 Guess what it's time for tech talk from voiceover body shop boy If we got a lot of stuff to show people tonight stuff and Nam. Yeah, we got name We got name videos about the DPA microphones as well as Aston microphones. Very cool My headphones fall off my head. We also answered tons of questions tonight from Rick McIver Jay horse black and we're talked we covered everything from booth design. Should you put a window in there? We talked about Else my gosh, there was so many questions. What kind of USB cable to use how do you shop for Mike prams on and on a lot Of good stuff. You don't want to miss this voiceover body shop tech talk coming up 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 and VO tech and having a dandy time doing it Welcome to voice over body shop Tech talk Voice over body shop tech talk is brought to you by voice over essentials comm home of Harlan Hogan signature products source elements remote studio connections for everyone voice actor websites dot com where your VO website isn't a pain in the butt Theo to go go dot com everything you need to be a successful voiceover artist 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 You know what it's time for It's not hot. It's not how do you do any time? It's tech talk time. We need a cheesy jingle insert cheesy I'm working on it working on Within a couple of weeks. We'll have it. I need to get some more footage of you behind cabinets and things like that All right outstanding So we went to Nam which stands for the National Association of Music Merchants. Yeah, it's Overwhelming yes, it's a very lame name for a very exciting show I mean it's it is anybody's familiar with CES. This is like the CES of the music business So yeah tons of gear and lots to look at lots of people watching but lots of that lots of music Here celebrity performers rock stars you name it. It's it's busting at the seams Yeah, now of course It's the music industry and all of the stuff that we use in voiceover every last bit of it But maybe any percentage of stuff is designed for making music. Yeah, there's occasional products like this like these headphones You know that that Harlan designed but everything kind of started as supporting music and now we're finding carving out little Nishes in that world for the voiceover world right there's not a couple of things We found a couple of things, you know that like we used to think that is nothing new under the sun and you go to Nam And it's like well, maybe there's something different that might be useful. It gets harder and harder I mean the more you go the more you see the same stuff, right and the more you see people You know who you want to say hello to and before you know it after ten years You can barely get around the place here Yeah, so we worked really hard to find new stuff We found a couple of couple of things and we're gonna highlight a couple of them tonight microphone stuff microphone stuff And but the rest of them will we're gonna make sure that we talk about every week about this for a couple of weeks But all the stuff will be available on YouTube so you can see some of that But one of the first places we went the second day actually was company DPA microphones. Let's take a look at that one And we're back at NAMM 2019 here in Anaheim last summer I had the chance to work with DPA microphones at Danish company They make great microphones and they've got some stuff that might be very interesting to the voiceover crowd And we're talking with Gabriel who's a rep with them and talk to us a little bit about the the MMA Program here with the with the the app and how it can be used with voiceover sure be honored So I'm Gabriel. It's a Danish professional audio DPA So Daniel. Thanks for for coming over to chat the MMA dash a is actually a two-channel analog to digital Converter that can record of sample rates up to 96 kilohertz at 24 bit So very high resolution for the microphones. It comes with an app that you download to your iPhone It gives you four presets It gives you a mono a stereo or a dual mode It gives you gain it gives you high-pass filtering and it gives you a lock So you can actually set this up in in you know before your your next event and lock out the video engineers Right because you can set your audio and lock it out and keep it nice and pristine and then you could open a third-party app whether it be a video recording or An audio recording app right and now trust that your DPA microphones are going to come in pure into the third app It will now take over as the audio engine for the iPhone It's also a core device so it can mount on your PC or your Mac You can use it as an interface for your Pro Tools or any any software-driven platform Wow, it'll take any of our microphones You could it has a micro dock connector on here and the Thunderbolt connection to either USB or to the iPhone Thunderbolt and You have two microphones If you put one microphone in it sums and it goes to both channels If you put two microphone in it senses that and it gives you the option for stereo or dual Wow, sometimes in VO you may want a natural sound right and the voice sound So you can do that or you can go two microphones as a stereo recording device for a field That's or something like that right and with a filter like if you've got a high-pass filter on there If you're like in a closet in a hotel you can you can you get rid of some any rumble or anything that's sure