 Hey, it's time for tech talk number 24 for 24 the first of 2020. Yeah, I miscounted last week It's counting. Yeah, but it's the end of the year. Well, actually you're watching this now It's the beginning of 2020 and You know, what are some of the things we want to talk about for 2020 a little bit? We'll look backwards. Okay, 2019 because it's always good to review Maybe some of the things that we learned together that we've all forgotten because it was a long year Yeah, and then I have a couple things that you know, maybe it should be paid attention to for next year Yeah, and we have a special guest tonight, which we normally don't have during tech talk I know I'm so glad we can have Rick Wasserman here because he has an interesting product to show you guys So all that and more as we begin 2020 with 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 VO universe, they bring it to you now George Wittem the engineer to the VO stars of Virginia Tech grad with the skills to build set up and maintain The professional VO studios of the biggest names in VO today and you Dan Leonard the voiceover home studio master a professional voice talent with the knowledge and experience To help you create a professional sounding home VO studio and each week They allow you into their world making the complex simple Debunking the myths of what it takes to create great sounding audio Answering your questions showing you the latest and greatest in VO tech and having a dandy time doing it Welcome to voiceover body shop Tech talk Voice over body shop tech talk is brought to you by voiceover essentials.com home of Harlan Hogan signature products Source elements remote studio connections for everyone voice actor websites.com where your VO website isn't a pain in the butt VO heroes.com become a hero to your clients with award-winning voice over training J. Michael Collins demos when quality matters and voiceover extra your daily resource for VO success and Now live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are the guys Hello there and happy 2020. I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whitton and this is voiceover body shop or VO BS Yeah, all right. I love it for the first tech talk of 2020 We got a great show tonight because we're gonna look it back a little bit But then we're gonna look forward and then into and then into that tribe should be very interesting Yeah, no Rick Wasserman is here with us tonight and we're gonna look at the tri booth Which is interesting new development in the world of mobile voiceover or possibly your very first home Studio it could work very well in a place that perhaps you weren't thinking you could actually do voiceover But not your bathroom no matter what We've heard it You know, we also have some audio. We haven't done bad audio over the week in like eight years No, but we've got an interesting audio sample that is a great example of having all the right tools all the right gear And then using soundproof room, but then using some software incorrectly. Yeah, that should be very interesting and you know all the other fun stuff that we talk about on here and your your update and So what's get the show on the road? What's up in your tech update this week? Oh, just starting off. I thought it'd be fun to go back and dig through show notes from the last year and see What if anything I thought was somewhat significant? So the first story I saw in 2019 that I think is something that You know, it's a cautionary thing. Maybe it's a little bit tin foil haddy kind of thing But really it's it is not so tin foil hat nowadays and that is protecting your passwords And there's a website that I mentioned back in January a year ago called have I been Pwned Dot-com This is very geeky way of saying Have something that somebody have my does somebody have my Password is is there is my password been released into the wild is it being distributed in a database? Is my password out there? So that's I don't know where the pond thing came from. It's it's a It's a geeky term for you've been owned Saying that you know somebody now owns your data. So if you go to have I been P WN Ed calm you can look up your information and see You can put in your email address You can put in and see where your email has been leaked out and you can put in more importantly your passwords and figure out Which passwords that you use way too often and that have been ending up in databases that you don't know about so Anyway, that's one of the first things that came out last year Also in tying into that is if you're not already using a password manager Other than like the one that comes on your Mac like the keychain or something like this I recommend something that called last pass and it's a place to not only store all your sensitive data and keep it under a very strong password In a secure way, but you can also put a lot of secure actual other information Like you can keep banking records Files your social security information whatever stuff that you want to keep and be able to access later securely That's let better than a sheet of paper in the drawer or you know, I know it's supposed to know that says password I Highly highly recommend last pass for that. It's it's been approved by the the most secure conscious Folks in the business it's on my laptop right there. It's a duplicate password. Looks like you're using the same password on multiple sites Yeah, don't do that. See they try to convince you that it's bad to Keep the same password used over and over on a lot of different sites and they will help you