and off you go This one has its own console right that controls it makes a little bit more complicated to set up at first maybe It's it's it's no more complicated all of our you are a series of interfaces actually come with that same console software Right from our you are 12 all the way up to our brand new Thunderbolt interface the axR for T The interfaces are slightly different depending on which model you buy whether it's you are you are RT or a XR But they all give you the functionality of routability inside But if you just install it and leave it alone It is no more difficult to set up than the plug-and-play of the you are 12 Matter of fact when you download the driver package from Steinberg it automatically installs a console and you can decide whether you want to use it or not You can actually you can you can set your software up your doll whatever to use this thing and never even open the console It'll it'll function absolutely all you do is you just make sure that your doll is looking for the Steinberg driver And you have all the functionality as well. So yeah, very cool. Well, I appreciate it It's been educational always try to give you guys a little more information than just the tech stuff But transformers something interesting to play within your studio and see if it adds something useful For you it makes it a unique piece of gear to have that extra extra bell and whistle built in So anyway, this is George the tech. Thanks a lot appreciate it. Thank you. We'll see you guys around on the web Take care And we're back. Well, I was interesting. I mean Talking about, you know transformers and making things a little bit warmer and stuff Do they really understand what you need to do it voice over? What was your thought on that, George? Well, I mean, I think he you know What he basically said was like, you know, you're probably gonna want a clean sound like, you know, not with the transformer Unless you find it sounds better and it depends on the project you're doing and that's the context The voice your voice quality the microphone. You're using all of these different things, but you know, it's one of those things I don't know with gear. It's like I like a pure clean sound. It's on that's undurbed up But some people find a little bit of dirt and that's what a transformer does it a transformer is one of those things that in Similar in a similar way to a vacuum tube, but not exactly the same It adds some distortion It's not as ultra clean and accurate when you add the transformer in and like what he said It was adds harmonic content and what's harmonic content. It basically adds audio that wasn't actually there before it wasn't there to begin with and Is that good or is that bad? That is remains to be seen. It's something to experiment with But it's just yeah, depends on what you're working on depends on what you're working on and You know people are always trying to find it especially if you're doing production or producing Trying to find a thing that makes their sound a little bit different and you know gives them the edge and That's the kind of thing they might like to play around with but anyway I've been very happy with the quality of that Steinberg stuff the hardware is made by Yamaha Which I thought was interesting. I didn't know that and we know the AG03 the AG06 The you are 12 which we've been recommending a lot more lately All of these are cut from the same cloths in terms of the preamps and all that and you know Their quality is definitely been proven and it I like it very much Yeah, well, you don't seem to be alone there anymore No, I seem to have a few guys lurking over my shoulder Introduce one of them one of them who I owe an apology for for misintroducing them at the top of the show First of all right over here Right on I'm gonna slap them on the knee because you know, we're really close to each other right now And I'm tired. I'm a little bit loopy Is Miguel Miguel came in from New York City to visit and see Jerry studio. How you doing tonight? Hi, how are you? Thanks for making the making the trife down here. Did you did you come? Well, let me ask you this Jerry and this is Jerry Pell the chair by the way, what's on a friggin job? I'm sorry How did it come together? So was I coming did did you know I was come? How did you how did this all come in? How are we all here at the same time? How did this I got a new booth? And I think I was the third person in the United States to have a studio bricks boot thing Mike Bratton in New York had one then Matt we will had the second booth and I was the third one and I've been in contact with Guillermo who's in Spain For many years and then Miguel of course started studio bricks USA and then when I bought my next booth this one here Guillermo still remembered me. He's he facetimed me from some beach somewhere And laugh he goes I remember it because I gave him a hard time as to some of the things I was doing to the booth and stuff like that and and then I gave Miguel a hard time when I ordered my new booth Because I wanted everything so so So I think you know we talked to Guillermo and then Miguel said he wanted to come down and take a look at some of the things and I Said well George is gonna be here and he