Voiceover & Corporate Audio in Dubai

Why Voiceover Needs a Proper Studio

A voiceover is the most exposed type of recording. There's no music hiding room reflections, no beat masking background noise, no reverb to smooth over a harsh sibilant. It's a voice in a space, and the listener hears everything — the room, the mic, the breath, the chair creak, the AC rumble from two floors up. The gap between an amateur voice recording and a broadcast-quality one is almost entirely about the space it was recorded in and how it was processed afterward.

At StudioToGo, voiceover sessions happen in Studio A — our primary recording space with a dedicated vocal booth, acoustic treatment designed for spoken word, and a signal chain built to capture clean, detailed, present audio with no processing artifacts. The booth isolates the voice from everything else. The Neumann U87 captures the full frequency range without colouration. The Avalon VT-737sp adds warmth without muddying the detail. What comes out of the session is a clean, dry, broadcast-ready voice track.

That's the foundation. Everything after — editing, cleanup, loudness compliance, format conversion — is just finishing what the recording already delivered.

Our Services

Voiceover and corporate audio breaks down into four service areas depending on what your project needs. Most clients come to us for recording, but we also handle post-production on audio recorded elsewhere.

What We Record

The scope of spoken-word recording is broader than most people realise. Here are the most common project types we handle — but this isn't an exhaustive list. If it involves someone speaking into a microphone and the result needs to sound professional, we can help.

The Recording Chain

Voiceover recording is about signal purity. Every step in the chain from mouth to file needs to capture the voice faithfully, add controlled warmth where appropriate, and introduce zero noise, distortion, or colouration. Here's the path your voice takes in our studio:

Monitoring during the session happens through ATC SCM45 studio monitors and Avantone CLA-10 reference speakers — so what the engineer hears is accurate, and any issues are caught in real time before they become problems in post.

Audio Cleanup & Restoration

Not everything arrives clean. Clients regularly send us audio that was recorded in a conference room, on a phone, over Zoom, or in a home office with a USB microphone and no treatment. The voice is fine but the recording isn't — and they need it to sound professional.

That's what our cleanup service is for. Using iZotope RX — the industry-standard audio repair suite — we can remove or reduce:

• Background noise — AC hum, traffic, fans, electrical buzz, broadband noise
• Room reflections — the boxy, echoey quality of untreated rooms
• Mouth clicks and pops — the small artefacts that become distractingly obvious in spoken word
• Sibilance — excessive sharpness on "S" and "T" sounds
• Level inconsistency — normalisation and compression to create even, broadcast-ready dynamics
• Clipping and distortion — repair of overloaded recordings where the input was too hot

There are limits — we can't create detail that was never captured, and a severely damaged recording might only be recoverable to a certain point. But in most cases, the difference between the raw file and the cleaned version is dramatic. We're happy to do a test on a short sample before you commit to a full project.

Delivery Formats & Specs

Different platforms and systems require different formats, sample rates, bit depths, and loudness levels. We deliver to whatever your project needs — and if you're not sure what spec you need, we'll advise based on where the audio is going.

If you need files named in a specific convention, split by chapter or segment, or packaged for a particular CMS or platform, we handle that. Delivery isn't just the audio file — it's making sure it works in your pipeline without any additional conversion on your end.

How a Voiceover Session Works

Remote Direction

Not every client can be in the room during a session — especially when the creative director is in London, the agency is in Riyadh, or the brand team is across three time zones. We support remote direction via Sessionwire, Zoom, or phone for any voiceover session.

Here's how it works: the director connects to a live audio feed from the studio. They hear the talent in real time, at full quality. Between takes, they can speak directly to the booth via talkback. The engineer handles the technical side — the director focuses on performance and script.

This is standard practice for agency work and international clients. It means you get the same level of creative control whether you're sitting in the control room or dialling in from another continent.

Pricing

Voiceover sessions use our standard studio hourly rates. The rate covers the studio, a professional engineer, and edited final files. Voice talent is quoted separately if we source them.

• Studio A — AED 350/hr (1 hr), AED 990 (3 hrs), AED 1,920 (6 hrs), AED 320/hr (6+ hrs)
• Studio B — AED 220/hr for simpler sessions or self-directed recording
• Audio cleanup — quoted per project based on total duration and condition of the source material

For context: a standard 30-second commercial VO typically takes under an hour including takes and pickups. A 10-module e-learning project might take a full day. We estimate session time when you send us the script so there are no surprises.

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