It's going to bake right into the capsule So if you're in front of a fan that's producing a letter on a come You can put these guys on and and then you'll get rid of some of that 60 cycle or whatever that is getting into the recording So that your recording is more pure now in the studio world if you're at home in your VO studio Yeah, you can hook this up to your iPhone or your computer or your software and you could use any of our microphones You could use the the dedicate line, which is the larger capsules The cardioids the super cardioids the omnis doesn't matter. These are all modular. So they just unscrew And then there's an active cable that actually takes it down to a micro dock connector You could you can use the MMA or you could put a wireless adapter on here and go wireless into Or right right right, but the end message here is that you can use this line of microphones You can use the headsets. You can use the 40 60s the Slim Basically any of our microphones except maybe for the de facto into your iPhone. Yeah, that's super cool Wow, that is super cool, and they are great sounding microphones And the dynamic range is higher than any microphone that can fit in it. It's 114 dust. Oh, that's amazing I was just so impressed with what they sounded like and then you add the convenience of this This is yeah really special Gabriel. Thanks so much for talking to us Thank you. Bye guys We were just talking to Sue and she's like I don't remember seeing them I said you were there for one day. There's no way you would have caught every one of these vendors I mean, there was a whole new hall that was the North Hall Yeah, that was new last year and it's an entire huge building that if you don't know it's there It's super easy. That's where all the electronics was there was a lot of pro-audio. Yeah, which which is really what so That rig I could see it being really cool. I mean I'm still wanting to Try an ear set. That's good enough for voiceover. They'll have the ultimate Super lightweight portable rig that you can use anywhere right well the one we had last summer that they you know we used it here on the show actually for a couple of nights and It was clear as a bell. I mean, you know, it's just out here. You're not going to get any pops or anything like that It's a really nice headset microphone and I know you've always been searching for that for one That's yeah for one that sounds as good as the condenser mics were used to you got a Spend some some some pretty serious dough because yeah, these are cheap microphones. No to make a capsule that that's that tiny I mean the tip of the mic is like the size. It's like two millimeters Yeah, it's very difficult to make them to make them and make them sound as quiet as these That's a big thing. Yeah, these guys are the closest to doing that now And you know, I think the idea of doing long-form work e-learning or audiobooks or whatever with nothing in the way Where you're not locked into a mic placement the whole time and just just make yourself so much more comfortable Yeah, right and and the and the app they have with the the interface. It's it's a really nice little modular system Like we said, it's not cheap. Did they really were there were they announcing prices? I didn't the app is free the apps free, of course, right But the system the system, you know go online check out DPA and and see what there they are I mean, it's not super expensive, but about the same cost as they say for a 416 or a TLM 103 But a little bit more versatile, which I thought was really cool Yeah, now you talk to the people at Aston mics. I did. Yeah Aston is a relatively newcomer They've been around a couple years. They're kind of known for their odd Looks like galvanized steel pipe microphone and their purple amphitheater looking reflection thing The grills are kind of wavy Design, but this is this one's a falls outside of what we're used to seeing and I thought it was really innovative So here's the Aston microphones stealth dynamic Mike Everybody it's George the tech here at NAMM 2019 day two and we're digging in here with Aston microphones and a little something different from them here to tell me about It's Cliff. How you doing Cliff? I'm doing good. Hey, thank you for having me Yeah, well, we were familiar with from your last couple years your origin mics have heard them. They're really interesting great-looking mics They sound really nice. This is a totally different, you know form factor. What's this? It is unique about this mic So this is our first dynamic mic from Aston and there's a lot of features with this That's going to be very competitive to the SM7B First of all, it's top-addressed here and has a built-in pop filter The cool thing is that the capsule and the PCB is suspended by a server thing hemspheres So it keeps it afloat and you don't need any additional shock mount. Nice. That's handy There's also a class a mic pre built in so it will auto detect if you're running phantom power So the cool thing is once that phantom power is running You'll see that there's some purple LEDs here to indicate that the phantom power is on Now if you don't want those lights on you could actually turn it off here So that's nice. You get you get the purple lights, but you can turn Yeah, but so that's just to indicate that the phantom power is running So it's dynamic. So of course you don't need to use that phantom power But it has that studio great