 You know one of the reasons we're here is to help you with your home voiceover studio. I Mean, that's how we started this whole darn thing pointed this thing when we started it out Who's gonna want to watch a show on home voiceover studios voiceover studios answer to car talk? That's right where it came from that was in 2011 and now it's July 2018 So I guess people want to watch stuff about home voiceover videos And they want to learn about home voiceover studios and their home voiceover studios break Where they get buzzes and hums and all sorts of stuff Mm-hmm You know guys There's only two places on the face of the earth where you can go to get the expertise you need To get your home voiceover studio the way it's supposed to sound the way it's supposed to sound Whistle way it's supposed to sound Why am I not catching on to what you're throwing down there? I don't know I'm not on what it's a what it's supposed to sound like is whistle. Oh, no, okay. Does that make sense? No, okay? It's my acronym take it for what it's oh, it's an acronym. Oh my god, what it's supposed to sound like like Whistle anyway, okay now. I'll remember that you'll never have to do that again Whistle you would I've been saying that for weeks and you're like now you figured it out. Where have I been? Anyway What is it supposed to sound like but the thing is is there's only two guys that know how to do it this gentleman here and Hopefully me You always need a backup so you got two people to choose from you find me over at George the tech comm and you find Dan over at home voiceover studio comm and It makes it easy because we can teach you how to do it right from soup to nuts from Alpha to Omega from USB to Thunderbolt 3. That's right and and we'll teach you the difference between those two and if things go wrong and We want to be able to hear what your sound is sounds like All you have to do is drop off a sample of your audio that's 25 bucks at home voiceover studio comm If you're not confident with what it sounds like Well, I'll tell you what happens when people send me the audio. It's like, you know, this was in there We'll talk about that in a second, but again go to George the check comm you leave me a sample or you can over to home voiceover studio comm and Click on the specimen collection cup That is literally there and that will take you right to the drop box your cup runneth over it does Anyway enough commercial stuff We'd like to talk about tonight About soundproofing now somebody sent me a sample as I was just mentioning Of a booth that they had a custom built booth. Yeah, and At the end she on your she sends me some silence. All of a sudden I hear this sound at the end And I'm thinking uh-huh. It sounds like a dog's claws on a wooden floor, which is unmistakable Yeah, and especially when you have a couple dogs, especially so she sends me a picture of the booth And sure enough there is a there's a there's a crate right there with a dog bed in it And she's like you're right. It was and I'm like I'm sorry if I'm wrong tell me But are there is there a dog walking up to the booth as you're finishing at least one dog and she's like Yes, there it was and I'm like, yes I my hearing isn't gone at my at my late age and But it raises a problem. Yeah, she said she's in a soundproof booth. Why is there the sound of a dog's foot? During her audio it's a good question. Well, I have a microphone outside the no I think it's the door open though. Is the door open? No doors not open. Okay. Is there a seal around the door? Hmm, and she's like well, I know there isn't the guy that built it Had a leave and he never put anything in there Or he put it in too loose and she's like well the door doesn't doesn't close all the way Well, if the door doesn't close on your soundproof booth, what you basically have Is just a booth. It's a hole You have a soundproof booth with a hole. That's right But it's not so soundproof a small gap around your door or a gap in a window Whatever it is if you have a gap it can only be like a millimeter or so But if it goes like around the perimeter of the door or more More is that possible whatever? If it goes around the door, it's it's more than a perimeter than it you're just totally on another universe gone into another dimension Literally, then it's like it's like having a hole like this big right in the middle of the wall I mean, it's it's a big deal and the thing is Small gaps like cracks in the door let through higher frequency sounds and that may sound so logical It's impossible, but that's kind of how it works like a an opening acts as like a noise filter filter, right? So a door that's heavy will stop a lot of the lower sounds But a crack in the door will let through the higher sounds right and that's why you hear that Sound through the through the crack in the door and she was mighty embarrassed by it too But well the thing is is the door doesn't close all the way and there's not a proper seal on it That totally sure it circuits the idea of soundproof you shouldn't be embarrassed because honestly I Know what booth she has and we're not gonna say where it came from that wouldn't be fair But the booth that she has I've seen studios with the door that cost twice as much as this entire booth I'm not kidding. No, there are studio doors that cost $6,000 There was one installed at the voiceover lab here in Hollywood in West and well The sag after midtown. Yeah, it's sag after we'll share at the top right and these these studio doors went in Was it 2011 when that place was built now? I'm starting to forget 2010 2011 and that studio the one door in their solo booth Never quite sealed right it and it it was a pain because yeah It was extremely heavy. It had like lead shot in it. It weighed like 300 pounds But the seal never had a perfect seal So it had somewhere along that along that seal it'll let some sound in and so it filtered out everything except you could hear High-frequency sound you'd right you wouldn't hear voices you'd hear more like You'd hear that through the crack in the door. It was really strange So anybody that was out in the classroom area the control room area They had to be quiet Which made it very difficult to have someone even the solo booth Recording while there was anything else going on and eventually they had those doors replaced Well, the second half of that story is yes brand new doors went in right I get an email from the lab administrator Eric saying We got new doors in and we still hear Voices through the seam of the door of the new door. I was like, are you kidding me? Right? And I went I was over there for something and the new doors have a magnetic seal Right, so they have like this strip of magnet that goes all the way around Right, you would think that's gonna be a perfect seal, right? So I'm running my finger down the seal along the edge and all of a sudden I hit something sharp my finger I'm like, what's that? I pick it. I pull it off and it sticks to my finger and it is a teeny weeny metal shaving Like when they were putting the screws a little chip that little chunk of metal stuck to the magnet creating a gap and created a Little gap on either side of the magnet that was probably, you know a couple inches long I took the little chunk of metal out. I was like, how's that I Mean If the detail devils in the basically the story that is the devil's in the details, right? I mean the littlest thing can let sound in right another time. I'll tell you about the sandwich in the wall story Oh, wow, that's not my story. It's somebody else Is the cat in the wall? No, it doesn't smell like that one before but it's fascinating what that sandwich But when it comes to soundproofing a proper seal on a door is essential Mm-hmm and People don't realize that it's like well just close the door Even if you're in a closet it helps to put a rubber seal on that and a proper seal at the bottom at the sweep Yes, or a threshold on the sweep on the threshold you can actually buy a magnet or I'm sorry not magnetic automatic sweeps They're called automatic door bottles little thing in it when the door closes it closes up and lowers this Those are available for any door. You can actually retrofit them on to your existing doors You don't have to replace them or it's it's not very hard to install If you have the opportunity to have a double door scenario That's what we have in this studio is an exterior door and an interior door. That's even better Right, that's to me better than a one single door Because first of all, it's a lot less expensive to buy two Sound damp not I'm gonna soundproof but to like exterior grade doors They're gonna have seals thresholds and everything but you put two of them together You get much better performance than just one door and if one seal isn't perfect You got another one to back up the first one So so if that doesn't prove that we know more about home voiceover studios than anybody on the planet You don't need proof to you. Well, maybe maybe you do. Maybe you think we're full of yeah, maybe Let us know anyhow, let us know down in the in the comments. Yes, YouTube comments. Let us know