{"id":103,"date":"2012-08-07T04:35:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T04:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2013-07-25T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T14:05:13","slug":"your-voiceover-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/your-voiceover-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Voiceover Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

An NYC voiceover student of mine that I coached via Skype and phone for several years now has about a half dozen National Network accounts.\u00a0 This is the stuff voiceover dreams are made of!\u00a0 He has the luxury of walking into a voiceover audition and thinking, \u201cIf I don\u2019t get it, all the bills are still paid for the rest of the year\u2026..and then some.\u201d\u00a0 He appreciates his position and usually doesn\u2019t take it for granted.\u00a0 Most loyal \u201caccount\u201d voices are slaves to their location.\u00a0 At any minute they can get the call to come in and record a spot.\u00a0 But this guy, he likes to travel.\u00a0 He wants to eat his cake, and do his voiceover too.\u00a0 And he does.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On a recent trip he found himself relaxing in a hotel, far far away from any recording studios, and he got \u201cthe call.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need you to record a spot TODAY.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what he did – it\u2019s pretty simple and archaic, and yet also pretty amazing: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He took a bunch of sheets, bedspreads, towels, and then\u2026the couches and mattresses, and put them together to create a sort of mini-fort.\u00a0 Inside that fort was simply his laptop computer and nothing else.\u00a0 Using free software to download his recording, he performed the spot in his fort and sent it off to the client.\u00a0 The spot aired alongside all the other spots that are done in a high-quality recording studio, and you\u2019d never know the difference.\u00a0 Unless you\u2019re an engineer perhaps.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moral of the story:\u00a0 you might think twice about investing in that super high-tech home studio, unless it\u2019s a worthwhile return on your investment.\u00a0 Focus on honing your skill.\u00a0 That $2,500 mic just cannot make you sound more interesting or authentic, no matter how hard it tries.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An NYC voiceover student of mine that I coached via Skype and phone for several years now has about a half dozen National Network accounts.\u00a0 This is the stuff voiceover dreams are made of!\u00a0 He has the luxury of walking into a voiceover audition and thinking, \u201cIf I don\u2019t get it, all the bills are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t