quality, which is really remarkable There's also a four-step voice in it. So it's like having four different mics in one You have a voice one and a voice two so based off of your vocals, whether it's soprano or baritone You may just want to mess with it and see what works best for you There's also a guitar setting which is really unique because it actually works for acoustic and for electric guitars So it's pretty universal and then we finally have a dark setting which is similar to a ribbon mic It has a nice rich deep tone to it. Great for a kick drum gives you kind of a John Bonham style Approach I'd say or in our world will we do a lot of voice over it could give you that classic radio sound Absolutely, and this is ideal for podcasting. Yeah, it really is a universal product. Definitely. Well, it's something We might want to try out in the in the VO studio and see how relevant it is We may be surprised by dynamic mic for the first time in a long time Anyway, thanks Cliff. Appreciate it. Thank you guys. So Cliff was one of the most professional presenters wasn't he? He was very polished. Yeah, actually, he was most of the guys are pretty polished But that's an interesting microphone to for people to think about remember what the price point was on that He I refer recalls around 349. It was under 400 That's a lot or a little, you know, it's all very relative But you know if you can get us two distinctly different voicings that could be useful for different things out of one mic Right, it's kind of a two for a more for more for one. It has four. Yeah marks. It's a four voice mic So that what voice thing is it's changing analog circuit inside the electronics of the mic So normally a dynamic mic has no electronics, right normally dynamic is the simplest microphone They're pretty much is up the side of a ribbon mic and it's just the diaphragm and a couple of wires and a transformer And yeah, sometimes the transformer and then the plug and that's it But this thing's way more going on what we call an active dynamic. Yeah, it's it's a dynamic But then inside it is a preamp, right? That's powered on phantom power and then I'm fine Just repeating what he said, but you know, it's just it provides you that ability to get different Sounds out of out of a dynamic mic without having to know how to do that. I mean, yes, I can go to my light Yeah, it has a purple light It has a purple light that lights up when you plug it in and the phantom power is on but the fact that they actually made it So you could turn off the light. I thought that was pretty smart I mean, it's not everybody's gonna want a bright purple light I think the idea is is that everybody wants that on the air light, which of course only we have True, it's true You'll see you'll also see they always had asked and they always have that that that reflection type thing That's designed to keep the microphone from picking up as much background noise not really a voice over device Yeah, and with that microphone the whole idea probably even thinking about using a dynamic mic is to try to reduce the amount of background Pickup, right, but I'm wondering like a dynamic mic that is designed to be Sensitive because it has a lot of gain. Well that inherently pick up less Background noise than an equivalent condenser mic like if you have them if they're the same level That's what I'm curious about that. That's gonna be an interesting test So and there's only one way to find out we have to just put it up in the studio That's right And of course, it's also important because you know, we saw a lot of microphones there I mean, you know, there were there were manufacturers. I've never seen we'll say saw we heard some of them You can't tell what the heck really you're hearing in a trade show, right like the noise floor forget it I mean you're hearing The background of all yeah, but my voice sounded great on top of that Yeah, that's the mic at the show the only place you can really really test a mic is where you're going to use it Yeah, and you know so kind of silly, you know to go into a store and say Like the way this sounds like it's not really what's important. It's you really have to try it in your own environment I used to actually walk around these trade shows with a handheld recorder and plug it into the mic And then I thought I was real clever because I was recording myself it it was it was kind of pointless fun exercise with pointless Yeah, I just want to show us the camera. This is the coolest at one point in the DPA video the shots sort of like So I've been learning how to use this new camera Let me put in front of my gray shirt so you can see that it's so small that it almost disappears I mean, I'll turn it off again And watch its little head Looks like a character from Star Wars It is it's like a little chicken It does need a name it doesn't even this thing is called the DJI Osmo pocket And it's a all the videos that you're gonna see from Nam were shot with this little camera Yeah, the picture quality is it's all drone technology. Yeah, it's a gimbaled camera that will stay on on spot Yeah, I mean the DJI which was a no-name company five years ago now makes a camera so good Dominate the world take it off the drone put it on a little stick and they sell it and it's it's it's awesome I mean and the sound here's the deal the sound from the whole thing was those two handheld mics Yeah, that was going to a task cam dr. 40 separate to recorder. So we were doing this sort of old school It was it was quite the rig. Yeah, we had the audio going to my hip-pack when you watch them when you watch the Sentron's Mike port pro video. Yeah, there's a shot. You can see my purple and green hiking hip-pack Complete with mud stain. Oh, yeah But anyway, that's how we did it. I'm really I'm really happy with how it now it looked great You know and yeah, we got some really good video. Anyway, we got lots of questions from our audience We're gonna get to those so stay tuned for those here on voiceover body shop tech talk. 