 fans that show up live right actually beer live and ask questions that's who's watching right now right now nobody but that will change very rapidly i mean most of the people watch the show in replay you know i'm face book by far to but you know we get you know anywhere upwards of fifty people or more which is what makes the show interactive by far to but you know we get okay when i when i click on the face when i click on the face book tab it immediately starts playing the audio right so i have to jump in there real fast and mute it so sorry about that okay so we already got five people watching you know we're not going on for ten minutes what is it with you people seven people this is amazing momentum yes we already got five what is the biggest audience you ever had we're not going on sorry again biggest audience we ever had i i we had a huge audience tonight we had tom kenney on and uh that's true you know that was a long time ago yeah i'm trying to remember the last i mean if we get a if we get a more than a hundred live viewers that would be a lot for the live as parents great yeah so you know we you know we have the podcast i mean we easily get a lot yeah that's true we did have i think we probably had maybe a hundred for her yeah and then um you know but we when we you know because we're on the face book page because we're on youtube right because we're on uh you know we podcast it yeah and we have a podcast and we're getting you know three thousand downloads on that a month so uh you know wow yeah so it's a lot of different yeah we've been doing this 11 years platforms yeah we were doing it before anyone knew what the hell they were doing yeah i want that many doing it don't want that many well which would include us but most include us yeah watch episode go into google make yourself laugh go to youtube sometime type in e-waps number one e-w-a-b-s that was the old name and then you know one episode one and watch uh huh i'm like a deer in headlights it's there's a lot of mistakes it's awkward and weird we have live phone call ins answering co asking questions it's just it's a whole different thing asking your aunts please call this number and ask them essentially yeah we had somebody calling yeah we set our friends call the show yeah love that we after about a month or two of people trying getting people to try to or trying to get people to call into the show they're like how this is a pain in the neck yeah we want to do this live calling thing but you know things will evolve over time absolutely but i believe that the best projects best things that happen when they weren't like this way without you know pretending anything bigger but just being yourself and i love that i love that because you're really helping a lot a lot a lot of people in the community so that's awesome well thank you yeah Dan where are you at i'm in sherman oaks so i'm just at the other end of the you know the the valley and you are also in los angeles right roach yeah i'm and i'm actually technically i'm in venice i say technically because i'm not in the venice part of venice okay you know my definition the san amonica i'm in the i'm in the neighborhood part of it because when you say you're from when you live in venice everybody has you know immediately like what's it like it's crazy down there right how about all those homeless yeah how do you do that that's right you live far away from them um i'm santa querida santa querida right yeah there's a lot of these vios up there a lot of voice actors yes yes do you have your own little meet-up up there santa querida voice actors club yeah right well for some reason that's that's been one of the the most successful thing i'm like say successful thing about my studio is that it's in santa querida so people who's newbie is like oh that's awesome i don't have to you know go all the way to hollywood or whatever right working so so you're using your studio commercially for some reason that's what it's starting happening the last four five months and i'm so happy but i so you're also again i never planned that yeah you're a studio manager yeah so i don't know i don't want to put a name on that i don't want to label not just yet booking people and coordinating that's that's scary but it's happening are you doing a hundred percent yourself or do you have an assistant i have an assistant already yeah yeah i have two i have one other guy another girl in colombia she's bilingual so that helps a lot and you know supporting her financially and yeah wow and for me it's good to support and she's learning as well so that's good how do you how do you pair use a paypal or something like that i do use i have another um it's not paypal but it's zoom it's xom oh yeah it's pretty easy it's like something like western union or something like that and she picks up the money at the cashier in a supermarket hello okay so she literally walks out of there with cash yeah okay that's nice she's happy every friday well if she's happy and that looks yeah worse i mean even my kid doesn't hardly use cash anymore i got her this green card it's like a debit card you know and i put the money in it and i control where she spends it and uh-huh she hardly i mean hardly ever gets cash i gave her cash for her birthday it was like a huge novelty yeah you only need cash in la for one thing tacos no that's right well you don't even need that for tacos anymore that's right most of them take most of them take uh venmo that's really they have like a little qr code on their stand that is true i've seen that no but there's there's only one business that can only work in cash what is that the dispensaries oh well true true yeah yeah that is true not that i know from personal experience yeah they have atm's right right yeah really gotta be careful those atms in there but those businesses that have those little those businesses that have an atm in the lobby and they don't take cash it just feels so actually right i mean i know it's i know it's hard to make a living and run a business but come on that just feels dirty it's got it feels slimy you know you're laundering money in here come on you know my husband works in one of them so but okay a what money laundering company he's a money laundering no no no or is it just about a laundry i had no already yeah so all you folks that have already joined us uh remember that you can ask questions uh just throw them in the chat room and uh i i think that uh jeff holman's out there so i'm gonna double check that jeff is there i haven't seen any yeah if not let's see him say hi there hi jeff yeah if he's not there i'm i'm i'm keeping a close eye on it i'll i'm the backup for jeff so if he's not there for some reason right he didn't say he wasn't gonna be no he's he's usually on time and tells us if he's not coming so that's right he's very reliable yeah if he's not on some major production with celebrity talent there and so working there somebody yeah our our chat room guy is an actor and he was just he was he had a really nice role in this uh being the riccardo's movie oh nice yeah yeah i that's one of the great things about being in la is you make friends who are actually doing stuff yeah and and you're at some major movie go hey look there's so and so or there aren't chimmy kimmel or something like that that's right that's right you know and you know and then you text them and go hey so i think on this that was great i always watch the animation voice credits you know yeah and i'm always amazed at how few actually names i recognize yeah it's like there's i mean it just goes to show you how massive the amount of talent the talent pool is here it's huge i mean i just how many people we worked with and i'm like i'm looking at the additional voice credit like or the ad arc i'm like anybody oh there's one guy i know that guy you know but it's most of the time i don't know anybody i don't know anybody any rest of the names yeah okay so here's how we will start the should we do a cold open uh with the three of us and i'll say our how do we pronounce your last name valentina latina latina i was hoping it rhymed that wouldn't make sense otherwise yeah okay and you know we'll and you know we'll say hey our guest tonight you wave and say hi and you know remind people we have questions and and then we'll go into the you know the opening credits we come out it'll just be me and george i will introduce you and sue will pop you into the picture it's like magic this is kind of magic what if i put my headphones here just for pretending well that's fine up to you yeah just pretending no you're using your in your monitor i'm using linear monitors i usually use headphones just to make my hair look less less unruly literally like for my headphones i'm just taking my hair down oh okay but today i took a shower so yeah i don't have that issue so well i have the feeling this is gonna be fun thank you you guys well we we try 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our attention here so she wants to start okay three two hey it's time for voiceover body shop it's great to have everybody back for another week of great talk here on our show and tonight george and i are thrilled to welcome valentina and latina how you doing the snack today i'm doing good thank you so much for these amazing you know moment to share with all my american audience of course and latinos for watching us today thank you george and then yeah well as groucher marksman said it's early yet uh anyway so we've if you've got a question for uh for valentina uh about all the stuff that we're gonna talk about feel free to throw it in the chat room jeff holman is sitting in there somewhere and typing on your your questions and relaying to us and we'll get to those in just a little while and uh so why don't we get the show on the road you ready mr mr widum i'm ready to go all right it's time for voiceover body shop right now from the outer reaches they came bearing the knowledge of 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become a hero to your clients with a word winning voice over training jmc demos when quality matters and voice over extra your daily resource for vio success and now live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in sherman oaks california here are the guys well hello there i'm dan lennard and i'm george widum and this is voice over body shop or vio b s yes well it's great to have everybody back here uh after a couple of weeks you know it's like we try to do the show you know we do it every other week and then the opposite monday when we throw tech talk out there it's like there's nothing to do tonight i guess i'll watch tv uh there's more tv to watch lately there sure is you know and of course now if you're watching this in replay we have no idea what's going on in europe right now i mean we know today on monday but we don't know what's happening out there uh of course you know our our thoughts go out to all our ukrainian friends who are under siege right now and i'm wearing this army t-shirt and salute to the military or green and the civilians yes who are standing up for their country which is pretty amazing yeah and nail biting to watch yeah i mean my family is from that part of the world my father's family is from around kiev so i i i have a a bit of an attachment to it not that i've ever been there anyway speaking of going on around the world uh we have a great guest tonight she's going to be joining us from santa clarita which is you know los angeles it's all the same place uh but uh valentina latina is a columbian american award-winning actor voiceover actress based in los angeles two times of os award winner is best voiceover in the us well talk about big time uh best actress short for defenseless in 2020 in five in five film festivals and for years she's been the official voice of big celebrities such as avalongoria brookeshields giada d larentis tiffani haddish for the latin market i was going to say you don't just talk for them i mean they have their own voices but anyway let's welcome to the show because we've been looking forward to this for a while valentina latina how you doing tonight i'm doing just great and very honored to be here with you guys and yes so happy sharing this moment with you and all around the world listening to us and watching us today yeah well we were glad to have you with us tonight now you're you're you're a voice actor you're an actor actor you've you've done a lot of screen work but uh we'll get into that a little bit but you are like many americans not from america but the what i tell people what i think about americans is whether you were born in you know in sicily or you were born in in batswana if you come to this country that makes you an american because you're taking a risk and americans are risk takers and that's what makes americans so you came from columbia tell us about your your life in columbia before you came here well actually was um very helpful having my dad as a journalist and newspaper and also