generate new ones In fact, you're gonna last pass generate a completely nonsense password that you'll ever memorize, right? But it it keeps it stored for you. So anyway, that's one story that came up But I just think is really important for people to be aware about Audio interface of the year just something I just thought of I was gonna say and now the award for audio interface of the year And not that it was new in 2019 But it's just one that I have just so consistently recommended with such good results That I just I have to give it my own little silver approval on the show and that's the Steinberg You are 12 for the value that you spend on this unit and the return you get from it It just I've not really seen anything quite like it. It's generally available for under a hundred dollars. I've said black Friday 59 bucks. I actually grabbed a couple And it's it sound quality is great It's features are exactly really what you need on that unit It doesn't have a lot of extra confusing controls. You don't have to install anything There's no console. You have to install to do anything. You just plug your headphones in plug your mic in turn up the game You're often you're off to the races and it's just It just has what you need without bogging you down with features It's got one little extra trick up its sleeve that I think really separates it from all of its competition You know, there's the scarlets. We always talk about them. They're great But what Steinberg did was they added a little trick, which is a loop back feature So if you do want to use the loop back feature, you do need to install the accompanying application But it's a very small little application and it totally disappears unless you need it And then you can open up a little window and in that window is a little checkbox And all it does is turn on loopback mode and once it's in loopback mode Now you can play back something you've just recorded and it will now feed back out of the USB and into Whatever software you're using like or if you want to like Skype or zoom right or if you're doing a phone patch doing your own Like streaming radio station or playing or something like that Yeah, you have a list of stuff and you can play it all back out somewhere else. Yes That's what loopback does it's so interesting because it's it's a software driver thing and other companies Should be doing this, but they're not they're not paying attention Steinberg is and I love that about the Steinberg You are 12 so that's my that's my favorite interface of the year And it will remain being my favorite until something else comes along to the throne it for that price point It's pretty much impossible to beat. I think Biggest surprise of the year I think for me gear wise was the mic port pro 2 The center and said release the mixer face and that's something we've been anticipating for five years At least four or five years so that one I we all saw coming from up for a long way away but after that was released several months later along came the mic port pro 2 and That was really a big surprise and As is some centrants is known to do the quality of the unit definitely holds up I mean, it's I've had some very technical guys review this thing against other much more expensive gear And they've all said that the sound quality is fantastic Centrants did their homework on this and worked out all the bugs before they released it Yeah, it they've baked either an added. Yeah, they baked features and others don't have like it's got a battery So you can plug it into an iPhone that doesn't normally power most devices It's got it's got a high-pass filter Which is handy if your mic is like a TLM 103 which picks up everything. Yeah And it's got a limiter, which if you're doing a lot of animation voiceover Auditions and things and you're really concerned about clipping. That's a little safety net for you So it's a very versatile device. So that one was a big surprise for the year No, another software that surprised me this year is a noise reduction software from a company called Clev Grand and The software is called Bruce free Which I think means noise free in in Swedish if don't quote me on that, but anyway, it's a it's it's a really interesting noise reduction tool And we're gonna talk about noise reduction a little bit later But what it's one of these tools that works a little bit like the audacity noise reduction where you have it listen to some of the Noise it makes a print and then it removes it. It's how it does it. That's so different And I just recommend go get giving it a look at Clev Grand Ketsklevgrand.se Slash product slash Bruce free they make a bunch of different stuff It even runs on an iPad or an iOS device not bad You can install this on your iPhone record and say twisted wave And you can send the audio into Bruce free from twisted wave and have it clean up the noise for Before you send it out which could be really awesome if you're doing auditions from your hotel or your car So that one was a real surprise and it's a great price and it's a great product And the last thing that was like the big splash of 2019 was You know it matters to some of us that run twisted wave twisted wave added punch-in recording All right, and so we're really glad that for those that use twisted wave They now have that as a as an option when you're doing long-form recording and you want to kind of maybe speed up production time Some people find that punch-in recording is a time saver. I know audiobook narrators often say it is for them And it's just the ability to choose a point where