When we started our Pro Tools workshops a couple of months ago, we had no idea they would be so wildly popular! We originally devised these workshops to help round out our students’ education on the three areas they’ll need to master in order to become successful voice over artists: voice-over technique, marketing skills, and recording & editing skills. We booked workshops all over the country to give students the opportunity to get live experience on their own equipment. One of Such A Voice’s best engineers from the Post Production department, Aaron Sullivan, leads all of the classes.

Faith Cripps, a student from our Boston workshop, says, “I found out about the Pro Tools Workshop in an email, and because it was being held through Such A Voice I knew they would teach me just the information I need to know about recording and editing voice overs — and not a bunch of other information that I wouldn’t care about or use.”

All students are asked to bring their computers to the Pro Tools workshops so that they get hands-on experience navigating and troubleshooting with their own equipment. The workshop begins with a 2-hour general tutorial in which Aaron goes over the foundations of recording, editing, mixing and bouncing different files that voice actors might use for voiceover jobs.

“Aaron was extremely knowledgeable and taught the class in language we could understand,” Faith says. “He was open to any and all questions and was able to answer them without making me or anyone else feel like it was a stupid question.”

The workshop continues from there on out in small groups of three or four. Aaron spends four hours with each group, working on their personal equipment and helping them troubleshoot, record and edit right there on the spot. Students get his personal attention, and they also have the advantage of watching him work with other students on other related material.

“The best part of the whole thing was Aaron made it seem simple!” Faith says. “Prior to taking the workshop, I was so frustrated because I seemed to always run into some kind of problem while trying to learn Pro Tools on my own … The skills I learned in that class are what make it possible for me to use my home studio. Prior to the class I had the equipment but didn’t know how to use it. Now I can use my home studio to produce my own work and get it to the client. Things feel possible for me now and that is exciting!”

We suspect that Faith isn’t the only voice-over artist who struggles with the technical component of being a professional voice actor! If you think you could benefit from the Pro Tools Workshops, please click here to find a city near you. Also, stay tuned for more dates and locations in the coming months!

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