Welcome to Best Practices in Voiceover Editing.

As we undertake this journey together, please know that I am not a sound engineer. I have no experience other than the school of hard knocks working in professional voiceover. I had a very good friend (who is a sound engineer for live theatre) teach me best practices. That is what I am going to teach in this class. I only know what I have to know. And not much more.

Sound is very BIG. To study sound, you need to enroll in college level courses. It's complicated and wonderful, and for some people, this will stop them cold from working in voiceover because it's just too much to learn.

In this course, I will break down only what you need to know. Just basics.

That means there are other ways to do EVERYTHING I teach you. There are probably better ways to do all of it. Most likely six or seven ways to do all of it. So, once you get my version of the basics down, please don't stop learning. You can come back and teach me!

We are also living in an electronic world that is changing so rapidly that you must stay on top of what will help your career. As mics change, as software changes, read some articles. Listen to blogs. In the past two years, editing was dramatically changed by Izotope RX Standard, which I will discuss in this course. It reduced my editing by more than 75%. That's major change that equates a larger paycheck.

What else? You will learn best if you practice everything I teach. Over and over and over and over and over. We improve by doing the work. All the great ideas in the world will still just be ideas unless we commit to the work. I can edit because I had to edit. I had to edit every day.

I am here to let you know that if I can do this, you can do this. I am an actor who loves to sing. I never imagined that I would find myself editing -- and yet here we are. And I like it. So, cheers! Let's learn some stuff.

Objectives:

• How to set levels so that editing is easier.
• How to determine your noise floor so that editing is easier.
• How to clean up your raw file (I'll show in multiple DAW- digital audio workstations).
• How to remove mouth noise and unwanted clicks.
• How to work with loud breaths.
• How to apply additional clean up with plugins. (Not too much here... since this gets more advanced than the scope of this course).
• How to save your files. And find them later. (This matters more than you think.)
• How to send your files.

What this course does not teach:

• How to interpret copy.
• Mic technique (beyond setting optimal levels).
• How to find work.
• What equipment to buy.
• How to set up a home studio. We touch on noise floor/reflection but just barely.

Questions? Reach out by email to [email protected].

Let's get going!