wanted to come down at the same time Well, you see where the name Guillermo comes in so Guillermo's what's game is less than you might do my work Founder the founder Tell us how you're involved with studio bricks and how that came how did What is your position and what is it you do with studio bricks? So I knew as to the bricks from the very beginning. I really liked the product And I spent one year here. I came to United States to improve my my English And I was in studying in NYU and then I wanted to stay here a little bit more. So and And I thought that you know, I spoke with Guillermo and I thought that it would be a really great idea to create the Affound the the studio bricks USA and I am the owner of the company's to the bricks USA And also the business the business partner of Guillermo there in you know in the HQ Studio bricks XQ. That's it. Okay. Yeah, so I met Guillermo, you know, you know, I Met Guillermo since I was a child. So You guys go way back. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Guillermo's a real Cerebral kind of guy. He thinks yeah, he thinks in great detail. Doesn't he? He's an engineer, right? Yeah, he's a technical guy's engineer designer. He's yes He's a technical designer. He was he started with an architect and with Engineer also a sound engineer And you know, three of them they developed this this amazing brand, right? And the products that we you can right now like by What's really unique about studio bricks everybody talks about it, you know, it's like I gotta have a studio bricks What is it that's unique about it that the people really like, you know, I mean, we know it's designed for Musicians and we use it in voiceover for isolation. What makes it that much better than say some of the other the competitors Well Following our, you know, our customer reviews is like it's not only the design that the design is completely different from, you know, for all the brands Completely different and and then also the quality of the materials, the quality of the of the sound when you are recording And everyone and the system of course the studio brick system how you can like assemble the booth in, you know, you know You know, it's the it's gonna take you like, you know, a couple of hours It depends of course of the size of the booth But this, you know, it's pretty it's pretty easy when you are a little bit familiar with the pieces and And and the system is is unique is patented of course worldwide And and is is is kind of is everything is kind of different, right? All of them. They are Like it's only it's already good, you know, or recording recording studios But studio bricks is is kind of different in design and quality in, you know In in also the quality of of the sound inside of the booth Yeah, I know jerry when jerry bought that booth. He was just recalling that he was one of the one of the very earlier early buyers of the booth and um I mean, there was a lot of boost out there I mean when you take it when you buy a product that's new and not a lot of voiceovers are using it You take a little chance to try something new, you know You didn't buy one of the a stat more established more popular How did you decide to settle on this booth over what else was out there? What was the deciding factor? Well, thankfully mike bratton who had bought the first one was very Good, he's we talked quite a bit and then that we will have bought his as well But just aesthetically looking at the booth. It's different than any other booth on the market. I mean it just looks clearly It's sexy And i'll tell you what the the products that come with the booth the door is a substantial Peace that's definitely what when it takes three people to carry it It's a big heavy door and it's it's substantial But that's usually the weak spot in a lot of booths if you will And and the windows that they engineer. I mean the engineering that went into these booths. I'd say it's just Far and away better than any other booth that's on the market And it's fun to put together Great excuse to have a party, you know This one this one this one This one, you know once once you figure out Oh, you go in a circle and build it up like that. It's like oh, there's nothing to it And then again, it comes apart real easy Which is not necessarily the same of some of the competitors Where you have to get a you know a gang of slaves to carry out these huge heavy Walls and stuff studio brexit isn't like that Yeah, this is definitely you know again other than the door you can't take glass pieces apart yet maybe Guillermo might be working on that back in Spain, but At this point no, that's the one thing that's going to be the heavy big piece you have to move But it's it's worth it. It's worth it because that door Is a super key part of the studio when you build something Oftentimes even when it's custom built the big compromise in the build is the door and Because you go through all this effort to build double walls And you have double layers of this and installation and all these things Then you put a giant hole in all of that and put oftentimes a single Door and the door is a massive loss. So these you know They worked hard to come up with the door that would still give them that same amount