you've made an error Let's say you've recorded and you've made a flub go back to that point where the flub occurred Put the little play cursor here like click and then say punch-in and it will start playing behind it a few seconds That's called pre-roll and then right at the moment where your mistake was it will engage recording So you can hear their previous phrase and then pick up and keep going It's something worth experimenting with for some people it may be a time saver for others It may be a distraction and maybe frustrating Especially if you don't like having your computer and your software in front of you when you're a voice acting This would be not something you would want to use So everybody is different and so but if you're if you want to have that efficiency This is a tool that you can you can have in your toolbox So that's the stuff that those are the stories I found from last year that we talked about that I thought well worth mentioning again. They are I mean when it comes to voice over is there a whole lot new under the sun I mean you'll get some products. I mean what you and I do and we look at these products is How does this help you in voice over? It's fun to be geeky and it's fun to have Stuff to play with there was something that you might think sure helps you Do the you know sound better or as I like to say yeah, it's not it's not important to sound Fantastic, whatever that means you just don't want to sound bad and the more things you add into the mix the more potential you have for making mistakes and Will and we'll visit that a little bit Interesting what do you think's coming up that's important in 2020? Well, I try to think about some of the things that we're out there I mean we're gonna look at a product in a little bit. That's kind of cool We just released it. I'm had something to do with it and call the tri booth But in terms of things that maybe affect everybody in 2020 it clearly seems to be 5g in terms of phone Mobile data, right? This is something that's being tested Some networks or some cities already have some limited connectivity But basically what 5g is is this promise of Extremely fast internet connectivity wherever you are on your mobile devices, whatever They're saying speeds should be expected between One and two gigabits a second I mean these are speeds that the vast majority of us don't even get at home on our on our own network So you could potentially run things like source connect and various other things over your phone You could stream live stream 4k. Wow 10 streams of 4k over. I mean it's it's a Ridiculous amount of bandwidth. So the problems that really are that have to be the hurdles have to be leaped here I'm gonna be not gonna be cheap. Well, of course. It's not gonna be cheap because this this system has to be built Right, so now they have to roll it out to all the cell phone towers Right, and then the companies that want to use that technology now have to build it into their devices There's a few really early adopter or Android phones I think that have it and they're generally $1,500 and up phones because it's just really bleeding edge stuff It's going to become mainstream just like I don't know if you guys remember maybe it was five years ago when LTE Became mainstream. How long has it been now? I'm losing track. It's four or five years It was the same thing, you know, we there's this LTE thing AT&T is always the first one to say we're first and they say they'll call it ATT 4g e Right for evolution, which is just 3g and now they're doing it with AT&T 5g e It's yes, it doesn't mean anything. It's just branding But when 5g comes out, I think we're gonna be looking at more phones this year Probably the iPhone will come out with it this year that'll when the iPhone comes out with 5g That's when people are gonna start paying attention and taking notice. How's it gonna benefit all of us? I'm not even sure that I'm just not even sure yet. I'm using an iPhone 11 Which I've just started using which I really do love. Oh, I'm so glad to hear that I've waited forever to get an iPhone I resisted I mean, it finally to me came with all the features I wanted and all these and the little bells and whistles I wanted to so That is to me with that with LTE mobile and I'm using visible For mobile data it runs on visible as a pay-as-you-go No contract service that runs on Verizon's LTE To me I've got the perfect combination right now and I get as much Unless I'm in a really fringe area or with a black hole where there's no data. I get all the speed I really need so I'm trying to figure out what does the new uses are gonna be for all this data speed that we're gonna Supposedly have, you know, yeah It's one of those things do we figure out uses for it because we have it like we're gonna all start being able to Do things we never thought we would possibly try on mobile devices like we don't have anything else to do I know our jobs. I know. I know. I think this is gonna benefit certainly like Law enforcement or medical industries things like that where they want to they need this Capability everywhere they go, but who knows is it gonna really affect all of us? I'm not really sure but in terms of what's coming in 2020. That's definitely the to me the big story in terms of what tech we're gonna be looking out for right and So this year We'd like to do more roundtables, you know mostly technical roundtables And I think we'll probably keep them to you know our tech talks but you know get our usual suspects in but get some other guest technical folk in and Talk about some