Thought of setting up a home studio and having to learn technical software skills is painfull but don’t worry if you can understand basic cut and pasting then you can edit audio , yes you really can, if you’ve got a good set of ears to know what a good recording of a voice should sound like out of a decent set of loudspeakers or headphones . you can be your own studio engineer why would you want to visit to a studio and pay them money? with your own studio you will be fully in control and be able to respond very fast to auditions, retakes and all your general projects, so your clients will be really impressed,impressed clients will tell their colleagues and contacts and suddenly you’ll get referrals and your income will be grown, having a home studio facility is a win-win situation for voice over artistes.
if a client needs to direct you ,unless they insist on say ISDN which is a system for directing and they record at their end you can still do this in your own facility by being directed by Skype you recording everything at your end here and after the session you edit everything and send the master files over as usua,l as well as an essential home studio the business model takes advantage of the fact that every country on the planet needs the English language recordings of some sort ,whether it’s for an English version of a native language corporate video films aimed at tourists or company videos creating fundraising videos or investor relations communications aimed at the english-speaking world .
English is an international language, there are thousands and thousands of media production companies throughout the world and even more freelancers who regularly