ISDN is the undisputed standard among voice over talent and studios for the transmission of studio-quality sound over long distances.
ISDN is the acronym for Integrated Services Digital Network. Using this network, voice-over talent and recording/production facilities located anywhere around the world can connect with each other so that CD-quality audio can be sent from one location and recorded in the other in real-time. LIVE, even.
Because ISDN technology has been with us since the 1980s, it has clearly found its place in the finest audio and video production studios around the world.
Hey, when something works, it just works.
What makes ISDN different than a basic 'phone-patch?' A phone-patch allows you, the client, to listen to and direct talent as they record themselves in their own studio for later delivery. With ISDN, you not only have the benefit of listening and directing, but the talent's voice is being recorded as you hear it in the edit suite, just as if he or she were in the studio's booth. Any changes you might make are performed and recorded immediately and, after the recording is finished, your editor can play it back on the spot.
When you monitor a recording session via phone-patch, the recording is being done by the talent. You must trust that they are technically savvy enough to produce a high quality recording, after which, they must clean it up by removing bad takes, noises, etc. before uploading it to a server, attaching it to e-mail, or mailing it to you on a CD. Not the best way to go when you "need it now."