of the things that you would like to hear about Yeah, I mean we could have roundtables as you know specific as like a roundtable on twisted wave That's right around table on a W audition around table on Pro tools did I say pro tools? Did you say pro basically? I mean whatever you guys feel there's value in it for you as our viewers Let us know because we want to build roundtables that are helpful to you and that means gathering together Experts right in certain things and not just on technology, but also on you know on social media Very some of the things that affect our business. So yeah, that'll be that'd be interesting to talk about. Yep Alright also People can bring you out. Tell us about that. Oh, yeah, something I something I launched this year. It's uh, you know Sometimes people are in different cities that want to have me able to come to their studio But it's too costly generally for one person to just bring me out, you know travel and all that stuff But you can get a group of people together and do a group by and I call it bring George out So if you're in a city in this in the US generally, but it could be Canada too um Don't reach out There's a web. There's a form on the website at George the tech or George they dot tech slash Bgo fill it out and we can figure out how we could bring me to your to your area And you can have a few friends do a group by share the cost of the travel and all that stuff And you could have me in your studios and so that's that's a new idea We'll see how it goes. It's it's it's a way to get me to Dallas and Miami and all these Kansas City and all these cities that I haven't been able to visit and visit all the great food that they have in all these Oh, it's a real KC barbecue Yeah, exactly. So anyway check that out and Dan, what are you doing over on your tech support website? Well, we've got over at home voiceover studio.com You know that I talk about what I do I love working with people personally going into their homes and as I like to say sniff around Find the best place to set up a studio. I was in somebody's home this week and They showed me this big cathedral ceiling place, and I'm like, no not in here Do you have a closet somewhere and we found the perfect closet for it? And it's gonna work great and because it doesn't have to you don't have to be real sophisticated I think people tend to way overthink their home studio and if you just talk to somebody like me or you that know You know because we've set up literally hundreds and hundreds of home studios every place is different every place is unique and We will find the best place to set it up for you and show you how to set it up and in in your case build them in my case I'll help you set it up and build them and It's it's fun stuff to do and it's not something you want to guess at and make mistakes The way you save time and money on that is you hire someone like me or George get the right advice up front exactly So worth it. Yeah, but one of the things that I do Mm-hmm is I have my specimen collection cup. Oh, yes the famous specimen specimen and somebody submitted a specimen this week And I won't mention any names, but it's like so he says you know, here's the email that came with it He says I have a Dell PC a Mackie pro FX 12 interface a Neumann TLM 107 Adobe Audition and isotope RX 7 which is not a Mazda. It's a sound processing. So, right, right? A custom-built studio with the well-insulated foot thick walls in the rear of my home foot Thick foot thick, you know an arm-repearsing shell could not get through it In a quiet neighborhood the studio has no AC or heating vents. So he's hot and cold No extraneous electrical equipment and my computer is isolated in a special cabinet to reduce or eliminate fan noise. I Process my wave master files with isotope RX 7 Voice denoise feature and then auditions his reduction before saving as an MP3 the ACX engineer's name is so-and-so Apparently this person was having a problem with ACX ACX's QC engineers are going So there's lots of clues in what he says here one I got a foot thick wall I live in a quiet neighborhood. It should be dead quiet in there So why is he adding all of this stuff to it? It's a good question, but let's listen to his audio. I Don't think his name is mentioned in there, but And listen to what happens to really good clean audio when you add all this stuff to it United States Senate public hearing room Washington DC Good morning director Thompson the chairman of the committee offered as the CIA Directors sat rigidly before him and nodded I see you have a lot of reference material on the table in front of you this morning is a copy of the OSS payroll records for 1945 among them he asked politely All right, I think it's enough to give you guys a really good idea of what that's about So, I mean this is a great example of having a lot of good tools that has at his disposal I mean he's got a good of the Tealon 107 while nowhere near as popular well-known as some of the others It's um It's an omen. It's a very high quality microphone great quality better than a little radio shack electric Yeah, it's a great microphone the the audio interface in this case Do be a sleep good. It's a Mackie Pro FX 12. It's a sort of a very affordable USB mixer it took analog sound and turns it into Well, this is just not what I would choose but it it's not gonna make it sound that like that What makes it sound the way you're hearing it is over processing the audio or processing at all Yeah, well, there's a lot of processing going on and basically I'm glad he said