HELLOO! Sarah Golding here - how am ya? THE 411 IS....THIS IS THE 50TH MADIVA EPISODE! WOOT WOO I am so excited that this is episode 50.  I fit this in around my other voice acting roles, teaching kids and courses, organising live Dashingly Quirky funnnn and producing my own QUIRKY VOICES audio dramas and HEARTILY AND MIGHTILY THANK ...EVERY. SINGLE. GUEST. and LISTENER and PATREON who has helped us out over the last 50 episodes... Please feel free to suggest ways we can celebrate to my email - [email protected] or simply  ...have a listen to my other projects or boost them or the guests on my groovy lil show.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE chatting voice acting to all folks, and this ep is SUCH A FABULOUS WHISTLESTOP TOUR around ... how Mike started voice actingwhat microphones actually do the differences between dynamic and condenser mics what an interface does....what does bit rate / bit depth actually mean?what does 44100 and 48000 mean as a 'sample rate'?and SO MUCH MORE!WARNING - SOME OF THIS SOUNDS LIKE A ICCLE BIT OF MATHS! ARG! MATHS! But useful maths, and Mike educates us on this BEAUTIFULLYYYYY and my head didn't hurt. We also learn things like - Saying 'singularly, regularly particularly',  is what you need to warm up along with Mike! How Sarah does a Quick clicky test - say 'Lovely likely earlier' - check out your clicky l's and see if you need more lubrication or might need to steammmmm... Listen to MIKE'S QUICKFIRE QUIZ - Troubleshooting some well known issues - maybe he'll have an answer for your issue of audio argh! THANK YOU SO MUCH to my amazing PATREON supporters who get these eps before everyone else, some new writing from me, some Patreon only eps and discounts on Quirky Courses - so...v excited to have their continual support. legends, allademmmm.... LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST Nic Redman Podcast AND links to get works The Podcast Host.com Audient Triton Fethead like wot Sarah uses to boost her gain MIKE'S LINKS TO AUDIO JOY Mike's website Mike on Youtube Book a sesh with Mike Mike on the twitters Sarah's links of audio awesome Sarahs Twitter Sarah's Quirky Website Fiction Podcast News Weekly Sarah's KO-FI account of funding alllll her projects for TRYING to pay her actors n crew EMAIL Sarah if you would like to book a 1-2-1 session for creating character voices / accent / audition help,  or kicking off your indie VA AF career! [email protected] Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/QuirkyVoices)