 Hey, it's time for voiceover body shop. It's a town meeting. We got a lot of people George Wait, we were we're everywhere. Nobody is in the studio except me We had been working very hard trying to fix all this stuff to make it work And it is not easy to not only have me be remote But also our producers sue is also remote tonight running the switcher from afar and that is no small feat So right so glad we got it up and we're looking forward to having a good conversation tonight about the current affairs absolutely and if you've got a question throw it in the chat room and we've got some great guests tonight and maybe a surprise guest and We got lots of great stuff to talk about so join us now for voiceover body shop town meeting 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 a Virginia Tech grad with the skills to build set up and maintain The professional field studios of the biggest names in VO today and you Dan Leonard the voiceover home studio master a professional voice town with the knowledge and experience To help you create a professional sounding home VO studio and Each week they allow you into their world Bring you talks with the biggest names in the voice of our world today Letting you ask your questions and giving you the latest information to make the most of your voice over business Welcome to voice over body shop Voice over body shop is brought to you by voice over essentials calm home of Harlan Hogan signature products source elements remote studio connections for everyone voice actor websites calm where your VO website isn't a pain in the butt VO heroes calm become a hero to your clients with a word-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 I'm Dan Leonard. Good evening, and I'm George Wittem and this is voice over body shop or VO Bs It's nightline America held hostage by a virus You got that right. Yeah boy. This has been This is this is like a science fiction movie Only worse because it's actual Yeah, we are living it right now. Yeah, but it's been an uptime for us because And we'll talk to people tonight because we have a lot of guests tonight We're gonna join us via zoom to talk about what they're going through as voice actors that during this Incredibly unique time in our history, and we're never gonna. This is what we're gonna tell our kids about Although my kids are living it now at home Yeah, but anyway How is it affecting you so far? Well as I've told several people I've been preparing for this moment all my life Um It's there's just an avalanche of people needing tech support mainly regarding source connect, right? Almost overwhelmingly like 95% has been about source connect We've had a couple people mention IPDT L A couple people saying I just need to make sure my studio sounds broadcast quality. No such thing But other than that it's tremendous amounts of help help I need to have source connect And I need to do it from my home studio and all I have is an Apogee mic and That's it and an iPhone. How do I do this help me help me a lot of those? So that's what my week's been like. I've been you know, I've maintained some sanity Although today, I'm still wearing what I wore when I woke up You could probably take the hat on it's not cold. No, it's not not worth 80 degrees here in southern, California Not taking the hat off But yeah, that's what it's kind of been like and I just when I just want to make sure that Everybody it needs help is gonna get it somehow some way without all of us going crazy in the process So how about you Dan? What's it been like for you guys in the valley because I'm in a rural area I'm in Topanga and I can walk outside and I can walk up the street and I can ride my bike around and it's It's you know, it's pretty nice and it's not like it's entirely different It's not all that different for me other than the fact that I'm not going to see anybody in their studios, right? So it's not that unusual or different. How about you? Well, you know, I Spend most of my time in this cave anyway, so I don't really see anybody, you know I mean I walk into the house. I see my family. They look at me going. Oh, he's come back from the cave I Spend a lot of time in there But it's you know, again, you walk around the neighborhood people sort of like, you know walk You know the dogs all sniff each other, but everybody else tries to say six feet apart, right, right? And But there really hasn't there's been no reports of any outbreak here in our neighborhood here in Sherman Oaks So I think that's not in Topanga either. I mean, I don't know if there's anybody in Topanga That would even bother getting tested exactly But but for the most part business-wise Yeah, my phone's been ringing off the hook at my my inbox is full people sending in audio samples They're like is my studio good enough, but what I've seen as you were just mentioning is That the major studios here are telling people to you've got to have Source connect and you've got to have some other software that most of the people are like I've never used it and they want me to change over overnight like this when there are a bunch of you out there I know that it but probably doing this as long as we have and Understand how to do all this stuff, but they're bypassing the experts because Who knows right if there's any industry people out there that are actually doing working on the other end We know how to do this look. We're doing a TV show. Come on now Pretty simple, but I've been again. I'll probably never work in this town again Oh just I've been very critical to some of the studios here, you know, yeah I mean there people out there that don't understand how to use Pro Tools or how to use Reaper Because they're saying you have to use source connect and the fact of the matter is a source connect as we'll probably find out as we Talk a little bit more tonight is a standalone unit It's got nothing to do with those particular programs Right or vice versa is as it were right you're saying they have to have Well, yeah, they don't need to have