Voice Over Recording

Using a professional studio to record your audio with an experienced engineer who knows what they’re doing guarantees you professional-grade results. There are individuals or services out there who will offer to get the job done quickly and on the cheap, but you really want your recordings to be produced by a studio with experienced engineers with a finely-tuned ear who do this for a living, a staff of helpful Account Managers who will ensure that the project is done to match your desired specifications, and top quality professional equipment in an exceptional, acoustically treated studio environment.

Yes, we absolutely can! Big Ears Audio is a full-service voice recording studio that offers everything to facilitate the production of your project, from casting services and recording to every aspect of the post-production process, including editing, mixing, sound design, and dubbing/ADR. Our Account Managers and Engineers will work closely with you to ensure that your project meets the highest standards of quality. All you need to do is send us the script and we’ll do the rest.

If you don’t have the voice over artist we can find the right voice for your project. Our casting director has over 22 years’ experience in matching the right voice with the right project. We have a network of trusted voice over actors that we work with as well as a number of highly respected agencies who can help to provide you with just the right voice/voices to make your project come alive.

Big Ears Audio can accommodate you, no matter where the voice artists or clients are in the world. Not only do we have a first-rate recording studio, we can facilitate work at any recording studio in the world, even a talent’s home studio. We always vet our studios to make sure that the audio quality is up to our rigorous standards, and any recording time that you book with us will include one of our expert engineers, to ensure that your audio comes out of the session sounding the absolute best. We have worked with clients from all over Australia, as well as clients from New Zealand, USA, Italy, UK, Europe, and Asia. Our Studio is connected to a high speed dedicated Internet line, and we can connect to other studios using Source Connect.

The technology allows the transmission, in real time, of very high-quality audio from one location to another via a high-speed internet connection. As such, it allows a commercial studio to receive and record the microphone feed of another studio in a different location. This is typically used when a voice actor can’t come to the commercial studio in person. There is no compromise in sound quality.

So if you booked a job that was meant to be recorded in New York, but you were in Melbourne , the client can now book you in to a studio in Melbourne so that the studio in New York can connect to it (via the SC app that both studios had). This way, the client in New York could record you as if you were in their studio, in person. The technology is quite amazing: you talk into a microphone in Melbourne, the high-quality audio signal gets transmitted via the internet, and the New York studio receives and records the performance as if you were talking into one of their microphones. The studio in New York has full control of your mic feed. In the voice over industry, we call this “recording remotely”.

If the sound recording quality isn’t up to the standard you require, we’re happy for you to send the voice over recording in for one of our engineers to have a listen to at no obligation. It’s difficult to remove room noise and sounds that are embedded in the sound recording. But we would try our best with the sound that we are given. We would inform you of the fees before commencing any work. Sometimes it is better to re-record the voice over to the standard and quality required.

The cost of studio time depends on the scope of your project as well as the suite of services that you might need to go along with the recording itself. For larger voice over projects you would receive a fixed price quote. You can also book the studio by the hour. Our hourly fee includes the engineer. Big Ears Audio is one of the most highly-regarded recording studios in the industry, and we will work with you to figure out which services are applicable to your project and provide you with a quote accordingly. Please feel free to contact us for a quote.

The time it takes to record a voice in the studio depends on the length of the script. The greater the length, the longer the time it would take to record.

Once the voice over is recorded, our engineer will mix and treat the voice to bring it up to the professional quality required. Whether the sound recording is for television, radio, online or live broadcast we’ll make sure your audio meets industry standards.

We can supply audio solutions in many common formats including WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG, FLAC, and AIFF.

You don’t have to worry about the security of your audio files, we deliver the files to you via secure transfer or if you are working out of our studios, we are happy to deliver them to you on a portable device like a hard drive or flash drive that you bring to the session.

Big Ears Audio has worked with Advertising Agencies, Marketing Companies and Consultants, Radio and Television Stations, Promotional companies, Film Directors, Producers, Creatives, Account Managers, and Game Designers. We also work with individuals that need a voice over recording recorded. No audio job is too small or too big. The great thing is that you’ll be dealing directly with the studio owners, so you can be assured of great service and quality recording experience!

Once your voiceover is recorded, we can source and supply your voice recordings with a music backing track. How it works is you provide us with a brief that outlines the style of music, feel, and tempo. We would then search our many music libraries and present you with a selection of music. Once the music track is chosen we can edit the track to fit and stripe it up against the voice recording. If your budget extends to having a bespoke music track written, one of our many in-house music composers can help tailor a music track that suits.

If you have a script you’re thinking of recording yourself, we are happy to have you in the studio. Our experienced engineers are there to give direction and guidance. So if it’s your first time in a sound studio you can be assured you’re in good hands. Just be mindful that booking a professional voice over artist could save you time and money in the long term.

Once the voiceover is recorded and you need your project fully produced we can do that for you as well. Whether it’s a television commercial, radio ad, internal corporate communications, etc. we can add music and sound effects to really bring your project to life. Our sound engineers are experienced in editing and mixing all styles.

Do you hear voices on the radio or television and think you would like to get into voice work? Firstly you will need a demo. The demo will showcase your tone and style so when a studio is casting for voices for a production they will be able to present your demo to the client. We recommend you bring in some scripts that you think showcase your talent.

We also can supply scripts if needed. You’ll be guided by one of our in house producers and come out with a demo that you can send off to studios and agencies for work.