that he's using rx7 voice denoise and Another layer of processing using auditions his reduction What we don't have is the original raw untouched audio. Yeah, so we don't really know why he's doing that, right? Are you doing it because simply you have the tools and so you're well if I have them I should use them Are you doing it because the raw audio sounded so noisy that you felt you had to there was a technical issue with your equipment Well, there's there's lots of clues in that. Why would someone use his reduction? Generally because it's a record you record to lower level The three most important things with your home voiceover studio are Number one the acoustics of the room He's got this sound tight place in a quiet neighborhood with a foot-thick wall that you can't shoot armor piercing shells through So you should not be able to hear anything. Yeah, so why is there hiss? Usually it's because somebody has recorded at too low a level and they have raised it up or normalized it at the end And that brings up the hiss in there So if you said it right in the first place you're not gonna have another clue is the fact that he's using a mixer that has an interface inside it There are plenty of places to screw up your signal chain here in this mixer You you've got basically you basically the way the mixer works It's recording every single input all the time and so if he has all of the faders turned up The gain turned up on those faders all of that is noise that gets mixed into the signal So not knowing how the mixer is set up That's another opportunity for a whole bunch of hiss to get into that recording that he is then trying to fix later Right, so we really didn't know what's getting into the computer. What is the? Pre-processed audio that he's recording and then why is he trying to fix that? So the bottom line is is get it right up front pooping poop out Right, yeah, if you've got if you're sending in a lousy signal that's already messed up And then you're trying to clean up the messed up signal you end up with what we heard there, which is yeah artifacts and losing Frequencies and you know I was looking at this at a spectrogram. It's like miss the whole top end. Yeah, there was nothing above What six K or something like that? Yeah So like the tools that are available to you also are very powerful and when used incorrectly obviously give bad results So bottom line is if you're gonna use all these tools and you want to know how to make use of them Reach out to Dan or I mean we know what tools need to be used and when We'll make sure that you're not using things you shouldn't be and we'll figure out why the audio to begin with is noisy So for sure follow up with this Email with the audio that you didn't process just that raw audio and make sure we get to hear that because there's some important clues We're missing because we don't have that. Yes. Well doctor it hurts when I do this. Don't do that then Yeah, sorry didn't mean to make you cough. All right Well, we got a special guest coming up and we got lots of cool stuff to follow up on and questions from our audience So stay tuned. We'll be right back with our special guest Rick Wasserman and the Special booth he has special. Don't go away. 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Thanks for having me back. Welcome back to the show Now you've invented this device. I have it's called The triboot. It is called the triboot. Tell us about it. So I actually I'm not alone here I have a partner my partner in crime is this guy. You might have heard of him. George with him. Oh, yeah George has been my engineer since the beginning of time since I started so I came to la I think uh, George had a few clients at the time So I caught him early on two guys from philly and I trust him with everything and he's you know voiceover has fed my family and paid off loans and Uh, and I trusted him to do everything for me. Well, I have been the voice of several networks amc for 15 years A and e for four. No, I'm telling this to make a point. Okay, not just to toot my horn, but I am But I'm always in the booth I'm always in the booth all the time and you know what this is like Yeah, but I am an actor. I mean I did go to school for that's what I want to be doing I want to be on stage. I want to be acting But you're not going to turn down the money the network comes to you're going to stay in that booth So I'm in the booth All the time I can't do theater and at some point 15 years into what I said to my wife. Listen I'm going to go nuts. I can't stay in this booth Uh, but you know, they call it the golden handcuffs, right? The golden handcuffs because you've got this wonderful Financially lucrative kind of setup But you're in we had this big beautiful house in Calabasas can't leave can't leave can't go outside Can't enjoy it. There's worse places to live. No, no, I'm telling you I told my wife we can live anywhere but it's got to look like vacation because we ain't going on one So that's where we are and then I said to george. Listen, how can we do this? How can I find a way to get out of the booth and he said there's got to be ways to do it There are mobile setups. So we got one. I think off of ebay and it was big We had to ship it and I'd went and it worked now It took george's help He had to build kind of a little filter for me to make it work a little plug in to help everything sound really good And when I came back we reviewed. Well, could we make it better? Yeah, we could probably we could probably do this ourselves I mean, it's just furniture blankets and