The Pro Audio Suite

Last week we featured Brad Newman (upper-level CRM owner and founder)and spoke in broad terms about marketing for Media people. This week we get down to the nitty-gritty of what to post and when...

Brad Newmann is a "Jack of all trades". He's a voice artist, post-production studio owner, and also heads up a marketing company aimed at voice-over and audio peeps... This week Brad joins us to talk about Marketing for the Voice Over industry. What are we doing wrong, what are the ways of getting it right?? And everything in-between.  Oh and don't worry we couldn't let him go without geeking out...

FLAC is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio. But should you use it as a delivery format for your clients? Is it really lossless? We dive into the topic...

Imaging Blueprint has released some audio plugins designed for radio imaging and created with radio producers & voiceovers in mind. The suite of plugins in ‘The Construction Series’ comprises the Construction Compressor, Construction Limiter, and Construction EQ. We asked the boys to take a minute and jump on the show to give us the lowdown behind their conception, construction and uses!!

AI voice farmers are actively recruiting unsuspecting voice talent to be the guinea pigs for their Voice Emulation software that they are rolling out. While a nice check upfront may pay this month's rent, and put some petrol in the car, what are the ongoing consequences that they DON'T tell you about. Robbo and AP are joined by Aussie Voice Over Industry veteran (and all-around nice guy) Tony Bell...

Audio Recording Pioneer Rupert Neve passed away recently, so in tribute to the man and his work, we decided to get hold of a couple of Musicians/Engineers who had worked on his gear, and pick their brains about what made them so great.  So this week we're joined by Bill Drescher (Sound City) and Graeme "Buzz" Bidstrup (musician, songwriter, and music producer) both have a love affair and long hist...

Dan Brumm rejoins us for this week's quick bite, as we get into a conversation around a Superbowl Ad from the other week, in particular the mix. Did they mix it like that on purpose? Was there "client issues" to contend with? Or was the voice not processed enough by the voice talent? Robbo leaves us with no need to guess his position.. 

For the last 2 years, Dann Brumm has been Voicing "Uncle Stripe" on "Bluey" an Australian Cartoon series that features the adventures of an Australian Blue Heeler Cattle Dog puppy as she has fun with her family and friends. He is also the series Sound designer and Mixer. In this week's show, we get to know Dann, his background, a how he got his start in Audio and how that Audio Gig turned into a c...

When it comes to voicing animated characters for TV and Film, there's not much Bob Bergen hasn't done. This week we sat down with Bob to talk about his plan to change the SAG/AFTRA model to better reflect today's voiceover landscape. It's currently a complicated web of red tape and outdated systems, and Bob is on the campaign trail to not only change all that but open it up to a wider membership b...

"You get what you pay for" is the old adage my mother always threw at me when I was a kid. And back then it was probably very true. But is it applicable today? And more importantly (to this podcast anyway) does it apply to Audio gear? Robbo, AP, George... Discuss!!

Been away over the Christmas/New Year break? Frustrated with your travel set up? Well this week we answer all your questions about the what and more importantly "how" to get the best sound from your portable voice over studio..

Toward the end of last year, we had a listener send us an email asking what we considered to be the best mic for voice over use under $100 USD. After much deliberation, and it should be said conflicting opinions, we have come up with our list here. See what you think..

Hot on the back of last weeks conversation around the way things might look in 2021, we take a look at what's coming our way gear-wise...Who loves shopping on Sweetwater??

The devil (aka 2020) is gone. But what does the new year hold in store??

There is a quote from Hunter S. Thompson that says...  “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” You could argue he was actually taking a look back at 202, so this week, and to wrap up the y...

In this weeks episode, we investigate the voice synthesis software that is already out there. How are they generating these voices? Is voice farming really a thing? Who can you trust, and where can you turn if you believe you're being ripped off? Bobby Owsinski joins us for this peek into the future (which is already here). But are we ready for it legally and ethically?

It's Murphy's Law. You've got the big session (voice-over or STudio) and you go to boot up/set up and something doesn't work. Or worse still, you finish the job, and your hard drive packs it in... What's your plan B? In this week's quick bite, we discuss the myriad of ways you can protect your most valuable asset... YOUR WORK... Don't lose that job because something chose the exact moment you were...

Source-RTL ia an application that allows for remote Voice Recording to picture. This in itself is nothing new, but when you consider that the Talents end requires nothing more than a Source Connect connection, and a computer screen, the innovations become more obvious. In this episode, Rober Marshall details how it works, and runs through both the Voice Talent and Engineers workflows. If you're an...

When we finished our chat with Des last week we were talking off-air about great broadcast mics. And the Sure SM7b raised its head. Des is a huge fan, so we figured while we had him we would record a quick bit on this versatile mic. What we got was an in-depth look at why Des loves this mic (and rightfully so) and as is our usual way, we strayed onto the topic of digital radio, and how to tune a r...

When you talk about pedigree, Des De Cean is the antipathies when it comes to building Radio studios... So when we wanted to do a show on Room ratios, and building challenging rooms in general, where did we turn? Where else...

Colin Day is a UK Audio Engineer, and (along with his wife) a successful VO artist. This week we received a question from Colin asking about recording and processing female voice overs.  So considering we still had Gomez from WAVES on the line, we thought what better time to cover off the topic...

Steve Balbi has been in the music biz for a long time and played at the highest level. Success in his homeland of Australia with 80s juggernaut "Noiseworks", international success with "The Electric Hippies", and now a new solo album that he recorded in his bedroom. All this led us to Steve, and given the fact he's just completed the build of his first home studio, we had to catch up and talk abou...

Gomez (AKA Michael Pearson-Adams or MPA) is the Director of Training and Development at Waves. An old friend of Robbo's (And The Show) he's given us the first look at Waves latest offering. And it's an episode that turns into a WAVES Masterclass on some of their biggest and most popular sellers. With the entire panel wading in with their favourites and some inside scoops on uses and setups, you're...

What's the best practice when it comes to delivering your completed audio. What levels? ANd what delivery platform. We're joined by Brisvegas Voice Over veteran Sharyn Doolan as we dive into the subject, and come up with some fairly unanimous findings...

The SSL 2 is here, and AP couldn't resist the temptation to get his hands on one. In this episode, we dive deep into SSL's foray into USB interfaces. And in our ears anyway, it's a winner.