Reaper or Pro Tools to run source connect, right? So why are they telling people this this is this is some manager upward? Well, this is how we do it tell them how to do this and not considering the fact that there are people that actually know what They're doing and there are people out there that are gonna be a little behind on a learning curve for them to catch up So why don't they use the people that are really good at this already? Yeah, I don't understand. It's like I would mean recasting a bunch of Nickelodeon TV shows and Well, hopefully they'll be patient Well, yeah, they're gonna have to wait they're gonna have to wait until everybody gets their act together and it's gonna take as long as it takes and But they want it everybody wants to keep working so People are gonna get their things functional and things are gonna come back online and it's gonna take Several weeks or to happen. Yes. Well, we have a special guest Hopefully coming on during the show tonight who will probably help us with some of that But we have a lot of other guests with us tonight No, they're over here aren't they? Figure it out. Let's see. I could grab your nose there So why don't we go around the horn and see what's going on with everybody else right now? Let's start off with Well our good friend by Rone Wagner by Rone Good evening. Yeah, you be here happy to be anywhere as they say in the business. Well, you're at least you're somewhere Yeah, how has it been for you so far during this great quarantine period? Well, the first thing that happened was I watched all of my travel plans for the next four months drop off the face of the map and Had to cancel hotels and airfares and so on and it was kind of it was disappointing I mean, you know, there's the one voice and you know, Atlanta and APAC and all that stuff, but it was you know, in a way, it's kind of freeing liberating like going command That I had less obligations and that that and the things and So what's happened instead is I've kind of found myself Sitting in on a lot of you know the online, you know, the coffee clatch is the webinars and so on and Trying to help people that way and other than that and the fact that I don't go out to do things the way that I used to do I'm very comfortable. We did, you know, they the prepper run to Costco and CBS and all that stuff so I can't complain. Yeah, means I'm not paying enough attention All right, all right, we'll come back to you what jump Torah's you got your mic on there yet? There she is. Well, there's your there's her picture anyway. Come on Talk to us. Well, how's it been for you so far? It's just been a lot of now it's like front-loading on what it's like to to be able to produce everything myself After my normal day job Well, yeah, so you're you're accustomed to going into the studio you're you're you're you're an in-studio talent mostly Gotcha, okay Yeah, so they're saying hey We want to do what you normally would do when you just walk in and read a script and do everything now yourself from home Yeah, which we've only been telling people to do for ten years You know by the way, this is actually about well nine years This is our ninth anniversary month. We started doing this show nine years ago in March 22 2011 and Go watch episode number one. It's so different from this. I know I was getting all these Congratulations on your seven-year anniversary on LinkedIn. Yeah, via BS, but that's clearly whenever we created the account It was nine years ago. We started e-waps. So right. Yeah, that's where we're at with that Yeah, and this is certainly like the way we used to do it only far more sophisticated. It is it is There's a lot more going on Alright Jay Horace You're on how has this situation been affecting you so far? Well, I've trained for it all my life. I'm an only child So this works out well But but honestly for me I do a lot of TV work and that's totally stopped But it's kind of refreshing because I'd have a six-hour commute when I drive in now to Chicago So and actually what's crazy is my last TV show booking was a self-tape that I did at home I didn't even have to go in for the first round or call back or anything. Yeah, that was nice Are they telling you when the production might pick up again? No, no, they're they're doing a lot of free webinars and casting directors are talking about this could be the new Whatever you want to call it They're saying they're talking to clients, but nothing's actually happened as far as an audition for a job They're shooting next week or tomorrow like they usually do. Yeah, but the voice work should be still out there I mean the radio is still on and there's still commercials going on and all these other things. So We should be able to do this stuff without too much trouble. So yeah, if you see Agent say a letter saying hey need you all to have your your TV self-tape Areas up the speed and then your voice over would be nice if you would Be on Source Connect or my talent more, you know, so what I did instead of calling you guys is just Went from the free version to the paid version had them walk me through it. It's pretty simple I mean not simple when you somebody walks you through it And you're comfortable with the computer like I am I didn't have it's it's I'm ready I'm a talent. I haven't done a certification. I don't know if you guys I'm sure you guys know what that is I just heard about that Want to check your lines out and all that stuff, but that might be next what what does that involve now? Have you done it yet? I haven't I haven't done it in years. So I don't remember But there's some kind of it's extra little fee that you pay and then a certification test where they They actually test to make sure that you actually know what you're doing Functionally on Source Connect. So if you have gone through that you will get an extra little badge and That little extra badge that will show up on your account on the on the account manager page not on the actual app I think but only on the account manager where