Voice over tips Practical voice over tips you can use today, from the booth to the audition to the invoice.

Find the hum, hiss and rumble in your home recordings, measure your noise floor, and fix the leaks, appliances and settings that cause them.

How hay fever and other allergies change your voice, why some allergy tablets dry it out, and a simple plan for recording through a bad week.

What an audio interface does for your voice, the gain figure that matters most, phantom power, direct monitoring, and the features you can skip.

Audacity, REAPER, Audition, GarageBand and more, compared for voice work: what each costs, why punch and roll matters, and which one suits you.

Screams, efforts and battle cries without the damage: what counts as vocally stressful work, how to plan a loud session, and when to see a doctor.

How to voice a guided meditation: the voice to use, how slowly to read, how to time silences and breaths, and how to record and edit all that quiet.

How host reads and announcer reads differ, why the quiet ad works, and how to turn sponsor talking points into a podcast read that sounds like you.

What Source-Connect, ipDTL and Zoom each do, why a cable beats Wi-Fi, how to record your own backup and what to check before a remote voice session.

Where trailer and promo voice work lives now, the big read and the real read, and how to mark, practise and demo a trailer script that books.

A dynamic forgives a rough room, a condenser rewards a quiet one. How to choose a voice over microphone, with phantom power and USB or XLR explained.