Voice-over and ADR

A voice-over booth has one job: to sound like nothing at all. Ours is a small room inside the building with no parallel walls, double doors, its own ventilation that can be turned off, and a broadcast microphone that has recorded everything from a thirty-second supermarket radio advert to a fourteen-hour audiobook. A window and a talkback connect it to the control room; a screen shows picture for anything that has to be in sync.

Most voice-over sessions are an hour or less: the talent in the booth, the engineer at the desk, and the client listening live, either in the control room or remotely on a link that lets them talk to the booth. We record to the agency's spec, edit out the breaths and the retakes, and deliver the files the same day, often within the hour for radio.

ADR (dialogue replacement for film and television) uses the screen in the booth: the actor watches the scene, hears three beeps and speaks the line in sync, as many times as it takes, with the engineer matching the microphone and the room to the original. Independent films from Cardiff and Bristol use us for the lines the location could not save.

Audiobooks are booked in blocks of four hours, which is about as long as a voice stays consistent, and priced by the finished hour once we have heard a chapter. We work in Welsh and English, and several of the regular voices are bilingual.

What is included

• A booth with no parallel walls and switchable ventilation
• Remote direction for clients anywhere
• Picture on a screen for sync and ADR
• Edited files to spec, the same day
• Welsh and English
• Audiobooks in four-hour blocks

What it costs

£55 an hour with an engineer, minimum an hour. Audiobooks by the finished hour, quoted. Remote direction and delivery to spec included. The rates page has every room and cap side by side; the book page works out a session and shows what is free today and tomorrow.