By: Nate Myers
One of the primary draws to voice over work is having complete control of your schedule and generating income using your creative and natural talents. While this is generally true of all voice-over work, there are many times you will have to travel a short or even long distance to a professional recording studio to record your takes. This can be costly if not subsidized by your client!
However, this is the only choice for many voice-over artists, regardless of cost. The lack of a suitable recording environment applies in so many situations like those living in an apartment, a home with children, having a roommate, thin walls, or a location next to train tracks. The world is a noisy place!
You may look into soundproofing your room or workspace. But this can be costly, time-consuming, and aesthetically tricky. If you don’t hang your soundproof panels level or plan out your space, it can be easy to end up with something you don’t like. Oh, and forget about moving! You’ll have set it up all over again!
Wait, so are you saying that voice over isn’t worth it? It is too hard?
No!
Conversely, it is possible to get decent recordings in other affordable ways. There is a perfect middle ground. That’s right! Professional level sound reduction, isolation from the outside world, and completely echo-free audio:
Enter the Voice Over Sound Booth!
A voice-over sound booth can be set up in almost any room.
The voice-over booth is an extremely flexible choice to completely isolate yourself and your recordings from the outside world. A VO booth offers all the pros of a professional recording studio while experiencing none of the cons:
1. Flexible Assembly and Dis-assembly
2. Sound Reduction
3. Echo-free recording
4. Booth Lighting
Let’s dive into each of these points and discuss how our partner VoiceSuite provides each benefit to our customers!
Flexible Assembly and Dis-assembly
VoiceSuite sound booths are designed to make them extremely easy to assemble. Each soundproof wall is detached from the others to ship economically. Easier shipping means it is easier for you to move around.
Where do you want your booth? This corner? No, this one? Don’t worry about making a permanent decision and altering the structure of your home. Just set it up wherever suits you best!
Sound Reduction
Each VoiceSuite sound booth provides 25-30db of sound reduction. This is for sound coming in (that would corrupt your recording) and for sound going out (which is very convenient for the renters among us). You also can add a double-wall system which adds about 25% more sound deadening. Incredible!
The sound reduction is achieved through the booth design and materials that accommodate professional recordings.
Echo-Free Recording
While sound reduction is essential to a professional recording space, it isn’t everything. If you’re recording in an echoic environment, the sound will carry over into your recordings and will be impossible to edit out. Let’s not go down that path, eh? VoiceSuite booths are entirely covered on the inside with acoustic pyramid foam that dissipates and absorbs sound waves—leaving your voice bouncing into nothing but the microphone itself.
Voice-over sound booths can be customized with windows, skylights, lighting, and more.
Booth Lighting
VoiceSuite sound booths allow natural and artificial light into your recording booth. A window or multiple windows can be added to your booth to prevent it from feeling claustrophobic. For the night owls, artificial lighting is also supplied inside.
As you can see, VoiceSuite sound booths are incredibly functional in design. They check all the right boxes and provide an ideal solution for any musician, vocalist, or voice-over artist. But it doesn’t stop there. Functionality is the bare minimum for a company like VoiceSuite.
VoiceSuite also offers an incredible number of options for personalization and beautification. These include:
· Additional windows
· Sound floors
· Carpet floors
· Pine French doors with glass panels
· Door color options
· Glass ceilings
· Optional collapsible desk inside the booth
· Acoustic foam upgrades
· Additional foam colors
· Ventilation systems (quiet, AC Infinity Fan)
· and more - Just ask!
Because of all these things AND the reasonable price point, it’s our pleasure to endorse Keith Dwyer and his VoiceSuite sound booths.
To get a free upgrade to the 3-inch acoustic interior foam, use the code VOICESHOP at checkout: https://voicesuite.net/