people add you as a contact and Where you manage contacts and because of that then you'll be able to show up as a Special talent something that's certified. I haven't mentioned it or promoted the idea of using it or doing that and Incredibly long time, but it's not a bad idea anything that will just show that you've put the extra work and time To really understand and know your tools is probably a good idea right now Yeah, I and to really and to have a good studio is not that hard I think people are being freaked out by having to have this additional stuff Along with certain software that perhaps they don't know how to use and as we were saying isn't really necessary But you know everybody's like but I want to do it the way they say You know, it's like if you're gonna send something if you're gonna send them a file You're gonna be over over Source Connect or whatever They don't know what's going on the other end as long as they're hearing it on the other end I don't quite get that but anyway Jennifer Riley Where are you Jennifer Riley joining us like also from Chicago? Where's she go? She's here somewhere. Oh She's probably running after her kids are we'll come back. No, there she is I'm here. Okay How has this situation been for you so far hiding at home and being a voice actor with all your You know with your two kids and everything it goes on there Honestly, it's been pretty hard It's been challenging, you know, I have two school-aged kids and navigating the whole e-learning Remote learning from the teachers It's been it's been interesting And I'm used to spending a lot of time alone but not quite this much time so That's been interesting as well. Yeah alone Though Yeah, so I have you but you have found time to do recording and Any auditions? Yeah, I've been able to record an audition. That hasn't been a problem. It has been slower for me It hasn't been I've noticed it's been slower, but What kinds of work have gone away that what you normally would be doing Mostly the things that I'm Getting from My local agent here. It's changed quite a bit But I think they're adjusting, you know, all the good it I live in Chicago and I think Everybody's kind of adjusting to the new normal Yeah Have enough supplies and are you have you been going out shopping or I? Yeah, I've got some rice and beans and some other good stuff, you know We'll be okay for a while. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Haven't heard any news about how it's going in Chicago, but I What are the reports like there? They're turning McCormick place into a hospital Which is scary Hi, I'll send me a Robert from source elements. I love Robert. Well, we have a surprise guest Robert Marshall who joins us from and then he is he is the guru behind Source Connect and sleepless in Chicago. Yeah, seriously. He looks really tired. So How has this affected you? We've been going non-stop Probably I've been working Between starting between seven and ten in the morning going till four in the morning and spent about two weeks Just nothing but onboarding people and answering questions everything from Huge major like news networks asking for insane like Multi like people all fly on the walls listening to interviews with two different guests being interviewed in an interviewer and then maybe even trying to wrap in a translator to Your voice over at home to your studios who are trying to do basically mix with a picture lock on a talent with Clients getting streamed picture of what they're locking to You name it. It's been it's been just huge. Well, you've been preparing for this How long how long has source connect been been online? How long we're like almost 20 years now actually scary enough I hate to admit how old I am, but yeah Well, you were 10 years old when you started this that there you go six actually. Oh, okay But you've been preparing all these years to do this and now you demand Yeah, and then we hired we hired some more tech support people But you got to get them up to speed right you can't that's the problem. It's just more people asking you questions I mean, they're good But it's it's like you're just like on our on our internal slack and then it's like hey What about this but you're talking to someone and then you're just like your brains It's like going like ten different directions because you're answering four different Questions at the same time, but they're getting more up to speed and then we opened up a community sort of Chat forum which almost became a monster of itself because we had to get two people on there that were like we hired them to kind of You know Help people but it was more like a guidance thing because the whole idea is that we were going to Seat it and then the community would help itself But then that just became a big giant hand-holding thing And so we had to pull it back and basically say to the guys that were moderating it you are the Leaders of the class and you give information, but you don't do it for them Because we need to create community brain here Right, um smart. It's all that you did that you created it. You put it into place You got it running You found a few mods and then you guys stepped back out because you can't be in you can't be in all places at the Also at the same time I haven't even logged into that thing because it's like a right. It's like a freaking It's like a horn to do it. Yeah, you just get sucked into it So what do you suggest to everyone who's like going bananas here? I mean here in southern california You know my phone's been ringing off the hood. All right, george. It's simple simple a get a mac and dump your piece D Screw it like like, yeah number two Sign up and we'll try to get people through the licensing process and we really understand that ilac is a pain in the ass but it's a Necessary evil and it really is industry standard and It is what it is, but if you muscles through it, it's actually not that hard It's it's really just a bunch of account email verific verifications. Grab this code dump it into