Steve,
I am so greatful that you are so willing to share more indepth and detailed explinations to your recording philosophy and approach. Thank you, thank you!
I have the typical background of most "Home Office" shops. Granted, I do some small/basic demo recordings for local bands so they have something they can drop off at the clubs and bars, but my bread and butter is in Voice Over recording and radio ads. Most of the V/O is done in a "dead room".
My question for you is: Besides having a great set of vocal pipes for the art; where in the audio chain should I be focusing to go for the "Don LaFontain" effect in dry reads? Mics? EQ? Compression?
Granted, I suspect the simple answer is "Hire 'ole Don to do the ad", but I don't think the ad agency can afford him
Any help from the master to get me pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for you time and talent,
Mark Staite