I’ve done it! I’ve got myself a home studio finally. As far the career ‘bucket list goes’ a breakfast radio show was on there, as was a voiceover booth.
I’ve actually been doing voiceover work for about eight years, being represented by people. So the actual voicing of the work isn’t new to me. But I’ve always wanted to be set up at home.
It’s somewhat daunting when you finally make that thing happen that you’ve been working towards as now you HAVE to make it work.
I wanted my voiceover booth to be something special, that inspired me to use, so it wasn’t like I was shutting myself in a cupboard which is in essence what I’ve created. Our initial idea was a Dr Who style tardis, but it would have been somewhat ironic as there wouldn’t have been the space inside, so my brilliant carpenter friend Joe, came up with this and I loved it. When it came to kitting out the inside, i took ages, trying to work out what was best – not trusting my own judgement as I’m not a sound engineer and there’s only SO many blogs and posts and you tube videos you can read about how to set up at home. Having started to get friendly with the voiceover community, I went to VOX (www.voxevents.co.uk) in in April and on talking to Posy one of the brilliant event organisers(@PosyB) she explained there would be a number of manufacturers at the event.
There were, and I got to try mics and chat about what I was doing.. and I made decisions. Firstly I bought myself a Sontronics Orpheus mic (www.sontronics.com) and Lisa was more than wonderful helping me sort everything I needed. Then I met Mark Burford from Lowfold Audio (www.lowfold.com) who doing a session on setting up at home. I explained what I was trying to build as I needed to get my head around the soundproofing as well as the kit – and Mark said to send him my spec. I did and we spoke on the fun and he helped me kit out the studio from foam tiles to my mixer. It didn’t stop there, as once everything had been delivered, Mark, talked my through setting everything up via Skype. BRILLIANT.