this verification Get your ilac launch source connect log in your ilac account download your license and then you're in Jump back into our website go to the source stream section and do the source stream map select your server and now you can kick port forwarding down the road for a while because if everyone gets on the streaming server and The only only vulnerability is people who are on windows machines. Unfortunately. We're just not there yet We're catching them up They can't do source stream or whoever's on a really really old copy of source connect They can't do source stream, but if everyone's on 3.9 with source stream, you're connecting That's really the fastest best way to do this and then we can get in there and help answer everyone's questions at a little bit better pace instead of Trying to dive into everyone's routers and fix them all. Yeah, really? How many how many new accounts do you think you've uh, you've gotten in the last week yourself? Couldn't count Well, that's probably a good thing. Yeah, no, it's great. Like it's you know, like we're looking at the whole world falling apart and I just feel thankful that I've got a job like my post work just like went poof. I had a whole summer's worth of ad campaigns just basically like just vanish off the schedule entirely and uh, I do a lot of post mixing That was one of my main main gigs as well. And so this is really wonderful that I've got something to fall to um, and Great, you know, I feel lucky. Yeah, we all feel lucky. Yeah, that's our source elements. We really do and thank everyone because um You know, we're trying to make it happen. And yeah, I go ahead George You know, you guys have been like you said I several of us said this jay said this earlier I said this earlier. We've been all we've all been preparing for this moment our whole lives And um, you know, it's because if you this had this kind of a thing that happened maybe six seven years ago You guys certainly would have felt but not have probably felt as prepared As maybe overwhelmed as you are now. Yeah back then it could have been quite a bit worse. So You know, it's we're all at the point where we are now taking it on and doing We're doing pretty good and you're you're investing crazy hours right now Because you know, I mean, I don't know if you notice but like you're like, where are you and you're texting me and I'm like Shit And I just like literally told somebody like I'm gonna call you back in an hour and finish this and uh and just like jumped off Yeah, exactly somebody somebody's right now waiting for Robert to call them back to finish setting up their source connect So we're not gonna keep you good too much. No, it's cool. It's cool. Actually, this is like There's something very nice about this like having a conversation where it's a little bit more about like, hey How are you and how's the world and and not just like my router? Yeah, not my audio probably asking you how are you right now? They just want their stuff to work so but Answer this one question because George and I have been tossing this about and and we've been seeing this a lot from people and that is Source connect standard is a standalone Uh Program now. I know it can work through pro tools and some other things Why are these? Why do you think these studios are saying you have to have pro tools? You have to have Reaper and you've got to have this along with source connect It doesn't seem to make any sense. It's complete misinformation. So essentially What I keep on telling people I go one step further. I'm like twisted wave Quicktime recorder like there's your backup. It's the simplest recorder period Right, I can I can explain it to someone without even bothering with a screen share and I can do it quicker Like it takes longer to set up a screen share than it does to tell someone to launch quick time Cancel the stupid dialogue box that comes up go up to the file menu say new audio recording Click on the little tiny arrow, which I was wish it wasn't so small Select your input. Let's click it on again. Select maximum jam the record button and get on with it. Yeah Absolutely. Well, Robert, we want you to go back to sleep. Uh But we really appreciate you coming on and and talking with us and uh And of course if people when people need source connect, what do they do? They just go to source elements calm and follow the instructions, right? Yeah, I mean we we are definitely here to help and I feel like we're We're about um, I don't know what the schedule is now, but we're like a week out But what we're basically doing is Um, you know, we have these booked scheduled appointments in an hour And then we're we're usually able to get people done Before the hour and then so someone finishes and they're like there's just a pile of phone calls and like call someone else who's like Because a lot of people are they can't wait a week. I got out of session tomorrow And it's like kind of came to it a little bit late, but we're gonna make it happen. So we just say Be ready for a phone call anytime and we're gonna call you in whatever pocket we can find right and um and like yeah, and sometimes you leave a voicemail and you're like, sorry like next call and then You keep on going and Yeah, it's I don't know how my voice sounds is it sound like I've been talking for two weeks or three weeks Yeah, well, you know what it's like Yeah, you do it for a living Yeah, well Robert, thank you so much for taking some time out and joining us and easing all our fears as we watch you crumble into a little pile Thank you guys. No, we are um, we're honored and I really think that um, like we're hopefully Making it happen for everybody and I really have to thank everybody because um, You know, there's a few or like you didn't call me back or something But 99% of everyone's like I understand you're busy Thank you for fitting us in and it's really cooperative and it's like kind of the world's falling apart, but there is There is kind of a good Sort of we're all human and this is we're gonna make it through it Yeah, well, it's it's good to know that the guys that really matter are now relying on you So you've now become the industry standard, which is great. So thanks for being with us. Yeah, and uh, Robert Marshall everybody from Source Connect in Source. Amen Yeah, man, George. Thank you, man. See you on the other side. Bye. 