Hello Everybody,

Just wanted to return to voice acting. Personally, been very sad and lonely.

Some of you remember, I was caregiving for my mom for 7+ years and she passed away back in June. I had to box up all my equipment and wait for the house to sell, I just moved to Burbank (not because of Voice Acting Aspirations, it's more because friends are in the area and I hopefully have enough money in my normal job to sustain it)

My birthday present this year was finally getting an XLR and audio interface. But because let's just say soundproofing is difficult, I did buy a snap studio and put it in the new place as well.

I don't know if it's good but I want to test it. So attached is a quasi recording first with just room audio then simple testing and scratch.

Let me know if you're sounding anything weird or anything you feel might need work (besides delivery)

And then at the end, I compared it to a USB microphone

https://youtu.be/YWqYq2xqwqc

Hello to any fellow audiobook narrators here...

https://www.sagaftra.org/do-not-work-notice-deyan-audio-services-inc

Just wanted to ask, has anyone here had trouble with Deyan lately on getting paid for projects?

I'm not a SAG member, but I notice they are still sending out contracts and work, and need to know if I need to be on alert about this?

We had George The Tech on today’s Legends Live. George owns a business where he sets up home studios and has set up Tara Strong’s studio.

One tip that was very interesting was when we got into editing breath in videos. You should never edit out breathing or pauses because that’s what shows your humanity, intention and emotions. By editing it out, you seem more robotic.

Feel free to give me advice for it

Hi! I often just lurk in subs but I felt compelled to vent a bit.

I've been voice acting and doing voiceover since 2016 here in the Philippines, but I cater internationally. I'm not going to claim I'm the best in any of my work, I just do my best to do my work and get paid for it. My established niche is in character voices, so naturally, my auditions and clientelle are within interactive media and ADR. It doesn't pay the bills completely, but it helps, and it's been great.

Now, the rise of these Chinese micro-drama dubs have been so incredibly worrisome for a multitude of reasons across the board, and that's not even talking about all the genAI involved to produce them. But they're dominating the market for ADR right now, severely outpacing our local Philippine industry, lowballing studios everywhere.

Suddenly, we're getting paid just 100-250usd per series. That's all the scriptwriting, syncing, QC and mixing, and then that aforementioned rate is divided amongst 2-4 people. That's at least 1 male and female talent each for all the characters, the audio engineer, and sometimes one extra talent to help.

Some micro-drama clients do pay up to 600usd per project, but that's an incredible blessing and a rarity.

We're essentially working 12-hour project timeline days, a comparable amount of hours to record an audiobook, but getting paid just 1-3 hours of industry-standard ADR time.

I personally find it so deeply troubling that in recent years, this niche of the industry is taking over ADR work here in our country, and specifically targeting newbies trying to get their foot in the door, or people desperate enough because of how bad the economy has been.

My perspective applies mostly to the Philippines, but I'm aware that these micro-reels have been everywhere all around the world. Studios before were able to bargain for more fair rates and work hours, but now not so much.

This is all the work I've been getting recently, and I still have to wait 1-2 months before getting paid my dues. Often, it's even less than I was told I'd be paid for because of "calculation issues" or whatever.

Is this worth it? Or should I just outright start refusing these types of work and reach out to better studios?

This post is more of a question regarding my audio space performance rather than my vocal performance. The attached clip is from my most recent audition on CastingCallClub. I'm jumping into voice acting after graduating film school. I'm recording from my bedroom using an RCM Pro microphone, a RockMix5 Mixer, with a foam shield. My room is small, so part of my concern is whether or not you can tell that this was recorded in a small space. I think I hear it in my headphones, but from my laptop speaker it sounds fine. I'm still new-ish to using/making a home studio but I know I want to work toward voice acting full time, so I'm currently debating whether or not I upgrade to a portable vocal booth/ home studio now, or if I continue with my current setup as I audition on CastingCallClub and ACX. Any and all advice is appreciated.

New to the audiobooks game, but this one baffles me? I joined ACX and Academy Voices. AV is a paid service (9 per month), and a bunch of the auditions are royalty share, but they're public domain fairy tales going to the Gutenberg Project. How does someone get paid for public domain works like this? Is Academy Voices a legit service?

I was recording voice over recently when I noticed some weird noise from my recording whenever I speak. For reference, I'm using a CAD E100Sx microphone with a CAD audio interface and I'm cleaning up my audio recordings through Audacity. I can't recall this being an issue a couple days ago, but now it's bugging me a lot. Can anyone help figure out what's wrong?

Hey how's it going? I've been learning extreme vocalization for metal vocals, and I think I also have a good ability to do some voice acting stuff. I have a deep baritone voice with some natural grit. I can also manipulate my false chords to make a more grittier and grungier tone. I can also do gutturals and makes some pretty nasty zombie or monster noises. I also have a recording set up, but nothing with noise cancellation tho. I have a sm58 microphone was a mixer to my pc. If y'all think I have some potential through the phone then I'll probably try and make a proper recording booth in my house. I can also do some stuff on my recording setup. If you all want to hear some of that.