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March 3, 2019 21 mins

JustAskJimVO.studio Episode 2
Though it's tempting to try to fix recording issues by using the latest whiz-bang Effects, that practice can definitely take you down the wrong path, obscuring core issues in your voiceover recording quality.

Questions covered this week include how to identify issues in your recording space, and just how the heck a shotgun microphone does it's trick of being highly directional. 

Resources this week:
Essentialism by Greg Mckeown 

Image of various microphone pickup patterns

Sennheiser 416 showing the "side fins"

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