Ralph's Recording Studio
Ralph records using one of two microphones. The Neumann TLM 49 studio condenser microphone is his trusty workhorse. This microphone has a warm sound, and is optimized for vocal recordings. It's a large diaphragm condenser mic.
The other microphone he loves to work with is a RØDE NTG5 shotgun condenser microphone. The NTG5 captures dialogue with exceptional transparency and a natural, uncolored sound with a tailored, linear frequency response, supercardioid pickup, smooth off-axis response, and low self-noise. It's his favorite for documentary work.
Ralph uses Universal Audio's Apollo interface to provide phantom power for the mics and to take mic level signals up to line level signals cleanly and clearly. The Apollo converts the analog signal to digital line signal which is recorded in Pro Tools or Adobe Audition. Audition can produce audio files in all commonly used formats including wav, aif, flac, ogg, mov and mp3. Pro Tools and Audition run on an Apple Mac Studio running MacOS 14 Sonoma with Apple's M1 Ultra processor, with 128 gigabytes of RAM.
For long-form narration, he records to the current version of Avid's Pro Tools. Ralph occasionally uses iZotope's Emmy winning RX 10 Advanced for processing audio files.
Ralph records in a WhisperRoom so produces pristine broadcast-ready audio files. His studio is equipped with Source Connect and Apple Facetime so you may provide real-time direction to me as audio is recorded at studios anywhere in the world.
Because he works from his own studio, Ralph can turn projects around quickly. Average sized projects can be completed within 24 hours, but rush work can be produced within two to four hours when necessary to meet critical deadlines.
When recording is completed, Ralph will provide you with a link to a Dropbox.com folder where you can quickly download your wav or mp3 files, and put them to work.