FAQ / Recording multiple character voices
How do I record multiple character voices for a cartoon?
The cleanest way to voice a cartoon scene with several characters is to label each line by character in your script, split the script so every line is its own paragraph, and record each character's lines in batches rather than line by line down the page.
Label every line by character
Write your script so every line begins with the character name, a colon, and the dialogue. Something like SPARK: I told you the toaster was haunted. or NARRATOR: And so the toast rose, glowing, into the night. That single convention is enough to get clean paragraph splitting and to make voice switching obvious at a glance when you record.
One line per paragraph
Drop the script into VoiceOverAndOver and the app turns every non-blank line into its own row. Each row gets its own Record, Re-record, Play, and crop controls. If a line lands wrong, you re-record that line and nothing else. That matters most for cartoon work where the energy spikes and drops constantly and a "good enough" full take rarely exists.
Record character by character, not page by page
Once your rows are in, do not record top to bottom. Instead, record all of Spark's lines first, then all of the Narrator's, then all of the Toaster's. Switching voices every line wears your throat out and makes consistency harder. Recording one voice in a sweep keeps you in character, keeps your mic distance and tone steady within that role, and gives you a much more believable performance to drop back into the conversation.
You can drag rows in VoiceOverAndOver to reorder them. So feel free to physically rearrange the script into character batches while you record, then drag everything back into scene order before you merge.
Use per-row gain to balance the cast
Big booming villain, tiny whispering sidekick: their natural levels will not match. Each paragraph in VoiceOverAndOver has its own gain slider on the left of the waveform. Nudge the quiet character up a couple of dB so the cast sits at a believable balance before you export.
Export the timeline
When you merge, you can also export an SRT or VTT caption track and a Premiere/Resolve marker file from the same project. Drop those into your animation timeline and every dialogue line snaps to a marker. No more lining up audio by ear.