So late to the plate! This is super interesting, though, and I wanted to weigh in. I actually work on the other side of the glass. I monitor voice actors for the listening comprehension section of an English proficiency test. It sounds really different than your experience!
Our set up sounds similar, but I don't know much about that stuff either! I work with a sound technician, though, who mans the computer and looks out for pops and clicks and all that jazz (her ear is amazing). She does all the editing, too, after the actual recording, she edits and then we check the finished product. Everything has to be perfect - not a single dropped article or changed preposition - or it has to be re-recorded. It's actually really hard to get out of that headspace when I record my own podfic.
In my case, I actually look out for too much characterization! One of our voice actors (who is totally awesome) tends to get into it a bit too much and I have to tone him down. We don't want too much... color in it, for lack of a better description. It has to sound natural, but still, test-y. They're also recording at the same time (which I think might be kind of unusual?) because we want them to have similar pacing and tone and pronunciation.
Our voice actors always read cold and they almost always nail it, which amazes me. We work with two of the best, in my opinion -- I've heard samples from others in the biz here and none of them have ever remotely compared to our two main actors. I seriously covet our female voice actor's voice, which is... kind of creepy, but there you have it.
Also, I'm a big fan of your podfic! I've only recently started listening but I already absolutely adore everything you do. I'm crap at leaving feedback, but I'm totally gonna go back and comment on it all because you're awesome. <3!
Also! I was totally expecting your samples to be in Japanese because, y'know, Gundam, but they were in Korean! And I am working in Korea! I... don't know why I think this coincidence is so cool, but I totally do!
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Date: 2012-08-13 08:10 am (UTC)Our set up sounds similar, but I don't know much about that stuff either! I work with a sound technician, though, who mans the computer and looks out for pops and clicks and all that jazz (her ear is amazing). She does all the editing, too, after the actual recording, she edits and then we check the finished product. Everything has to be perfect - not a single dropped article or changed preposition - or it has to be re-recorded. It's actually really hard to get out of that headspace when I record my own podfic.
In my case, I actually look out for too much characterization! One of our voice actors (who is totally awesome) tends to get into it a bit too much and I have to tone him down. We don't want too much... color in it, for lack of a better description. It has to sound natural, but still, test-y. They're also recording at the same time (which I think might be kind of unusual?) because we want them to have similar pacing and tone and pronunciation.
Our voice actors always read cold and they almost always nail it, which amazes me. We work with two of the best, in my opinion -- I've heard samples from others in the biz here and none of them have ever remotely compared to our two main actors. I seriously covet our female voice actor's voice, which is... kind of creepy, but there you have it.
Also, I'm a big fan of your podfic! I've only recently started listening but I already absolutely adore everything you do. I'm crap at leaving feedback, but I'm totally gonna go back and comment on it all because you're awesome. <3!
Also! I was totally expecting your samples to be in Japanese because, y'know, Gundam, but they were in Korean! And I am working in Korea! I... don't know why I think this coincidence is so cool, but I totally do!
omg this is so long. I'm sorry!