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Yeah for anybody in tech support, but they are uh, they're rising to the occasion clearly so um The system's going to be one of those things that's going to be used in studios On another level than they have ever used it before bout so everybody has to be patient while The studios and the talent alike get it together. Yep. It's going to take a little bit, but uh, It's going to happen because we got we got to get used to it. Yeah, I think for a while Yes, it's conception that we'd be all working at by easter and back in the you know, normal life again Yeah, it's not happening. Yeah, but you put out a video this week That's gotten a lot of hits that really goes through the whole process, right? Yeah, it's only george the tech, um youtube channel and it's just a source connect standard for voiceover tutorial basically It's a tutorial and then the last half of it is just nothing but questions and answers So practically every question that you can think of is probably been asked on that video So I recommend anybody who's really curious who hasn't seen it And it's very wanting to know more about source connect and understand what it is and what it isn't And hopefully it will clear up all the misconceptions all the misnomers and myths Yeah, and uh, check that out at george the tech the youtube channel Alrighty, all right. Paul Stefano on mute your mic. We haven't talked to you in a while. How you doing? Yeah, I'm doing okay. Thanks for having me tonight by the way guys. No problem First of all, isn't robert just the bestest. Yeah, boy. Yeah, he is great having him here And a happier quieter time. I emailed him for support one time and and got the reply back from robert And I said wait a minute robert marshal you answer your own emails over the company and he said, yeah As much as I can he's he's just so great with all he offers to the community. Yeah Well, it shows and it's it I think he's probably working as hard as many health care workers are today So except he's not going to catch anything from it except a lot of exhaustion So how has the uh, how has the the turn turn down of all business affected you so far paul? Actually, it really hasn't that much good The favorite meme I've seen so far on facebook is the one with the sock monkey Where he's looking backwards and it says when you realize that your normal everyday lifestyle is now called self quarantining That's kind of how I feel and thankfully I've been busier than ever to tons of work I did some work even related to the virus itself some psas for the public television station here And even signed to a new agency last week. So I'm thankful and counting all my blessings that things haven't changed and actually have gotten better for me business wise now The family's all here and juggling kids and school work has been complicated Not not father of the year for sure with a lot of screen time going on But you know you do what you can and and try and make the best of the situation Yeah, my kids are a little older, but I certainly remember doing the homework. It's like I already took this Why don't we have to take it again with you? Besides you'll never need this Especially when it's too hard for you and uh, that's already happening to me with the sixth grader They they teach it differently these days. All right. Thanks paul. Uh, let's go to uh ron montgomery ron. How you doing? Good afternoon everybody It's been a Been a fun little one. At least I have plenty of toilet paper planned ahead You know, we're not sure what everybody's doing with it all but you know, it's I figured there's going to be a massive blowout come halloween and every house is going to be covered with All right, there's going to be people with hundreds of rolls and nothing to do with it and it's Ha ha. That's a good point Excellent. So, uh, how has it been for you? I mean, are you are you coping you going nuts? So you're just having a jolly old time I hate to say it. Uh, kind of like uh, what paul was saying I'm pretty much the same as always, uh in the house and in the studio and haven't really noticed from that perspective a big difference Uh, I've been really busy doing a lot of e-learning Helping these people who never worked from home before How to connect into their company's uh systems remotely? And so there's been a lot of that rush e-learning to get through real fast so that they can get out to their employees and get them working again Yeah, this is probably this is going to really change the way. I think america does business probably the whole world Uh, this may actually make us even more of a global village because now we can really Really talk to people face to face and it's not like something from a james bond movie anymore. It's uh It is we have the ability like we're doing right now to talk to anybody we want And they can talk to us if they want to talk to us Sometimes exactly. I think this is going to be a major shift in how business is going to run in the future You know for the good or the bad at the end of the day We will have a major change in how we work things anymore And that's not a bad thing really but there's going to be a lot of companies that you know The local stuff that maybe just won't survive because we are a global village There's no question about it All righty. Well, it's it's good to know that everybody's is working hard out there. Um Does anybody have any questions amongst our guests here tonight? Raise your hand. I think tree did That doesn't work. Do you see them raising their hand? No, okay. I think I think gem had a question though Go ahead gem with regards to just sort of