Morph Productions

An ongoing issue in my area is RF getting into… pretty much everything. I’ve already written about how I dealt with it in my mic lines, but I was also hearing it through my monitor speakers. It doesn’t affect the final bounced files, but over time the high-pitched whine and random chirps started to really get on my nerves, so I decided to fix it. First step was redoing the wiring from interface to switcher to monitors with Canare 4-conductor balanced cable. That type of cable is great at rejecting interference, and while it did help, a bit of the noise was still there. Next experiment: I took some copper fabric I already had and simply draped it behind the speakers. Instant success, the noise disappeared. The copper fabric was essentially acting like a partial Faraday cage, blocking the RF before it hit the speakers. From there, the goal was to make a more permanent and controlled version of that idea. I also had to make sure I wasn’t block...

Hamilton & Toronto Voice Over & Audiobook Studio – Morph Productions If you’ve bought a decent microphone, treated your room a bit, and your voice-over or audiobook recordings still don’t sound professional, you’re not alone. I work with a lot of authors, corporate clients and creators who’ve tried recording at home first. The gear is “good on paper,” but the results still feel noisy, boxy or fatiguing to listen to. Most of the time, it’s not that you’re doing everything wrong, it’s a handful of small issues that stack up. Here are some of the most common problems I hear when people come to me for voice over and audiobook recording and what actually fixes them. People find this hard to believe but having bad audio in a lot of cases is worse than bad video. If you want your message to resonate and come off as professional a good sound is a must for your project to be taken seriously. 1. The Room Still Sounds Like a Ro...