"Audio Recording Basics and Intro to REAPER" with James Romick (CANCELLED)

SYNOPSIS

In the current and future landscape of voiceover, actors need to know how to operate and understand basic audio recording software, editing, and formating files to meet industry standards.

This two-fold class will cover the basics and needed terminology of audio production, recording and the necessary day-to-day skills needed to thrive in the VO biz. This will set the foundation for an introduction and overview of REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording), a popular digital audio workstation (DAW). While REAPER can be used for all areas of VO, it is currently gaining momentum as an audiobook industry standard.

This workshop will also act as a prerequisite to a follow-up, advanced REAPER class.

This class ends at 8:30pm.

INSTRUCTOR BIO

James Romick - After paying his dues performing in Dinner Theatres, Regional Theatres and Stock Theatres in the Midwest and up and down the I-95 Corridor from Maine to Miami, doing extra work and small roles in numerous films and on TV, studying audio engineering at the Institute of Audio Research here in NYC, and performing on Broadway for nearly 23 years, James has settled into semi-retirement at his home in New Jersey.

“For me, voiceover sort of came in through the back door. When I came to NYC back in 1980, there were only a handful of guys making a living at VO, and it was still that ‘big announcer’ style. Making a demo was expensive. Cassettes and duplication services were not cheap either. And there weren’t as many opportunities as there are today. So, I stuck to the live stage.”

Now, with the advent of relatively inexpensive recording equipment, computers, software and the like, nearly anyone can dabble at being a VO artist. I’m pretty handy at basic construction, so I built myself a small home studio recording booth, outfitted it and dove in. Now I’m doing something I never thought I’d be doing in a million years. AudioBooks.

IMHO, REAPER is the nearly perfect DAW for VO recording. I’ve been using it and configuring it for nearly 4 years now and discover new things about it all the time.”