The Pro Tools Expert blog has shared their take on 5 tips for recording great voiceovers that apply directly to podcasts.

They include:

• Banish (computers) to a separate room or to a specially designed cupboard.
• The room needs to be as dead as possible, especially at mid and high frequencies.
• Don’t record in front of a table. The reflections off the table will colour the sound. Radio broadcasters use special ‘acoustic’ tables which are acoustically transparent.
• Make sure the page turns in the script are placed so that the VO artist doesn’t have to turn the page in the middle of a line.
• Make sure the VO artist has a glass of fresh still water to keep everything lubricated and sometimes an apple can help to reduce mouth clicks that won’t go away with a drink.

Most of these seem obvious, but you still hear plenty of podcasts that could benefit from them.

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