pvc There must be a way to do it and over the next several years we kept honing it and every time I got a new job we'd build a new booth then we kept refining it and evolved and it became this The bookable try booth and what is so special about it is every problem. I ever had we fixed Like a lot of times with these mobile kits. There's a lot of pieces Well, there's pipes in here But all these pipes are strung together with shock cord bungee cord just like a tent like a tent So it's just so you can't lose a piece. It all goes together. This is pvc, but it's thin walled Like you it's uv resistant Furniture great. You can't use it for plumbing. You wouldn't you wouldn't use it for plumbing So it's nicer looking, but it also feels nicer. It's much lighter than regular pvc It doesn't have any printing on it and then of course all the furniture blankets. It's double insulated This is by the way, it is a it is a triangle with a triangular shape. It's not like a foam booth, right? But yeah, so you can kind of see but I'll open it up just so you can kind of take a look at what we've done here It just opens up if you want to see inside everything that you see here comes with the booth Uh, so here's what it looks like inside So there's an led light up here that we can dim. Oh, yeah, we like that. That's because you might need it right And then here is Your copy stand this what looks just like branding is actually a magnet So if you do have kind of analog copy you got a paper you could stick it on there Make sure it doesn't fall in in your pursuits the voice act But there's also tilts down and we'll hold your laptop if not it will sit up and hold your tablet How do you charge your phone? How do you charge? I was gonna say, how do you charge your phone? Well right down here There's a power hub. So it's got three ac outlets and then three usb outlets So you can keep charging your iphone ipad tablet, whatever you got beverage holder because if you know, you're doing voice over You're likely a heavy drinker. So you've got your cocktail stand right here, right? Yep, and uh, and then of course, what if your booth is not right near the wall? So you go to uh, how you go to your uh, hawaiian cabana you're sitting in there, but the outlets over there We include a 15-foot extension cord so you can always reach the the outlet the whole thing Packs down into a suitcase which is right over here So this is a hardshell 28 inch roller suitcase The whole thing fits in there and those three extra pipes there are if you are taller If you're a laker or you think you might get taller and you want more headroom You can raise this up Still another foot so to accommodate people who are over seven feet tall And we've had someone who had to do it. So it's possible. We also include This do not disturb sign recording in progress and then of course you can make up my room now Of course, if you take this we also have this little emergency kit in there with our logo with the broken handcuffs It comes with written instructions Pencil ways to contact us if you need help while you're on the road all that sort of thing the whole thing packs down is under 50 pounds so you don't incur any overage fees when you check it into the airport because this travels Wow And you just check it and it's gone you check it and it shows up at the other end And it shows up in the other supposedly yeah And as good as we thought it would be for people like you and I some pros that might want to take a vacation here And there for people who don't have a booth at all don't have the room for a booth You could do this you could do this and have broadcast quality recording environment Uh, which we're very proud of it's taken a long time. It is patent pending And it's uh altogether mine and george's well very cool. So if I step in here, yeah, you can hear That it is and that my connection is pretty Plaky don't want it by the cable Is it okay now? Perfect. Yeah, okay good. Shall I close you? I'm a professional. I don't how to use these things Sure professional. All right. Okay. Let me get you in here. Okay. So I'll just close you in Okay, rick is now closing me in the booth that is now getting closed in the booth And carol meryl will come out when it's when it's done here. So anyway, so this is what it sounds like in here and it's uh It's not booty sounding. It's nice and quiet And I think because of the double insulation It's keeping a lot of the noise out not that it's really noisy in our studio, but It it it definitely could work as a as a main studio. So I'm impressed. All right, and I'm not easily impressed It's got a sunroof too. It does have a sunroof. Yes. So if it gets hot now, you can just pop up the top Very good. So at retail on this This is 1500 dollars There is only one version of it that we sell it is this version with everything included Uh, and we figured some people who can't foot five grand for their home studio You know, of course that home studio is not going to move anywhere. This can kind of fulfill a lot So we've had a lot of kind of industry pros by this thing. In fact, we sold one today I can't say who the person is but they said to me During our demo, they wanted to hate it. They just didn't want it to work They did they didn't want it to work because there's so many things out there and they've tried everything They didn't want another thing But people are buying another thing because it works and it's time to look at this Look it's a little it's a little card You getting that? Yes breaking the golden handcuffs Sometimes you got to get out