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The microphone B is the best ❤

Your “that’s not a lady!” made me laugh so hard. I just found your channel and am loving the tips you give.

Thank you so much for making this video. I finally understand EQ, thanks to you!! Fantastic explanation! 😀

Hey Mr jay you still got screaming and shouting from the diaphragm on the list ?

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One more question Jay 😂. Might be a stupid one. Do you ever find that your monitor produces unwanted sound reflections? As the sound waves can technically bounce off the monitor? Or am I being over cautious?

How are you eq’ing that sm7b on this vid it’s so clear. No way that only a bass roll off 😅

Excellent lessons. I've applied these to my author career and am learning to apply them in my audiobook narration.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom Jay!

How to do Character Voices? Do you have any videos on how to get get started?

Only perfect exists

I am going to buy both for different applications as you've stated in this video (narration, commercial). Im also going to pick up the Audient iD24 audio interface for its superior preamps but I am also looking at the Solid State Logic SSL 2+ audio interface. The noise floor in both audio interfaces is excellent.

Thanks for sharing. Words to live by. To be read aloud.😄😄😄

Wise words!!! thank you Jay

Thanks, Jay. After a 35 year career in stage management I can vouch for everything you've shared here. Onward!!!

Thanks Jay, great video and so true and useful. Many if not all of those points hit home and really are main problems for me.

Spoken like a "brother from another mother" mate, thanks for sharing this.

Thank you Jay, super useful!

That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I’m wondering why one would use a 416 when it’s meant primarily for exteriors, while we could use instead, say a schoeps cmc641 or an mkh50, hyper cardiods which are meant to be used on interiors and are not subjected to phasing. The cmc is also tiny, especially the cmc141! Thank you :)

needed to hear this now, especially #1. do you have a mental frame or trick that helps you get psyched about a project that doesn’t exactly inspire your enthusiasm?

Wow … ran out of Like buttons to click after the 1st lesson. Thank you JM & Happy Holidays!!!

Thank you so much Jay, I really needed that encouragement!

Absolutely loved this advice. Just what I needed to hear. I heard a while back the expression: "Launch and 80 percent." Essentially the same advice as your "Try before you're ready." If you overthink something, you just get Paralysis by Analysis, and then... you'll never make a move. Prepare within reason. And then... just go for it. Also, regarding "Failures = Opportunities" I heard Tony Robbins say "When we Succeed, We Party. When We Fail, We Ponder." (A personal favorite). I mean Heck, Arnold Schearzenneger's entire life philosophy is learning and growing from failure. Thanks Jay. And Happy Holidays. 😊

What a wise and inspiring vídeo. Thanks for sharing.

Superb advice in vo.great buddy😅

Excellent words of wisdom buddy! Keep em coming!

Great!

Awesome Jay! These are great lessons. Thanks for all you do for the VO community. 😊 I sent in an audition for Voice Over for the Planet - wasn’t able to secure a spot; however, I got some kind words from Kari and she’s keeping me in mind for the future. Extended my best wishes to her and am extending my best wishes to you for an amazing 2025!

This helps. Thanks!

These are great tips. You're highlighting and giving vocabulary to a lot of the things I do naturally. Helpful to think about them critically.

Dear Jay, firstly, thank you so much for your videos! I always get a little excited when I see you‘ve been uploading a new one. I am currently thinking about getting a Studiobricks One Plus and have been visiting a showroom to see how it feels in there. However, I noticed quite pronounced low frequency resonances when talking in there, even though it had a bass trap and full VO edition insulation. Did you find it improves when playing around with mic positioning a bit? Is it easy to EQ out? I‘m a little worried, as I found it to be rather unpleasant. When asking the guy if a second bass trap would help, he said probably not. Do you have any experience on improving sound quality, e. g. different bass traps, mic positioning, EQ etc.? Would really appreciate your advice! Thank you so much, best from Germany, Markus

I super strongly recommend emailing Earthworks and buying the Icon Pro windscreen. It screws right on to the Ethos, and allows for the brighter sound without requiring an external pop filter. Best $50 I’ve spent in a long time!

Hi Jay, do you know by chance the price of the One Plus standard? Thank you...

First off, really appreciated your video and the information you gave. It covered a lot of what I was looking for. As someone who is starting out with VO, has a decent microphone (XLR Mic with interface), but also doesn't have the ability to treat my room do you think downloading a DAW with live noise floor reduction (Like Cakewalk or Tracktion Waveform) is necessary/helpful or recording on Audacity and then removing the noise in post is fine? I really don't want to pay for software's yet given I'm just starting out but I also want I give the best quality I can with what I have.

Thanks for your opon learning thankyou so much brother 😂

I also own U87ai and U89. The In fact the TLM193 have same capsule design as U89 with cardioid only and transformerless circuit. I mostly prefer the U89 as it works on more voices than U87ai. Other competitors to the Neumann from my locker would be the Gefell M930ts and Gefell M71s and cost half price.

Ohh what. Tlm 193 sounds nice! Really preferred it over the u87.

You don't use overall noise reduction, i.e., for ambient background noise? Also, at the end do you simply normalize to -3db ... for Audible, anyway? Do you ever do further processing after that, i.e., expander or EQ? Thanks so much for your tutorials.

Superb sir good job thank you

I practice my Standard American accent with your videos, as well as interviews of Kevin Conroy as my references!

The comment about the wash was brilliant. I heard it but couldn’t language the experience. As always, thanks Jay!!

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Hello Jay! Questions: This is live(DSP) processing while you narrate in the booth? Then you again apply a mastering chain in the audiobook mastering stage? Thank you. (I can do that but I was avoiding it to get a dry recording for better "

I’m British. And you do a British accent better than me. 😂

I can tell mic B is the tlm 103 i can immediately tell from the bright crisp top end and am listening on my laptop speakers

This channel is going to BLOW UP! So glad I jumped on early! Good luck, Jay!

Would be happy to hear also the KM184 (or 185) in that booth. Very much underrated for this use. Would really like to hear it in your environment.

This is one area where I, despite being relatively new to audiobook narration, have about 30 years experience, as I am a transgender woman. Two things I've found that help when a male narrator performs a female character is a slight softening of the voice, which Wesley does in this clip, and more vocal range. Guys tend to speak a bit more monotone than women. Women use more of a range in pitch. You don't need to go full Monty Python falsetto. Just a little softer and a little more range. Still, as Jay points out, the biggest thing is to embody the character's personality, their attitude, and their mood. James Marsters does this beautifully in his narration of female characters in the Dresden Files. It's a very subtle thing, but it's very clear when he's performing a female character like Mab, the Queen of Winter. Recently, I was listening to The Iron Queen (performed by the fabulous Khristine Hvam), at the end of which was a related short story performed by Josh Hurley. My jaw dropped by how well he performed the female characters. Just my two cents.

Thanks for this. Like your flow and style to explain really funny😅

Thanks so much for the detailed insight! Didn't strike me as a cop-out answer whatsoever. Super helpful!