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I wouldn't be so bad, but no, it's not how we make a living No, one of the most important things you need to have as A voice actor today is a home voiceover after you have to train after you have the training with great people like Mark Cashman and some of the other great coaches we have and But you have to have a home studio in 2019 and 2020 and 2021 and you know, it's getting easier but Not everybody really understands all the specific particular little tiny things that you have to understand to have a home voiceover Studio and there aren't a whole lot of people that really understand it because they're all experts in one studio Their own right or music studios or different kind of requirements or definitely different You know, you can't just fix everything with a plug in these we're getting there with plugins I know the eyes of taupe this and that but you still can't fix the bad-sounding booth Sounds like you're in a hollow box. It's gonna stay that way. Yeah, can't fix it in the mix So if you need to learn how or you want to build a new studio for yourself Or you really want to find the best spot in your house and set it up properly So it's set it and forget it and you just hit your record button and go you got to talk to one of us guys Which is a really Eastern way of saying one of us guys use guys Yes, you could talk to to me or you could talk to George and if you want to talk to George and Consult with him. Where would they go? You can head over to George the tech comm or if you like the shorter domains, you can go to George the tech I like that short domain, but I I thought people were like George the tech comm works anyway, you can there's a menu on there with a lot of different services You can book me by a schedule time or you can do flat rate services like Processing stacks or a sound check and Dan calls his sound check something different Over at his website, which is home voiceover studio.com. Yeah, I have a specimen collection cup there You click on that it's a drop box and you know for 25 bucks I will analyze your audio had a lot of that this week. Please audio only folks. Yes audio on yet we've Causes some other problems, but If you want to if you really want to see what your audio is sounding like or what it's supposed to sound like whistle From the perspective of people who know what it's supposed to sound like thousands of raw audio studios Not demos, but the real audio the way audios comes out of the studio the way it's supposed to come out Check me out over at home voiceover studio calm and set up a consult or let me check your audio And let's get you sounding the way you're supposed to sound And not guessing at it because I think a lot of mistake a lot of people make is is they're like I sound great when in reality You don't hire you. Mm-hmm. So you're not doing this to please your own ears Also, you don't know if them what you're monitoring yourself through is is truly accurate or what is going to translate to the real world Exactly sounds great of my speakers doesn't really matter, right? Well, we got a couple of questions here, and the first one is from Rick MacIver. Well, if he's MacIver He should know what he's already doing. It's no problem that joke I'm planning that all day. I have a question about booth design In an effort to make my recording environment as quiet as possible Is it better to build a window in my booth and stick my monitor outside to reduce noise? Or keep the wall solid and put the monitor inside the booth What is the isolation trade-off of a window versus monitor noise inside the booth? It's interesting. Yes. Now as someone who's written an actual white paper for the National Association of Broadcasters and presented it at the Maybe I'll let you take the first. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. Well, I mean, uh, if Windows are expensive. I was just talking to a client about this today. You know, these are kind of expensive Yeah, he's like I want to put windows all along this one wall, you know I'm like, hey, he's like, is that gonna be a problem? No Sound-wise you can deal with just about anything if you have the money you can buy heavy enough glass You can get rid of the noise of the you know, the the noise that comes through the glass If you get the right glass all this kind of stuff But class per square foot is way more expensive than Wood or drywall especially double-paying glass, but you're gonna need for soundproofing. Yeah So if if you're not super claustrophobic You can do away with the window inside the booth and just have a monitor inside the booth Yeah, there's not a really there's no concern anymore of noise from the monitor old monitors Could have a wine set whining noise or they might have had all the new monitors or LED backlight They should