When working out of your private studio, you want noise in your session files like you want geese in your jet engines. Delivering consistently noisy voice over tracks can bring down a career. The acoustics of my room are pretty good. Room within a room with thick walls, dead space between them, double doors, non-parallel [...]
Fellow Dallas area and Campbell Agency actor John McCalmont emails with news that he has made the callbacks for hosting duties of a new cable network series called “Sliced.” The concept of the show is slicing stuff open to see what makes it tick. How fun is that? Here is John’s callback audition video. Good [...]
I like to tell people that the “work” part of the voice over business is getting the work. Doing the work is play time. Unless the script is horrible and the director odious, but that’s not very often. So how much of our time should we spend marketing ourselves as voice actors? Business author and [...]
Tracy Pattin over at VoiceRegistry continues her interview with improv teacher Bill Applebaum and a panel of students. Here are a few tips as to how improv training can give the voice over actor a competitive edge: • The client LOVES Voice Actors with Improv Experience because “they can’t be thrown.” •Improv gives you a [...]
I could try to give this post and video some gravitas by wrapping it in the “global marketplace for voice actors” label but in truth it is just good stupid fun. The Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir do Lynyrd Skynyrd. You can’t make this up.
Voice actor Julie Williams has voiced a series of videos for Front Door, a HGTV website. The videos talk about being smart in every type of real estate market. Julie delivers smart narration. See them here. Julie’s voice follows the promo. Good work Julie!
Atlanta based voice actor Lance Blair has some tips for fine-tuning the Windows based laptop computer for voice over recording. Thanks Lance!
One of the iconic voices of our time , Paul Harvey, fell silent Saturday at the age of 90. My friend Bob Souer has a link on his blog to a tribute written by Bob Greene. It’s well worth the read.
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