 acoustics extremely important in a home voice-over studio do we talk about it enough on this show a few times but we're joined here by Ron Knight Ron welcome to our show yeah and you're with Joe Kavi acoustics I've known these guys for about four years now I guess some of your people might remember me from voiceover over the decades and I've started working with this organization because when people were asking me on advice on what am I going to do about my home studio there's a lot more to it than just getting your favorite little USB microphone and patching it into your deck with pro tools and then the next thing you know you're still dealing with the sounds of your room so this organization has got this company around the world for 21 years in about 47 countries has been coming up with great sonic solutions acoustic treatment solutions and to boot needless to say they look pretty doggone good yeah aesthetics is always important to a lot of our clients and these are very different from you know charcoal and purple and that sort of thing not to downplay but a lot of the other off-the-shelf solutions might be available at your typical retail chain your general choice has been gray camel and maybe purple and it's the same plan of five fingers with a little bit of an absorbent form that may do the trick in terms of just drawing up a room and mopping it up but it's not really solving a lot of the other acoustical solutions that you may need to have solved in your voice over I'm looking over here I mean up there's a combination of different stuff we've got obviously diffusers at the bottom but then we have some things up top here that are more of a combination of reflection and absorption right yes correct how would that be an advantage in a small booth well I look at it this way when you're getting your typical off-the-shelf stuff whether it's ultimate market tech some of the other usual suspects that are out there you're coming up with one solution and people just patching it wherever it needs to go the thing about sound is while there's no such thing as sound proofing we do have sound mop up clean up and sound confusion of sound waves and really the more you can confuse a sound wave and mop it up from all of its different respected problems base low end frequencies high end frequencies mid ranges something like this aside from being pretty dug on gorgeous to look at I mean can you imagine if you were recording in your den and you had a whole wall made of something like this and we have a variety of options this is actually doing three different things it's got an inner core of sound absorption within every square on the inside it's got a texture which is also creating that not a parallel wall or that typical thing where you having a reflective surface so sound is going to bounce off of that then what's happening is that by capturing the sound wave in the room it's actually forcing it into a pattern which is then forcing it to get absorbed into the outer shell which is also yet another reflective or absorption type of material so that's all going on with within one panel and a price point on something like this for the voiceover guy gal forty six dollars for a two foot by two foot panel so when you think about just getting something like that and saying how am I going to treat my room I think maybe all of us would agree that's probably a little bit more interesting little five fingers sticking out of the same gushy foamy stuff right that's that's actually an excellent price point you wouldn't need a whole lot of that was going to be a hundred and fifty dollars frankly we do have that as well yeah well this is a much more complex firm does everything from concert halls professional recording studios pavilions theaters the whole gamut you know in terms of restaurants and every other typical isolated sound problem trap but for the home studio person this is probably you know another thing they have is what we call studio kit in a box so somebody says gee my home studio is going to be in my closet it's four foot by six I actually am doing this in a den maybe that's twelve foot by sixteen we have six templates ready to go by size by color and they can literally go say I need a T pick ATP kit number four version number B that gets sent in a box they can just throw it by template right up into their room very nice and that's and that's a that's a really great thing for anybody who really doesn't exactly know what they want to do that they can get a kit like that and you show them how to arrange it we can you know I mean if they really are going to go open up a real prograde studio they were really happy to come on out and show them how to put that together we do that don't we tell us about what's unique about that substrate that that white foam yeah that being used in some of these products yeah this is I mean some vocal people or voiceover people might know what I'm talking about we used to have a New York New Jersey studio which was really busy a lot and we'd step into a little whisper room or something like that and it had a really nice quality more or less to just dampen up the sound but your voice talent would get in there after a while they feel like gee I'm going horse I it feels like I'm getting a scratchiness in the throat literally the joke I've told is we've had people go out get those spray Mr. Bottles and bring it back into the vocal booth trying to get some humidity in there there's a lot of things going on in your recording environment for your throat this is actually used in hospitals this particular foam is an antimicrobial it's hypoallergenic it is antiviral antifungal and this is something they use in a medical environment but at the end of the day you can see the fine cellular weave in that foam as a sound absorptive property it's great but for the vocal person when using this it's pretty doggone great because if you're having issues with your throat this can be a solution is this as effective if not more so than like a typical foam type material again all depends on what's going on in the room when these guys came to my rescue I had a recording studio that was built in the flight path of an airline airport yeah and that had all kinds of issues going on there's a different foam for a different solution absolutely based upon the environment that you're in nice where do you where do we get this stuff where would the typical voice actor go to pick out some of this product oh funny that you mentioned that let me tell you george that's why we're here that's why we're here george i'm the north american rep for this company i do have a site for what it's worth keggtrader.com they can come over there and take a look at the kits in the box but they also have a brand new service which is again mentioning that this company is out of portugal but now in north america they have a little online website called acoustic shop and we can give you a promo code that is the 10 discount going on with nam those people who are in voiceover reach out to me i'll give you a code you get to continue 10 discount for ordering anything online from out of the united states supply awesome that's what i would do that's it sounds like a great deal well ron pleasure to meet you finally we certainly know your name from the voiceover business i've seen your name too out there in the world and i'm glad you guys are blogging and it's nice to meet you george thanks for coming by appreciate it