my mom she's a still um a soap opera actor and that helped a lot in my career you know having this inspiration around so she was very aware of my education you know about classes for painting dancing and ballet and acting and etc but at some point my my my childhood was kind of frustrated i'm gonna use this moment to express myself okay go for it because it was very pushing you know it was kind of like like a manager we say that uh the kind of mom was like come on stand up and do this do that um some point you know as a child was like okay wait i i want to i want to play with my friends i want to go to school like a regular kid but after 30 years something um being involved in the entertainment industry i just have to say thank you mom thank you for because maybe she saw something some kind of talent and and and definitely um just thankful for that type of education and that's how exactly i started in voiceover um i remember i was in this studio she was recording this uh telenovela which is a soap opera and and so she finished i was eight years old and i clearly remember we were walking down the hall looking for the parking and um this guy was like like looking around like for something and my mom was like hey are you okay and he's like hey rocio can i borrow your daughter for a second and she's like yeah sure okay so um that's how i really started it was just the right thing the right moment the right people because i i i remember entering this um you know professional sound studio it was my very first time in front of a microphone and i remember the guy on the other side of the glass giving me directions and telling me can you do say this line but um can you laugh can you say it louder louder or and i was like what am i doing this is cool i remember i was having a lot of fun and after that i became the voice of doing the promos for the only show we have four kids back in the 90s so i did that for years of course as a child you don't know that's a job but they're not paying you directly yeah and and that's it that's how it really happened do you remember going from feeling like it was sort of like structured play to you're actually doing a job do you remember how old you were like when that happened when you knew you were really making money talking about the crossover and because after that it was promos radio commercials and dubbing and you know for latin america the dubbing industry is a huge part of our voiceover industry um and so when i came to los angeles i i used to be the the voice for food network latin america so i was running five shows and the studio was like hey val can you just buy a microphone can you can you go to a studio can they want you to keep recording i was like dude no you know how much it costs a microphone here or having a decent acoustic whatever like um so i was like wait so if that's important is because this is an actual job and so far for the last 15 years it's been a hobby or something i you know i have some income but really i was just a student you know a theater student so for me it was more like okay i have money for you know as a theater student i have money for this wardrobe or week or whatever i need it and as opposed to just food as opposed to just food exactly which is always exactly you know yeah that was me shocked really and i'm and i'm sure um uh for for the people who's starring in latin america this career nowadays is different because i'm talking about only 12 years ago but believe it or not 12 years ago it wasn't this big in latin america the respect our industry has it's been growing through the last 10 years and yeah i'm i'm i'm sure i'm not i'm not wrong on that yeah so you you came here in in 2010 and what what prompted you to uh to come this way um my heart was absolutely broken by this shitty guy so i was trying to escape that's the truth and and i was like oh man i need to get out of my country i don't want to see this guy anymore but wait this offer of uh you know doing film and new york fame academy and you know doing more about on camera and everything so that was another excuse of course improving my english as well and los angeles was the first city came to my to my budget and it was fine for me and i was like okay let's do it for a year and it's been 12 so how did you you know so you you come to you come to another country to a new city to a totally different you know culture for the most part how did you make that adjustment it's i'm still doing it i'm still working on it and to be honest it's um it's a big step especially as they say because voiceovers first of all in latin america they're very anonymous can i say that like you don't really ask yourself oh who's that voice or yeah the the the career for voiceovers could be just completely i don't know like people doesn't really know and you can be in the industry easily do your entire life and and these type of of things like sharing information with your colleagues or or putting videos because of course technology is being working on it and helping a lot but over there is not that common it's not a very common thing to do you just go to the studio and you just go home and nobody knows what do you do for living and and yeah so seeing the voiceover industry here you guys are allowing much more having that presence with your name with your brand with your you know your pictures or you put you know your website and and that's a big thing that's a big difference we we have yeah i that's it's fascinating that you know that nobody really of course we like to say that there are no a-lister voice actors there are a-lister actors who do voice work uh but you know the rest of us are you know doing all the other things that are that are out there what types of material are you are you doing is it strictly commercial or are you doing narrations are you still doing dubbing or what are the different things that you're doing yeah i i always said the dubbing it's my really my my big school in voiceover and but after that through the years that's a good thing also like to be alert to be aware what is going on with your voice and what is going on with the type of auditions you really feel you're doing something and you're actually booking and it's been more sort of animation and video games and so when i when i when i put that on the table and i say okay i'm booking this this this and this and now i want to or this project calls my attention but guess what that's very close to my education as a theater actor so i think that's a great compliment but i never planned this the the good thing is that um you can use whatever tools you have from your background or or something you actually like and and compliment each other so i am really looking forward being more present in the video game and animation industry yeah uh once again if you're just joining us where have you been uh but other than that our guest tonight is valentina latina and she is a uh latin-american voice actress but you also do a lot of english stuff right and and well we'll get into the second but if you've got a question for her based on what we're talking about throw it in the chat room whether you're on facebook or if you're watching on youtube live there's a chat room in there you can throw your questions in there and we'd love to hear from you and we know you're out there because we see the numbers going up and up and up watching anyway uh so um we were talking about uh about dubbing and uh how did the pandemic affect you i mean i know i suddenly everything had to get dubbed i know all the networks were you know desperate for material uh in in various languages you know i've i've been dubbing you know a lot of stuff from arabic you know from lebanon and india and egypt and and stuff like that uh did the pandemic have an impact on on the type of stuff you were doing actually in a very good way and i'm glad because there is something voiceover in america they were ready for it and and i'm so happy really having the kind of support like you guys do and many other you know sources you can have uh if you are the union or your regular taking classes etc and my surprise was like oh my god finally i can use source connect more than once a month almost pays for itself then doesn't it yeah exactly but really i had source connect i really was using it like once every three months four months because most most of my work was like you know going driving to the studio etc and and the pandemic was like okay that's great i i already have this and now it's time maybe to invest oh maybe i know i need another camera or another you know extra money or whatever so that that's a good thing unfortunately talking about latin america it's the opposite you know regular voiceovers that's not that common people has their home studios or with a professional acoustic or professional gear and and that's that's pretty sad because it was like a man i've been in the industry for the last 40 years and studios close and they're only hiring people with this kind of microphone or whatever and and so yes that's the big difference yeah so i now i remember the question i had originally asked there that is what type of work are you doing you're obviously you're doing dubbing work with other types of stuff yeah dubbing and video games and animation and animation okay yes yeah uh george what are that is the most technically challenging demanding for you uh of those three and you know you're talking about like technical yeah like as an actor what do you have to the most tech to deal with when you're doing jobs is it animation is it games what what where is the one that you're like this is this is going to be a big pain yeah big pain is always going to be video games as you know not only your preparation because your your instrument will be exposed the whole time and it's very easy if you don't have the proper training to just make some damage to your courts and um and also like things to use your game how are you gonna use your game when you're screaming and when you're not or you have to whisper this whole time and you don't know that and or or you just forget to do it to change your game do they expect you to mess with your game a lot do they do they when you're doing games do they expect you to play with your game it depends but really i have this studio in spain they're in spain and when they send me over they they put like these huge marks like please be aware like this is whispering and you know you have to do same lines three times so whispering the whole time then screaming projecting same lines and so yeah that's that i would say video games it's it's more exhausting also you know yeah yeah video games is you know the tremendous range of stuff because you know you can be like chopping somebody's head off and really you know getting into the the emotion of that but you know but and how do you adjust for that so um are those sessions typically directed sessions you guys have both done some of that no really no no no because if i do it um well the thing is i haven't done in english video games but in spanish all my credits are in spanish and you really never see the the character most of the time which is like okay i'm gonna imagine this lady is like what uh you take choices uh that's the best way like okay i'm gonna imagine she is a huge lady and or and so you take choices and they just give the give you the lines and so i'm responsible to really work on the acting according to the description of what is more about the character right and yeah that's a big responsibility now that i think it's acting how do you know that i don't know yeah it's acting and that's the thing if you don't really know how to control your emotions and and the character is great or you know crying the first scene and after that you're really in tears like okay now you have to save those tears because you have to do it ten thousand more times yeah yeah i i did one a couple weeks ago where i was eaten by birds imagine what that was like what the heck it's kind of acting wait what kind of bird imagine that i was just it was a very mystical thing from yeah yeah they were digital birds so it didn't really hurt but definitely when the sessions are directed it helps and everything is much more you know smoother and everything and you have like yeah of course we know from doing some tech support from you for you that you use pro tools and you know we have this feeling about pro tools that it's too complicated voice actors don't need it so how did you end up landing on using pro tools for your studio yeah right i don't know why i still have it i don't need it i just get it and um well i'm still learning i i really um encourage my students as well to learn and don't give up because apparently so hard it's just apparently but once you really know how to use it as at least the basic stuff or for whatever you need it you're part of the professional you know industry it's so good when i have clients all you know on the other side of the world and you can send easily