[Nathan Mitchiner]

Okay okay, as the original poster, I suppose I should chime in after all of the *abuse* – only kidding. I came to the COW for exactly what you all have given me…..professional and time tested advice. I can’t thank everyone enough for all of the info.

We have 9 of these 1 day sales training speaking events now for 2007 all across the country. Based on your advice, I am currently in contact with some national and local vendors to partner with for these events. We will rent the equipment from them and have them run the production.

I will be shadowing very closely to the vendors because of my interest in live production. My boss still wants to ultimately have a combination of owning some of the core equipment and renting the other stuff. And, he still wants to ultimately be able to run these events with an in house crew (me and some other multimedia coworkers) but has seen the light and realizes the importance of using professionals for the first year of this stuff at least.

So, that is where we stand now. As always, I continue to appreciate any advice or road stories/tips/tricks you all have.

Gotta love the COW.

Thanks to all
nm

[Nathan Mitchiner]

Whoops, here is the link to the files I was referring to –

https://www.ibiblio.org/nmitch1/presentation_info.zip

Sorry bout that 🙂

[Nathan Mitchiner]

Hi Andy –
Thanks a lot for the sincere advice. I really appreciate and definitely understand where you are coming from. It may very well be that in the end we hire a company to help out……..at least for the first couple until we get a better idea of how to handle these events. We may even end up hiring someone fulltime depending on how popular the demand gets.

I was just trying to get the ball as far as I could before informing the boss that we may need “extra” help on this…….especially for the client’s sake.

If you don’t mind, could you at least take a look at the files in this zip file and give me any critiques or advice? There is a WORD doc with my preliminary equipment list as well as pictures of a previously simliar event done by another company for one of our clients that our events will probably be modeled after. There is also a graphic of 1 proposed setup for how our events are structured.

I haven’t quite gotten to the video equipment yet but you raise a great point about it. You think 2 of these lights may work for the room –

https://www.lowel.com/prolight/

Also, I was thinking of maybe picking up 2 sony pd-170 cams for the event. Thoughts?

Thanks again
NM

[Nathan Mitchiner]

In addition to getting post advice on the raw samples above, I had another question about delivery. These samples will not be mixed with anything and will actually be going on a VO cd for clients to choose from for their training. That is what I wanted to make them as polished as possible.

With that said, sometimes the training is online and people with primarily be listening to the audio via the web with cheap headphones or cheap speakers. Naturally I am editing the samples with some nice Sony Headphone monitors that pick up more and sound a lot different than cheap speakers, etc. So, how do I edit to make sure that online users will hear good VO audio as well?

Should I first edit with the Sony Headphones and then make a separate file for online that may have higher frequency EQ to not make it sound as bassy?

Thanks Again
nm

PS. For what it is worth, these two VO samples are from in-house co-worker talent and not professional………in case you couldn’t tell 🙂

[Nathan Mitchiner]

Thanks a lot Peter! These VO samples will not be mixed with anything else and are actually going to go out to clients as samples of male talent to choose from for online courses. The first sample is my preferred as well.

With that said, do you there is a need to actually do anything (EQ, Compression, Normalize, etc) to the first voice at all or should I leave that one as is?

Would you suggest anything for the second voice as well?

I just want to make sure that these voice samples sound as polished as possible when cilents listen to them as choices.

For the record, these samples are from in house co-workers who are non-professionals.

Thanks Again
nm