Archive for the ‘General’ Category


Will My Headphones Fit Over Those Hats?

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.

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The Voice Over Chocolate Lady

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!

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Laptop Tips for Voice Over Recording

Atlanta based voice actor Lance Blair has some tips for fine-tuning the Windows based laptop computer for voice over recording.  Thanks Lance!

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Local Shop Gets Reception Area Bling

Here’s a hat tip to the creatives over at TM Advertising in Dallas.  Jim Walker mentions on their blog that the shop has garnered a fist full of Addy’s, which are kind of the Grammy’s of advertising. The awards include radio work for Nationwide Insurance.  Congratulations to Hal, Dermot, Stephanie at TM, and also Russel, [...]

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When your Voice Doesn’t Work so Good

Back in the day I did on-air for a radio station in Dallas that played really soft music and attracted  large chunks of the 60 plus monied demographic. On the studio line I would take calls from women whose voices were colored and textured by decades of cigarettes and martinis. Their voices were often lower [...]

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Voiceovers for the local TV station

There are many genres of work for the voice actor. One of them is voicing promos for TV at the local station level. The “Here’s what’s coming up tonight on CBS 11″ kind of thing. What sort of voice actor does well at this? Producer Robert Dwyer has a few thoughts: “You want to be [...]

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