and you are speaking same language and i think that's the main thing um and we have to be you know according what is happening so i'm not gonna say like yes i sure i send you that garage band okay whatever uh no that's not gonna happen so pro tools um um although i'm still learning george the tech has been illuminating my studio and a lot of troubles and issues i i i had at the moment with certain clients and george just always have the right answer right there well if it's not me and it usually isn't me it's usually one of the other guys on my team answering those 911 calls when they come up but uh and when you say 911 i have to say it's literally 911 like you can call one in the morning 2 p.m and 2 a.m and and they really are there to help you so thank you somebody somebody's willing to answer the phone at 2 o'clock in the morning which blows my mind yes i think dan you may have done that once i did work with somebody but they were in spain and i had to work with them at midnight my wife's like are you doing it midnight um once again we're talking with valentina latanya and uh if uh if you got a question throw it in the chat room because we want to hear from you guys we like that's why we do this show so you can ask the questions but of course i like to ask the questions too um so you're you're you have a career but you're you're bilingual obviously since you're speaking to us do you do any english work or is it strictly uh strictly in spanish oh yes dubbing it's it's it's my surprise actually my first dubbing in english was a latin america show called el chapel for netflix and another you know think that it's very i call it magic thing because mics that's what they do they do magic um the casting director called me and she's like you're gonna play a chapel's mom for the dubbing and i'm like okay dude i'm not even close to be 70 something and the lady is no you have the boys for that yes but i don't really speak english like i don't have the you know the confidence to do dubbing in english really four seasons yes you do and we need you and then i understood not only because you know the historic side is that americas you guys don't really need to dub much of latin america projects into english um let's say it right and but because they wanted to keep the american audience with the flavor what is this from in this case is a mexican story and and the accent will help with the character so i i played a chapel's mom four seasons and you can watch it on netflix and and i had just a blast i learned so much there's a huge difference too in in the dubbing and then that you know this that you guys use more like a karaoke i call it like a karaoke thing makes it a lot easier exactly so i'm i'm old school so i would beeps and go no that that doesn't exist in latin america my friend i'm old school so i only have you know i used to always have my still have uh our scripts and we just full fill the the script with then she cries here then she laughs here then she screams here and then we have our paper the whole time here and the director or engineer is like okay late so you always have to start on time and and i also learn of course that i'm not a scientist science person but the light is faster than the sound right yeah so i if i am listening only listening or guiding myself because the dialogue already started i'm already late i have to always keep so you have to anticipate you have to exactly and look into the just just the right amount exactly so i have that eye and that ear but just because it really was my school in dubbing and when i came here doing the chapel that was actually like seven eight years ago um i was like why do i need three bits for i know when the lady will start talking if i seem kind of silly to have to hear beep beep beep me like what okay but then and after so many projects i'm already you know i got used to so it's fine it's fine yeah it's good once again we're talking with valentina latina and we are talking about all sorts of stuff a lot of it dealing with the latin american market which of course is huge you know not only in latin america here in california and across the united states it's it's been a growing industry and i i take it you've seen tremendous growth uh yourself as you know since you since you arrived here you know in the latin american market like what sorry in the latin american market you've seen the tremendous growth here in the last yes and i'm so this those are the kind of things i am thankful and and very happy with the streaming and all the platforms are currently around the world not only netflix but amazon or hbo hulu and they are really looking for new representation and new shows so i really enjoy seeing indie projects from philippines or from not only from columbia but peru and oblivia you know the american republic so many countries that for sure they always had talented people there and working on their projects or documentaries etc but now because the streaming they're hungry for more content they're giving the opportunity to those and and and that's amazing that's great you know how the industry is exactly as you say then uh growing and for latin america there's also a big door to new stories like for instance you you have this cliché idea oh columbians only drugs and narco dealers or ladies like this and that and guess what there are so many other stories we can tell and there are so many other things that happen in latin america and i think that's a big thing well it's a big place uh south america is a big place central america is a big place and you're absolutely right it's fascinating to i think this is probably one of the best things about all this is that we're getting to see cinema and television from other countries you know dubbed into english or jump you know stuff that is from all over the world and seeing the talented filmmakers and and directors and producers that are everywhere i mean you know stuff coming out of europe stuff coming out of south america uh coming out of the middle east you know because i worked on a lot of that stuff and it's it's quality stuff so they've clearly been studying what goes on in hollywood right and they've been applying it to their own stuff and i think that's great and turkey right turkey oh my god but watching a few turkish uh i guess you couldn't call them telenovelas because they're from turkey but they certainly seem to take on that flavor uh you know it's it seems like the same character is the same emotion only it's it's not columbia or mexico or something kind of fascinating uh we're going to take a break right now and uh if again if you have a question for valentina throw it in the chat room and we will be happy to uh to make sure that she gets to answer that so stay tuned we'll be right back with valentina 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and we're talking about the latin american market and whatever else goes along with that and if you've got a question for and i i know she's very accomplished and has spoken to a lot of other people give us a get you know just get in the chat room and jeff holman will get that question to us and we've got a bunch that we're going to get to here in just a little bit do you do a lot of your own marketing i mean or do you have an agent or are you managed how is it that you get your work um well we definitely as a latinos trying to understand what the agent does for me why do i need an agent we don't have that in latin america that doesn't exist only exists for actors for camera actors and they're called more like managers and um and that's what they do they they they find jobs for you and auditions but um again when i came in here i was like for what i just go to the studio and i say hey i've been dubbing for so long or i'm the voice for this brand blah blah blah and it wasn't that easy so i understood i definitely had to to have a in an agent and also to understand how it works not only for the california marketing but to know that you also can have another agent in different states and and so that's how i work although the last two years i feel this being changing and and i've been more one-on-one with certain clients that it goes like they find me straight because my website or even social media which i was like okay what i'm gonna post about it i'm on camera actors so yeah definitely is good to to have you know certain pictures like as a reference for casting directors but really casting directors and voiceover they really need to see myself from the picture and and and and i think the tools social media such as you know tiktok or instagram if you use it properly because this is not only to have fun and then make funny things um you can actually work on a very very big community is constantly looking for new talents or people who's trending and that's a big surprise and it's been hard for me really i'm not a big fan of posting every second but uh but i try and through the years of course i i had now another person who's helping me and and yeah that's that's a big big change in the marketing so where do you generally post staff what's what's your you know your platform of your favorite platform for doing that uh for for old people let's not take it too far here for a there's nothing wrong to say old people it's my favorite people by the way we just refer to ourselves as seasoned citizens so seasoned citizens flavored flavored seasoned people it's facebook right because there is a lot of groups and i'm so happy also it's it's part of our community to see each other and being in touch with many of them around the world and but instagram is actually the the platform i i use mostly and and it really helps and it's surprising like this studio in australia the other day was like hey va i've seen you you you use in source connect can we have a session this and that and was like okay um that's interesting hmm that and that's great when they call you without without you even knowing they're out there right i heard you can do this and that's that's always fabulous interesting to hear that there there's finding you on social and then seeing that they you are equipped to do these jobs and they're like let's reach out to her she's right she's a voice we like she's got a studio she's obviously serious and other other markets and countries are probably gonna do that a lot more that's right that's right and and also when i share time like personal time or i'm helping um casting director and seeing them going through social media like dude what are you doing like the first time was like no you have to look for professional people so you go to agents you go to their website that no i need them now and i like this so hashtag bilingual actor pran and there is only a hundred dudes put posting with that hashtag let's just give an example that helps okay so i'm like oh okay so maybe i should start doing that that's my tip the tip of the day creative very yes all right we got a couple of questions from our vast worldwide audience that is jamming into our cell here and uh george wants you to take the one from terry briscoe there sure uh terry asks valentina what would you say is the biggest difference between acting in front of the camera and voice acting behind the mic and do you have a preference for one over the other wow that's a great question hi terry i don't think there is any difference because it you are only a voiceover who's thing or starting voiceover who thinks your body is not part of it you're completely wrong my friend because uh guess what your your body is it's gonna be directly connected to your brain and for so many things with your emotions so if i'm angry if i'm maybe not have the conscious the entire time but definitely your hands are gonna move definitely your body is gonna you know stand in a different way when you are part of the army or when you are injured or when you are the mom and you're trying to give an advice to your son and and that's the the other part i always invite or encourage my students like take some theater classes is the best love you can have in your life even though you're never going to be in front of a camera but to have the conscience where your hands are and how you put your feet uh right it totally helped it it really helped so i yeah i wouldn't well the big difference of course is about technical things you have to know a different world different vocabulary and yeah we say the things in a different way and you of course don't um um don't have to be aware how do you dress up that's a good thing and yeah that basis of that basis of acting on cameras so so valuable i think to the voice actors there's so many voice actors who are successful because i think because they've had that that training of on camera acting or theater acting exactly i hear it i work with thousands of those voice actors and i'm not a coach and i'm not an actor but i know an actor when i hear one and when it's just something about it it's just you they impart that character and how that training is is