Last week I addressed the question, “Do you need Source-Connect for live, remote sessions?”

This week, we’ll look at sessions that are live, but not remote, and take a deeper look at the options and capabilities of each.

work, tech/gear, professional developmentPaul SchmidtFebruary 8, 2021source-connect, live sessionsComment

Should I Get Source-Connect?

One of the questions I get often from students is, “What is Source-Connect and should I get it”?

Source-Connect is a digital connection application for remote audio recording and monitoring, voice-over, and ADR recording. Essentially, it’s an app you can download and buy a license to (either outright or via monthly subscription) that allows you to connect to other Source-Connect studios worldwide.

work, professional development, tech/gearPaul SchmidtFebruary 1, 2021source-connect, live sessionsComment

Handling "But it's the same audio!"

You get paid for your impact, not your effort. Learn how to respond to a client who mistakenly believes that more impact shouldn’t cost more.

business development, ratesPaul SchmidtOctober 23, 2020usage, licensing, ratesComment

A Word About Kindness

Yes, everyone is stressed. We have a global health crisis, rampant systemic racism (certainly nothing new), social and political unrest, catastrophic natural disasters, climate change, staggering unemployment, and massive disruption to our basic routines.

Still…

business development, personal development, workPaul SchmidtSeptember 16, 2020manners, respectComment

Stop Begging

There’s a phenomenon that was well in place long before the pandemic, which seems to have accelerated since: The public, online asking/begging for work. It’s got to stop.

business development, businessPaul SchmidtAugust 14, 2020begging, asking Comments

Opportunity and Dumb Luck

In the course of my daily prospecting earlier this week, I just happened to reach out to someone at a production company while they were on the phone with their casting director. It turns out they’re casting a network TV show that will rely heavily on voiceover and as luck would have it, dumb luck generated the opportunity for me to audition.

Except it wasn’t dumb luck.

business development, work, professional development, businessPaul SchmidtAugust 6, 2020scale, outreach

Gremlins

Everybody's got them. Everyone. And if you say you don't have any, you're either lying or a sociopath.

They're those voices in your head. The ones that talk shit about you to your face. (For a voice actor, they're especially insidious because they sound just like you.)

I've got'em. They're loud. They're persistent. Persuasive AF.

Here's what mine say:

personal development, professional developmentPaul SchmidtSeptember 18, 2019courage, rejection, vulnerability, relationshipsComment