Comments on: Phone Patch vs ISDN vs Self-Directed vs Outside Studio https://voiceover-talent.com/2009/08/11/phone-patch-vs-isdn-vs-self-directed-vs-outside-studio/ Voice-over talent and on-camera spokesperson specializing in corporate communications/presentations, commercial broadcast advertising, cable-network. Tue, 06 Feb 2018 06:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: connieterwilliger https://voiceover-talent.com/2009/08/11/phone-patch-vs-isdn-vs-self-directed-vs-outside-studio/#comment-9 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:55:37 +0000 http://isdnvoicetalent.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-9 Andy – I have worked with Singapore using ISDN – that’s pretty far away from San Diego – and it works great! If there are lots of changes to the script during a session, I just check my email and print out a new script.

As far as phone patch alternatives – you should be able to use Skype for that. All you need is for them to hear you as you record.

And some clients need .wav or .aiff files, so emailing is not possible for the longer form stuff. If you need ftp – try YouSendIt or Box.net.

]]> By: Andy https://voiceover-talent.com/2009/08/11/phone-patch-vs-isdn-vs-self-directed-vs-outside-studio/#comment-8 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:21:13 +0000 http://isdnvoicetalent.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-8 Hi there!
I would describe myself as an “out-of-market” voice! As a matter of fact I’m about as far out of market as it’s possible to be for a producer in North America! After all, Fortaleza, Brazil is not exactly next door. From you it’s almost a full day on one or two planes, depending.
That does place some restrictions on what we do.
First of all, I don’t produce, I do raw voice.
Everything I’ve done since I left North America 6 years ago has been self-directed…which can be pretty fast depending on how many jobs the producer is trying to do at the same time. If they are dedicated to you for that time, then you can message (MSN for example)or email and get the message across. THis makes correcting copy easier.
ISDN is not possible, at least as far as I know. Do you know people who are doing (very) long distance ISDN?
The “phone patch” can be done but is expensive. Skype is not possible as an alternative as far as I’m aware.
I do imaging for radio and it’s all self directed. They leave the copy, I record using Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio and fire it back as an mp3. I have used ftp but I’ve never had a problem using mp3 except for really long scripts. Then it might have to be broken up. You can also use MSN Live Messenger for transferring big audio files.
Andy

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