Holidays are for holidaying.
Not for taking your work to a different location.
But this week, I've been experimenting with portable recording set ups.
Assisted by Honey the studio cat, obviously π
Why?
Because I've promised myself to embrace more in person work events (such as conferences and out of town opportunities), leaving the comfort of my beloved and meticulously constructed home studio.
Leaving town doesn't stop the enquiries coming in.
(ππ©π’π―π¬π§πΆπππΊ π
)
So a huge thanks to Richard Holmes for allowing me to trail his ingenious foldout VOXBOX.
And to the wonderful Henry Willard for lending me two different mics to experiment with.
Every day, I've been setting up this travel set-up in a different room of my home.
Each room has a different level of outside noise and it's own acoustic to be navigated.
And so I record text audio with both mics, varying positioning and set up to see how it effects the sound recorded.
So far, I've been really impressed with the results I've been managed to capture with this set up.
The whole process has taken my back to the first four years of my fulltime voice acting career, where I created a temporary set-up using acoustic blankets every morning which had to be deconstructed every night!
The acid test with this will be taking everything on the road next week, when I'll be visiting Somerset for my mum's birthday followed by a few days in Nottingham recording an audiobook.
I won't NEED to use this travel set-up. But it's as good a time as any to test it out and see how viable it truly is.
Do you ever take work on the road with you?
By Chris Tester - British Male Voice Actor