of isolation That the rest of the system Provides and that's no small feat um What is it? I mean, I know because I've played with it, but what makes that door so unique? The way that it operates. So the door is as as you as you both guys told us Is is pretty heavy And that is because it has like five layers of glass and air Right. So and then when you hang up, you know, the handle You can seal the the door. So it's a it's a really special door It doesn't just lat like a standard door like when you pull a shut a little thing goes click and it latches But when this door is pulled shut There are numerous places around the door that are yeah, it's like a submarine door When you shut the submarine door and the latches kick in it's equated to that But they the old door remember you guys had uh, you had to like do a second thing We had to pull a handle Yeah to like suck the door shut and this one you don't have to know you guys found a different design We have a different design is more solid, right? And the only thing is like automatic So you close and the doors get closed and then when you hang up, you know the handle, you know It makes the the seal, you know, so it has like a two-stage latch Yeah, one it stays shut and the second it pulls the seal close So if nobody's ever seen one, why don't we take a little bit of a tour and show people Jerry's booth We don't get to do that very much. That sounds good. Well, first I'll just tilt the the camera Up As far as we can practically go here Now you can see a lot more of it And I'll actually and that's a five by five booth on the inside. Oh lots of room I'm literally moving an entire iMac 27 That's our webcam. Um, there you go. You get an idea. So So Did you find any issue? I mean, you know, typically when we have a small room Having a lot of glass is a problem. Did you find that to be a problem glass door and a glass window Now and you can equate to this more because I am not a studio engineer But when you have one wall that is reflective as long as the other walls are absorbing it And you're fine and it actually adds a little bit of liveliness to the room if it's all Uh, RLX or via acoustics everywhere. It's almost too dead. It's like, you know, sucking your ears into the wall Yeah, uh, so no the glass has not done it But each booth that you buy has to be tuned and that's why george is here Uh, because depending on the mic and where you place it in the booth How big the booth is and what the shape of the booth is it has to be tuned So that's another step that you have to do So we uh, there's another camera. There's another camera in The booth let's activate the extra camera Open up open up the door. It's already mounted. So it's okay. Cool. It should be ready to go and then uh, Then we can take a look inside so well and this view is because space is at a premium inside of a booth Um, I use the yellow text system and I have a pole that comes down in that one pole Handles both both mic booms and my monitor boom that you're looking at there Everything is suspended off one central pole. Right. I love that. I love the the clamp I mean, there's a lot going on in the photo. It makes, you know, the video it makes it look Busy But there's nothing on the floor, right? Correct. I mean, that's that's the beauty So there's there's no clutter and and the only reason why I have two mics there is because people do come into the studio and Most studios that you connect with they're either going to want the 416 or the u87. So those are the two mics I have Very cool. What about ventilation? Yeah, that's a whole different story. That's one of the reasons why miguel is is is down here, you know Taking a look at uh, some of the things I did and what what they have it and miguel You can probably speak to her this because I think the booth was originally made for like I think depesh mode was the first people to have those boosts up in new york But weren't they designed originally? Is is if you have like a saxophone and you had a you read an apartment you could walk inside and play your saxophone Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right and and for vo with like a u87 or a tl 103 which are very sensitive Sometimes the ventilation can can really be an issue inside those boxes and and when people are in there They're btu's that they kick out it gets hot in there real quick So yeah, they're and I think uh, dan you've even made those ventilation boxes your own You've done some diy stuff like that Oh, yeah, you can actually pump some cold air in there and and reduce the noise level down to almost nothing Yeah, I mean it's designing a ventilation system is not easy because you know every booth is different everybody's You know if everybody gives off different btu's. What is it a human being gives off more wattage than a light bulb? something along those lines and uh, you've got to be able to replace the air now a five by five Booth and how tall is uh, it's five by five by How tall is it? 7.3 7.3 7.3. So five times five is 25 times seven. George, you're the mathematician All right, it's You you've got less than 200 cubic feet of air in there And and you know and then you put a human in it and all this other stuff So you're probably moving