Author: Jono Slatter

You can never have enough sound effects…And even though you can hunt around and buy sounds individually as and when needed, it can bereally handy to have a wide selection of sound effects ready and available in your library as indexed wav files instantly searchable on your drives.

Right now all Professional Sound Effects albums at YoPo Music have 75% off! And all proceeds go to the UK Charity Pennypaws Rescue which rescues dogs left to die in Romanian Kill Shelters. Dogs like Finn below is one of the lucky ones, rescued by Pennypaws and now living life to the full in a loving home in the UK. Thank you so much for reading.

Check out the Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects at YoPo Music

See the work of dog rescue charity – Pennypaws Rescue – UK Registered Charity No 1200959

Sound Effects Categories with 75% off

• Horror and Scary
• Room Tones Pops and Noises
• Motorsport & Transport
• Crowds and People
• Nature Sounds
• Footsteps and Foley

Setting up the Korg Nano Control 2 with the Reaper DAW. The Nano Control 2 is an excellent USB controller to use with Reaper DAW. Download the Korg Editor software here: https://www.korg.com/us/support/download/software/0/159/1354/

Jono Slatter is a UK voiceover – to discuss a project please click or call 07738 470011

jono@jonoslatter.co.uk

Aspect Blinds – https://www.aspect.je/
Produced by Stig Adeler: ITV Channel Television

To book a voiceover – often available same day – please call 07738 470011 or email.

After 22 years of working in a recording studio control room with no light, I have finally opened the room up to natural light with a large 2 metre wide window with studio glass plus underfloor electric heating installed by Woodstow Build and Design.
Whilst it might seem desirable from an acoustic point of view to have no window, the downsides of working without natural light and air are manifest – light and oxygen provide energy and being able to see the outside world going by makes you feel connected. Especially if you’ve been in a bunker for a couple of decades!

The acoustic treatment of the room was designed by GIK Acoustics. They offer a very good service where you can send in the dimensions of your space and they will recommend acoustic traps and placement. Highly recommended. Take a look here. The room has a nice acoustic feel for doing vocals and acoustic instruments like violins and guitar – but for voiceovers I still use the dedicated voice booth and Neumann U87.

When you import a video file into Reaper with audio on it – it comes in as one file / one item.
So if you try and edit the audio – you’ll be editing the video too.
This is the quickest way I have found to work with the audio on a video in Reaper.

• Import video file into Reaper
• Duplicate the track – label the top one ‘video only’ and the duplicate ‘Audio’
• Mute the track you labelled ‘Audio’
• Select the video track, ‘View’ the video (Shift Cmd V) and right click on the footage – choose video properties
• Select ‘Disable Audio’ and OK
• Move the payhead and the video track will lose it’s waveform. Minimise the video track
• If you want to you could hit the route button on the video track and uncheck the master parent send
• Unmute the audio track. We still have video on this track so to get rid of it select the item – right click and choose Glue
• That will convert that item to a WAV file and so Audio Only
• Start editing!

I produce explainer and training videos for companies in the UK and US – including for MacProVideo and for UK software company Barn2, who produce excellent plugins for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Producing these videos includes the video capture, video editing, graphics and production as well as the voiceover.

Software I use to create Explainer Videos:
Screenflow for screen capture and post production
Davinci Resolve for animation and effects
Reaper (for the voiceover & audio)

If you’re interested in having an explainer video made for your business, please use the email link above to get in touch. Prices depend on the overall length and complexity of the project but start from around £750 + vat.

How to add a bit of polish to a voiceover recording with the PSP Infinistrip plugin to make it sound crisper, richer and more pleasing to the ear.
Voiceover by Jono Slatter British Voiceover https://www.jonoslatter.co.uk/ Original voiceover recorded dry in booth with Neumann U87 mic.

Try a demo of the PSP Infinistrip Plugin https://www.pspaudioware.com/products/psp-infinistrip Review of Infinistrip in

Sound on Sound https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/psp-infinistrip

Nice to see some TV ads for theatre shows coming back in. Here’s one for the fabulous new Tom Jones Musical – What’s New Pussycat – at Bimingham rep. Fab!

Here’s the 2021 Mothers Day radio commercial voiced by Jono Slatter.

Funky Pigeon Mothers Day Radio Ad voiced by Jono Slatter

Jono Slatter is available to record your radio commercial, tv ad or online campaign – to find out more and to book call 07738 470011 or email.