of the booth. You got to live life. Absolutely You know, and if it's something that's affordable for somebody, you know, as we like to say, you don't buy great equipment to get work You work to get great equipment Yes, something like this can get you over the hump to do that I would think so. Yes. So no more just audition quality In fact, George and I have been taking it to voiceover agencies because they would like Their talent to be able to record their audition and equality that would likely help them book it So this could raise their booking rates. And I think they recognize how valuable this could be not recording in your car Not sitting, you know, right in your bathroom. You can get something better. Very cool. I'm impressed. Thanks It like that's really cool. And you put it up in like Two minutes. Yeah, it goes up under 10 minutes. I can get it about seven or eight But i'm olympic. Yeah All right, that's right. Rick. Thanks for coming up. Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it. 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That's voice over x t r a dot com Hi, this is bill farmer and you are watching voiceover body shop. It's great You guys have room you can have a seat. I don't know if there's room All right We are back. Well, that was we haven't done many demonstrations here, especially not something that big That's the that's definitely the biggest thing we've ever tried to demo inside our tiny little studio Yeah, usually it's like well, look at this little thing we got here. You know, here's a here's a mixer face Here, let's check out this microphone and stuff like that Uh, well, I gotta still there's a there's a personal question here. Oh, there is. Okay. Yeah Well, there's two questions once from dick morris and I don't think it's bill clinton's assistant there I think some other dick morris on facebook. He says, uh Gee, how do you like the inexpensive handmade tz zeller x2 mic? I'm impressed with it Well, we talked about it two weeks ago. We did talk about two so my thought on that microphone is if you're lucky enough to get one that It's a total crapshoot whether you're going to get a good one or not with these microphones You have to be aware that these are made With questionable amounts of quality control There's no doubt that if you have a good one, it's going to sound great There's no doubt that the one that Uh, you know booth junkie got which is I guarantee why you know about it because it sent one to him And 30 000 people immediately knew about the mic Um, but the thing about something like that is you just absolutely no guarantee that the one you're going to get Is going to be built the same and sound the same as the one that was on that block When you buy a microphone from any of the huge, you know Companies that are out there audio technica mxl uh Sunhizer uh akg on and on They they they invest a huge amount of money in quality control making sure every mic that goes out is of the same quality We've seen mxl do that in there and you know in their their facility in el sigundo Yeah, fascinating even even blue blue makes hundred dollar microphones that go through this kind of quality control So this is the problem with this mic. It's this it's obviously a phenomenon. We've had a lot of people mentioning it It's uh, it's got a lot of buzz and congratulations to the company for getting this buzz. I'm sure it's amazing But there's just no guarantee that the one you're going to get is going to be sounding as great as the one that Dick happened to get or or um Mike over at the booth junkie happened to get so I have not heard the mic yet. Um If one shows up on my doorstep, I'll certainly plug it in give it a shot chances are i'll be impressed with it Um, but i'm i'm not gonna say go buy one and endorse it as u 87 I mean it's designed to sound like a u 87 like a million other microphones out there at this point or trying to sound like it And it gets close And that's the thing a lot of mics get close to sounding like a u 87 This is just another one in in my in my opinion. So Long story short I'm glad you're impressed with it It's great. I haven't heard it yet, and I can't vouch for everyone being the same I'll have to try it and let you know. Yeah, so you can send me one too Uh, exactly. Here's a personal question from harlow rodriguez who's been watching our show for a couple of weeks Uh, say dan and george. What are your goals for 2020? Also is dawview coming back. That's always helpful. Hmm. Well, we actually used dawview tonight We actually did. Yeah, I actually did, you know, so, uh, what are your goals for 2020? Well, um, I think the the bring george out the idea where I want to start Being able to reach more people in other cities and other markets is something I'd like to foster a little bit this year You know, I hear all the time like someone's saying when are you going to come to my city? Um, and I've been wanting to find a way to address that and I put a lot of time into Developing this idea this concept and making it something that's accessible Hopefully and building the web page and all that around it. So that's something I'd like to see fostered more and Maybe get around a little bit more, uh, this year. I've got a few conferences. I'm going to be going to Which I'm really, um, I'm excited about doing I'm going to go to nam show in a couple of weeks with my brother steve who will be coming to visit No, cool, which is fun. Um, I'm going to be attending. Um, maybe even all of us will hopefully will be attending in ab Um, which should be which should