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JOHN MONDELLI
THE STUDIO
All of John's voice over work is done in his professional recording studo. Recording takes place in a custom built, acoustically treated vocal isolation booth. His workspace is specifically designed for recording, editing, mixing, mastering and delivering the finished product all from one single location. This allows for clean, broadcast quality audio, and extremely fast turnaround times - in some cases just a matter of minutes! This studio is built for both the production of voice over as well as music, allowing for everything from a single voice over to the production of a band's full album. This is especially useful when a project needs voice over and music to be produced.
THE BOOTH
John's vocal booth is built from solid plywood and dense sound blocking fibreboard sheathing, designed to help keep outside noises out, and vocals isolated inside the booth. It's acoustically treated with 2" thick acoustic tiles and corner bass traps, giving the recording space an extremely clean sound and completely eliminating echo.
THE MICROPHONES
X2 VINTAGE - LARGE DIAPHRAGM CONDENSER MIC
The Stellar X2 Vintage from TZ Audio is an absolutely phenomenal microphone on par with the industry standard Neumann U87. It features a '47 style capsule that has a warm, mid-focused sound and is a perfect mic for voice over, sung vocals or acoustic instruments. Its neutral and accurate tone brings out the warmth in the mids and isn't harsh on the highs, which prevents unwanted sibilance and gives you an excellent recording for any vocal application. The balanced and neutral frequency response and low noise floor, making it ideal for any high end professional job from animation to commercials to film to broadcast and much more. This is John's main mic for voice over.
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STELLAR X2 - LARGE DIAPHRAGM CONDENSER MIC
The Stellar X2 from TZ Audio has a bright, pristine modern sound is an absolutely phenomenal microphone that sounds somewhere between a Neumann TLM 103 and an Audio Technica AT2020. Amazingly clear, balanced and neutral frequency response and an extremely low noise floor, and a bit of high end sparkle that is clear and crisp without sounding harsh or brittle. It's excellent for voice over and use on acoustic instruments.
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STELLAR X3 - LARGE DIAPHRAGM CONDENSER MIC
The successor to the X2, the Stellar X3 has added warmth and an even lower noise floor than its predecessor. It uses a K67 style capsule and has an excellent tone with nice lows and sparkling highs, making it ideal for soft acoustic guitar and vocal performances. Though not the go-to mic for John's voice over, this microphone sounds wonderful and has many useful applications in the studio. John often uses this when a voice over needs just a bit more bass and deep warmth to it.
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SENNHEISER ME66 - SUPER-CARDIOID SHOTGUN MIC
Sennheiser shotgun mics are the industry standard for commercial and promo voice over, used in top studios in Hollywood, New York and around the world. This microphone has a fantastic low-end and crisp, clear mids, making it excellent for capturing that bold promo sound.
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PROMO - John Mondelli
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MXL 990 - LARGE DIAPHRAGM CONDENSER MIC
This is the microphone John used for national TV work like Adam Ruins Everything, and countless video games including Clash Royale. It captures vocals with depth and clarity, and has a rich, warm tone that really compliments John's voice. Clear, clean high end, and bold solid lows and mids. The mic is excellent for narration, character work, video games, and much more.
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ANNOUNCER - John Mondelli
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MXL V67 - LARGE CAPSULE CONDENSER MIC
The V67 is truly a thing of beauty. Bright green exterior and gold grille. And it sounds even better than it looks! Very similar to the 990 but with a little less low end, giving it a very pure, natural and honest sound quality. It's one of John's preferred mics for animation and character work, and he has used it on hundreds of jobs including The History Channel's D-Day In HD, Voicing Chuck E. Cheese, and tons of characters for games like Dust: An Elysian Tail and many others.
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VIDEO GAME - John Mondelli
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MXL V900 - LARGE DIAPHRAGM CONDENSER MIC
A beautiful vintage style design, the MXL V900 is a lovely mic that also sounds fantastic. It's got a large retro custom grille and has a very nice warm tone, keeping the lows and mids warm, and avoiding excessive harsh highs. It's ideal for retro voice over or announcer work, but is very versatile and works for all sorts of applications. Great for doing retro style music recordings and using in videos as well.
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THE AUDIO INTERFACE
The massive PreSonus Audiobox 1818vsl is a stellar audio interface for studio work. It has 8 XLR and 1/4 inch inputs with individual preamps for each channel. This interface has beatiful, clean audio with no self noise or distortion, and has enough channels to mic a single vocalist or a full drum kit, making it extremely versatile for virtually all studio needs.
To help add impact to the sound, as well as keeping audio levels even and avoiding distortion, the studio is equipped with a two channel DBX 266xs compressor. It gives the voice a bit more presence, while preventing clipping on voice over that requires extremely loud screams. Perfect for intense character voice work!
THE MONITORS
Audio is mixed and monitored using a pair of Presonus Eris E5 studio monitors. These speakers have garnered praise for their incredible clarity and accuracy when monitoring studio mixes and ensure that the mix is balanced and even - with the lows, mids and highs right where they need to be.
These monitors are most useful when recording and mixing music, however they also provide crystal clear playback for voice over as well, which allows for scrutiny of minute details that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.
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THE SOFTWARE
All audio is recorded in either Adobe Audition (voice over) or Pro Tools (music production and vocals.) With over 15 years of experience behind the mic and in the mixing chair John always strives to give you the very best possible product and deliver outstanding audio so that your project can shine.
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John is available for directed sessions via Skype or phone, and can deliver finished recordings in WAV, MP3, AIFF or any other requested file format. Files can be emailed, sent via WeTransfer, FTP, or mail if needed.
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