Brilliant! 🎉

If anyone's on a more limited budged, Tone Booster's has a free de-esser plugin (and lots of other, useful free plug-ins). It's impressed me, but I can't compare it to the one from Isotope. For a while I was using a de-esser plug-in created for Audacity but I found it changed the overall tone too much. The Tone Booster doesn't make any change I can notice beyond moderating those s sounds. (I suspect it's working more like a dynamic EQ, whereas the Audacity one is applying a static EQ filter.) There's also an Audacity de-clicker that I find quite effective - catches about 80% of the ones I notice on the default settings without sacrificing any tone I can detect. Sometimes it manages to pull out chair creaks and the like too. Sometimes I can get it to catch more by playing with the settings but that seems to always change the overall sound. So I'll either just use it for a troubled word or two or leave it as is. Anyways, helpful and interesting vid as always.

Great Tips! Especially the one on practicing.

This is the most creative demo I have ever seen. 😄

Great review! Not sure Neumann does anything wrong under the Neumann branding. Love my KSM 105. High quality for high accuracy, No regrets. ❤

Excellent advice as usual, Jay, and great voice and performance, Cas!

Please can i record a song on fl studio with maono ps22?

Love it! Solid advice and a game changer for me today 😊

Happy half-century.

That's a funny commercial video, but I want to ask about the mix side; what's the loudness standard for such Vo, 14 LUFS?

Excellent suggestions

...and this guy. Dead XD

Tape on the gain. Brilliant!

This was helpful, thank you!

I have both and the ethos is on my desk.sm7b on the other desk..I prefer the ethos.and.sny earthworks.mics when doing voice work..sm7b is also excellent but ethos is bettwr

Videos like this make me wish I had auto play turned on

I'm really loving these ads 😄

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Great short! Really funny 😂

I really appreciate these videos. I tend to rush the pacing in tense scenes.

Listening through the Sennheiser 6XX with the LMG 0.6 EQ target. 1. Shure SM7b 2. Neumann TLM 102 3. Earthworks ETHOS 4. Neumann TLM 103 5. Sennheiser MKH 416 6. Neumann U87ai

Great. ❤

Inspiring, hopeful and funny! Perfect.

This was AMAZING. I love it! This was so entertaining and witty and also very memorable! I hope you use this on your website!

Love this, Jay. Good work.

I don't get it. So you mean those who don't want others to hear them (for example singing) from outside the booth or in other rooms of the house, will still be able to hear you? I've seen other Studiobricks demonstration where they are yelling and you can't hear them from inside. What am I missing? I guess like it says: It's VO. For voice overs. Not so much for singers who live with others. Oh well. That's a deal breaker for me.

Nice video, Jay. Currently working with a Studiobricks booth and need to cool it down for my longer sessions. Never even occured to me to simply ask for a few minutes break to cool down. Your point about them saving money on not using a pro audio studio is a 'forehead smacker/duh' moment for me. Did you end up doing some notes listing the products?

You’re one of the, if not the only, VO people on youtubes who gives this level of detail - it’s extremely helpful and thanks for doing the videos.

Hi Jay - glad you did this. I just got my first three ACX offers. Went in to my booth last night to do my 15 minute checkpoints and by the time I was done, I was drenched as if I had been at the gym for two hours!

I love the concepts and want to use them, but how in the world would I use a mixer? Talk about venturing into new waters.

10:58 Wolverine really wants to bake some muffins.

I have both and love both. Ethos for content creation. SM7B for music production for me. But you can use them for everything!

I have been trying to save to get one, but I can never do it. It's just way too expensive for me. So Sad. Because I really need one.

Thanks! Is there a plugin that has both compressor & expander , other than Kive audio complexx?

Thanks for this. I've been receiving a few invites on Voice123 on my free account but today as I was about to submit an audition I noticed the slots had been filled and I needed to upgrade. I'm on the fence as I'm an absolute beginner but I'm Scottish and so have a Scottish accent. There's not so many jobs requiring this I guess but also little competition as there are not so many Scots in the world.

I would love to see the Ethos compared side by side with either of my workhorses of choice; the RE20 and/or RE27 ND.

Dialling things in on headphones is ok but make sure to check on monitors, phone etc.

Great critique, Jay! Another thing I would like to point out is the order of these spots. If this were a demo, put your best foot forward! In this case, I feel like the best spots were towards the end, while the riskier, playful type of reads were up front. All in all, another great feedback video!

Hi Jay, great video! I ended up picking up the One Plus VO Edition that came with a bass trap this sits right behind my head. I'm finding that after all the setup, there is an unpleasant resonance in the lower frequency that I can't surgically remove with EQ without taking a chunk out of where my voice sits (deep voice), and I'm having trouble figuring out where or how to treat the space at the source to get rid of the reverb. Do you have any tips?

So helpful! btw, where can I get that wool, bread style acoustic paneling? Been seeing it everywhere on videos, but can't seem to find it.

Thank you.. both the reminder of Icarus and the coming into the FULL feeling of the moment and scene.. inspiring.. Thank you:)

Hey Jay! I just wanted to say that your tutorials on processing vocals as well as your subscriber feedback videos are exceptionally helpful for me and many others! Before stumbling across your channel I had a decent idea on how to make a narration/commentary sound good, whether that'd be proper mic technique, audio processing etc. however, since discovering your channel and videos, it's opened my eyes on just how much can go into a narration. It's far from easy and can be very time consuming, however it is INCREDIBLY inspiring and makes me want to continue practicing. I'm still unsure if I want to get into voice over or even voice acting at an intermediate level. However, if I ever do, you'll be the main reason I get into it! Also, this is a fairly big request so, if your not up to it that's understandable. However, in the future would you consider reviewing a completely unprocessed narration from me? (if I decide to submit an audio file in your submissions ofc). If not, that's fine! I know you can be incredibly busy. Nonetheless, tysm for reading my comment! I hope you realize the impact you've had on people is much bigger than it seems. Thank you for your tips and hardwork, it's greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Thanks for the video. I'm looking for a booth large enough for an upright acoustic piano. I noticed they offer custom sizing, but I'm wondering how soundproof it is for people on the outside. The main purpose would be to be able to practice classical piano loudly and record without disturbing my neighbors on the other side of the wall. I can currently hear their conversations (Bronx here!). Thanks!

Thanks man. Really helped. 👊 Can I ask. Do you not use a pop shield? And if so, why?

Great tip. Thank you!

I should do this after or before actual sound editing?

I have both of them, so there is no surprise to recognize them correctly (mainly by noise in the recording, ha, ha). I love SM7B, but prefer Ethos. Good comparison, Jay!

Hi sir Your video is really amazing. Immensely valuable as a learner. Thank you. Plz keep doing what you are doing. It's greatly helpful for students.

Well, it was a toss up between A and D - D feeling the clearest and most detailed B felt flat, C was a bit too warm I’m very pleasantly surprised since I’m receiving my 102 today :)