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Most people starting out in voice over spend weeks choosing a microphone and about four seconds deciding where to put their face. That's backwards. Distance, angle and how still you stay change your sound as much as the mic does, and they cost nothing. Here's what microphone makers, studio engineers and one of animation's busiest voices say about the inches between your lips and the grille.
Engineers know the classic first session. A new voice actor leans right into an expensive condenser, the first "P" thumps like a dropped book, the bass swells on the soft lines, and by page three the level has wandered because the reader has drifted back in the chair. None of that is the microphone's fault. It's mic technique, and it's a habit you can start building tonight.
The radio actors in the photo at the top of this page had no pop screens and no plugins. They had one microphone, a script each, and the knowledge that stepping in or out a few inches was how you got louder or softer. The physics hasn't changed since.
Two of the biggest names in tech showed off talking machines in the same week. Google DeepMind's Genie 4, announced on Tuesday, builds a world you can walk through and...
Bogotá handed out 25 statues for the spoken voice this month, and the list reads like a working voice actor's week: a commercial demo, an audiobook, an e-learning course, a...
Every microphone box is covered in numbers, and most of them were written for engineers recording drum kits. A voice actor in a spare room needs to read about four...
Opinion
Boston's Logan Airport is choosing its new announcement voice by public vote, and voting closes Wednesday. It's a lovely idea, and the eight finalists are a...
VO Tech News
Ollama, one of the most popular free apps for running AI on your own computer, can now talk. Since Saturday, anyone with an Apple Silicon Mac...
Talent Profiles
Peter Dickson is the booming voice that shouts contestants onto the stage on Britain's Got Talent, and for years did the same on The X Factor....
AISGE honours dubbing actors Marta Angelat and Luis Porcar in Madrid. Here’s every 2026 Premios Actúa winner, and what two long careers in the booth teach.
The Latin American dub of The Apothecary Diaries season 3 is on Crunchyroll, with Desireé González as MaoMao, Diego Becerril as Jinshi and the full VSI Mexico crew.
ElevenLabs’ live translation works in 90+ languages with your own clone. Mistral’s Voxtral 3 copies a voice from 30 minutes of audio.
La distancia, el ángulo y lo quieto que te mantienes moldean tu sonido tanto como el micrófono. Lo que enseñan Neumann, Sound On Sound, ACX y Dee Bradley Baker.