be unless something's wrong with the monitor. There should be totally silent right and they're not glass The the surface of these things is soft. I mean you touch it It moves and that actually absorbs a lot of the sound so it doesn't reflect around quite the same Yeah, it can still reflect high high frequency a little bit So you can just carefully angle it and you can fix that very easily So no, I would go with the no-window monitor in the booth If you want to get really clever put a camera outside the booth. Yeah. Well, we can see what's going on That's right, you know, I mean if you spend a lot of time in your studio. I were in the booth Yeah, I can see where you might want to get a little you know sunlight and stuff Yeah, but not everybody's doing that you're in there for 30 seconds at a time get in get out go outside listen to birds You know that sort of thing Brian errands asks a very strange tech problem happened in my studio the other day and I'm hoping you can help me solve it The tip of my headphone jack or rather the 1 8th to quarter inch jack adapter Broke off in the headphone port of my Yamaha a GO3 when I was removing the jack and now that loose tip is stuck in there At such an angle. I can't I can rattle it, but I can't get it out I've tried fishing it out with bent paper clips But had no luck as it is the physical it's physically preventing me from inserting a new headphone jack all the way into the port and Is so preventing me from getting a solid connection meaning I can usually only hear in one ear So I'd like to get it out Well removing the back of the a GO3 give me access to this space so I can get out of get it out And if so is it safe for someone like me like him To attempt who is careful, but highly ignorant about how these machines actually work. Well first off. Have you ever cracked yours over? I certainly have but I'm someone fine. What did I find? I Actually the same thing happened to me on my a GO3 serviceable No, it's not because it's all solid state and what they use for the The headphone connections the jacks are these plastic Modules that they're soldered into a PCV right so a green piece of plastic right the circuit board So I took it apart thing it well, you know, maybe I could solder I mean heck I built a microphone. I should be able to say I look I'm now this is not happening You know, most of these interfaces are fairly disposable The problem truth is price. Yeah, the problem he's having in the same problem I had was that the when you've got a jack stuck In there it turns off to the other ones because say it's got another headphone jack But you're still get it's still getting interrupts the signal to the I was yeah I was finally able to pull the one out, but you know, it was broken There's a plastic thing on the end and I guess you walk away, you know, and it happens You forget you're wearing headphones, which is why I don't like wearing headphones Anyway, I was able to fish it out and I was able to get stereo back and just using the the quarter-inch Phones out it has two Headphones outside does it's got a mini jack to right to be even more fragile. You're right So taking it apart ain't gonna help you. Yeah At that price having a spare is probably the way to go I hate to say it this stuff is not built to be serviceable. I got lots of spares, you know I buy a new interface like well, I got a backup, you know So it's people spend more for one vacuum tube than that whole thing costs. Yeah, you know It's just it's it all depends on what you're looking at. Why would you use a vacuum? Let me read off that way that way not off mic when I read. Oh, okay There you go. Let's see here. The questions are there. We are from J. Horace. I believe so J. Horace Black says hey Jay I have universal audio Apollo duo, which is a very popular interface a 416 and a 416 mic so Basic combination everybody uses works well George and Dan are there any plugins that you would recommend that I get? Or should I just keep it simple? You've watched the show, right? You know what he's gonna say Any settings on the unit you would recommend? You don't generally you don't need to do any processing on the Apollo at all If you're doing post-processing, right? So if you're doing auditions and you want to get a little post-processing Use what you already have set up in your DAW Chances are you've already worked with Dan or I and had some processing set up But if you hadn't that's the way to go have a stack or rack made that gets you a sound for your auditions that you like That's supposed to sound the way it's supposed to sound not the way you like the way you think it should right and the thing is if you do it on the duo Yeah, we can I've set up plot processing for folks on the Apollo for many many people and I always do it with a disclaimer like now now once this is set up on the Apollo You're married to this thing because that is your sound now and that processing chain that's in there is You got to use it if you go travel guess what you got to bring that thing with you wherever you go It's part of your sound so if you're gonna do that make sure you're doing it for the right reasons Which would probably be doing a lot of iptical sessions or ISD and source connect where they where you want to kind of already Process the sound just the right amount For that kind of work, but no, I really wouldn't I wouldn't I mean it comes with bundled with pretty much everything