Audio Production Tip

I was watching a local tv commercial the other night featuring two on-camera talent selling cars with a stop watch sound effect ticking away in the background.  It's the commercial equivalent of the vuvuzela. As we all know, a ticking stopwatch means savings people, big savings and the bigger the stopwatch the bigger the savings. Well at least that's the logic in place here. This stop watch has been turned to "11".

Time to invoke a creative audio production tip.

Audio Production #1: Let the voiceover be the voice OVER not the voice UNDER.

Creative audio production can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Please, for safety's sake and your client's happiness contact professional production companies like SunSpots Productions™. You'll be glad you did. (I thought 60 Minutes owned the stop watch in the background franchise anyway.)

Bambi visits SunSpots near Asheville

The wildlife hits just keep on coming. Looks like it's lunchtime in the animal world too. Around noon today a large deer visited SunSpots NC recording studios property near Asheville. We've got a heavy producing apple tree that the deer are beginning to visit every other day. Here's our latest visitor:



Have any wildlife where you work? (Other than that creepy guy with the weird hair at the water cooler.)

And as always if you're searching for professional voice talent, fully produced, supervised and directed recording sessions and creative audio production in most languages please visit SunSpots Productions.

What wild beast will show up next?!

Happy Anniversary Google!

Google, no longer just "search engine" Google, is celebrating their 10th anniversary this week. Can you believe it's been 10 years? Can you believe what it was like BEFORE Google hit the web? Can you believe so many of us passed up buying Google stock at $80 a share? lol I did on that one. Thought they wouldn't be around long. OUCH!

What a massive player and global powerhouse they've become. They stuck with their dreams, focused on excellence and became much more than just successful. Their name even became a verb!

I wonder how so many of us would never be found without Google being on the web. A few years ago, after a technically savvy employee left us, we were absolutely lost in Google's results. We were ranking in the 800's or worse.

Through three years of effort we (SunSpots Productions) now show up at least in the Top 20 results in Google's search engine or mostly on their front page. For example search for "voice talent agent", "spanish voice talent", "creative audio production", "voice talent", "audio production", "asheville voice talent", "orlando voice talent" and there we are on the front page or number one out of millions of pages. It was all done while wearing a white hat too! (SEO peeps know what I mean.)

So thank you and congratulations Google! You've inspired and changed our world. I hope the next 10 are full of positive innovations and useful products for us all.