about 175 cubic feet of air if you can do it every two or three minutes That's really all you need to do And it doesn't necessarily have to be cold air It just has to be fresh air from where the office is or where the studio is And in this case like when you buy one of these booths, they have a really pretty nice ventilation unit It's called an aeropak And it does a nice job you can if you want to blast the room out you can or you can slow it down and make it quiet Jerry being in south florida Being in there for three hours. He wanted it to be icebox cold in there So he went to another level and piped the ac system from the house Straight into the booth. Yeah, we're through baffles. Yeah Susan baffles. So yeah And and the other thing is is is I'm sure you know is inside those booths Some people bring their equipment in there all I have are those mics and that monitor and you have to Anything that produces heat should not be in the booth You really got to pay attention to the type of lights you put in the booth Even some led lights kick out some good heat And you don't need any anything that's that produces heat is an enemy inside your booth Yeah, how about the monitor is the monitor making heat? No, I don't know what kind it is But whatever led ocd, whatever led oc It's very uh, very low heat That's great. And I actually like the lights that the studio bricks provides with that that fit right into the into the acoustical Treatment in there and yeah, jerry We're actually using the lighting that the booth comes with as our video lights tonight, which works awesome And then jerry, uh, you know loving to modify things Added some colored led strips to the inside of his booth to give it some color accents. That's great Yeah, well tell you what we're gonna take a break and we've got lots of questions from our vast audience across the globe And uh, we'll talk a little bit more about studio bricks and jerry studio and your questions Right after these incredibly important announcements Well, hello there I bet you weren't expecting to hear some big voiced announcer guy on your new orientation training for snapchat. Were you? This is virgin radio Well, okay. We're not that innocent. There's genes for wearing and there's genes for working Dickies because I ain't here to look pretty. 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We're in jerry studio and we're looking at it and talking about the studio bricks and Boots in general which we're going to talk about because we have a question from one of our audience From patrick legread He says i'm really interested to hear more about studio bricks And i'm hoping you can spend some time on this type of solution And when it becomes the best option for someone as it's something i'm seriously considering adding this winter If you have thoughts on this particular product or its competitors, sorry miguel um The pluses and minuses of such an approach and anything else of note I'd really love to hear it as given my current arrangement. I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't going to help Is this isn't going to be the step that really helps advance my career in 2020? Thanks very much. I really appreciate the work you put into the show and the knowledge you share with us Well, thank you patrick. Well, we know, you know studio bricks is a great product I think it really comes down to cost versus benefit And are you ready for it? um You know having a booth is a really important thing If you live in a noisy place If you have a room that is Simple and your quiet neighborhood. You don't have a lot of noise going up Is a booth really necessary a booth really becomes necessary When you are dealing with other people directly and you have to do stuff live Or if you really have to raise the level of your auditions Uh to where you know, they want to make sure that what you're doing sounds right But if I go ahead and call it quiet on demand, right? When you need quiet on demand, that's when you are doing is dn source connect directed live sessions Um and because you know jerry's place here He's he's made improvements to this room. He haven't even added an endo to make his actual You know control room even quieter But still it's like if he's in the middle of that session You know a long directed live studio session They have you know, they're listening at the other end through big studio monitors And they have the client sitting on their end listening to everything going on You just can't say uh, I sorry it's it's gardener day Can you guys just You know, they're burning hundred dollar bills While they're waiting, you know can't do it. So that that's that is the time to go with the booth um In terms of you know, I'm not sure if he's asking me a build versus buy question here because it's not clear But I did want to talk about that a little bit go for it. You know, I a lot of people ask me about that, you know I could build one But I could also buy one. So I mean I I could talk about that for a while But really what it comes down to some of it's obvious If you don't own your home, you'd be crazy to build anything Is the second you leave that place You're gonna have to destroy whatever it is you built. Okay, so that makes absolutely no