huge huge you're you're totally right on the money there yeah yeah a lot of it has to do with the fact that if you understand a camera and that you're not playing to a camera unless of course you're doing a commercial where you're like talking straight to a camera you're playing to somebody else you're you're playing a scene you don't play to the micro to the camera you play to the other person in the scene i think a good actor is going to realize that the microphone is the exact same thing that you you don't pay attention to the microphone you're just playing paying attention to what's in black and white in front of you with a few pin marks and stuff um and that helps a lot have you found that yeah absolutely it's it's different translation i would say you can translate in you know in front of a camera same emotion because let's say the the character fall in love and but even though you don't have the other character and in front of you now you have to use more your imagination but um to have the training definitely makes a big big difference and and what i'm saying is the people who's coming from radio and people who's being only behind the microphone it's usually very afraid to be on you know on stage or in front of a camera and that's obvious it's it is it is caring of don't be scared the theater is your friend and the best lap that really i really recommend to everyone any kind of profession really and human being it really helps uh doing some theater once in life and i don't know what which one would be my favorite it's it's hard it's hard well sometimes voiceover because i don't need to put makeup or or shower sometimes we won't tell anyone it's just between us haha george is like wait what i shower today on my hair is on point this is as good as it gets right here until my buddy arch comes over and cuts my hair again uh how about tag go for it let's see here uh valentina uh this is from tag studio loved your amazing engaging presentation at one voice dalis oh happy to see you again this evening i'd love to know more about how you like your your studio chair have you had it long and do you recommend it your studio chair is color coordinated it's yeah really you fit right it's it's a fashion statement it's everything oh god yeah sponsored by this guy okay it's got a headrest it's got a pillow yeah and i have this is amazing i have another pillow here and i know all of us we needed huh is that the a lumbar yes it's about their back i really helps my my back i don't know i found it uh very very uh comfortable and i know it's a gamer chair i i'm not a gamer but it's it's it you can stay here like trade it out or something just fine were you were you in a place were you in a store that happened to sell them how did you happen to know i how did you must have sat in one at some point and thought i liked it yeah i tried once for a gamer friend and i was like dude this is amazing he's like yes because i play professionally and it's easily 10 hours a day and you have to be as comfortable as you can and i was like okay let's try that so yeah for some reason this is a big tool also because my back was killing me and and you know we always talk about microphones and everything you know but let's talk about chairs we need to take care of those backs no i should yeah i've got a gamer chair uh that makes a big difference of course this is my that you know what what i do my editing and everything inside my my booth i i rather not sitting it's more like a personal thing and i like to be stand up the whole time be more i'd be more physical yeah yeah more more physical well however if i'm doing an audiobook of course i i take my breaks and i see so small chair yeah have you been doing many audiobook titles is that something just to fill the time or yes a lot of audiobooks mostly for kids and and i like it because i am a mom as well so it's good to have that language and and to test myself if my daughter is paying attention and is not getting bored by my voice that's a great point if you can entertain and keep your own kid attention then you're doing something right he's right of you pretty quick no question church why don't you get the next one from uh from jahorris jahorris yeah uh he says when tina you have a very genuine bright energy um what kind of chair are you sitting in well i think we know now whatever that but he says it looks like a rickero seat that i had an older bmw back in the day it does those chairs are definitely modeled after the rickero racing seats from cars for sure um and and you did you did kind of answer this already but tell us more about your your setup so he asks um do you work in a booth or in a closet and then which are your primary microphones that you use yeah i do have the microphones i have the the shotgun sandheiser the 416 41 6 yeah and the tlm 103 is my best friend forever we i'm very thankful about the especially with my narrations and dubbing it really is right here is a difference and and whenever i'm doing more commercials i use the other one but it all depends it really sometimes the client prefers one than the other one and um that was a question i forgot i'm sorry yeah oh no just that you're you're using a booth and a microphone oh yeah so i have a booth as many of my colleagues i started in my closet i get rid of all my you know clothes and i put these acoustic panels and and then it was the moment i had to really move on and do it more professional well here's we like to we like to say no one needs to see how the sausage is made all those clothes actually work really well that was true that you know my dad from the other day they he found his picture and i was literally like like almost been i don't know i don't know how did i do those bookings really and he was like here these are the beginnings keep this picture because it's a good reminder that with all that uncomfortable space and cheap microphone you're here so that's a good thing you know like okay yeah maybe they don't need to they didn't need to see how i was making this uh sauce but it was also part of the okay now i need to be more comfortable now i have visitors in my studio now if i'm teaching a class or doing something i've definitely not gonna walk the people through my closet anymore and another one slipped in actually yeah it's actually kind of an interesting question i don't know if you have a good answer for this but um uh dav g says okay let's turn the tables give some advice to anglos who want to book more work in english and latin countries is that possible is that happening i love how do i find those jobs no he didn't say that i just wanted some advice you are going to be surprised but the amount of casting and auditions and people in latin america looking for native american speakers is huge and you guys have no presence really so far the i'm gonna make a note of that i think dan is pulling out his notebook he's finding the one pencil with a tip on it um even though i already said that we don't have agents unfortunately but in mexico in mexico yes they they have they have um two or three agents they're big people conny tronco so i don't know if there is any way i can put this on the chat or can i do that you can type it into the experiment well i'm not right okay tonny tronco so um if maybe any of my colleagues in latin america can put that on the chat that would be great i'm very helpful um she's one of the agents in mexico for example um directorio de talentos that is another big agent in mexico um but mostly are the how's it called yeah the agency is the how do you call this in english um they do the marketing for the public public relations yeah public relations yeah yeah um so that's a great start you know like just sending your demo you don't really need to introduce yourself and in a poor spanish if you don't feel comfortable please don't do it yeah i was gonna ask you is it important as an american with an english accent you know american accent and voice do you need to have some spanish under your belt no no no really to these countries as long as you really can't just understand the very basic like what's your rate and um and for how long can what it be the you know the platform or for how long will be used etc the usage um that's just the very basic thing so it's more one one-on-one really the clients but the other big source for us and we were talking about these before it started with with dan and george is the unions so there is a three big unions in latin america there's mexican mexican one um and you don't really need to be part of it but just to be aware they exist and they're usually looking for american ones the acl acl is the colombian um union in and they're coming all the time we are we have a group chat on what's up they're like hey i'm looking for americans hey i'm look so we are like okay let me call them you know my friend who's bilingual because she was born in miami but then traveled to colombia and blah blah and i'm like wait but where are all the americans my american colleagues uh anytime i'm trying to i'm trying to help another casting director i go through my facebook page or instagram again and i say hey looking for native americans so yeah but not talking about the argentina one that you dan have some information there that is different yes no i i i i remember hearing that you know they have to uh you have to be licensed there i mean the rules in the different you know south american countries are all fascinating uh latina it has been absolutely fascinating having you with us tonight and we really appreciate you taking the time to to join us and uh and you know if people want to get a hold of you uh or if you're doing any any any teaching or any webinars are you doing any of that kind of stuff i do uh march five and i'm not wrong but you can check on real voice la and teaching this um uh you know how to do how to set up your home studio it's more for people who also wants to do this crossover from latin america to the american marketing and um yeah also with centauro which is one of the biggest dubbing studio houses we have in south paulo mexico colombia and miami centauro producciones i'm the dubbing teacher as well there and i'm very happy to be connected with my community and for of course not only latinos but also american that i'm trying to to connect more and more because this industry is not only growing but getting stronger and we really need to keep educating new generations and this is very very important that you guys also having this space thank you so much great thanks for joining us tonight valentino latino all righty george and i'll be right back after these messages to wrap things up and to rack 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well if you've been listening you've probably heard some stories from Valentina Latina about how Source Connect is a big part of her life in her studio life and her production life just even having Source Connect has even just because she has it listed on her website that she's a Source Connect equipped studio has actually landed her work and that is true it happens you know when you when you put out there that you're a pro and you show that you use professional software equipment and you've put the time the effort the money into learning them and setting them up it just paints a picture of professionalism and you know that is something that will help you win the gig it's going to be your talent that gets attention but those things can make a difference when they're thinking about who to book on a job so Source Connect is one of those tools in your toolbox that screams I am a pro voice over actor there's just no doubt about it now to use it you have to learn some basics you have to learn how the system works how to set it up and you do have to have a good sounding studio right just having Source Connect doesn't mean you have a pro sounding studio you need to have that sorted out there is so much to learn we do this on the show every week and teach you what it takes but at the very least have a demo and have a license set up at least a demo license under your name so you're in their system you're showing up as a user very very important and just go to source-elements.com and get started get that 15-day free trial and start using it and tell them we sent you we'd appreciate it and I'll be right back to wrap it up right after this this is the Latin Lover narrator from Jane the Virgin Anthony Mendez and you're enjoying Dan and George on The Voice of Our Body Shop. All right and we're back and thanks to Valentina Latina very interesting she's you wouldn't know that they're looking for English voices down there so I know thanks to Dave for the question and thanks to her for that gold answer yeah some good information so yeah that was excellent what a delightful young lady thanks for being with us tonight uh well let's see next week on this very show if you happen to be here or stay alive with us for a little bit uh is tech talk number 74 and George and I have lots