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Naomisvoice
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Skype Set Up for VO Direction While Recording

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Hello,
My coach would like me to use Skype for her to be able to direct me in my headphones while working on recordings. Presently my headphones go from my pre-amp to my headphones in my booth. I find the whole concept a bit mind boggling. And I'm using a Mac to record.
Any help would be welcome!!!
Naomi

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Skype Set Up for VO Direction While Recording

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Three "levels":
1 - The simplest setup would be to use a smartphone or tablet to handle the skype connection, with an earbud so you can hear the feedback.  Added benefit is that you don't have to wear headphones during recording.  Google voice will also let you record _incoming_ calls so that you can capture audio of the instruction.

2 - You can set up skype so the audio in/out goes through your A/D converter.  This will allow real time audio, but will not let you play back recorded audio to the listener.  


3 - You can set up a small mixer so that the playback can be routed to the skype audio signal.  George Whittam has an excellent tutorial posted on how to do this.  


As this is less of an Amadeus Pro issue, I'd steer you towards a more general VO recording group on LinkedIn, or dig through the archives of EWABS.  This is a fairly common audio direction setup for home studio voice actors and comes up frequently.


Hope this helps,


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On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Naomisvoice <forum2mail@hairersoft.com (forum2mail@hairersoft.com)> wrote:
Hello,
     My coach would like me to use Skype for her to be able to direct me in my headphones while  working on recordings.  Presently my headphones go from my pre-amp to my headphones in my booth.  I find the whole concept a bit mind boggling. And I'm using a Mac to record.
      Any help would be welcome!!!
                    Naomi




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Post by Naomisvoice »

Thanks and point well taken. My intitial YouTube search came up with video sessions using Skype but no mention of set up included.

Apprecate the help!

Naomi

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Skype Set Up for VO Direction While Recording

Post by Sarah k Alawami »

I can't remember if I replied to this or not but can you not rout skype in put and output to sound flower 2ch and then use garage band to process the thing then use amadeus to record the thing?

Take care.
On Oct 2, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Naomisvoice <forum2mail@hairersoft.com> wrote:
Thanks and point well taken. My intitial YouTube search came up with video sessions using Skype but no mention of set up included.

Apprecate the help!

Naomi




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