sense If you own your home, but you know, you're gonna be leaving in the next three to five years or something It's not a your last home or when you're gonna be in Again building doesn't make a whole lot of sense you're gonna be investing a lot of time and money and energy into building something customized And that is going to be a big it takes a lot of planning a lot of time and It's a kind of a big messy project That's going to be a problem as well. So for those situations. I usually say Something like the studio bricks makes a heck of a lot of sense And the other thing about buying instead of building Is you have something with resale value And there's a lot of companies out there that do make booths with varying degrees of Notority You know brand quality specifications Um, I'm seeing more and more companies popping up all the time And if you buy one of those sort of off-brand booths When it comes time to sell that booth when you don't need it or you're upgrading or whatever It's an unknown quantity. But if you have something like a studio bricks, you have a known brand identified quality product that has a resale value. So There's hopefully that will give you a little bit of guidance in my opinion on that, right? I mean, you know a card has great resale value like a tesla You know, you know, you're going to be able to sell it for uh, you know for what it's worth Then you're you're going to get you know, aside from the money you're making from having a good booth You know, you're also going to be able to get you know a return on your investment that way Yeah That's a real thing and you want to already want to be able to have that return on investment and how you earn And and if you if you know that there's going to be a move or an upgrade in the future Being able to sell it is a big deal. And I just did that And jerry. I mean jerry. There you go. Yeah, that exact same Ryan peck from Kansas City flew in here And rented a truck and we took apart my first studio bricks booth that I bought about seven years ago And I sold it for a good amount of money And uh before I bought my other one and he was happy to have it I would stand it. Yeah, so essentially, you know You don't need it until you need it Right make any sense. Okay Pretty much. Yeah, really and if you're not sure then you that's then it is really time to hire dan or me Um to evaluate your particular situation, right? I mean, so we'll consider all factors I mean if you have a great closet with lots of clothes in it and lots of room Sometimes that works just as well So if you're lucky enough to be in a quiet area if it's not 110 degrees in the summer in your closet and You might be lucky. Yeah, that can happen. Save you a few bucks Uh, we've got a question from kevin andrews from fulsome, california And he says yep that fulsome, but i'm on the other side of town from the prison All right, he says uh mic a mic posted on youtube about his love affair with the zoom h5 And how if he was starting over he'd start with that as his pre-amp audio interface Then I watched some more of his videos. I guess he was talking about mike delgadio the uh booth junkie And it seemed like when he went to discuss preamps. He wasn't as hot on the zoom h5 after all Suggesting that preamp is noisy and not that great. So your thoughts I'm trying to get started in vo and until I can earn a little. I don't have a lot to budget for equipment Well the zoom h5 You know, I think it's a remote unit. I mean if you're on the road or something like that It's a nice thing to have but then again So is your iphone or your your android phone because those record just as nice And actually probably have more memory on them. Who knows? um But you can plug your a regular mic in there and use it as an interface But apparently, uh, you know mike delgadio liked it and then he's like Well, maybe there's some better stuff out there Because well, that's the way gear goes. Yeah, that's true. You you have something you use it And it's just fine until You try something something a little bit better Exactly and and I know and I know mike pretty well. I i'm i'm a fan of his I watch his videos I also helped consult on the design of his Equipment signal chain. So I know exactly what he he has a lot more gear than you'd lead on to watching the video He has a lot of stuff and he's got some really high-end stuff. So he's got that Yeah, he likes gear and he and he has the ear From using all this equipment to discern those little subtle things that the difference between a zoom h5 And something up the food chain or up the cost ladder So, you know, when you when you're listening to him go on and on and wax on about These these these factors keep that in mind, you know, he's heard tons of gear He has an incredibly quiet environment in which he records and this is what he does all day long is test and compare gear So I love that. I think it's great. But remember He's called the booth junky For a reason He has he's a he's a junkie when it comes to this gear And if you're a voice actor wanting to get started don't don't get too obsessed with it You know, watch it for entertainment and for knowledge, but don't feel like you need to be on a constant upgrade path You don't zoom h5 