LoneGunman
Expert Member
Finally got everything in place. Now I have a basic recording studio at home. Not sure how much this would've cost to do in SA, but here in the US, it was fairly cheap. Biggest expense were the hardware box and the microphone.
(Taken over a walk-in closet, and padded it here and there with acoustic foam, hung some jackets for sound-dampening, carpet on floor).
Luckily I don't have to worry too much about sound 'proofing' - its more about 'dampening' - to get the quality of voice recording perfect.
Here's my tech specs:
Microphone
RODE NT1-A
Computer & Software
AMD Turion 1.6ghz, 100gig.
Special Equipment
firewire solo M-Audio/adobe audition (software)/MDR7506 headphones/speakers
Not that I need it, but 'sourced'
a number of major sound effects libraries, so that I can experiment and play with multitrack sound - BBC 40 disk FX library, Sony Pictures FX, etc..
(I do voice overs - and the way things partly work in the USA - is that you get the script, record it at home, edit it if necessary and dump it to the format required, and email or ftp it to the client. In SA, its the other way round - you physically go into a studio, and record it there).
I'm considering podcasting, for the hell of it - but I can't smoke in the little 'booth' - which means my brain won't work so easily.. could be fun to make a podcast and then mix in sound, so each episode comes from somewhere weird (at sea, in a forest, in a bar etc)
(Taken over a walk-in closet, and padded it here and there with acoustic foam, hung some jackets for sound-dampening, carpet on floor).
Luckily I don't have to worry too much about sound 'proofing' - its more about 'dampening' - to get the quality of voice recording perfect.
Here's my tech specs:
Microphone
RODE NT1-A
Computer & Software
AMD Turion 1.6ghz, 100gig.
Special Equipment
firewire solo M-Audio/adobe audition (software)/MDR7506 headphones/speakers
Not that I need it, but 'sourced'
a number of major sound effects libraries, so that I can experiment and play with multitrack sound - BBC 40 disk FX library, Sony Pictures FX, etc..(I do voice overs - and the way things partly work in the USA - is that you get the script, record it at home, edit it if necessary and dump it to the format required, and email or ftp it to the client. In SA, its the other way round - you physically go into a studio, and record it there).
I'm considering podcasting, for the hell of it - but I can't smoke in the little 'booth' - which means my brain won't work so easily.. could be fun to make a podcast and then mix in sound, so each episode comes from somewhere weird (at sea, in a forest, in a bar etc)