The voiceover industry has been turned upside down by the internet and the audio format MP3, which renders very high-quality audio files at roughly 1/10th the size of previously dominant format (.wav). This means the voiceover component of a 30 second commercial can now be recorded and sent as an email not much larger than your average Word document. Geographical barriers are now irrelevant.
While Michael's studios are in Michigan and Florida, he can now offer voiceover services to clients anywhere in the country or the world. Recording environment is a soundproof isolation booth with analog phone patch to facilitate direction by a producer in a remote location. Same day delivery of voice tracks can be accomplished by using MP3 files, over ISDN lines or emailed by wav, aiff or other files. Longer content can be uploaded or downloaded to FTP sites and overnight delivery of CD's is still an industry standard.
Same day delivery of digital voice tracks can be accomplished by using MP3 files. Finished takes may be encoded as high quality MP3 files (128k/44.1) and sent as email attachments or over ISDN lines. Windows may be used to convert the MP3 files back to .sd2 or .aiff (Mac) or .wav (PC) files read by most digital audio workstations. Most workstations now have native MP3 support. For unsweetened VO files, you will be hard pressed to hear a difference when high bitrate MP3 files are decompressed. If you have a highspeed network, we still can upload finished audio as uncompressed .aiff or .wav files.