will be just fine And it's a stand to two and one thing you can record to it and you can use it as an interface So it's it's multifunctional. Is it the one that I would recommend right out of the gate? No, it's going to be like a steinberg ur12 or Uh, the focus rights scarlet solo or yeah, that's what I'm going to recommend I'm not going to recommend the zoom h5. It's it's a four Are even up to six channel multi-track recorder or something like that. It's not what you need Yeah, a lot of people use them for podcasting and stuff like that and they're they're and they're good for that But for a voiceover preamp. Yeah, I wouldn't exactly recommend that either. So Anyway, uh, we got a question from jack de gallia Whose booth by the way we're looking at behind me Oh, yeah, that's studio brooks both over here, but yeah, we got booths and a booth We have a booth within a booth, uh, and he's now I guess he's a little confused here, but then again. He is jack de gallia. The wording is a little confusing Yes, he says he says, uh, a un bandy q what to do in twisted wave What do it do in twos? What do it do in twos? Uh, it's a u is the apple Designation for an audio unit. So it's basically a an ecu It's a really crazy ecu Uh, it's it's a super geeky ecu with a tremendous amount of control As a lot of different modes that you can set it to um I use it for really particular, uh Okay, I'll tell you what I use it for okay right now Believe it or not, all I use it for is to reduce the gain by a certain amount after the limiter So i'm used it as a way to read to after I use the limiter which brings it up to full You know all the way to zero I use it to knock it down by three So it comes out at minus three. Yes, that's all i'm using it for as a volume control But it's also a super precision Multiband equalizer That has a tremendous amount of power, you know that if you if you again know how to use it Is really really useful or you can make a giant mess out of your Sound with it too. So that's that's what it is. Yeah, yeah, of course as I always say if you don't know what something does Don't use it Yeah, you probably should use it. Oh, you know or have one have somebody else Explain and set up for you exactly, but jackie jack's got a great voice already What does he need to start fussing around with the the q? I think he asked because I think I did a stack form and he saw that in there and he's going What the heck is that? Because the jack sent the kind of guys that when you send him a stack He's just gonna go thanks and then use it jack's gonna open it and start digging around under the hood and go What's that? What's that? What's that? He's very inquisitive. Yeah, but again, yeah If you see that used in the stack if I make one and it's at the very last thing Chances are all i'm doing is just using as a volume control Which sounds weird, but it's the only function I can find A plug-in that can just do that simple function for me in the stack. So there you have it Okay, got another question from haley ginton Ginter Uh, george any progress on getting source connect to work with the uad apollo twin on windows Also would love to hear your take on the towns and labs spear 20 l 22. Thanks. Why? Hi This is a perfect opportunity to demystify Yeah, again the difference between source connect and source connect a source connect standard and source connect now source connect now does not work on Uh source connect now works fine on chrome And it only works on chrome, but it doesn't work on chrome with the apollo stuff on windows So if you're on windows and you're using the apollo usb or any of the apollo stuff And you're trying to use something that uses chrome like ipd tl and source connect now You're out of luck for this for for now Um, I haven't seen it function yet because you can't get the apollo to send audio into chrome Um, I i'm not sure why it just don't work So but source connect standard The version that we talked about in the ad earlier the version that most the studios want you to have Works perfectly with uh the apollo because it's not using chrome And they have their own sound driver for it and it works It works perfectly. So I hope that clears that up. Yeah, well, you know, it's a great unit But sometimes people are spending a lot of money for this big expensive unit But it's the same as any other interface except it allows you to use all these different plugins and stuff like that But it's not the plugins that get you work So yeah, be careful about this all those plugins are intended to be used on the front end and they're going So when you record through that You're printing it or recording those plugins permanently And you know the beauty of a stack or something like that is you do it after the fact you can undo it If you don't like it you can modify But when you record through the processing you're you're married to it. So it's there You gotta be careful the towns and labs also mentioned Um do a little youtube search uh for george the tech and the towns and labs sphere I did do a little short review about it. I did six months to a year ago Dan you did one too. Yeah, um, so check out our both of our reviews check out dan's and my reviews about the L 22 for our thoughts, but