I would there's nothing you cannot do with that, but it's not designed for voiceover. Yeah, it's got a lot of stuff going I mean, I've set up the the API vision for folks with the expanders and blah blah blah That one's useful, but you know you don't need a lot of that stuff if you're already doing it in post And if you don't know what something does Don't use it. Yeah, I mean if you can't hear what it's doing or you don't know why that knob does that thing Unless you can hear the difference you probably don't want to mess with it too much because you're gonna get a make a mess out of it Next question from Steve Hufford Two questions. I have heard have you heard anything about audition getting punch and roll now We had during Gleebs on here from from adobe a couple months ago, right? I think we asked on that and he said no No, it's still not happening. Yeah, there's in multitrack mode You can there's a guy that man. Do you remember? Somebody wrote a script or a script? What's that? Larry? Larry has a script Stephen j. Cohen, there's three there's at least just those aren't the names. I'm thinking of there's another guy that wrote an actual Plug-in that actually loads in in audition. It's a little pop-up window. Yeah, that does play There's a lot of add-ons, but I don't think it's natively has it yet Yeah, I you know, I think some people need to understand that they don't have to use just one program Because you can use something simple like osan audio or audacity or something like it Just record the track and then import it into audition and then you can do your editing and all that stuff there And and that's a lot simpler. Don't it's like well, I love what people say It's such a pain to try and move it from one program to another click It's not kids not especially when trying to do that same thing and another program is much more difficult in that case Audio books tends to be the workflow that people get the most You know right up on and I say recording whatever you want and edit and this other thing that works better Right or like twisted wave is got kick butt batch processing So if you're doing e-learning Recording whatever you want pro tools reaper whatever and then bring it into twisted waves Absolutely stuck on one or vice versa Let's see here. He says second question. Can RX 6 or 7 which is made by isotope, which is a sound cleaning device Program match background sounds and or voice to insert a new phrase into a previously Recorded script. That's a little bit more sophisticated. Yeah, I mean if you're trying to insert something into something else It's really not rocket science Especially if you're doing multi-tracking because you can take the original sound copy it general tone at a room tone or something like that and Just deposited in another you know in another track in the timeline. Yeah, that's what I would do I would take some of the original room tone and lay it underneath the thing that you dub Right, if you're trying to keep a consistent room tone I mean that that's just a truism for any kind of audio editing for voice over especially audio books where you're gonna have a lot Of edits, but you never want the room tone to change keep the room tone consistent that way But an idea of the idea that a plug-in could store the room tone and it kind of automatically put it in That's actually an interesting concept. I don't I I don't frankly. I don't know. Yeah It does a ton of stuff. Maybe the advanced version does it. I don't know well. We'll try that Let's see here Carl G asks in order to move my computer from the booth I had to use a generic 3m USB cable to my 2i2 just like everybody else I've just upgraded to an audio and ID 14 which I love and wondering if there's a value to upgrading the cable within reason so cables With digital audio like USB it works or it doesn't yeah, I mean Generally speaking, that's the case So if it's working fine, then just keep using it and if it's causing you trouble then change it I can tell you USB is really persnickety over longer distances So make sure you know if you have one good long cable and it's reliable for you then stick with a 12-foot USB cable You still have one of my old studio. Yeah, I mean I think your mics came with a 12 or 15 foot USB cable Yeah, it's about as far as you can go without having to get some interesting gadgets to extend it right with an active Extender or this or that you know and it doesn't affect the sound the only thing it'll affect is its connectivity more than anything If it's yeah when it's in a long distance the device can may not get enough power or some weird. Yeah Jamie Dawson asks I McDowell yes, I need a new mic preamp setup. What's the best way to test it out? What's the best fit for me? What do you want it for? Yeah, I mean what what are you trying to do with that thing? Is it just a utility to? Boost the signal of your mic that and is the interface you're already using not doing that Well, cuz like the ones built into the 2i2 the id 14 outstanding the Apollo the mixer face On and on the Steinbergs all those mic preamps work perfectly fine like There is no production engineer who's gonna listen to your audio go The preamps kind of fuzzy sounding unless something's technically wrong with your gear. They're not gonna hear so In terms of shopping for mic preamps, I'm assuming you're asking because you're ready to buy a high-end mic Pramp and if you're buying cheap mic