Pick the take without passing a spreadsheet around
Where dialogue sessions actually lose their time
A voice session does not arrive as neat little files. It arrives as one long recording with two or three passes of every line, and the only person who knows which pass is the right one is not the person doing the editing. So the decision has to travel — and traditionally it travels as a list of timecodes in a spreadsheet, typed by hand by someone who would rather be directing.
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Upload the session as it came
No splitting it into hundreds of clips first. The whole recording goes up once, and everything after that happens against that one file.
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The director marks the keepers
They listen in a browser and comment on the take they want, at the moment it happens. No install, no account, no learning a tool for one job.
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You cut straight from the marks
The comments arrive on your timeline at their own timecode. You take what was chosen without cross-checking anything against a document.
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Nobody maintains a list
The decision lives on the audio, not in a parallel file that somebody has to keep in sync with it. There is no version of the spreadsheet to be out of date.
“Then when this game director started to send me giant audio files with infinite lists of comments in Google Sheets, I immediately asked him to use Pibox.”
See how a marked take lands
A reviewer flagged a section and the revised version is already loaded. Loop the range and flip between the two to hear exactly what the note was about — the same motion you make when a director picks take two.
Edit: Creatures Of Sun
This section feels muddy — can we clean up the low mids here?
Hats feel a touch sharp here — worth a listen.
This section feels muddy — can we clean up the low mids here?
Hats feel a touch sharp here — worth a listen.
The people picking takes are never in your session
Directors, casting, the client on the other side of a timezone — none of them have your DAW and none of them should need it. Your project lives in the cloud, they open a link on whatever they have, and their choices come back to you with timecode attached.
What stops happening
Rebuilding a spreadsheet into an edit
No more reading a timecode, finding it in the file, checking you read it right, and doing that two hundred times.
Splitting the session before anyone has decided
You cut once, after the choices are in — not up front, on the chance that someone might want a particular line.
Teaching the director a tool
They open a link and talk about the audio. That is the whole onboarding, which matters when they only do this a few times a project.
Auditions vanishing into email
Voice artists can send a reel the same way and get notes back on the take itself, instead of a reply describing which one the client liked.
Questions dialogue teams ask
Does the director need an account or software?
No. They open a share link in the browser and comment there — no login, no plugin, no download. Their notes come back to your session at the timecode they were left.
Can I keep every take in one file?
Yes, and that is the point. Upload the full session and let the comments mark the moments, instead of splitting it into clips before anyone has chosen.
How do the chosen takes reach my DAW?
Click a comment in the plugin and the playhead jumps to it inside your session, so you edit against the mark rather than a written timecode. In Pro Tools the notes can also come back as Memory Locations.
Does this work for voice-over auditions?
Yes — it is the same loop with the roles swapped. Send a reel as one link, and the client comments on the take they want rather than describing it back to you.
What about long sessions and large files?
Uploads are lossless and built for full-length session audio, so the recording you share is the one you recorded, not a compressed stand-in.
Try it on the next batch of takes
Upload one session, send the link to whoever picks, and see how much of the spreadsheet disappears.