From Vespas to Voiceovers: The Ultimate Road Trip Recording Setup

You are any history. Welcome, Hi the Pro Audio Suite. Thanks you guys, a professional and motivated thanks to try Booth, the best vocal booth for home or on the road, voice recording and Austrian Audio Making Passion Herd. Introducing Robert Marshall from Source Elements and Someone Audio Post Chicago, Aaron Robert Robertson from Voodoo Radio Imaging Side to the video Stars, George the Tech Whittam from LA and Me, Andrew Peters Voice Sober Talent and home studio Guy. Hey, welcome to another pro audio Suite thanks to try Booth You'll get out of jail card if you want to travel, and Austrian Audio Making Passionate Herd. This week we're talking about being on the road and how small your kid could be. There's his roadcase Austrians in the sack shows what's in the sack? Okay, so I've got a shotgun mic in the bag. I have some audio technica it fifties. I think they are fifty in ears. I have a bunch of leads. Of course noise old thing which is great because if you're in the car, you just wrap that around the steering wheel, around the back. If you're sitting in the back of the car, and and then I have a mic port Pro look at you, which you have discovered, right, you finally you discovered the right combination of cables to get that to work on your iPhone. Well, seed with the iPhone fifteen, it's a US. Oh you have the iPhone fifteen. Oh you shut off? Yeah, but it's great, and I can I have buyer's remorse because I bought the iPhone fourteen pro on a refer to save a little bit of dough. But honestly, and looking back, look what I'm still on. You're rocking? Is it an eight? Seven? Actually it's a six, it's a success. I'm on an eleven success. Yeah. Well, George, you remember when I was pushing the iPhone five? How long did I push that iPhone five for? I pushed until the batteries swelled up and pushed the glass off. It just like opened itself. Do that to us years ago, Yeah, work it up in the morning and they're just like thing, It's like, what the hell? Right? Fluid because of fire. It's like there's two things. There's there's taking the expanded bottle of milk out to the garbage and then there's taking the laptop battery that's expanded out to the garbage as well. Similar Do you know the interesting thing about the phone though, which I'm sure I'm so late to the party on this, but using twisted Wave and I was trying to get high tails work on the phone and it's rubbish. It just doesn't work. I can't get files in there. But I've forgotten that if you go to when you've done a file with on twisted Wave on your phone, you can actually send it from the phone and it creates a link. So you just put it into an email or whatever you want to do and send it like a we transfer ish thing built into it. Doesn't it correct? Correct? It's really good. Yeah. I really loved that he did that. Yeah, it's brilliant. And you know he didn't do it because I think he really felt it was important. I mean, I don't think he wanted to do it. What am I trying to say? He had to do it because the way iOS is that everything is sandboxed, everything's in its own little file system. They don't have a common unified filesystem. They have like a files app now, which kind of emulates that a little bit, but not really, but everything's separated. So him doing that, it made it far more likely you're going to be able to get your file to where it needed to go, including FTP, because I think he even has an FTP client for sending files. That's cool, yea. The good thing is, I mean I'll just send the link to something whoever, and if it's a big session, then it's on a phone. I can't send it as an email directly, but because if the things I'll be like what ten meg, it won't send. But this I can do a whole session on the phone and then just send a link to the person that can download off a twisted Wife site as opposed to me trying to send a massive file. It's a great idea. I love. Yeah, makes sense, No, it's really cool. So what was them? So we were talking about iPhones and versions of phones and how I'm jealous. I really do kind of wish that I did like instead of I was kind of you know, in a little little budget. So I was like, you know what, I'll get the older one, but I wanted the three lenses. I wanted to be cool when I have the third lens, right, So anyway, I wish I kind of wish I just got the iPhone fifteen standard to save a little money, so i'd have that USB c port because that USBC port changes everything on an iPhone. It's now a normal USBC device, and that's huge. Yeah. Yeah, a standard USBC, the USB cable, no adapters, no camera kit, and you're ready to go, right, sure, correctly. I got a camera kit thing adapt to what do you call a thunderbolt thing for the iPad because that's old if I wanted to use that when I'm traveling. Yes, the USBC hit the iPad before the iPhone actually, because they started with the iPad Pro. Then it trickled down to the iPad Air, and I think that's what has it. Maybe the Apple's not admitting fault to using you know, like the lightning was really a good idea. Oh yeah, absolutely, and we all learned that we were holding our phones wrong for a long time. Specific phones that are lightening headphones were a good idea. Yeah, yeah, good idea for that bank balances, Yeah exactly. We all use Max, but we all doesn't mean we're not going to be critical about Apple's choices of how they do thanks, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So brilliant. Well, I'm glad you have an ultra light kit that has pro quality sound. In fact, you did send us samples of that. Yeah. Yeah, And the good thing is, I mean, once I get the barrel, which is still in the male God knows where that is, probably in his way of Venezuela or something. Once I get the barrel, then I can use the C C eight plug it straight into the mic port pro or the passport. Can any of that be used for a self defense? Enough? Maybe I think I can leave a heck of a mark with the x l R jack on it, like shotgun mic numbchucks. Yeah, but can Actually, this Mike's pretty heavy. I could I could seriously bludge in you with this. This is like that. This is like the end of a three pound mallet. Yeah, well, maybe we can fly in the clip that you sent us. You send us a clip of your you're rigging the car? Yeah, and then yeah, that's pretty nut Coorish. It was pretty nice Coorish. Well, then, ap and I've been working on some radio imaging stuff and so I didn't do anything except for bait match the game, and I threw it into the session that i'd been working on for him and just bounced it out audio only and there's no artifacts. I mean, it's obviously got a shiploader and compression on it for radio, and there's nothing that rears its ugly head from compression or equ that makes you go, oh shit, missed that in the beginning. So yeah, I was talking to Matt Calrick when he was in Australia a couple of weeks ago, and we were just talking about