preamps, there's no point whatsoever. So get ready to start spending Honestly at minimum a thousand dollars more than you're spending on your mic Probably yeah, because if you're shopping for mic preamps, you're looking for something that different than what you already have built into the interface What's already in the interface is clean gain with the minimal distortion, right now you're looking for something It has something else right character some kind of something to it like a thickening or a Distortion and or tube distortion or something like that You know, they just want to hear you as you exist not you with all this other stuff And if you're gonna I mean there are some guys I mean some of the promo guys who we can count on the fingers on one hand Who need this stuff who are doing stuff somewhat live because they're recording it directly to another studio and they're like, okay Good to go. That's nobody. I mean very small. Yeah, don't don't worry about that stuff until they ask you to start doing that Don't worry about it. In the meantime any good average interface like the 2i2 any of the focus rights or the audience or you know, or the or you know, the Universal's the arrow in the they all sound they're just making ones and zeros guys These are if you if you're doing a mic preamp shootout You're gonna have to have a really good ear to hear the differences the differences are subtle They're very subtle to the to to the layman or to someone who's non-engineer, right? These are shades of mauve. I asked my analogy. I was used the differences are really subtle Okay, we got two more questions here Brian Jester asks again. Weird. I know but I have a need to have a two-mic setup Locations running into the same computer. I have two focus rights Is there a way to run both at the same time without unplugging one and then plugging the other in? Thanks guys adobe audition is my software So we have two mic set up locations right now if he is he using like one with one microphone like a solo or is he got A 2i2 which case you plug both mics in it's he's a two-mic location So he's got two mics with their own interfaces each one has a focus right right going to the same computer Well, it just in adobe. You just tell it which of the two you're using right I don't know how adobe will differentiate which is which since there's two right and they have the same They're the same model So maybe it says one in parentheses to in parentheses or somehow addition is gonna differentiate that you have two of them Right, you got to go into the setup and into the audio in the hardware and say this channel here that channel there Yeah, you get to choose which of the hardware is gonna be it's it's not that hard It it's probably takes this as long to literally switch the two USB cables or just get a small mixer Yeah, you could do it that way. I mean if you don't want to buy anything else then It's probably just as fast to switch the two cables honestly Because otherwise you go into addition you open to preferences you go into hardware You choose the sound other sound driver for the you know, it takes probably this is long to do it Okay, last question from devox Interested in getting off the Apple Microsoft treadmills today or in the near future. Can you address using Linux for Vio? All you know It's for geek here. Here's the thing, you know We're not geeks. Well, maybe George is a geek, but you know, it's not a Linux geek I can tell you well, that's good. That's a lean ooks Lean ooks, right? I'm a that much of a geek that I know how to see you Yeah, the fact is is that if you're an audio geek That's got nothing to do with voiceover because audio geeks don't hire voice talent I mean there might be a few but they're certainly in the minority Most of them are listening on a laptop speaker and they really don't know the difference Doesn't mean that you buy lousy stuff or cheap stuff. You get good stuff But the subtleties between some of these things is so minor that nobody can really tell the difference So stop overthinking your home voiceover studio every time you're thinking about an alternative operating system outside of the two big ones is You know, you're getting into territory of are you gonna support this yourself? And if you're not, who do you know who's gonna support this system now that you've hacked together Using some build of Linux from some guy Whatever it's gonna be tough. I mean we used to run our Mac We still want our show on a Mac that was a hack and touch Yeah, I was running a Mac OS on a Windows PC that we had built It was fine until it And then getting support was a nightmare really sucked. It was terrible Yes, you can run audacity on Linux or Linux There's a lot of audio hardware that will work on Linux It can't be anything fancy like the Apollo right if it uses a custom driver Thing like the Apollo not gonna happen. Yeah, if it's one of those plug-and-play devices like a you know a USB headset or a USB mic that'll probably work in Linux So all right, you can start there and start dabbling have fun super great questions guys That was great is fun. I like doing it this way. All right. We'll be right back after these As a voice talent you have to have a website But what a hassle getting someone to do it for you and when they finally do they break or don't look right on mobile devices They're not built for marketing and SEO. 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