it's far more complicated than I want to get into right now. It is a Amazing piece of gear, but it's insanely more flexible than most ever any voice actor would ever need Yeah, I think basically a hundred mics in one. Yeah, I think it's more designed for a high-end engineer who needs A specific tool for doing something like you know multi-voice reads and uh, you know We're creating an environment to something like that, which none of us have to do Yeah, I mean if you're a producer and you do you know, you do commercial recording and you have a lot of people Come in your studio. This is a cool mic. This mic even can do emulate a 416 So it can do a lot of different things, but if you already have a 416 Why? You know, so it's it's it's a special it's a very flexible tool, but it It's more than any voice actor could really ever need if they're just recording themselves All right, we got one final question here. It's not quite a tech question But you know, we'll throw it in here from anthony Schaefer I says i'm a stay-at-home disabled dad What advice do you have for people who are thinking of getting into voiceover Work to make some extra money and how do you get work in voice? Gee, how many times do we hear this one? Uh, it's the most common new new to voiceover question. Yeah, let's ask jerry jerry you answer that question Jerry are you disabled? My wife says so There's a lot of videos and tutorials. I would say that there are some good facebook pages to go on Um, uh, vo pros voiceover universe and if you do a search when you get on facebook about You know how to get into voiceover there are many posts of people who have videos or books or tutorials Of what to do what to expect some of the costs involve the training And I think people who are just thinking about getting into voiceover Might read that and think wow, this is a lot more to it than what I thought Yeah, and there's there's a lot of resources out there peter o'Connell has his his tester Are you ready for voiceover? There's a lot of schools out there. Just be very careful Talk to the people who actually know Not some of these, you know, you can make money in voiceover things Talk to professionals, you know, it's it watch out for yeah, be very careful to hire a company who wants to make your demo Yeah, right off you know That's definitely not what you want to do you um There's actually I want to be a voice actor calm Check that one out. That's d bradley baker. Yeah voice actor in la He made that website just because so many people ask him so And he it's not something that stale information. He keeps it up to date So that's another really good resource to kind of get an idea Where you're headed with all of this and what you might expect but as a disabled dad who's home you've got time and You've got time to research and start checking this stuff out and study Give it a go. Yeah, give it a go. Give it a shot. Let's see what you sound like and uh, that's you know If you don't have to sound like marlon brando or some a big voiced person You just have to be authentic authentically you and be able to capture that and uh consistently with good quality I know it I boiled it down to that but it that's kind of a lot what it is but then it's Then it's then it's the acting absolutely the acting. Yeah Well, that's a lot of tech to throw into uh into less than an hour. We really appreciate We really appreciate jerry and uh miguel joining us tonight too and showing us the studio bricks booth in there And and jerry's uh, you know his nice five by five Can't wait miguel. Is there anything coming down the What do you guys have do you have a vision for the future for the company like What's coming up next for studio bricks? So we are trying to improve all the time you and all our products We are working always trying to work with the eco friendly product And make the you're making trying to make the the booth more you know efficient eco friendly And and trying to improve all the all the time, you know this kind of Small issues that you know when you are developing a product appear sometimes and And always as I told you, you know, like developing the product Documentation is a big one too, right? Like just figuring out better ways to Yeah, we are working in documentation. We we already have a really good man once right now. That's a big one, right? Yeah, a big one a really good one. We are working videos. We are working So we are improving our marketing and our expansion and yeah, we are we are doing Very good. That's great. Great. And then we are like developing a new line. This is the office solutions for, you know, office spaces Workshared space shared workspace type environments. Yeah, we are like manufacturing right now like, you know, phone booths and work units and meeting rooms Very cool. Yeah, I was hoping you guys were going to be like starting a colony on mars or something, you know, that would be I wish At least they go All right, thanks for being with us guys Thank you very much. Alrighty. All right, George and I will be right back to clean things up right after Hey guys, this is tom also known as the voice of spongebob square pants And you want to fill your ear holes and your eye holes with dan and george and the audio body shop? 