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I made a short video showing the current status of the isolation booth in it's beginning stages. More like naked beginnings.

You can catch it here on YouTube.

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:40:30 +0100

.::Studio Construction Continues::.

This is an older photo of the "good ol' days" before the new studio was functioning. We just started on the new booth this week and I'll be posting photos here...

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:35:09 +0100

.::New Procedure for Voice Over Evaluations::.

From now on - potential voice over students wishing to get a free 1 hour evaluation will need to submit an online form to set up their evaluation.
Simply go to THIS PAGE and...

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:35:37 +0100

.::Pricing Update for Voice Over Lessons::.

New Studio Update Podcast:
New Podcast

For the last year the studio offered 3 different packages for VO lesson - 5 weeks - 10 weeks and 20 weeks. It was an exp...

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:28:23 +0100

.::Update on the new studio...::.

For those of you who come by often enough to know that I haven't posted in a long, long time - this may come as a shock - but I'm still here..

I've been buried in all sorts of projects - the new studio being one of them. It has the old stud...

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:20:00 +0100

.::Voice Over Insider - Q&A with Don LaFontaine::.

Welcome to the Voice Over Insider Interview Series.

In these interviews we'll attempt to go beyond the typical questions and get to the real performer behind ...

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:22:00 +0100

.::Some of my favorite voices and voice over talent Issue #1::.

Often times Im asked by my students, which voices are out there that I like. Its a hard question for me to answer because there are so many I like - and most of them for very different reasons. I dont like telling people to go out and copy s...

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:11:00 +0100

.::Audio Proficiency: You better be ready to fly little donkey...::.

Yeah, yeah.. I know.. Flying donkeys.. Sure, that's something you see everyday...I just wanted to get your attention so that you would sit up straight in class. Audio proficiency is what's at hand here and the use of the phrase "ready to fly" m...

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:36:00 +0200

.::Acoustic Treatments for Voice Over Production Environments::.

One of the hardest things for new voice talent to overcome when they have little to no experience with sound isolation, acoustics or audio recording, is how to get the audio they do record up to standards that would be acceptable for profession...

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:27:00 +0200

.::Sample or Sampling Rate - The rate at which the audio is sampled by the recording device.::.

Some of you are going to have to excuse my methods of explaining some things in this article because it was meant to help newbies understand some of the basic principals of digital audio recording and effects processing. In an effort to foster thi...

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:57:38 +0200

.::Its time to get that big fat head off your shoulders Looking inward by Michael Minetree.::.

The other day, talking to one of my students about how he had the right attitude for success, reminded me of just how far I have come from my not so humble beginnings in this business. When I first started, my ego wasnt in check, I thought I w...

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:06:00 +0200

.::The Getting Started in Voice Over checklist these are the things you will need to get going.::.

The voice bone is connected to the microphone-bone,
The microphone-bone is connected to the mixer-bone,
The mixer-bone is connected to the audio interface-bone,
And thats how your paid for your voice.
The audio interface-bo...

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:39:00 +0200

.::Home Studio Design: Details of a network quality sound isolation booth.::.

After years of sitting on this project, we finally blew the dust off of it and got it up on the Internet. If you have ever wanted to see the background design work that goes into building a sound isolation booth capable of delivering at least a 8...

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:32:00 +0200

.::UPDATE: Online Voice Over Lessons less than they have ever been.::.

At the urging of one of the members of the MineWurx voice over community, we are now offering a Workshop Lesson: a more abbreviated, less expensive version of our full online voice over lessons. Click title for further details.

Our normal on...

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:04:00 +0200

.::Internet Voice Over Evaluations - How do they work?::.

Below is an old transcript of how we used to do our voice over evaluations at the studio. We no longer use the Chat room. Everything is now done through Skype. If you are interested in an evaluation you can enter your information at the followi...

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:59:00 +0200

.::It all starts with an evaluation. One that should be free.::.

I have gotten two calls in the last week that reminded me why voice over evaluations should be free. In both calls, neither one of the curious information seekers really had much of an idea of what VO work really was or how to get into it. They...

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:45:04 +0200

.::The Transformation of a Voice Over Talent:::.

A real world example of how one voice over talent completely modified his sound at MineWurx Studio - from 300 miles away.

When I got a call from James, he was looking for advice on how to improve his sound. He had asked me to listen to his d...

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:54:00 +0200

.::Catch a rising star: The voice over career begins for Bethany Grace.::.

While I was sitting around listening to some pre-mix tracks of her new demo, I got to wondering where the journey of voice over might lead her. She is fresh, vibrant, intuitive She reads with more confidence than a lot of people who are trying...

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:35:00 +0200

.::New Voice Over Forum is up! Come on in and join the community.::.

It's always hard starting a new discussion board. All of the topics are empty - there's not a lot to read just yet... It takes time. But with the right people and participation this could become a leading resource for voice over talent and acto...

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:50:00 +0200

.::Payment Plan for Voice Over Training. Price increase for lessons this Friday.::.

For years we have been asked to start a payment plan for voice over lessons and given the current economic climate in the country we have decided to offer a trial period where we will accept payments for lessons rather than a bulk up front fee....

Thu, 18 May 2006 21:44:00 +0200

.::The importance of quality sound as applied to ISDN, including comments by Joe Cipriano::.

I had a session scheduled yesterday with a large national client (MTV/Viacom). The session was one of those maybe Monday or Tuesday type bookings and when the client is of that nature, you make both days available to them. Comes with the terr...