Build Your Own Portable Voiceover Narration Booth
Shhhh – Be Very Quiet …
Here’s a great find from my friend and fellow producer Rick Forester … your very own portable “home recording studio.” It seems Harlen Hogan, a voice-over actor and writer based near Chicago, found that doing voice-over work in hotel rooms could be a bit LOUD –even with pillows and comforters stacked around him. So, instead of giving up the ease of working wherever he found himself, Hogan built his very own “Porta-Booth.” Read about it in this issue of Digital Producer.
And here’s a bonus tip: Hogan also noted that if you absolutely can’t find a quite place to record narration, you can always take a trick he learned from a feature film soundman. One of the best designed acoustic spaces on earth, Hogan says, is the modern automobile! If you’re at a loss for a quiet space, take a ride out in the country, pull over at a nice quiet spot, and do your voiceover work.
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February 10th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Steve:
Harlan is right, especially in the newer models, cars can be great sound booths. Just not in the northeast in January.
Best always,
- Peter
February 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Hahahaha! Excellent point, especially considering that right now, it is exactly 1.6 degrees above zero outside my office.