For Sale: VocalBooth.com Silver Series 4x6' iso booth and Avalon VT-737SP preamp

Long time ERS client Peter McHugh has a few items he no longer needs after relocating.

Vocalbooth.com Silver Series 4x6' isolation booth
Peter's booth has a window and a ventilation system included.

It is in excellent condition, has never been moved from original location.

Here's a national commercial spot recorded in the booth.

Asking price:  $2500.00 plus delivery

Peter's studio with VocalboothPeter in the Vocalbooth 

Avalon VT-737SP Tube mic preamp with compression and EQ.

One of the favorites of the VO business for a good reason...

Works WONDERS with a Sennheiser 416.

Peter says: "I have not re-tubed my Avalon. There is no microphonic noise or popping or dinging. There's probably only 500 hours on the unit."

Asking price:  $1600.00

Contact us for questions and to make arrangements

PETER'S ACTUAL AVALON UNIT 

Notes from the Field: Improving Diane Merritt's recording quality

The "garbage in, garbage out" rule is especially important in recording voice-overs.   It often surprises me how long my new clients toiled at getting good quality recordings from their home studios.  They buy good equipment, expensive mics, spend years honing their craft, and seek help from friends whereever possible to ensure what they put out is the best sound possible.  Yet despite all of that, some very basic rules of audio engineering are overlooked.  It's not their fault.  Voice actors, even those with years of radio experience like Diane, aren't trained in audio engineering.  

Over the course of an hour I helped talented voice actor Diane Merritt tune her recording chain and get the most of her Neumann TLM103, which was getting lost in a sea of electrical noise.  Basically, we increased the gain at the front end, and backed off the levels along the rest of the signal chain, placing as many controls at the "unity" setting as possible, the theoretically quietest setting on the dial.  Check out the results (both files normalized to -3db).  

Before  After

Diane was nice enough to leave us a testimonial.