of cool stuff to talk about and of course we're happy to take your questions uh show off a new piece of gear which you've been listening to the whole show so far oh and it's been working great um who are our donors of the week a lot of familiar names there should we tag team absolutely like we'll start with Philip Sapir Thomas Pinto Shelly Avellino George A Woodham my dad Brian Page great actor Patty Gibbons Rob Ryder Greg Thomas A Doctor Voice which is I believe Dr Nathan Carlson I believe so uh Antland Productions Uncle Roy uh Shana Pennington Baird Martha Con Don Griffith Trey Mosley Diana Birdsall and Sandra Manweller yeah speaking of Martha Con she's going to be joining us in a couple of weeks yes talk about getting your kids into voiceover because that's right she's lit she's on fire doing kids voice acting coaching and stuff absolutely yeah uh we need to thank our sponsors of course like Harlan Hogan's voiceover essentials voiceover extra uh source elements the makers of source connect voheroes.com voice actor websites.com and JMC demos demos demos demos our thanks to Jeff Holman for being here and getting the chat room working right and getting those questions to us our amazing technical director who had a ride her bike today so she you know we couldn't be in the studio but I'm jealous I've had ridden mine like a week yeah I'm gonna get on mine too. Sumerlino thank you for the great work you do and uh so uh that's gonna wrap it up for voiceover body shop this week stay tuned because we're gonna record uh tech talk number 74 right after this we want your questions so stay tuned for that. In the meantime uh we'll wrap it up here I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whidham and this is voiceover body shop or vo b b s tech oh wait tech talks next time now tech talks next I'm just teasing I had two buttons to press and you press the wrong the wrong button see we've got buttons we can do all sorts of stuff here you know we can we can stop that button not that button see that's why you should watch this live you never know you're gonna never know what you're gonna you never know what you're gonna it's like a box of chocolate anyway all righty we've got tech talk hey if you've got questions about voiceover gear or any of that stuff now's the time to throw it in there so all right so our we're ready to roll for another hour here of absolute insanity so whatever you're ready four three two hey it's time for voiceover body shop tech talk number 74 tech talk number 74 how is it we've done 74 of these and we don't run out of stuff to talk about we just never going I mean yeah I mean there's always going to be something new to talk about but what you've got some you've got a few things in your tech talk up or your your tech update this yeah rather than a whole laundry list of news I was just going to give a little update about my revelator io 24 a new io 44 that just came out that might replace my io 24 and a more in-depth demo essentially which I'm using right now the centrance portcaster so show that off and what that's about and who would want that that's right you know and I've got something people are always complaining about rumble so we're gonna talk about rumbling and how to fix that and we're going to answer your questions that you're now going to put in our chat room so we can answer them anything at all with voiceover tech George and I will give you the right answer or at least convince you it's the right answer so stay tuned it's time for voiceover 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 vio universe they bring it to you now George Wittem the engineer to the vio stars of Virginia Tech grad with the skills to build set up and maintain the professional vio studios of the biggest names in vio today and you dan Leonard the voiceover home studio master a professional voice out with the knowledge and experience to help you create a professional sounding home vio 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 vio tech and having a dandy time doing it welcome to voiceover body shop tech talk voiceover body shop tech talk is brought to you by voiceover essentials dot com home of harlin hogan signature products source elements remote studio connections for everyone voice actor websites dot com where your vio website isn't a pain in the butt vio heroes dot com become a hero to your clients with award-winning voiceover training jay michael collins demos when quality matters and voiceover extra your daily resource for vio success and now live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in sherman oaks california here are the guys well hello there i'm dan Leonard and i'm george wim and this is voiceover body shop or vio b s tech talk tech tech talk now you hit the right button tech talk tech talk all righty well we're here to uh to talk about home voiceover studios yeah and again you know somebody you know 11 years ago and we're gonna be in our 11th anniversary in just about a month believe it actually in three weeks march 22nd is marks the 11th year we've been doing this show wow yeah and someone said who's gonna want to watch a show or listen to a show about home voiceover studios uh and well luckily we find other things to talk about too well that's true fortunately uh but we're still here still doing it and we still love having you here and we love having your questions if you've got a question about home voiceover studio tech a piece of gear or a problem you're having throw it in the chat room and we will be happy to answer it in just a little while so stay tuned for that uh in the meantime i guess if you're just joining us for the first time uh boy you've missed 74 of these or 73 of these you got a lot of catching up to do uh and of course our our other show where we were interviewing great guests um but george and i are home voiceover studio consultants we're the only guys that really do this full time this is what we do i mean i'm also a full-time voice actor and stuff and but george is an engineer i mean as the intro says he's a virginia tech grad i mean that's gotta be worth something isn't it i have the paper to prove it on the wall i gotta get my all my sheepskin behind me here too um and if you have a problem with your home voiceover studio or if you have no idea what on earth this involves and you need to talk to somebody who can actually teach it to you from the ground up so all you have to do is hit record and be a voice actor we're the guys to talk to uh we make it simple we understand the basics of what it takes to have a home voiceover studio people are so intimidated by it and it's like it's technology it's computers you talked to us it's none of that well a little bit you know if you know how to turn your computer on that helps uh but we're here to teach you how to do it properly and uh we do it professionally and if you'd like a consultation with one of us you can talk to us personally and actually have us you know if you're in la we can actually come to your house we love making house calls uh but we can do it wherever you are i have preferred studios in egypt in the philippines all sorts of places just over zoom because we're really good at it if you want to work with george where do they go they head on over to george d dot tech and uh that's where all my tech support is uh you can check out the menu on the top of the site yeah currently the site is a little bit of a i like to call it a greek restaurant menu of services there's a lot of there's a lot on there i had to get up my bazooki now you know those restaurants are made they have like a 15 page menu right of like what they make we do a lot of stuff um if you're not sure what to do when you first get to the site i would recommend you start with one of two things either get a sound check and that's the way you just you just send audio to me and i give you feedback on the audio quality now you're acting and not your processing but your audio raw audio and um you can also really if you've got more than one question you need to answer just sign up and get a consult consultation it's right there on the tech services area there's studio consultation and tech support click on that in the menu that's where most of you will need to start so we can assess what your needs are and really get a lot of questions answered right in that first 30 minutes i mean we make a lot of progress quickly uh especially the more prepared you are the more we get done so that's how you how you work with me but dan does a similar thing over at home voiceover studio dot com and uh go on over there that site is almost ready i yeah it's like this close removing them jealous i'm just getting started yeah we're rolling yeah the the specimen collection cup will be moved to the top so it'll be easy you go you go to home voiceover studio dot com and we get oh there's a specimen collection cup and what people come to me and ask me george do you have a specimen collection cup they've heard yes but it's not for audio right yeah i it mines a drop box give me a sample of audio you're going to click on it's going to give you very specific instructions of what you know i want to hear and usually you know it's $25 and usually within five to ten seconds i can very quickly determine whether it's got the right stuff or there are issues and things that you can fix you know the fact that you're actually sending a sample means that you have the equipment uh and if you've got the equipment that's one of the most important things because yeah of course having it is not the same as knowing how to use it and that's one of the things that you know what i do is i will teach you how to use it so you will not be intimidated by it you will love it and go oh record where's the script and do your thing and that's what i like doing uh so go on over to home voiceover studio dot com and uh all your problems will be solved at least when it comes to your voice over technology um so why don't we proceed now what's with your tech update this week not a lot of stuff but i think you're probably going to talk a long time about a couple of things as opposed to a little bit about a lot of things yeah a little bit more in depth this this week i thought i would because i got something new and you know it's nice to use a product it's nice to receive products to review that we can really really actually use on the show not just use for demo but really put to the test in a real world situation and that's exactly what i'm doing tonight so first of all be real quick i'll give you a little update on my revelator um again we're talking about the revelator again i've had issues with the revelator i started googling uh you know getting tech support i've reached out for a ticket with personas in the meantime found out that they pushed out another revelator called the i o 44 and the i o 44 seems to be more like the product i'm about to talk about the centrance podcaster and that it's still using all that software dsp it has that fancy mixer on board but now instead of two mic preamps it has a second channel where it would normally have another mic it's just a line input but interestingly it also has a headset input so on the front the headphone jack is actually a headset jack meaning it's trrs so you can plug in a gamer headset or a lav microphone uh setup or even just an apple apple headset now i don't know what production scenario would be where i would use this it's just another interesting feature built into this unit and just that the line input on it alone is going to make it a little bit more useful but that's the i o 44 it's coming at some point i haven't gotten to test it yet but if it has a fix for some of the oddities that are happening with my i o 24 if they you know push this new one out with a better firmware whatever it is i'm game to give it a shot but in the meantime a totally different direction on how to create an audio interface mixer recorder phone patch all in one device is the centrance portcaster and uh michael goodman who dan and i have known of and known really for a really long time because quite quite a while over 10 years ago he came out with the mic port pro we it's just such a well-loved device because of its sheer simplicity super portability and sound quality right and it just became a staple in everybody's portable kits i still have at least two of them that are still working in various locations like depending on what i'm doing but anyway that thing has evolved and turned into new products and eventually he came out with the mixer face then the mic port pro two the mic port pro three and now the centrance portcaster which comes in just the same basic plain cardboard box a simple cardboard box you know nothing fancy here right nothing all what's fancy here is what's on the inside with these things but you get a you get a really the original gear came out with a single sided or two sided three by five manual this goes a little bit deeper it actually unfolds so here's the whole manual a couple extra