What does a Voiceover Recording Session sound like?

Many people are curious as to what happens during a voiceover recording session, so I’m letting you hear the whole of my session with Jon Iles when we recorded the Thirty Day Challenge Podcast intro.

OK, this may not have been a typical recording session as Jon and I are friends and we were having fun with this script. Some recording sessions take much longer than this, but Jon is pretty good and knows what I like so I don’t need to give him much direction.

Unfortunately, you can’t hear what I am saying to Jon but I am sure you will realise the times when I am speaking to him and asking for a repeat of something or maybe for him to say a line slightly differently. Actually, Jon cracks me up so mostly from my end there was a lot of laughter.

I have cut out a short portion of the audio because Jon’s phone started ringing and he used some very choice language. He is such a professional that to have taken his phone into the voice booth with him was completely out of character and his swearing was at himself for forgetting to leave it in the Green Room.

As well as the main voiceover you can hear him recording some of the final sound effects too. My favorite is his Bruce Lee impression.

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I hope that hasn’t ruined your image of what voiceovers do. It really is a simple case of a producer in a studio talking to the voiceover in a soundproofed booth, working through a script together with the producer giving direction where required. No jiggery pokery!

In my next post I’ll show you what to do with this voiceover recording when you head into the editing and mixing stage.

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