Monday, 30 April 2012 / Published in american son, audiobook, celebrity voiceover, estudio miami, marco rubio, memoir rubio, phone patch, recording session, recording studio, senator rubio

Audiobook Recording Session

Senator Marco Rubio’s recording session at Elite MusicStudios on April 27th, 2012.
“An American Son” his own memoir audio book, set to come out to June 19th, 2012.

Written and read by Senator Marco Rubio
 
Produced, directed and abridged by John McElroy
Thursday, 19 April 2012 / Published in adr, advertising, celebrity, celebrity voiceover, isdn miami, isdn session, lisa ling, miami recording, oprah winfrey, own, recording studio, vo talent

ISDN recording session with Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling recording in our studio for her TV program “Our America with Lisa Ling”. Featured on OWN Oprah Winfrey Network

Monday, 16 January 2012 / Published in audio, audio engineer, audio engineering, audio services, foley, foley artist, recording, recording studio, sound fx

The Art of Foley

A Foley artist recreates sound effects for film, TV and radio productions using different kinds of shoes and lots of props (plates, glasses, chairs). They work under the direction of a Sound Editor and often use their own extensive collection of small props. They are the unseen actors who reproduce sounds, required when the original track is either unusable or completely replaced as in the case of foreign versions.
Foley generally consists of three elements:
Clothing Moves: The Moves Track is a layer of sound that recreates the clothing rustle of actors as they walk, run and move. It sounds like a smooth but distinct white noise that allows the mixer a base coat of sound. It allows the artist to create a “sound design” for the characters and sets the overall tone of the Foley Track.
Footsteps: A Foley artist is sometimes called a ‘Foley Walker’ because one of the most important elements we provide is the sound of the footsteps. Feet are very difficult to perform. It takes a lot of practice to get the exact feeling and timing while standing stationary – you can’ t walk across the room because the microphone needs to be fixed and besides.
 
Specifics: These are the real fun in Foley. They allow you to paint with sound, recreating the actual movements in an enhanced way.
·       Corn Starch in a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunch.
·       A pair of gloves sounds like bird wing flaps.
·       A heavy staple gun and or other metal parts make can make a good gun sound.
·       Cellophane can make the sound of crackling fire (the effects editor should do the fire but in a pinch it does work).
·       A heavy rolled and taped up telephone book makes a good ‘body punching’ surface
Without these crucial background noises, movies, TV series, radio productions, etc. feel unnaturally quiet and uncomfortable.
… If your big productions required a very specific sound effect, at Elite Music Studios, we have one of the greatest Foley artist and sound engineer to give live to your creativity.
Thursday, 05 January 2012 / Published in audio, audio services, elite music, frank quintero, miami, recording studio

Recording Session

Wednesday, 04 January 2012 / Published in actors, audioengine, budweiser, isdn miami, isdn session, recording studio, sean ringgold, tv commercial, vo commercial, vo talent

ISDN session

Monday, 19 December 2011 / Published in audio, business, celebration, friends, happy holiday, holidays, recording, recording studio, studios

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 / Published in dubbing, dubbing services, english, recording studio, spanish, voice acting, voice over

Dubbing Services English-Spanish

Dubbing work done at Elite Music Studios-EMS by Miami voice over actors. Filmed in Spanish, dubbed into English.

Actors: Margarita Coego, Cristina Figarola, Manolo Coego, Jeannette Lehr, James Keller, CC Limardo, Lenny Rabinowitz.

Dub Version

Original Version

Thursday, 10 November 2011 / Published in dubbing, elite, isdn miami, recording studio, voice acting, voice over

Dubbing

“A good actor can do a thousand vices because he finds a place in his body for his voice and centers his performance from that place”. Charles Nelson

Tuesday, 08 November 2011 / Published in actors, celebrities, elite, miami, play, record, recording studio, voice acting, voice over

Celebrities & Cartoon Voice Acting

Less than 20 years ago, voice acting was almost exclusively the realm of voice actors—people specifically trained to provide voices for animated characters. The rise of the celebrity voice actor can be traced to a single film: Disney’s 1992 breakout animated hit Aladdin, where Robin Williams voiced the film’s hyperactive Genie.

The celebrification of voicework can be traced through the films Disney released in the years after Aladdin, from The Lion King (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Whoopi Goldberg, James Earl Jones) to Home on the Range (Roseanne Barr, Dame Judi Dench). But the trend has been most prevalent in the computer-animated films that have dominated family-friendly cinema since Pixar released Toy Story in 1995.

The marketability of a big-name celebrity voice actor gave way, perhaps inevitably, to an even more insidious trend: directly basing a character’s appearance on the famous actor providing its voice. With the marketing machine growing larger by the day unfortunately, conventional voice actors rarely get the chance to helm a contemporary animated film. Banderas’s voice is perfect for Puss—the character was tailored to it, after all—but in the end, Banderas has one voice, and when the best voice actors have “a thousand voices,” it’s hard not to feel like they’re being wasted.

EMS Elite Music Studios wants to share this great article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/how-celebrities-took-over-cartoon-voice-acting/247481/