My Voiceover Setup (New for 2025)
Updated July 22 2025.
I recently setup a new voiceover booth and setup at home. You can read about my previous setup here, but suffice it to say my new one blows the old one out of the water. And the kicker? The mic I’m using is older. [As of May 20, 2025, this is no longer true… update below.]
Here’s a walkthrough of the new setup.
COMPUTER
Apple 16” MacBook Pro. I’m still using a MacBook Pro, but I upgraded in 2021. Now, I know 2021 is ancient for a laptop, but I splurged and got the M1 Max chip and I haven’t complained once about any perceived slowness. I do lots of video editing in DaVinci Resolve and have yet to notice any slow down.
SOFTWARE
DaVinci Resolve V20. Speaking of DaVinci Resolve, this is one area where I made a huge switch. In my previous setup, I used Adobe Audition for a DAW. But I’ve since dumped Adobe and moved to DaVinci Resolve. I just couldn’t stand paying the monthly subscription! The crazy thing is that, technically, you can use the FREE version of DaVinci Resolve to do almost everything you’d need to do as a voice actor. I opted for the paid version, which is a one-time payment of around $300, because I wanted some of the fancier features on the video editing side of things.
Source Connect. Source Connect is the industry standard for live directed sessions. I don’t like it. For starters, the website is confusing to navigate. It’s also really expensive. They also have two versions of the product, versions 3.9 and 4.0, and they’re not operable with each other. I have version 4 but most of that studios I connect to have 3.9. Source Connect allows you to create a “bridge” to connect the two versions, but it only lasts for 90 minutes. And in order to get the full 90 minutes out of it, you have to manually 15 minutes. But you can only add 15 minutes when you have 5 minutes left in the session… So it’s super fun to be in the booth and tell the engineer, the producer, and sometimes the client, “I’d love to record the next take, but I gotta go feed the meter.” Unless you’re booking several Source Connect sessions a month, go for the two-day $25 license. This is especially helpful since some clients opt for Zoom because they don’t like working with Source Connect either.
Moving on.
MICROPHONE
Sennheiser ME66 with K6P (no link because it’s old). Here’s another big change. Last time we talked I was using the Shure SM7B. But when I recently got back into doing voiceover work, I watched some YouTube videos on mics and noticed some of the people were using shotgun mics. I have a shotgun mic, I thought. And a halfway decent one at that. I used the ME66 exclusively on a recent project I did and really liked the sound, so I started using it in my booth. I LOVE IT. And the crazy part is that I picked this thing up suuuuper used on eBay for $50 years ago. On my wist list are the Sennheiser MKH 416 and the Neumann TLM 103. But until then, the ME66 will do just fine.
UPDATE!!!
Sennheiser MKH 416. I finally bought it. And I wish I’d gotten it earlier. It sounds SO SO SO different and SO SO SO much butter than the ME66. It’s the industry standard for a reason.
RECORDER / AUDIO INTERFACE
Sound Devices MixPre 6 II. Before I was using a Zoom H4N Pro. But now? I’m in love with the Sound Devices MixPre 6 II. This little guy is small enough to fit inside an on-set sound guy’s bag, but clean and quiet enough to be act as an audio interface. It’s also got tons of gain for gain-hungry mics like the Shure SM7B (which, I’m not using much anymore). It’s not entirely “out with the old and in with the new” though. I still use the Zoom H4N Pro to record multitrack audio recordings of comedy shows.