pages there that's the whole manual right there it covers almost everything you need to know but there's still a few little things to unlock and that's what you're going to learn by using it but anyway i see if i can pick it up without creating uh actually interrupting the show there it is so far so good the portcaster uh so it's got two microphone proper xlr balanced pre-amped and fan and power available microphone inputs that's similar to the mic mixer face but it also has an additional input it's called the phone input now it also can just serve as a normal um a normal line input but it also works as a mix minus not really legible but it says that in tiny letters mix minus explain what a mix minus is for those yeah so a mix minus is here's something we're all we're all used to skype and all and and and these phone conferencing apps that try to remove the loop right zoom remove the echo right so they're doing all this fancy signal processing to remove the echo that that's the sound of your voice that goes out and comes back to you if they're set up as speakers right but in the pro audio world we do not like echo cancellation we don't want anything like that we just want pure audio with no funky processing and that's where a mix minus comes in that allows you to send audio out or actually more accurately receive audio from someone on a phone call or a zoom or whatever and then send your audio back but making sure their audio isn't being sent back to them this is really important for for a clean phone patch type sessions where you want them to hear you uh and hear uh and then and you hear them but nothing get mixed together no echoes things like that so this does that and the the key element is that you need to plug in a headset a device that has a headset check so in this case i'm not using a phone although that's probably the primary thing most of you would do is plug this into a lightning adapter and plug it into your iphone or into the if your phone still has a headset jack if you have a phone with a headset jack type it in the comments below i want to know what it is yeah what are you a razor a flip phone it has an actual headset jack because iphone five or something uh this this will plug directly in but most of you will need a lightning adapter so that what that does is now your phone is the actual phone patch and what's that mean it means you can make calls receive calls hear them in your headset and uh and they can also hear you through your professional microphone but that also means you could be running zoom on your phone or skype on your phone and then now that separates the skype and the zoom feature uh overhead or complexity or whatever from your workstation so if you're using uh especially windows users are going to love this because man we have had endless glitching conflicts etc etc for anybody who's trying to use windows with adobe audition or something else and they're trying to use zoom at the same time it has been a nightmare for you guys and i apologize i wish i wish i had the ultimate secret weapon to fix these problems and as far as i can tell it doesn't exist so the closest thing to that is a porkcaster because now your audio pro audio app is the only thing that's using a usb interface and then your built-in headset jack on your laptop can be through this uh secondary phone patch cable right here or actually on this side right here so it it lets you separate those two rolls out now the thing that's amazing is i thought well every time i've tried to hook two cables to the same computer i get interference you know if you try an analog connection and a digital connection or us there's always seems to be something weird like do you hear that sometimes dan like the the usb wine or that just weird or you might get a grounding noise or something like that you know like you know if actually if you touch the the headphone jack on that we're getting that if i touch this oh yeah or if i touch or if i touch the headphone jack no no you're right no the other one that one yeah you're getting a buzz when you touch that right so this don't touch that i'm not going to touch that anymore this this eliminates that and also because another reason that helps is because it's self-powered it's running on battery uh which is an interesting point to make the fact that it's on battery and it's saying that it's running low it's splashing at me so during the next break i'm going to be plugging it in but uh um but anyway this allows you to have that separated audio signal just for communications zoom and whatever and then your pro audio recording software is going to feed from the usb and the thing that's even more interesting is it not only does that mix minus but it also allows you to play things back which is nowadays become extremely common can you play that take back with this you can you it's built in the ability to do that now there's the ability to control the mix of it whether it's in stereo versus mono you can control in your earphones how much of yourself you're hearing versus how much of there is coming back to you all of this can be controlled with these six knobs on the front and with a little bit of practice it's really easy to operate i've been using it all night and it's been a really good user experience but all that is amazing but it also is a recorder so and it records but wait there's more yeah so you stick a micro usb card in this slot right here you can see the power lights flashing saying dude you're running out of battery um and that's the thing this thing needs battery or it needs to be plugged in all the time over here and i i didn't find my power cube i got to go plug it in during the break but it's all built in but you can pop a memory card in hit record and now it's also recording everything internally and that's huge that means you've got backup all the time real time while you're recording no matter what happens on the computer loss of data digital glitches whatever wackiness happens on the computer end is not going to be affecting what's going on inside here and i think that's a really great awesome secret weapon i know a lot of you may never use this but it's just so nice to have that piece of mind it also has a high pass filter and limiters on both inputs so anybody who's used to having that feature on the mic port pro 2 the mixer face so the mic port pro 3 that's here as well so if i really hit my input hard you'll actually see a blue light light up i see that hey now hey man i even clipped a little bit right there that blue light says you're hitting the limiter i don't know if you can tell i'm hearing a hitting a limiter i don't know if it sounds like i'm hitting a limiter but it says i'm hitting a limiter so anyway that's that's a real quick overview of that porcaster there's more to unpack but it's it's it's a very impressive device for its size i think at the five hundred dollar us retail price it's an interesting sweet spot it's a lot more than a scarlet it's a same as an apollo solo but it doesn't require any control panels no software no firmware updates none of that crap it just it just works like out of the box it's all soft it's all it's all hardware it's physical knobs it's mix it's i i love that it just there's just none of the monkey business that it comes with the apollo console or any of those control panels and i i think that's really pretty awesome i i love the feeling of hardware that just works the way it was designed to come out of the box yeah so those of us that came out of radio are used to that sort of thing i mean what you were describing with the mix minus this is basically more like broadcast quality which is what it's designed for it's designed for podcasting which is a workflow you know for broadcasting as opposed to voiceover which is hit record do your thing and that sort of thing it's a podcasters tool that also does voiceover type production really well too right yeah especially if you're you know you're doing things remotely yeah and and the and the mix minus is what we used to refer to in voice in in radio as you know the cue channel uh you know you get and and i know this is totally dating myself now i'm getting an echo too um yeah unplug that yep yep it's still doing it um yeah well if you want you're gonna cue up a record which is why i was going to date myself you know you put the needle on the record and you'd have that in the cue channel while you were listening to some other song and uh i think the battery is going on that george the battery did die on that thing uh doesn't doesn't take much to fool me um but um you know i i'm gonna talk about something i'm gonna give you a chance to get the the power block for that in a second but uh are you hearing a little bit of an electrical oh i'm hearing lots of that yeah see now make sure you charge these things before you i mean it's a happy accident because i want to demonstrate if you try to charge this unit from the same computer that you're using for the audio and everything else this is what you're gonna hear so you cannot charge it from your usb hub on your desk like i'm trying to you need a separate power supply so i'm going to switch that out in just a second okay while you continue your your spiel yes well i was talking about queuing up records and you know you could go get the record queued up and you'll see dj's do this too and you know in clubs not that i've been in a club in the last 20 years um or more um but okay and now it's gone i switched to the built-in usb ah well there you go i'm not using the the phone patch connection anymore it's purely digital all usb and is it clean well it's it's only coming from over here oh okay so i'm not from over there i am panned hard left right now yes if i turn this knob right here and there you are cool you can mix it from stereo to mono by a knob on the front of the unit so fun with but is it clean still yeah now it's clouds great oh okay well that's good to know so you can charge it on the same usb bus on the same hub while it's being used for a nut ui use another port for recording so that's a great that's great to know that's good to know you can charge it while it's being used noise free just don't use the headset cable on the the the phone cable the trs on the same computer that's one too many connections on the same the same computer so just use one of these it makes things so much easier it sure is simple yeah it's this is this is not a simple device but it's it's a goldilocks between going the software way where everything's on a screen with a touch screen and all this stuff and the simplicity of a scarlet it's kind of like right right in the middle between them right all righty well i'm i'm gonna let you go find a power block while i talk about what i'm gonna talk about here for a second go for it okay well okay we've we've talked about this before i think but george was mentioning you know on that particular device that there is a high pass filter and i get i get a lot of audio from people you know in my my specimen collection cup and if it's in a home studio if it's done in a closet or you know or a you know like a pvc booth with moving blankets there's something that is constant in people's audio and that is low frequency rumble you can't necessarily hear it i mean you can hear like the fan from your furnace if you're for your air conditioner if you're close to something like that but when you're when you're recording that sound is is in there and you will see it on the meter and we want to keep our noise floor like under minus 60 and something like that is going to raise your noise floor even though you can't hear it but i'm going to demonstrate something uh because i can um we're i'm going to share my screen here let me remember how to do this in stream yard any noise coming from me now that i'm plugged into a little power key not a thing okay good share a screen i'm going to share this screen and then i'm going to okay very good uh just this guy okay are we just seeing my my audition screen here oh you're seeing the audition window floating over your other we see your desktop okay all right rumble is easy to find you know in audacity you can find it very easily it's always at the it's down here and you can see there's a scale over here uh that shows us the frequencies that our voice is at and a spectrogram you know you'll find this in adobe audition and in rx7 the reason these things exist is so you can see things that you can't necessarily see when you're just looking at a waveform i mean i mean if you look at the waveform yeah you can you can see the rumble you know over here we're because it's you know there's a squiggle in line that line should be absolutely flat but if you use the spectrogram and what the spectrogram is because a lot of you are staring at this right now going what on earth is that it is a graphic representation of the the the difference in volume in different frequencies so are the human voice exists essentially between oh we'll say 80 hertz and