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Donors of the week we got a nice batch of them, which we really appreciate all names that are familiar because they're they're subscribers um patty gibbons brine page Amanda fellows Shelly avaleno. Yay. Shelly got to see her over the weekend last weekend tray speaks for you that's tray moseley tom pinto Phillips appear sarah borges Uncle roy ant land productions graham spicer joseph harrison And christie burns, you know if if you know if you really enjoy tech talk And the information we're giving you we'd really appreciate if you could help us out and Donate a little bit to make us, you know technically perfect You know, I mean we're technicians, but if you guys only knew what it takes to do this show Live, you know every other week. I mean think about it george's in florida You know and we've got him right here Somehow we're able to do this technologically. We need your help to do that and we really appreciate it There's a donate now button right underneath the chat room in our v obs dot tv uh webpage And uh click on that and give us whatever you'd like, you know, we any every little bit helps Uh, and you could show us your booths too. Like here's jack the goaliest new booth You know, he's he's upgraded from his closet You know, right? I mean we used to had a picture of his his studio a couple months ago and there was you know He's sure it's hanging there and in a jacket and his pants and stuff like that But that works just as well But I guess he wanted just a little bit more isolation a little more isolation. Yeah Uh, if you'd like to be here live for the show Hey We're here, you know every other monday night. We won't be on next week But yeah, we'll be on next week So let us know if you can be here if you're in the greater los angeles area And you could sit on the great red couch here And watch the show live and maybe ask a question live That would be kind of cool if you want to be on camera. Some people know I don't want to be on camera. Anyway Uh, but right to us at the guys at v obs dot tv and say I want to be there And we'll give you the secret handshake and the address and let you in here That'd be great. You know, we'd let to do a little bit of an fbi check first, but You know That's right. Um, hey, you know Home voiceover studios if you're just getting started you probably have no idea what on earth you're doing Fortunately, you're talking to two guys here or we're talking to you. Anyway, uh, who know this stuff better than anybody else on the in the entire world And george is one of those guys and if you'd like to talk to him and do business with him and help you Get your studio up and running or if you have repairs to a really important and big highly efficient studio You can contact him at I'm over at george the dot tech and when he decided it's time to stop Spinning your wheels on forums and google searches and free youtube videos Don't do that and you want like the most direct possible answer to your question That's when it's time to to hire a consultant and that's what I'll do I can you can schedule me Or we can do offline work where you send files and I send back information There's a lot of ways we can work together over at george the dot tech and dan You're also a consultant. I are but you're at some other place and that is that is home voiceover studio dot com And uh, you know, I do a lot of the same stuff I really like working with beginners people who are like, what do I do? And we can get you up and running very very quickly to the point where you can learn what you need to do To be very good at recording your voice over audio And if you already have a studio when you really want me to check the audio I have the specimen collection cup at the bottom of that page Click on that and send me a specimen of your audio And we'll see what what it sounds like. Maybe it needs some major improvement. Maybe it does it You know, also I'm offering directing services now if you need help with an audition a big audition Uh, I am now the uh the vo director and uh, Be happy to book a session with you if you've got something really important And you want another ear to hear what perhaps you're not doing right And not connecting with the copy. I can help you with that. So check that out as well Um, let's see. We need to thank our sponsors too Uh like harlan hogan's voiceover essentials voiceover extra source elements Vio heroes dot com voice actor websites dot com and mackle collins demos All right, thanks to all of them also the dan and marcie lennard foundation for the betterment of live webcasting Uh our own sumer lino who did a great job tonight Always challenging when we're doing a remote But she handles it like a pro because she is a pro. Don't try this yourself at home Uh, and of course lee pennie for being lee pennie. Well, that's going to do it for this week on tech talk number 18 Uh, we'll be back again next week with another great guest and we appreciate you having here Uh, i'm dan lennard i'm george with him and this is voiceover body shop or vio BS tech talk tech talk have a great one george go get some sleep I'm gonna go drive that tesla falling asleep It practically drives itself by You