recommendations as far as um So I've seen like emails where it's like, oh, you have to have either source connects or form patch and then any sort of recommendations you have about Uh, learning new Dawes and what sort of recommendations you have for people who Don't have a lot of experience with that who are who are catching up with everything and working with Dawes and and editing everything and To make it so then we can set it ready for those clients Yeah, do we do people really need to learn a new dawg? I mean if they're just if if they're just connecting George if they're just connecting normally then Really, you don't have to take the time to learn any of this stuff because they're not really asking you to produce Yeah, we've talked about you know, what a phone patch really is at the end of the day and It technically is not really much more than An earbud in one ear plugged into your phone And then you're talking to the client on the phone. I mean that's at the most basic level of fully functional Phone patch, right? And so that allows you to continue recording in your normal software Oh, whatever you normally would have used you can continue to use it um, and the good thing about source connect is By and large Not always on windows, but on mac it works beautifully alongside of all your other apps So it can work in a similar way hit record in twisted wave or an audition Or in whatever software you use and let source connect Create the connection to the studio And you shouldn't have to learn any new Just other than getting used to source connect. You shouldn't have to learn any new systems and new tools Um, so how have you done phone patches in the past gem? I have not Okay Well, I mean you you've already got one you just don't know it, you know your your your hands free device Your your earbuds, whatever you use your airport air. What do you use for? Do you have any ear phones or anything you plug into your phone for for conversations? Because you can stick one of those and you don't have to have two, you know two of them And then you can have one in You can have one in one ear while your headphones on the other Some people actually do tuck it underneath the ear cup So it's literally Underneath the ear cup if you've got big headphones you can do that Create any sort of like feedback issues. No No, as long as the phone's not really really loud, you know You don't want to have it so loud that the microphone actually picks up the Sound of their voice coming out of the phone That wouldn't be good But as long as the phone call is quiet and you can still hear a conversation at a low volume Um No interference should work fine And usually if you're if you're you know, if someone is directing you over the phone They're going to be quiet while you're talking while you're recording your stuff And unless they're like, oh, and maybe they should do a little effect You know they'll interrupt you and say can you do that a little bit faster? And then you know and you know and to ask them to mute themselves while you're talking and if they want to talk To unmute themselves sort of like what we've been doing here And you know it just it just amazes me how complex people think this is supposed to be And it's not it's Really is pretty common sense. Well, yeah, we hear the word phone patch and we have this Image in our brain of something in a big studio or a radio station You know a piece of equipment and all this and that is a way to do it But it's not by far the only way and there are really simple ways and that would The earbud phone solution is highly effective works really well. All right. Anybody else got any questions? Unmute yourself if you got a question for us, we got a couple of questions from the uh in the chat room So, um There are several uh, you know fellow female voice actors who are out there and they're sitting at their new boost You guys have recommendations for mics that work good for you know our brighter You know sibling voices for for females Uh I'll I'll let you start with that one george because you know what I think but you probably think the way I think Well, yeah, I mean any good quality condenser mic Um, we'll work reasonably well, but some of them really are definitely very bright sounding Like a sanitizer 41 six, you know shotgun mic is a bright sounding mic It just is and and that's why it works so well for a voiceover Especially more men's voices to make that men's voice not sound Muddy, but also but sound more crisp, you know crisp. That's the word. Thank you But if you're already a crisp voice, that's not a good thing. So, um, there's a mic. It's kind of funny It looks a lot like this one. This is a audio technica 875 r There's also the road ntg for this mic here And the nice thing about this mic is it looks and behaves like a sanitizer 41 six or 16 But it's got some buttons on it and if you leave the mic set up totally flat It's not a bright sounding mic. It actually has a very flat sound. So A mic like an ntg4 Could work because you can just tell it to be flat Without boosting the high end, right and then there's a button that will boost the high end for for those that might want it So, um, that's one. I think the sure ksm 32 has been i've recommended that for women's voices I I always find that, you know, the mic you have is probably fine If you're sending out audio, I I doubt if there is an engineer out there They can say, oh, you're using a ksm 32 or you're using a u87 or you're using a 460 They can't tell the if they can't see what you're using and you don't tell them They don't know and the fact of the matter is is most of these guys If you're especially if you're doing commercial work with a bigger studio They can take any audio if it's clean. They can make it sound like anything they want And so and they're not really concerned with what mic you're using Um, a good producer can deal with a sibilance thing or You know too much bass or whatever, you know, they can shape the sound So, um, it's not as critical But also