about 10 thousand hertz you know some people a little higher than that um but our voice really does not exist below 80 hertz the rumble that we see and if i play this um not that over here you can see in the v u meter that the noise floor is well above minus 45 let me go back there i mean if i just highlight that and play that you can see in the meter above that it's about minus 45 way too loud so we're talking about a high pass filter what is a high pass filter it's generally it's really really simple it's called eq so you go into your effects and you get the graphic equalizer oh that's right you got an audacity you got to highlight everything so i'm going to highlight everything here all right and then i'm going to go into effects and then i'm going to go into graphic eq and as you can see i have it set like this all the time since your voice does not exist under 80 hertz especially women's voices which really started about a hundred hertz you can cut off all the frequencies below that and tail it off a little bit at a hundred here and then all you have to watch what happens to that little red line underneath at the bottom of the spectrogram when i click okay suddenly it's not there anymore and if i hit play and you look at the output level here suddenly the noise floor is well below minus 60 and that's how you get rid of rumble uh now if you're if you don't have a spectrogram if you're just you know if you're not in audacity and all you're looking at is this you'll now see that over here that this line is now much flatter and if i play it again again look at the the meter is not showing us any noise floor so it's an inaudible noise floor that you're that you're trying to get rid of and uh using eq it's nothing sophisticated it's simply what it is stop sharing screen it's amazing uh how often that is just the primary issue in a in a sample i get oh yeah if they say i have a tlm103 i almost expect there to be rumble unless they happen to have an interface a mic preamp that has that high pass filter switch like this pork caster happens to have i can turn that on internally and preemptively remove a lot of that so without a defecting voice at all exactly all righty well we got a pile of questions out there oh my gosh i mean it just they just keep piling in we like to see that so we're gonna have a flash round of answer the questions right after we take this break on voiceover body shop tech talk don't go away this is ariana rattner and you're enjoying voice over body shop with dan lennard and george widham v obs dot tv spring is coming and despite what major league baseball decides to do it's high time you got your authentic vo baseball cap top quality fabric and embroidery with an infinitely adjustable strap tells the world just what it is that you do do voiceover essentials vo gear baseball caps are 100% cotton chino twill garment washed unstructured caps manufactured by style master and feature sewn eyelets pre-curved visor and a metal adjustable tri glide buckle on the adjustable strap available in black with their exclusive vo voice bubble 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you to have a tool like that your studio is has quiet on demand that means when this time of that session comes the clients are waiting listening into your recording they're being you're being recorded by a studio somewhere else in another city halfway around the world sometimes that whatever they hear from your mic is exactly what that microphone hears and that is the good and the bad so if you're going to get source connect be studio be have a studio that's ready to work on demand that you can produce quality professional audio on demand and that's something you might want to talk to dan and i about let's make sure you're ready to go and then when we give you the green light when we feel like you've made the investment and found a place to record you're ready to go with source connect and you're ready to enter the big leagues because it is used by productions all over the place because for the producers that record and engineer your sessions it saves them time the audio goes directly 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eggs what time is hockey practice check out this song it's the end of the road for ring when hope is lost the i8 from bmw who said saving the planet couldn't be stylish hey it's j michael collins bet you think i'm gonna try and sell you a demo now uh i think they speak for themselves but i will give you my email it's j michael at jmcvoiceover.com now if they don't stop waxing this mustache for a minute we'll get back to the show before time began there was v obs dot tv watch or else oh you caught me uh command right there yeah boy better listen uh we got lots of questions here and uh and lots of answers which is why questions are so good why do we start off this humongous list of great questions right now one from terry brisco he says he says okay i'll be switching over from a usb mic to xlr any advice on how to make the transition smooth and two how do you find your ideal iq not your iq my iq is already ideal uh the uh interesting i i was i was i produce a podcast for for some folks and they had a an actress on who was talking about how she's also a voice actress and was telling people how to set up their home studio and she's like well you need one of those uh cable the musician cable with the three things in it musician cable yeah yeah i'm like if you're gonna have people are gonna talk about home voice over studios to other actors send them our way that would be a lot easier because you'll never find a musicians cable to me a musicians cable would just be a g string uh anyway any advice on how to make the transition smooth you know usb mics you know george we some of them you can set the levels on them from the actual device itself and others you have to set it from inside your software uh the most important thing because item number three on my you know what makes good audio is setting proper input levels and uh you have to learn you know as we say always in the green always in the yellow and with an occasional flash of red or i say if you're in the green you're a little lean if you're in yellow let it mellow that's right so but you should be seeing both of those uh so learn to use your meters and that's probably the only transition you really have to worry about when you're using an actual interface if you're going from usb mic to interface get a really simple one to operate so you're not adding a ton more options and features that you're not familiar with right scarlets are great steinberg ur 12 ur 22 uh where we always skip a few brands but there's others audio the personas stuff the audio box i i o it's called the i o one or i one or something um there's a bunch of those simple two channel or even one channel interfaces that that's the direction to go for you and then microphone wise you know we've talked a million times about the harlan hogan vo1a that's a great starter mic it's a great pro mic to be honest really if you want to save a little bit of dough i have got an old-fashioned audio technique at 30 35 here it's been replaced with a 20 35 150 dollars still that mic is still only 150 dollars and every time i hear it it blows my mind that it costs that little so you don't need a big investment don't don't over complicate it yeah yours doesn't yours isn't the head isn't bent on yours like it is on mine because we both have one of those somehow managed not to drop it too but well it's a little bit of a dent those things are made to hammer nails though yeah uh and finding eq that is well that is the part that is the um golden years part that's that it takes a while to get the skills together to have the engineering the chops to know how to use eq to tune not only just use it but to hear the subtle differences but dan i mean would you say just start with a simple what they call a graphic eq which is like the one day i was just demonstrating yeah what she's showing you sliders and just start going from frequency to frequency to see what it does up down up yeah especially up start by going up because you'll really hear that frequency boost and you do that for a few five ten years and you'll start to memorize you finally figure it out yeah eventually memorize all those frequencies start figuring out where to move what it's just and that's just a basic place to start but uh that does take quite a long time to tune your ears for that yeah and and eq is not something you really want to make you know drastic changes with your audio yeah uh the thing is is the idea is not to sound great the idea is to sound like you which we say all the time and when you're starting to play with eq and try and maybe make your voice a little deeper or something like that to me that's intellectually dishonest uh you are who you are you get hired for your ability to read copy not for your production ability or your technical skills as long as it there's no background noise there's no reflection as long as you're not popping your peas uh popping peas what do you mean by popping peas i like have getting plosives you'll notice i have no pop screen and there are no plosives because proper mic technique which is idea number two number three is setting your levels right so if you get all those things right generally you're not going to need to change anything in the eq except maybe using a high pass filter and if you do the little tiny changes that George is really good at and adjusting to get the sound you know to make adjustments for the room not so much for your voice and uh you know but there are some people that know how to use it really well and they're doing promo and stuff like that for an e-learning thing you don't really need to be using a lot of that so anyway jeff holman's got a question here in bold type in building while he wanted us to see it that's right uh you go for it uh jeff says i found my old moran's receiver cleaning out my closet i must have been a dirty closet um dusty old moran's i spent a lot of stuff in there i used to hook up my turntable and tape tack to it back in the 70s and 80s when i was growing up it is basically a huge paperweight now or can it be used for anything practical these days you know there there are audio files who find that some of those 70s moran's receivers are still desirable that they just do what they do really well that there's some purity to the analog circuitry that it's still really a great piece of uh a high-fi equipment so if you have room in your home to set it up on a table or or a shelving unit and have that hooked up to a pair of some decent two-way speakers you might still enjoy listening to uh a record on that thing because it it it can sound great other than that it you know in a studio situation again you could use it with a pair of decent quality speakers and have that be your monitors but i probably wouldn't recommend it um it's probably too much too much going on there yeah now i i picked up an old yamaha receiver uh at a garage sale last sort of my dad and he just got one like a month ago yeah i mean people are like throwing him out i'm like okay fine i'll take it away yeah uh and what i've done is i have it's the music system in my studio not my monitoring system i use yamaha h2 studio monitors but when i'm listening to me when i want to really listen to music i'll use that it also is the audio for the tv in here and we found that if you're sitting in here watching jeopardy it sounds amazing on a yamaha stereo but my music system is is my old you know rca radios back here and i and i listen to uh you know streaming music on that and you know it goes to two different radios so it's in stereo it's you know but an old an old receiver if it's still if both channels are still working and you can still listen to the radio or streaming music on it they're great you know they have a nice sound to them you know there's nothing about it yeah you know especially old ones with tubes tubes are great for listening to music not for voiceover all righty uh grace newton asks i'm upgrading my shock mount meaning i'm getting a i'm getting one period um anyone's uh anyone's to avoid and or recommendations shock mounts you know they're not expensive uh they haven't been different sizes for different microphones you know there's this one that they came with the uh the road mic you know who makes this one this is called the um oh i can't remember who makes that but maybe road makes it right you mean the shock mount yeah but on this one that's the right coat right coat i mean they're making their own in-house they probably licensed it from yeah right coat but uh that is a right coat shock mount yeah shock shock mounts are important uh you know it it it isolates the mic from your noise uh the best way to isolate from a lot of noise is to make sure your mic isn't mounted on your desk uh you know that can be a problem uh so don't do that make sure it's either floor mounted or mounted to the wall but not to desk