During a recent conversation with one of my business and marketing coaching clients, I remembered a story I had not thought about in quite a while. We were talking about the difference between chasing any available work and deliberately building a business around the work you want to do. That conver...

Voice-over processing is the use of audio effects such as EQ, compression, de-essing, limiting, and other processors to turn a raw voice recording into a polished, stable, and balanced final product that is easier to listen to and better prepared for delivery.

The goal is not simply to make a voice...

After EQ, compression is probably the second most powerful processing tool you can use to shape the sound of a voice recording. EQ changes the tonal balance of the voice, while compression changes the dynamic relationship between the louder and softer parts. 

That sounds simple, but compression is ...

I spend a lot of time helping content creators and people creating content with their voice to attract, grow, and retain an audience of ideal customers. Sometimes the problem is technical. Sometimes it’s business or marketing. And sometimes the biggest obstacle is simply recognizing how much opportu...

A lot of people start marketing too early.

They ask:

What should I post?
What does the audience want?
What kind of content will get attention?
What platform should I use?

In my approach, those are downstream questions.

Before you can create effective marketing, you need to understand who your ideal...

A professional voice-over recording is not created by one plugin, one microphone, or one processing preset. It is the result of a series of production steps performed in the correct order.

That order is your voice-over production workflow — your production procedure.

Workflow determines when you r...

I spend a lot of time helping content creators and people creating content with their voice to attract, grow, and retain an audience of ideal customers. Sometimes the problem is technical—sound quality, microphones, processing, workflow, or mastering. Other times it’s messaging, positioning, content...

One of the most common problems I hear from voice actors is this:

They know their recordings don’t sound quite right, but they’re not sure why.

Maybe the voice sounds distant, boxy, harsh, thin, inconsistent, noisy, or overly reflective. Sometimes the assumption is that better processing will solv...

One of the most important parts of my Custom Processing Preset package is something I call the Strength Level Package.

Instead of giving you one processing chain and expecting it to work equally well for every type of recording, I create four related versions of your custom setting:

• Standard
• Ma...

Halloween is the perfect time to get creative with audio, and what’s spookier than transforming your voice into a chilling, demonic pumpkin-inspired sound? In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how to craft a creepy voice effect using only Adobe Audition’s stock plugins. Whether you’re a YouTuber...

If you've ever crammed yourself into a closet surrounded by hanging clothes, hoping it'll magically absorb those pesky echoes, then this post is for you. In my latest YouTube video, I take a raw voiceover clip from Sergio Velozo—a talented VO artist based in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia—and transfo...