My Super-Ghetto V.O. "Studio"

I needed to do a bunch of voice over for my new short, and I have basically no funds for new equipment. I already had a Blue Snowball mic (purchased for my last short, which was a disaster but had decent sounding voice overs), so I put a towel under it, a pillow behind it, and prayed the rain held off long enough to get the dozen or so clips I needed recorded. Here's the setup:

9bc486060fb088afa52d9b54af7164afb2f08630_wmeg.jpg


I used Audacity to record the clips at 32-bit, 96KHz. According to the waveforms, it looks like I got good, clean sound, and with the high bit-rate and sample rate, hopefully I can remove any noise I might have picked up.

This is all for my no-budget, entirely DIY short ('cause, you know, I'm insane), which so far is coming together nicely. Of course, I have to finish it by the 31st to meet two contest deadlines, which means I'm seeing a lot of late nights over the next few days (the visual edit is done, it's all the audio that needs to be built from scratch using a mix of Foley and stock sound effects).
 
Nice.

I've done similar by placing two high-backed chairs together, one backwards to the side of the seat, draped them with a comforter, placed the mic in the seat, and recorded from that.

Also, I've tried it in the walk-in closet, right between two racks of clothes.
That "deadened" the sound a wee much, but ultimately works best.



There was a thread here more than a few months back about portable sound studios.
It led to some interesting set-ups I viewed on a image search.

ShotgunFront.jpg


IMG_3125.jpg

DIY booth: http://www.reviewsunloaded.com/reviews/portable-recording-studio-sound-booth.php
 
I plan to do something similar to the portable studios in the future, but didn't have the materials I needed and don't have time to drive the hour to the nearest store to get them this weekend (I live in the boonies).
 
Ah, boonies.
Always a wonderful resource for recording crickets, grasshoppers, and cicadas ALL SUMMER LONG!!!!!!


"SHADDAP, YOU FREAKING LITTLE... BUG-EYED FREAKS!"

image_thumb529.jpg
 
Just think about the poor girl circadas that don't have any alcohol to down out the vision of that ugly thing climbing up on her! :cry:

A girl's gotta do the best she can. ;)
 
Back
Top