{"id":429,"date":"2017-01-08T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masoncarver.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2017-01-08T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:41:39","slug":"voice-over-audition-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Voice Over audition preparation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to self-record an audition for a commercial voice-over. Trying to cut down on some of the ambient room noise&#8211;radiator hiss, computer hum, etc. &#8220;Sciencing the shit out of it,&#8221; as Matt Damon\u00a0says in The Martian. The Yeti microphone just barely fits in the foam-lined box, so I think I may have to get a bigger box and some egg crate foam to isolate the mic. May have to get a blanket or mover&#8217;s pad to put over the computer, the main culprit with it&#8217;s many fans. I see now why the computer is <em>outside<\/em> the recording booth in studio\u00a0setups.<\/p>\n<p>Also, self-recording a voice over is tough if you haven&#8217;t gotten over hating the sound of your own voice. It will get you there, though.<\/p>\n<p>Live and learn. And wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to self-record an audition for a commercial voice-over. Trying to cut down on some of the ambient room noise&#8211;radiator hiss, computer hum, etc. &#8220;Sciencing the shit out of it,&#8221; as Matt Damon\u00a0says in The Martian. The Yeti microphone just barely fits in the foam-lined box, so I think I may have to get&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/?p=429\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","category-if-wishes-were-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masoncarver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}