Los Angeles-based voice actor Joe Zieja, who for several years has produced work for Fortune 500 companies as well as cartoons and motion pictures and more, has assembled thousands of projects using RME interfaces, including the Fireface UFX Plus.
With so much work under his belt, Zieja felt it was time to begin teaching the inner workings of voice acting to others, explaining, “Most of the industry kind of teaches one on one. They do coaching or workshops or webinars and things like that. That doesn’t really work for me because I am, thankfully, super busy so I came up with an online course. It’s an asynchronous learning, video-based content course that basically takes someone from where I started to where I am as quickly as they can.”
Zieja plans to integrate everything from the bare basics of voiceover and how to build a home studio to book keeping, microphone techniques, and signal chains, broken down into multiple modules with hundreds of lessons throughout. In addition, he reached out to the Synthax Affiliate Program, allowing him to integrate a catalog of techniques and approaches with RME that can help advance his students in the voice acting industry.
When on the hunt for new equipment six years ago, Zieja was searching for something reliable with PC capabilities, with a top priority being to match up a static studio with a mobile studio with no change in quality or ease of use. Since then RME has become an important part of his day-to-day professional life.
“The biggest thing I talk about in my course is workflow, it’s ease of use,” he concludes. “You don’t want to be fiddling with stuff. You want to set it and forget it and never have to worry about it. That’s why I love RME.”