we can also with some processing in your DAW Set up an eq curve that maybe complements Your voice with the mic better as well. So it can be fixed with eq, right? And they're just minor little corrections. They're not like a big time thing. So, yeah Anyway, we we had a couple of comments from our our vast audience all over the world like lori allen was watching And she's lori and she says i'm so much smarter today because of george phew She was my first client of the day and after a little bit of uh, you know 15 minutes of like You know psychology work between us Just trying to help each other feel better About what we're dealing with right now, you know, we got her up to speed with source connect And she'd been using ipd tl for a long time with i think hallmark channel And um, so she was familiar with that technology says she just had to learn another new tool um One thing that's driving clients not clients. I'm sorry talent the voice actors crazy Is the miscommunication or confusion from the agents and then the studios that the agents are working with You know, they'll say things like send us your ipd tl numbers Well, it just doesn't make sense because there are no numbers for ipd tl unless You're using it as an isdn bridge and then you have isdn numbers, right? But those are not ipd tl numbers So there's this confusion abound about what ipd tl does and what it is And then how it works, you know What it's for and what the voice actor on their end needs to have and what they send to the studio when they want to Connect and there's a tremendous learning curve everybody's being thrust into right now, you know It's it's very disorienting and when somebody of authority like an agent at a major studio says send us your ipd tl numbers The actor is like, huh? What do you mean? You know, so that kind of stuff's happening Perhaps you and I need to do a webinar for the people on the other side of the glass To explain how can we get them to watch it? But we grab them by the throat But how do you get these studio producers and engineers to watch our content? Anybody has a clue to that one? Let me know. You want to know that would be the million dollar question. Yeah Uh, let's see here. Uh jdk asks if someone buys source connect standard today. Is there still the cert fee? The cert fee like uh, they're doing a special deal if you buy today, you don't pay the certification fee I think so. I I don't think they're offering any specials right now Probably because they're just so overwhelmed with supporting it Um, there's probably not really any special deals at the moment But you can always ask But I don't know the answer to that one. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah Do we have any questions from our massive uh in studio audience our virtual in studio? I thought of one go ahead Uh, because what you were just talking about I have a lot of clients who come to me and don't know what a directed session is or Haven't really thought about it. So I often suggest it to them and I'm wondering what you I know what I would suggest I'm wondering what your opinion is. What's the best tool to suggest to a client in order to use Or have them listen in on a session To make things easier and get it done in one take or one session as opposed to the way back and forth through Yeah, well, we're doing it right now Uh, because we're using zoom and zoom is fabulous because you can do it face to face And you know and they can mute their hand or you can mute their mic or whatever And it won't you know, you keep it out of your recording chain And it's super duper simple. I've been doing it with people all over the world when you know in finland and norway and spain And you know and and clients here in the us and they're like, wow, this is fabulous Oh, everybody seems to be discovering what zoom is now. How long have we been using this george? Like five six years five six years. Yeah, james alburger told us about us years ago We dropped skype like a bad bad habit and uh, we've been using it ever since and zoom has risen risen to the case Speaking of rising the occasion and their stock's going up Um, you know, they've risen to the occasion. I mean, I've been using it constantly for a week When everybody is using it and it has shown no signs to me Of falling through its knees. Yeah, it's worked every time. It's been rock solid reliable. So yeah, who goes to them They must have unbelievable, um, you know server engineers and stuff. Yeah, one Zoomed plus they get a phone number too. So if the client is you know, really not going to be wanting to be on an iphone Or using any tech When you start a new zoom session, you can also share a phone number So they can call in so it really is like a one so one click solution Absolutely, it's hard to beat. Yeah, it really works well That that that answer your question there paul Yeah, and the one thing I would add on is that if you do plan on giving that out a lot and using it a lot Get the paid version because You'll never look like more of a schmuck and if you're on a session and it goes over 45 minutes And you drop it out because you have the free account Yeah, it's 10 bucks a month. I think it gets still $10 a month. It's correct me if i'm wrong, but Yeah Yeah, really and and the thing is this How many how many of these students are really recording on the other end? I mean in the bigger studios here in la and maybe in new york and chicago We're maybe that's definitely a kind of a niche thing, right? Yeah, it always has been Yeah, that the people recording you remote on source connect Is definitely like a certain segment of the voiceover business But it's by far not the whole business, you know, it's a small But this whole run isn't it is that most of the people that are adding source connect Probably will not use it in the next three to four weeks Even though they bring told by their their representation or maybe even some studios that they they need it It probably won't have a session in the next three to four