where your computer is uh but you know they're they're simple ones i mean there's the one that comes with the harlan hogan one that you know you just squeeze these two things and the mic you know comes loose uh and most mics will you know most good mics will come with their own shock mount so but you can go to guitar center or one of those places or on amazon and type in shock mount and generally they're all pretty good i i like the right coat design the lot they're called they call it a liar ly re because they they don't elast they don't have elastics right so the elastics don't start sagging and right it's like a it's like a hard sort of a plastic material but they don't wear out i like that nice yeah good to know the cable for this thing is going to come eventually yeah talking to the people at at uh in sweetwater and they're like yeah they should probably ship the cable for that mic with the mic but roe didn't do that isn't it just a normal usb cable no it's a it's a usb c to lightning oh that cable yeah okay i mean it'll it'll work you you know usb c to usb c but it's it's a special lightning cable that is not the charging cable it is an auxiliary cable how about the camera adapter does it work with that might work with well it's supposed to work with the camera adapter but my camera doesn't have any power to it so oh okay that's not a self-powered one got anyway uh there was a second part of that question and it's about uh from from uh grace dam what do you always say about performing better to get better equipment rather than getting better equipment to perform better or was that however you said will you please reiterate that okay here's the original quote that i've been using for about 10 years you don't get great equipment to get work you work to get great equipment and you know learn how to use the stuff that you have to the best of your ability and then when you upgrade to something else then you get to see why something's more expensive or anything like that but we're not about getting expensive stuff we're about keeping things simple and if you get your environment right and do all the things that we tell you you know having a great microphone is fine and dandy but as george was saying you have a tlm 103 and you're in your closet you're going to hear everything else going on in your house so more sensitive to the mic the more you're going to have other other problems so don't go hog wild on a microphone just don't buy a cheap one so that's the actual quote you don't buy great equipment to get work you'll work to get great equipment because if you're working they're going to hire you no matter what right yeah all right dave g's got a question your turn all right oh a tech question this one under uh quote if it sounds good it is good right um out of curiosity i bought a tlm 103 clone how do you know yeah how do you know um i recorded some auditions sent them out and i booked a few um a nice space helps a lot but still it says more about the space than the mic and the technique um yeah i have to agree with that completely we're still pounding it into you guys that the acoustics of the space your mic technique all of that has a lot more to do with that great recording quality you here than which mic that they the actor is actually using um but a tlm 103 clone i'm very curious to know more about that company who made it and is it truly a clone or is it just a mic that just happens to sound somewhat like a tlm 103 good question yeah yeah the 103 it's a great mic i had one for a long time but you know it really does you know it reveals everything it's an omen for crying out loud you know you can hear people skateboarding outside as a studio mic for for great super low noise high accuracy recording and we don't often have that in a home so it's hard to get a great sound and really take advantage of it's of its quality it's $1,200 price tag you know it's it's tough to get every ounce out of that mic yeah all righty uh jhoris black asks hey george can you show the position of the webcam you mentioned that it sits lower so it gives you better eye line for zoom sessions this is from jhoris black that's part number one answer that one okay um let me see if i can make this work so the easiest way to show the position of your webcam is to use another webcam to show and it happens to be working at the moment so i will do this so i'll put this back here this is my pov wow this is a this webcam has a sharp picture and a horrible color it's it's it's it's just the colors wacko on this thing anyway so right now i've got it right here my my proper the one i use for the show it's really hard to see i see it but it's right between we trust you yeah it's right between the split of the two monitors so i just moved my two monitors apart and i lowered it down because i'm sitting about six inches lower than usual normally it's a but it's actually normally up there above the monitor but it was so high it was really creepy and weird so that's where it is it's uh it's between the two screens and uh and that and that can get decent eye line if you take your um your the window of whomever you're speaking to and just slide that right up to the edge of it when i'm if you're talking to someone looking at their eye line it almost looks like you're talking directly to them not quite but it's still better than doing this and talking to them like this the whole time it just it's not quite as natural so right well that's what the little light on there is you talk to the light then you're talking into the into the camera yeah i mean if you're speaking um if you're on tv you're used to training you're trained and used to speaking into the lens like i'm doing right now if you're having a conversation that feels weird you you want to look at who you're talking to now i don't know what it is about me and maybe this is true for you the hard part is to stop looking at you to stop looking at your own i understand that but i don't know why i look at myself way too much i'm not that good looking um i don't know what that's about but yeah no you want to look into the lens whenever possible and slide if your lens is near the top slide the video image of whoever you're speaking to directly below it so your eye line feels close to the to what you're looking at exactly uh let's see hit it part two hey george boy j hars black likes to ask you questions hey george hey george are you still doing the the tiktok fridays for previous clients if yes what's the time and how does it work um maybe someday i'll get on tiktok uh i'm not on tiktok yet um i don't have a strong gravitational pull towards tiktok but um no there is a club house so if you're you're you're on my mailing list on my website then you are getting an in you've gotten a subscription uh you got an email that gives you a con the info on how to get to my let's see monday at 10 30 a.m and 4 p.m is when i do my client only tiktoks so uh for some reason you don't know how to get access to that send me an email george at george the dot tech uh and i will get you the link all righty uh question from daniel brit says uh do you recommend using a small curved pop screen on the 416 for spoken voiceovers i've never heard of a a non-spoken voiceover i mean uh kind of a shouted voiceover a shouted voiceover yeah 416 is a very interesting microphone um it can be used in many ways i mean it's it's designed to be a video microphone from as a standoff microphone for video on set um but they also discovered that if you use it close up it sounds great for promo if you use it fairly close and at the right you know at the right angle about 45 degree angle facing you know facing you know pointing towards your chin or your chest and you have it you know at this height maybe i could demonstrate with this one better take off the clown nose it should be at about a 45 degree angle in front of you like that and don't talk directly into the into the diaphragm um if you don't talk directly into the diaphragm you don't really need a pop screen a lot of people you know they'll they'll put one of these on there except of course this thing is called a wind screen not a pop screen and the fact of the matter is this is not windy in your studio unless it is um because that's really what is built for it doesn't really stop plosives all that much uh my technique does a whole lot more for uh dealing with plosives so uh i would say you can get one of the hook studio triple triple screen ones if you're doing promo when you're talking directly into the mic and you need you need to that plosive control but uh for the most part and of course there are people say absolutely you got to have a pop screen like fine go use your pop screen your turn all right somebody just peeled out around the corner whoa i actually i actually made it all the way over here i heard that um two more questions will slip in here real quick uh mike max goldberg says i recently picked up an i rig pre two for podcast interactions and such not for voiceover of course what do you guys think of that unit um that's made by iK multimedia they make all kinds of little interesting gadgets and most of them i've always found to be missing something i needed something about either sound quality proper monitoring or something um i have not i have not demoed or used the i rig pre two so i cannot speak on its quality or features so i'm sorry i don't know but um you know if it does everything you need everything you need to do and it doesn't have a lot of hiss it's probably a good unit i just haven't used that particular one so yeah iK multimedia makes good stuff i mean yeah i mean the original stuff was like yeah it was like you know a cheap mic port pro and yeah and they would be hissy but their later stuff was was a little bit better so it's gotten better they get their quality is upping is is getting better all the time i agree all right our final question tonight from an christ this is a great question because it's like okay i know who this is and an christ it's an christ with a g with the oh okay an christ fix that and i know because she's my client and i know the mic that she just bought it and we're not gonna have time to unpack everything about this mic but i have a simple answer we'll try okay she says i just got up my new mic an akg c 414 that is an excellent studio mic been standard in in modern recording studios in the best places 40 years for years great microphone i don't know why all the different configurations figure rates snowman snowman do you call this one called a snowman oh well the well that's the figure eight for crying out loud i think that's the i think that's the hyper hypercardi has a big circle and a little snowman we're calling it snowman for an yes okay we we try to simplify things so it's easy to understand uh cardioid and another one which i think is probably on how me yeah uh also on the back high z db buttons could he please explain see now this is the thing you explain the high z and db and i'll explain the pattern okay hi high z well hz hz oh it hurts oh that's well that's the that's the that's the pad yeah that's the that's actually the high pass filter we were talking about earlier uh that you can cut it off at 80 hertz and below and i'm not sure what the the 414 it's got multiple it does like uh i'm trying to remember it because they've changed that mic so many times over there i think it has a 40 an 80 a 120 it's got multiple different settings i mean you'll actually find a 414 on stage in a lot of places yeah for live stuff you know normally you might not normally do that for with a studio condenser mic but the 414 does that and you will see those it's it's a swiss army knife mic aka it has a lot of functions because it's used for a lot of different things right and and the db button is is a 10 db pad there's probably multiple db pad that reduces the sensitivity of the mic so you can talk louder right and then the pickup patterns change the way it's like changing the lens on a camera you go from a super long telephoto for a lot of reach to an arm to a wide angle lens that's omni and that's to hear or see as much as you can and that's what those different patterns do and which one to use that comes down to if it sounds good it is good you had to try them all record all of the all the different patterns and find the one that found sounds best in your particular situation it's probably going to be cardioid hyper cardioid and in some cases figure eight is probably going to be a good is going to be one of those likely that will work well with your voice and your studio and your acoustics and your mic placement and your setup outstanding we got through all those questions and all the right answers can you believe it we only went a little long a little long but not too long all righty well we're going to wrap things up we're so glad you're with us tonight and we'll be right back to wrap it up after these messages so don't go away hi this is 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