My New BOOK is out!

Finally, after several months of refining and trialing I have written my first dummies manual on ‘Blueprints to Building Your Own Voice-Over Studio’. And it’s out now where all good ebooks are sold.

This is a no-nonsense guide to creating from scratch an ideal beginners/intermediates personal studio, or ‘voice-box’ (love the pun?) for under $500!

A dummies guide to beginning your own career and what tools you will need starting out, for under $500.

Try a 20% sample for free here, of this dummies guide to building your own Voice-Over Studio

Watch the book trailer

I use this myself for my own Voice-Over Career

If you’ve ever been told ‘you’ve got a great voice’ or, you have been thinking of a change in career, then this world of voice actors is wide open! However, not everyone would suit this career. After all, you will need to have a little confidence, creativity and good articulation to fit the bill. And if you find you’re sitting on the fence in such an area then, even if you do decide to ‘give it a crack’ and it doesn’t work out for you, at least you would not have shelled out thousands of dollars, only to waste it on dead ends.

The key thing to always bear in mind with voice acting and audio works is to fight the chief enemy of recordings… and that is ‘noise’. Electronic hum, fan noise, bumps, bangs, bad weather, echos and lawnmowers… whatever. So, I’ve developed a small recording space that gives you plenty of room to gesture wildly within, as you articulate that most dramatic audio book of Movie Trailer.

Book Blurb:

This book is a dummies guide to helping you develop the tools you will need for PROFESSIONAL VOICE-OVER WORK. This field is huge! You supply the talent and I’ll show you what to do with it. These are Blueprints; step-by-step plans, showing you exactly how to build your own Vocal Home Studio. It is filled with colour photos, measurement conversions and technical plans that will show you exactly how to build this important tool of the trade.
The key thing to always bear in mind with voice acting and audio works is to fight the chief enemy of recordings… and that is ‘noise’. Electronic hum, fan noise, bumps, bangs, bad weather, echos and lawnmowers… whatever. So, I’ve developed a small recording space that gives you plenty of room to gesture wildly within as you articulate that most dramatic audio book, and yet you can still get up, close and personal, with the microphone to create your own take on, the ‘Voice of God’, for that movie trailer you might be cast for. And don’t forget there is equipment you’ll need to share that space with as well. This Home Studio Space, or Booth, is a solid, well built and designed with all of these considerations in mind.
This is filled with tips and advice throughout and will take you from woe – to go, in this very busy gold mine of talented narrators and voice actors.

This book is filled with scale drawings, measurements and step by step guidance, from woe, to go.

I list all the equipment, tools and supplies you will need and have handy tips and advice throughout. There is a handy guide, converting metric into imperial, for those of you using those measurements. This book is easy to read, detailed clearly, and been proven to work superbly.

All the steps have associated images with them, to let you know whether you are heading in the right direction, or not. I will gently guide your through the entire manufacturing process, even to the sound treatment and specialty materials you need. I will show you how and where to position your completed studio and equipment. And there are recommendations of everything, right down to the audio equipment you should be using.

This is the shell and what it will eventually look like. However, there is still soundproofing and noise treatment to be added to this

Reviews:

I love the TIPS you offer. Everyone likes to know what you recommend even though there are choices out there. I like how you often point out what you would do or what you would recommend. And they are very helpful tips indeed. This is simple to read. Your personality shows through the writing and make the reader feel like it will be simple enough to put together, whereby inspiring them. A. Elliston

You must have put quite a bit of work into this and it will definitely be a useful guide for beginners looking to improve their sound! This guide offers a practical way for people to record themselves without reflections. T. Ricketts

Grab your copy today here: And watch for a real live paperback that will be coming out in 2020, so watch this space.

Ian King is an author of several books; a voice actor/narrator and full time dad. He’s been married for over 20 years and lives with his lovely wife and six kids in sunny Northland, New Zealand.