weeks. We're going to do that quickly really Yeah, they're gonna well, you know, they're gonna scramble to get it working Hopefully and they'll by the time the session does happen. They'll have You least practiced with it so they know that it works But there is, you know, there's definitely a cause to get it up and running early But as I've said on our show a million times when we do our ads You don't have to buy it right now. You can get the demo Get it up and running and have it ready to rock and then when the need Need arises activate your account. So Yes and speaking of your show Can I take just a second to thank you guys publicly because no I am so prepared for this week. One of the reasons I'm not panicking is because of all the Information that I've received from the two of yous as we say back in Philly George over the years I was prepared for this even two or three years ago because of all the hard work you guys have put into this show And I appreciate everything you've done Not to mention the times I've hired you both to help me as well. So thanks to both of you for all you do No, man, thanks. We appreciate that, you know, it's yeah, we do it. I mean You know, we do this for a living But you know, the great thing about the voiceover business is that everybody is, you know, generally They're the best people around, you know, it's you know, a lot of on-screen actors, you know You if you've ever gone into an on-screen audition and the casting lines are all like China's sake. Yeah, we don't have that the voiceover business It's fun and every time we go into work with somebody it really is making friends with people And and really seeing what this business is about and helping you guys and we learn from you And and every that's the thing George Every single studio that we put together is different. There is not One secret sauce Special one-size-fits-all way to do this. You really need to Every room has to be just a little bit different And uh, you know, I've been setting up some studios this week and it's like once some challenge and another one's like Well, she's got clothes going to an L shape. Oh, just put the mic right there Sounded better than some studios we have here in LA Oh, that's that's actually an issue. I mean I have clients saying that You know, they've been recording in their own custom built or really well set up home studios That do have to go into commercial studios all the time That sound worse than in our home studio Yeah, um, that may not be in LA as much but certainly in smaller markets that happens routinely And they're like, what am I doing here this place? This sounds terrible My home studio sounds way better than and so they're happy like I spoke to one this morning She was like, I'm so happy now because I'm using my home studio for all these sessions Or you know that I will be using my home studio now for these sessions. So I don't have to go not only do I have to not have to leave but I have to go record of these crappy local studios So it's fascinating. Yeah, I remember once going into a studio in Buffalo and they were Refixing Main Street. This place was right off of Main Street. I think there was a jackhammer out there And yeah, and I'm like, can we like wait for the dishes? No, no, I'll clean it up in the mix And it'll be buried in the music and then I I watched this commercial with my voice on it. My wife turns to me. She goes Where are you? So everything got buried in the mix So Oh my god, interesting. Oh, by the way, j. Horace chimed in on the chat privately with me Yeah, fill in some information about source connect. So You can do a subscription. We all know about that. That's um 170 at $75 initial initiation Then set a 35 a month thereafter But you can also at that you can also sign up for the certification Which is an additional 75 and that's actually done real time with their support So you'll actually schedule a support call which right now they're at least a week out said robert if not more Yeah, now you don't need to do this to be on source connect, but You need to do it to have that certification badge and once you do that um, you know, he says it takes about 30 minutes to an hour and uh, they're just going to verify that you can maintain a good and long session without Glitches and dropouts and problems like that and when they when you've shown that it works and they've shown that it works You'll get the little extra badge. So that's what the $75 certification fees. Thanks for that j. Horace. Appreciate it. All right Well, we we have we have lots more to talk about in our next hour We'll be doing tech talk here in just a couple of minutes So let's go to some of our other sponsors besides our wonderful friend source connect And we'll be right back to wrap things up for this segment right after this This is anthony mendas. You're watching voice over body shop That's how we're doing on runtime breaking news as of today amazon and bsw have sold out of port-of-booth Now amazon still has a few pros and stock This is anthony mendas. 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Oh boy. It's great to hang out I mean there's been a lot of hangouts this week And but I think the cool thing is this worse actually connecting with a lot of people Perhaps we haven't talked with in a long time And uh, so that's and zoom is doing very well at that Uh, well next week on this very show We'll have tech talk number 30 where we'll continue this discussion Who knows what's going to happen in the next week though? You know, it could be very different Uh, you know, that's of course, I've been saying for the last couple of weeks Because of our sequestered lifestyle If mankind is wiped out voice actors will rule the world so, uh anyway uh Who are our donors of the week and we greatly appreciate all of their help with the show Yeah, actually, I see one or two new names in this list. I see, uh, Tim morgan thaler Um, what could be taller? I think it's morgan thaler. 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