Real settings. Real pros. Real results.
The Signal Lab is where voice actors, podcasters, and audio creators share the setups that actually work — so you spend less time tweaking and more time booking jobs.
A working professional shares exactly how they dial in their setup — so you can skip the guesswork.
Voice Actor & Audio Engineer
A working professional in the voice over and audio industry, sharing their dialed-in settings to help the community save time and achieve better results faster.
Full unboxing through first session — nothing skipped.
Amy works across commercial, corporate narration, e-learning, telephony, and character voice — with credits including Apple, Amazon and a steady roster of agency and direct clients. She was Vox Boy's very first Founding Operator, and the first working VA to put the VB1 Pro through its paces in a real session environment.
She made this setup guide entirely on her own initiative. We didn't commission it, or even know it was coming. She received her kit, figured out every step, and immediately filmed it so the next person wouldn't have to go through the guesswork alone. That's the kind of professional she is — and the kind of community member this program is built around. We're proud to feature her here. If this guide helped you, go follow her and send her some work.
Same script. Same take. Two very different results. Press play and hear why gear matters.
The same recording captured side-by-side. This comparison is for anyone new to voice over who wonders if gear really makes a difference. It does.
These recordings were made simultaneously with both mics positioned side-by-side. No post-processing applied to either file — what you hear is what you get, straight from the hardware.
Presets contributed by working professionals and our awesome Vox Boy users. Across voice over, podcasting, and content creation. Each file is tested, dialed-in, and ready to load.
John Q. Kubin
Dialed-in for voice over work in lightly treated rooms and hotel setups. Warm, rich bass undertone, broadcast-ready.
John Q. Kubin
Light Compression, Basic EQ Sweetening, with Noise Gate.
More settings added regularly as professionals and users share their setups. Have a dialed-in preset you want to contribute? Use the submission form below.
Hard-won lessons from working voice actors, podcasters, and audio pros. No theory — just what actually works.
No amount of processing will fix a bad-sounding room. In hotels, pull mattresses off beds and lean them against walls. Hang coats in open closets. The more soft material around you, the less reverb hitting your mic — and the cleaner your raw take.
Set your input gain so your loudest peaks hit around -12dB on the meter. This gives you headroom to process without clipping, and your plugins will behave the way they were designed to. EQ and compression sound completely different at wrong gain levels.
Closed-back headphones like the Beyerdynamic DT 770 let you hear detail that room acoustics mask. On the road, your Beyerdynamics become your mixing reference — learn how your voice sounds through them and you'll always have a consistent benchmark.
Your best performance is rarely your first. Set a mental rule: never submit a job with fewer than 3 complete takes. Not because clients need options, but because you'll deliver differently each time — and your third take almost always has more confidence than your first.
Dialed something in that actually works? We want to share it — and you — with the community.
The Signal Lab grows because working professionals like you are willing to share what they've learned. Featured contributors get a dedicated profile, a link to their social and website, and the knowledge that they've saved someone else hours of guesswork.