be fun. It's a it's just an incredible show that la this year Maybe as far as I know always in las vegas. Yeah. Oh, I don't think it's ever in in la eight Yes, because a s will flip flop from la to new york. Exactly. Yeah, I'm not sure where it is this year Maybe this year it's la Which in case I would definitely go Um, and I'm looking forward to uh, there's a there's a small conference that's new this year And it's called Rick correct me if I'm wrong camp vio camp vio camp vio Have you heard about this? I've not heard of camp vio. I I really know that and didn't know that much about it but uh, it's basically Literally camping like you stay at a camp Voice actors are in cabins. They're staying in like 10 to 20 people to a room, right? Oh that door's not going to open Very far and uh, they all are staying together in these cabins and then they take all these classes and learn all these different Uh, they voice acting tactics from coaches. All right, so I'm gonna be there this year. That should be interesting It's in may what are the acoustics like out in the woods? Exactly. Well, it shouldn't sound pretty dang good. Actually People are hearing birds and bats screaming mountain lions out of your recording You don't know what I'm screaming mountain lion sounds like google it. Yeah, it's horrific. Yeah This this year I you know, I've got a lot of stuff going on You know, uh, you know, there's voice over stuff comes with voice over stuff comes I have my established clients always auditioning for new things. Yeah, uh Want to help more people with their home studios I've been getting out there and helping people out and you know teaching Which I love to join that fact that you're here in LA now Because I can actually go to people's houses Voice actors everywhere all over los angeles Kind of cool. It's like the opening of the Beverly hillbilly sometimes when you're Driving through the guy. Well, I live here. This is really cool. Uh, also a lot of stuff with podcasting Uh, a lot of people have approached me. Is it will you do this podcast for me? And I'm like, well, I sure I'd love to host a podcast with you And uh, you know financial advisors and acting and stuff, you know, not necessarily related to voice over and going back to my roots as a As a public service director and producing shows like that Everybody thinks it's alchemy. It's just radio But you got to know, you know, it's like the guy with the the steamfitter with the hammer It's not a matter of how hard you hit. It's where you hit Exactly. Yep. Yep. That's that so anyway, who are our donors of the week? Donors of the week. They're right here. Donors. We do. They're right here. You got donors. I'll read off your screen. Yeah, there you go Shawna Pennington Baird, uh, Dwayne DeSalvo Stephanie Sutherland Patty Gibbons Brian Page And tom pinto. All right. Hey everybody. Yeah, and show us your booths. You know, we just showed you the try booth There you go. By the way, I I was remiss in mentioning if you want to find this thing try booth dot com We think we found the shortest domain we could find so go go take it a look. I'll bet you were shocked when you said try booth Holy crap. I know tribooths.com Take the one thing. Thank you. Yeah, so show us your booths. Send them to us in Landscape, not portrait. Landscape. Yeah, hold your phone like you know that way Uh, and show us, you know, where you record your stuff And uh, maybe you'll find us sitting in your booth, which would be really cool. Exactly. We love doing that. Yeah Uh, let's see, uh You know, we do the show every other monday night Right live Yeah, we're we're live to tape. That's right. We record this drive for new years Yeah, and uh, we'd love to have you in the audience aside from the mess we have in here right now You can show them that sewer. There's our our rapidly deployed Yeah, but we actually have people here tonight and we thank you guys for coming and you could be here too Right to us at the guys at v obs dot tv. There it is right there Uh and say, hey, I want to be in the audience. So you guys doing a show this week, you know Just figure we did it this monday. We want to it next monday, but maybe the monday after that the mass is hard But trust me, you'll figure it out. I was told there would be no math But there is apparently with that Uh, we need to thank of course, uh our sponsors harlan hogan's voice over essentials voice over extra source elements vo heroes dot com voice actor websites dot com and j michael collin's demos also the dan and marcy lennard foundation for the betterment of live and Recorded webcasting Mike merlino was our guy in the chat room tonight doing an outstanding job getting us on this Yes, he's actually here not at his job where he should be doing something else Uh and uh his mom sumer leno our wonderful tech director, uh who's been doing serving us so well for the last last year and a half Uh and uh, of course lee pinney for being lee pinney. Well, 2020 is upon us It's already here You guys better be ready because we're going to have a great year here on voice over body shop We love getting your suggestions and we love talking to us absolutely because it's important To make sure that you know, you're getting you're getting your voice Heard by people the right way because if it sounds good, it is good. All right. Well, that's gonna do it for us We'll be back next week of course with another great guest and uh, that's gonna do it for us tonight. I'm dan lennard I'm george widdum and this is voice over body shop or vio Be Have a great 2020 everybody