Working remotely with voice-overs has taken off in recent years. This is because more and more voice-overs have their own studio. But that doesn’t always go smoothly…
At Voicebooking we have 10 years of experience in remote recording, as well as remote voice over production. And I’ll be honest, the first few years were a bit of a challenge. What works well? How do we ensure that our clients always receive quality? We soon realised that it was a combination of factors.
In this video I tell you what to look for when working with voice overs remote.
Working remotely with voiceover talents has taken off in recent years. Is this because more and more voice overs
have their own studio? But it doesn’t always go smoothly.
Hi, I’m Jente Kater from Voicebooking and in this video, I will tell you what to watch out for when working with voiceovers remote. Before we start, at Voicebooking we have 10 years of experience in remote recording, and I have to be honest, the first few years were a bit of a challenge. What worked well? How do you build a professional team of remote voice overs? How do we ensure that our clients always receive quality? We soon realized it was a combination of factors. Needless to say, not every voice over talent is the same. With remote recording, this even goes further.
There are very good voice over artists who don’t do very well in a studio. When you are in a studio, your own studio, on your own, you are a voice over, director, producer and a sound engineer, combined. And there are voice actors who are top notch but still manage to struggle with that. The longer the script, the more important it is you work with someone who makes almost no mistakes. If the voiceover in question misplaces the emphasis several times on a page, misjudges the tone of voice or simply makes a slip of the tongue every now and then you run through the risk of having to hold someone’s hand like mother Teresa and of course you don’t want that.
When in doubt, ask the voice over how often he does long texts. Yeah, this point is a bit of an odd one. When a voice over has to go to a studio, to record, an outside studio, it would be strange if the voice over would not show up. If you record remotely and you aren’t there at the studio session, the voice over will do the recording when it suits him/her. If in that case you set a deadline to, let’s say three days, you can bet on it you have to send reminders. The shorter the deadlines, the better people stick to it.
Here at Voicebooking we get hundreds of auditions every month and based on someone’s demo we can get a pretty good idea of what the skills are of a voice over. But what the quality is of their home studio. Uh-uh. No. In a demo most times you hear a voice over doing jobs not from their own studio but from another studio. So, there are people who think that their kitchen is a good place to record. Like this over here or how about the bathroom. No, please, I think it’s quite something, asking 300 euros for a voice over and then deliver crappy audio. And these are just a few tips on remote recording.
We have some more because with over 10 years of recording experience we have had our ups and downs and we talk about it every now and then with voice overs and clients, having a beer, having a few laughs but now we have put all of those experiences into one e-book and you can find the link to the e-book in the link below in the comments.
