Archive for the ‘ISDN’ Category
A Check List For Traveling Voice Actors
Like many voice over folks, I have my “traveling voice-over rig.”В Besides the Sennheiser 416,В MicPort Pro, cables, collapsible booth and all,В I have the Source Connect software on the laptop.
Source Connect allows you to connect to another studio that also has the software or to a bridging service that facilitates a hookup to an [...]
September 1, 2010
Posted in: ISDN, Studio Gear, Techniques 
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New Music Director for Musicam?
I’ve got a Musicam Prima LT for my ISDN sessions. Sure, it’s entry level but it talks to most of the other boxes out there. (“hardware codecs” for the inner geek.)
A cool feature is that you can compel the purple box to connect with the mother ship in New Jersey to make sure your long [...]
November 12, 2009
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“Oh ISDN, You Left Me Just When I Needed You Most”
Since I don’t have promo or imaging clients the ISDN in the home studio gets sporadic use. Those ISDN sessions I do have usually come with a nice stack of US dollars which more than pays for having that tool in the studio. Sometimes much more. So it stays.
But I learned a lesson the hard [...]
July 25, 2009
Tags: ISDN Posted in: ISDN, Studio Gear 3 Comments
Turning Strangers Into Customers
I can’t remember a time in my voice over career when I’ve worked with so many new people in the span of a few weeks. Faceless folks to me since I’m meeting them via ISDN or phone-patch in the home studio.В Names and voices in my headphones from studios in Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, and [...]
April 8, 2009
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We’re Liking the MicPort Pro
When working out of your private studio, you want noise in your session files like you want geese in your jet engines.В Delivering consistently noisy voice over tracks can bring down a career.
The acoustics of my room are pretty good.В Room within a room with thick walls, dead space between them, double doors, non-parallel walls, [...]
March 17, 2009
Posted in: Getting Started, ISDN, Studio Gear 4 Comments
The Bridge to Somewhere
What a pleasant surprise. The other day I was perched on my studio stool watching my Prima LT ISDN box light up with connection indicators, when who in my wondering ears should appear, but Dave Immer.В Mr. ISDN himself.
I was doing a voice over session for BBDO Detroit and hooking up with Ringside Creative who [...]
February 26, 2009
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