traveling and stuff like that, and he does a lot of sessions from his car and he actually said it works perfectly. So that's when I thought, well, you know what, I've seen Joe Sip do a session from the back of his car, and I'll give it a whirl and see what it sounds like. And I just sat in the back seat and it sounded fine. I think the hardest thing was me getting in the backseat. And your curR insurance will pay for it. Yes, did you? Did you know about the one you guys are going to kick out of This is completely our subject. But Geiko got sued by a woman who got an STD because she was doing it in the back of a car. And it happened in the car and the car was insured. Final way get that? What get there? Yes, lawyers, attorneys are ine, Yes, the attorney's fault or is it the court's fault? Let's be honest, it's I don't think it's the attorneys containing such bs. If the courts go, yeah, you're right, Actually he go he's five million dollars, then whose faults that? It's not the lawyer's fault, it's the jury, who basically goes all insurance companies are evil before we even get going exactly, just back on the recording and the car thing though, I mean we could go back, so we're going, we'd be going back to nine. I've seen ninety eight or ninety nine. I was working at George Patt's and we had Chevy Chase out here because he featured in a bunch of TV campaigns for advertise an insurance company called Double Ami, and obviously, to save money, they wanted to pack as much into each day as they could, so in between shots on set they were putting they were putting Chevy into one of the cars with the SOUNDI and recording the radio and it sounded perfect. I got a spot where they had the announcer was on camera, but had to do certain lanes off lane and they did it in the car. Yeah, and it actually didn't work out so good. Oh really, it sounded very much like a car, probably because they weren't close to them. You got to make up close. You read up on that make and you have to eliminate. It's like all about the signal to noise ratio. And if you're close that mic, your signal is loud and the rest of the stuff as far away relative to lake, it's you've changed that. If you make it from even like two feet away, you're dead in the water in the car you gotta get rid of. Well the soundout that did Chevy was your favorite in mine? Ap oh, Chris Chris McCallum, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the naked sound naked soundy indeed, just because I can, I've got those clips queued up show playing Rocker. Yeah, let's have a listen. Sure, Okay, So here's the raw right off the mic in the car, then the and then Rabbo laying on the the laying on the production right. Oh, this is a test from the car on the mic pool Pro the iPhone fifteen. Yeah, in the back of my car, it's bloody hot. Though, I'll give you that much, but I'm just curious to see how good it sounds. I think it's sounding all right, anyway. See what'd you think? Right? Oh, this is a test from the car on the mic pool Pro the iPhone fifteen. Yeah, in the back of my car. It's bloody hot though, I'll give you that much, but I'm just curious to see how good it's I think it's sounding all right anyway. See what'd you think that was? What the full suite of processing added. And then the last clip has no reverb at all. Right, this is a test from the car on the mic pool Pro the iPhone fifteen. Yeah, in the back of my car. It's bloody though, I'll give you that much. Look at the difference in those white poles. I'm actually really I'm really glad. You know, I'm glad you did that, rabo, because you make me a processing chain that sounds like my demo. And this this is an extremely good example of why we never do that, or why I don't do that. I don't make a stack that sounds the way the audio would be processed when you take that in ISO it from the rest of a mix, because, especially for radio stuff. Yeah, right, absolutely, Like that processing in out of context as you're hearing it now is way over the top, right, because you're hearing it out of context, that's right, without sound and all sorts of ships zipping around. Yeah, absolutely right. So it's kind of neat to hear it in that way because we don't normally hear that. We would either hear a raw track maybe something with a little compression or full production. Yeah, and so that was kind of a neat little sidebar thing. I think that was cool. Right here. I can give you the chain if you want. It's like it's it goes. I don't want to know. There's like you can sell everybody else. Two compressors. There's two compressors, an EQ on the track, and there's something else on the track I can't remember. There's something else in a bit of distortion. And then it goes to the bus and on the bus is a limiter and a bit of fresh air, and there was something else on the bus as well for ap on that, and then off from there out to the wet one has a reverb which I think was the waves one of the waves reverbs, and and then there's a modulation on a separate track and kind of a slapped delay. So let's just make it pretty clear to the voice actors out there, do not send your idea of setting it yes, exactly. No, no, no, that's that's never a good as. And the reason I did it was because the only reason I thought it was interesting is because once you can sort of go, yeah, it sounds good, but then when you put it through some massive processing like that, you go, holy ship, listen to it now. But it held up. It was great. Yeah, you got a little bit of beast build up reflex because you're in you know, you're an enclosed cabin and that's what they do, they build bass. We've got a glass around you know, that's right. And then on top of that you have the proximity effect because you're probably close up to the mic as well. That's why I'm curious to see how this went. Once I get that barrel thing, I will try out to c C eight because I think the c C eight will compensate for that boxingness of the car. And I also think sitting in the back seat is probably not such a bad idea either. By that thing in the back seat. Yeah, Actually, it's funny when you add the barrel to the c C. It'll be about the size of a shotgun. Yeah, it will be Yeah, it should be good. I just hope it gets here in time. It's gonna look cool to it. The aesthetics are so important. If it looks good exactly, that's the one. Sounds good is well? I don't know what equipment did you use? It sounds good? Well, it depends. It sounds good, but I don't know. Do you remember that time? Send you guys the yetti inside of Chaotic eyeball? I remember that it sounded good? Right? How on earth sound good? Two wrongs? Make it right first and only time? Exactly? Exactly what the case of two wrongs that f the pro Audio Suite and Austrian audio recorded using Source Connect, edited by Andrew Peaters and mixed by Voodoo Radio Imaging. We take support from George the Techdom. 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