Coaching Excellence
Looking to maximize your VO/Narration audio quality and performance?
Don Baarns is one of the world’s leading experts in voice recording & production. He’ll have you maximizing your quality and productivity in record time.
From absolute beginners, to seasoned experts…they seek out Don for advice, coaching, and refining their audio, voice overs and audiobooks.
Nobody has better ears in the biz. He loves maximizing YOUR productivity, and keeping it fun during the process.
Online Learning
Personalized - One on One Coaching
Don loves helping people make the most of tech in a fun, accessible way. Live video chats make it easy, convenient and productive. You can see his screen, he can see yours, making it simple to see and hear the results from anyplace in the world.
His coaching, video sessions, and tools were developed after thousands of hours of private sessions with clients, ranging from absolute beginners to expert-level students. Always looking for a way to make fun of himself, he takes learning and your results VERY seriously.
More than just a “tech guy,” Don started his adult life as a performing musician in Los Angeles. With decades of recording, production, AND performance experience, he has a unique perspective on audio tech.
At the same time, Don isn’t stuck in the past, instead embracing today’s best practices and productivity tools, always learning, tweaking and finding ways to be more productive and improving results for his clients.
He inspires and laughs with you, making the path more fun, interesting, and productive as you’re working toward excellence.
When you want the best, Don is the right choice for getting started, OR for tuning after you have years of VO, narration or podcasting experience.
On-on-one
Tune-Ups or Quick Starts
With thousands of hours of audio coaching, Don can set you on a path to audio excellence. Fun, productive, and focused on providing you a competitive advantage in this fast paced VO world.
Don has been working with Punch and Roll since before it was cool, and can take your recording to the next level too. While he’s a productivity expert in Studio One & iZotope RX, he has an extensive DAW and recording background, going back to classic 24-track recorders in recording studios, mastering vinyl records AND stays up with the latest competitive trends and tools.
He loves keeping up with each evolution in technology, and is always looking for ways to combine old-school wisdom with the latest tech advantages. This mentality gives YOU a faster start, or more advanced refinement if you’re experienced.
Single-hour and/or a highly focused 4-pack “Quick Start” sessions are available via video chat.
Work with one of the world’s best voice/dialogue recording specialists.
Don will do a FREE 15-minute session to explore options, understand where you are starting, and map out a “moving forward” plan with you.
More details here soon (within the next couple days!)
Productivity Enhancements
Custom FX Chains, Batch Processes
Save time, and get your audio among the best without becoming an audio engineer yourself. Plug-and-play solutions enhance your audio, and cut your production time.
Don’s configured processing chains for Studio One, batch processes for RX, and productivity stacks for over a thousand VO artists to date.
Thousands more have used his techniques via his online courses and sessions.
Work with one of the world’s best to get your signature sound!