Get Great Audio For Your Unscripted Project On Any Budget

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Nothing can make your production seem more professional — or more amateurish — than the quality of your sound. Today, audio pro Brett Ulery shares tips and secrets to help you get pro sound on any budget (and we share the $32 audio secret that shaped our careers.)

How To Get Great Audio for Reality TV and Documentary Series
 

Sound Is More Important Than Picture

It’s an axiom our production company Joke Productions has lived by for many years. And that’s why it drives us bonkers when pitch tapes, sizzle reels, and even feature-length docs have awful audio…for no good reason.

Great audio doesn’t have to be expensive.

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Great Audio (Or Much Better Audio) Takes Only a Little Thought

As Brett Ulery points out today, many indie productions don’t even stop to ask themselves if their audio can be improved.

We cover that and more in today’s “great audio” podcast episode:

  • Why more expensive audio gear may not be right for you.
  • The $32 audio secret that shaped our careers.
  • Two kinds of noise you better know about.
  • Hands on tips for low budget productions.
  • Why Brett never wanted to be a sound guy (at first, anyway.)
  • What video games have to do with any of this
  • What happens when you bribe construction crews in the Dominican Republic…

And so much more! Press that giant red “PLAY” button above and make sure you get great audio on whatever budget you’re working with.

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Sound Recording and Sound Mixing Resources for the Hands-On Producer

Dying to do Letterman is our award-winning documentary we mentioned in the top of the show. Thanks to Ken Jeong (star up ABC’s upcoming Dr. Ken) and Arsenio Hall for the following tweets about it last week:

Congrats to our swag winners @WriteCoachKiki, @PASensation and @sobolamike. Listen to the podcast for how to claim your winnings! (It’s in the first two minutes.)

How we sold our new TV show to Oxygen, step by step.

If you’re reading this and wondering about breaking into unscripted television, you’re in the right place. One way to do that…pitch to us. Let’s make some TV together. Here’s how:


How to Pitch to Us

Read our in-depth page about how to pitch us a show . It also talks about what it’s really like to work in our business, the unscripted TV and film industry.