I'm new to this forum; have been reading posts for some time and found it very educational. I have a question, especially to those who have some experience recording voice-overs.

I have a good friend who is interested in starting a career doing voice-overs and possibly audio books. Can anyone recommend a few good books on the topic of getting started in this field, as well as any real-life experience about this? Thanks! ANDY

I just registered here, and I'm looking forward to learning a lot: this looks like a great resource! Thanks to all of the pros here who help out those of us just starting out down the audio engineering path.

I'm thinking of getting an Audio-Technica AT4040 for voice-over recording (primarily male voices).

Is there anything of comparable quality at a lower price? I need to save wherever I can but make as few compromises as possible when it comes to quality.

Guys, I'd like to upgrade my interface. I currently have a M-Audio MobilePre USB and it's ok, but I'd really like to bump up the quality.

I'd love to say I had the money for something extravagant, but alas, I do not.

I've been hired to do an ongoing project. It's location recording of storyrtelling for a series of videos. I record them telling their tragic life stories, then a slideshow-like video is added later. I've done a couple already using my mbox and an NT2A, and while it has worked fine, Id really like an inline compressor, and a better pre wouldn't hurt.

OK, fellas...I finally have broken down and threw together some demos to illustrate my voice-over range. I made three separate demos:
1) Character Demo - Cartoon, Video Game characters
http://operadragon.timeimmortal.net/chardemo.mp3

After being told I should persue this for years I am finally going after it. I want to explore voice-over work. I have done some reseach on the net and find all kinds of workshops but don't really know what I am looking at. Does anyone have any experience here and could you offer some advice about how to not get totally ripped off and learn a little about this subject in the process.

Hello I'm a newbie to this forum & I would like suggestions & help with my vocals.

HI
Looking for advice and guidance on buying sound equipment.
Need to record some voice-overs form home and have a limited budget. Dont know much about how to set this up but needs to attach to PC.
Want to record voice-overs with good quality and be able to play about with the sound files in whatever format they have been saved as.