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Hey Jay! You don’t mention ACX as a place to find jobs. What are your thoughts about ACX as an avenue?

This page aply to Venezuela??

2 months later, I'm back at this video because I've been struggling with trying to maintain an open throat and lifted soft palate when inhaling, and your exercise helps with that openness, with no effort required. Thanks!

please excuse my ignorance, but in the end you say you already have a video on regions/markers/the region&marker manager, but what is the video? not sure if this was removed? or is titled under something else?

This video is very helpful for me to understand audio compression much better. Thanks a lot for that. But I think you explained the concept of radio wrong. It should be that whenever the volume exceeds the threshold by the set number of dbs, one db gets compressed, not the other way around, as you said in this video.

Can i use 2 microphone on that?

I'm going to buy a sE T1 for my voice over career (I'm doing mostly youtube-related works, but with a usb mic). I really like the sound of it. But as a gift, i'll buy myself an RE20, I love how it sounds

Oh man, such a big one. I always talk about how I used to do auditions for video games all the time and it was always like "Soldier #3" and I'd have seven takes of them dying in different ways: gunfire, raygun, fire, explosion, etc. And my voice would be toast. Then I ran into John Dimaggio recently and brought this up and he's like "Oh, yeah, I just always said I'd only do those on Friday, if ever."

This is really helpful. In trying to make my default monotone more "dynamic," I've overcorrected to cartoonishly emphatic. Now I see I need to spend more time with the script consciously choosing what deserves emphasis rather than letting paranoia about droning be my guide. Thank you for generously giving your time to help random strangers on the internet.

Quick question: when it comes to adding style tags on your demos, do you think it's best to use all ten slots? Or only the ones that MOST fit the style of your demo? Just wondering how that affects the voice match system. Like, if a client is looking for "charismatic + funny" and you have those two plus eight others labeled on some demos.... is that going to negatively affect your voice match scoring? Hopefully I'm making sense here!

Thank you so much I needed this!!! Mr jay.

Thank you, Jay! I discovered your channel today and I'm excited to watch all that you are sharing. Have a great day!

He looks like Tom Selleck. 😂

I'm new to your channel but I wanted to take a moment and say thank you for these videos. The information you have provided is invaluable

I kneaded this! Thanks

Hi, How much gain did you apply on the TLM 102 sounds great!

I just booked my first ACX book and I love this so much! I’ve gotten into the breathing anxiety trap. I love the idea of making an audiobook more like a friendly conversation rather than a performance that you have to agonize over. Thank you!!

Great advice here! A+ tips. Thanks so much.

I understand that you want to monetize, but there are way too many commercials.

Advice for men narrating women's voices?

Any advice on characters that are yelling? I have a scene aboard a ship during a heavy storm. The story, by the way, is for a video I am making. I plan on adding audio behind the story, lightning, wind, rain, etc. Should I actually yell or talk loudly by backing off the mic, or should I use a sort of fake yelling (I can't really put into words what I mean exactly.) You're not really yelling but speaking in a way that suggests yelling.

Of all the voice-over videos i've watched on YT, this is by far the most impactful and useful. What you've given here is pure gold!! Thank you for gifting your knowledge!

I would recommend taking off (unchecking) your fade in and out. That’s going to be affecting your RMS levels, especially on the short headers. You only have .5 second of tone at the head, and 1 second at the tail, and that’s the same value you put for your fade.

Tip #4 about handling voice change throughout the day. I was concerned about that very thing because my voice variations are extreme. Thanks. Your advice about handling that is helpful.

Thanks Mr. Myers.😊

For longform voiceover, I’d probably go A, D, C then B

I've gotten to meet Mike! Hes great at audio production. Got see him and several other vas during a nosleep podcast live performance

I have the Rode NT1 5th Gen, Focusrite Solo 4th Gen, Monster XLR dual shielded cable and my noise floor is around -60db. I started with the Audiotechnica ATR2100x, didn't realize when I first started that it had so much more noise than I thought it would.

Can you somehow increase the playback speed so that you can make faster progress when editing?

The TLM grates your ears over time, Shure has a far superior high end. Owned the TLM for years and had to give it up because of that tizzy high end.

Hi Jay Myers! Jenn Meyer here! We just bought a house and after considering a lot of options I’m looking into getting a studio bricks one plus booth non VO edition. They come with the bass traps now. Wondering if you had any issues with the floors & creaking and have any floor related recommendations. Thanks! 🙏

The hand measuring trick is awesome. I'm going to make sure I use everytime before I begin a recording. Thank you for sharing your tips!

You have a very pleasant voice mister... Being a visual person I always thought I would never find a narrator who could make me enjoy an audiobook, now I would have to rethink

Sorry that I'm late to finding this video. Thanks for the shout out. Reaper is the best.

Wow, this is amazing. I hope you do 1 million more of these.❤

Very enjoyable read!

Hi Jay! I've heard a lot of contrasting opinions on whether it's okay to make a demo with brand names if we weren't actually the voice for that brand. I've also heard to not make a demo with past work. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks!

Thanks Jay, good callouts, and Carries' performance was really excellent!

great vid Jay! really enjoyed it

hi Jay great tips, but I'm a bit disappointed as I was hoping you will actually recommend a few brands and models. So I'd like to ask directly for your advice. I do voice over recordings with some music mixing. My best monitoring headphones ever - Sennheiser HD202 - are slowly falling apart, so couple of years ago I bought what I was told is "the next level"- Sennheiser 200 PRO that replaced the discontinued HD202 - and got a rude shock as they are full of so many frequency holes and have a shorter range to the point of being UNUSABLE for my critically trained ears. What have they done?? I have since tried several other brands and models - nothing even comes even close to the crisp, clear, natural and centered sound of my HD202. Another issue is that anything with impedance higher than 16 ohms is frying my super sensitive brain (stronger EM as they pull more power), so I'm stuck. Are you able to recommend any brand/model that meets my criteria? Grateful for your reply :-)

Wow, I finally understand after 5 years with my compressor, you taught to use my output wave form on my transmitter and how to properly set up my compressors. Cant thank you enough

How do you leave a marker for a certain voice? Thank you

Amazing advice, Jay! I'll get to work on my on slider!

I am gonna record an audiobook in a semi truck on a macbook pro and I don't have much space to store equipment. got any advice?

what about if you are recording a audiobook that is over 125 hrs long?

I've watched a handful of other videos that meet the guidelines by adding effects and compression and a bunch of stuff I'm still trying to understand. You have a completely different approach that looks way simpler, just putting in the numbers on the render window. Do you ever mess with the effects and plugins to meet the specs or is this the best way? Also, if you need to get your noise gate down some, do you do that through a noise gate prior to rendering or do you have another trick when you're rendering out the file? Also, you are a wonderful teacher, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Sir I am using audacity.please acx setting that daw

great video. i wish someone would do that for recording on garageband in ipad.

Nice. I love Reaper. I have been using it for the last 7 years or so, and have never been back to other applications.

Great video as always Jay. When you listen back to your recording, do you do it chapter by chapter? Or do you record the entire audiobook first, and then listen back to the whole thing for mistakes/sound issues?