Category: Radio Production

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ISDN, Source Connect and Cleanfeed, Air Conditioned Voiceover & ADR Studio in Bath. To book call 01225 470011 or use the contact form below. Email: jono@soundsvisual.com
Audio can be recorded and delivered straight after session – 24bit raw or edited.
Microphones include Neumann U87, Sennheiser MKH416, Beyer201, Rode NT2A, ElectroVoice RE50, Beyer M10 and Shure SM58.
Sound Devices and Focusrite Clarett 8 pre Audio Interfaces, Logic Pro & Reaper DAWs, Davinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro. ADAM monitoring.
Audio editing and sound design services available as well as comprehensive music and FX library.

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Here’s a useful list of some of the best sites for finding and downloading sound effects for your production.

Terminolgy…and the small print

Royalty free when applied to sound effects usually means that you purchase the sound for a ‘flat fee’ and then you the ‘purchaser’ can use that audio on any number of productions without paying further fees or royalties. However you need to check the licensing terms before purchase to be clear what you can and can’t do. For example with Pond 5 you can use their sound effects on any number of productions, and as with most libraries that licence is restricted to what they refer to as 1 ‘seat’. With Pond5, a “seat” is a ‘single user, person, or computer, hard drive accessible to one person. A “seat” cannot be shared, or passed along. Each new user of the content is an additional “seat” and that licence is limited to one person using it.’ If you need more seats you can buy an extended licence.

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Pond5

Explore the world’s largest collection of royalty-free stock video and creative assets.
https://www.pond5.com 

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AudioJungle | Envato

Audiojungle have huge amount of sounds from just $1. The licence covers you for use of that sound in one ‘end product’ production only – if you want to extend that to unlimited end products / productions you need to select an extended licence.
https://audiojungle.net/

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Sonniss

Professional sound effects libraries for use in films, games and interactive projects.
https://www.sonniss.com

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Sound Ideas

https://www.sound-ideas.com

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AudioBlocks

AudioBlocks.com is the first subscription-based resource providing UNLIMITED downloads of royalty-free production music, sound effects, and loops.
https://www.audioblocks.com

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Partners in Rhyme

General sound effects, public domain sound effects, free royalty free sound effects
https://www.partnersinrhyme.com

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Soundsnap

250,000 SOUND EFFECTS AND LOOPS. UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES. SEARCH NOW.
https://www.soundsnap.com

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YouTube

YouTube has its own library of FREE royalty free sound effects and music. You’ll need a YouTube account and once logged in you can search for sounds and download them. See the YouTube royalty free licensing terms.
https://www.youtube.com

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If you make broadcast productions then you can now get access to the Sounds Visual Music production music library. Refreshing new music – non-mcps and free to use on broadcast productions.

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The Rode NT1 is an incredible microphone – incredibly quiet noise floor (5dBA), incredibly priced, looks and sounds great and unsurprisingly it’s incredibly popular.

The original NT1 was replaced by the NT1-A (anniversary edition) and now there is an all new dark grey NT1. Some people find the mic, especially the NT1-A, can sometimes be a little brittle and harsh – sibilant when working with some voiceovers & singers. Below is a video produced by Rode showing how to change your angle on the mic to reduce these problems.

If you’re an actor on tour at the Theatre Royal Bath, you might find it useful to know that there is an ISDN, Source Connect and ADR voiceover studio near the theatre.

Sounds Visual Voiceover Studios has a voiceover booth, ADR room and can hook up to any studio in the world using ISDN, Source Connect, Audio TX and phone patch. There’s also an ADR room for replacement dialogue jobs, and we have a track record of providing a quality, cost effective professional service.  See the PDF flyer below more details.

We also offer sound design and sound effect audio for theatre productions, a voiceover and singing showreel service as well as audio repair and restoration using iZotope’s RX5 Advanced.

For more details see the PDF flyer below or call 01225 470011. Email Jonathan on jono@soundsvisual.com

Download the PDF information sheet for voiceover recording studio services in Bath

Take a look at the Theatre Royal Bath website

After recording a lot of commercials and documentaries, how refreshing to record some quality radio comedy with the very talented Tony Head and Miranda Kane.

 

 

 

 

 

Sounds Visual produced a set of creative radio commercials for a recruitment company based around the idea of communications that you would hope not to hear from an airliner pilot. Nothing too scary just a few tongue in cheek scenes to catch the listeners’ ear and plant the idea of having the right staff and training in place to carry your business onward and upward… Take a listen and let us know what you think.

Spotify adverts created and recorded for your business
Whilst Spotify users can pay a premium and avoid having their music interrupted by audio adverts, those choosing to use the service for free will have their listening interspersed with the occasional (every 15 minutes) 30s commercials. Advertisers can target their audience by location, age, sex and time of day.

A Spotify advert allows you to also have a picture which is clickable and can take the listener direct to your website…

No need to worry about the listener having to remember your phone number or URL  – they can just click if interested.

To find out more about creating an Spotify advert please contact Jonathan on 01225 470011 or use the contact form here.

Free high-quality, bi-directional streaming in your Chrome web browser but it’s not ISDN…

We’ve recently completed several long intense recording sessions using Source Connect Now to hook up with a London Soho dubbing studio to record the voiceovers for a whole set of big Christmas TV ads. The voiceover was in our voice booth here at Sounds Visual in Bath and the client and engineer were in London to direct the session. The backing music was piped down for the artist to voice over, and after 90 minutes and many scripts later I have to say that it really is a very impressive and viable alternative to ISDN.

… and Source Connect now is free!

Source Connect Now is not the same as the standard Source Connect, although produced by the same Source Elements company,  and it doesn’t have the same feature list as the original software, but Source Connect Now is free – all you need is the Google Chrome browser and you are good to go…

Our session using it lasted just short of 90 minutes and it was absolutely flawless. No drop outs, reasonable quality at 128kbps (same as ISDN) and best of all hardly any delay so the producer could direct and the artist respond without the ISDN delay down the line that ends up with everyone talking over each other. You can raise the quality up to 256kbps mono or 512kbps stereo – depending on your broadband speed.  I recorded the voiceovers locally here at 24bit and then transferred the files after the session. You can use the included ‘recorder’ option to record the session up to 16 minutes at a time and download in WAV format.

So how does Source Connect Now work…

One party has to sign up for a free account and then invite up to 4 guests to join the session by sending them a link and password – all done from within the excellent easy to use website. (you have to use Google’s Chrome browser)

When you join the session you can choose your audio input device and as far as the output of the audio is concerned, the audio will go to whatever you have selected as your output device in system preferences (I use Macs but same principle applies if you are using Windows)

The way I use it is to have Source Connect running on a separate machine and then have a return and send from a mixing desk – which also sends and returns to the main Mac running Logic Pro. I just find using a desk makes it easier to route the voice, control the feed from the remote studio, send a feed to the DAW to record and ‘talkback’ to the artist and remote studio.

Find out more about Source Connect Now here

According to the Source Elements website, in 2016 a subscription version will be available with premium features like conferencing for up to 10 people. From what I understand the 128kbps version will be free – at the moment you can up the quality on the free version all the way up to 512kbps stereo, so I’m guessing that once the subscription options start the free version will be limited to 128kbps (same as ISDN). See here for details.