It was pretty interesting….Take a look:

The latest videos covered everything you need to set up an in-home studio, a video tutorial of a multi track audio editor, and how to get that multi track audio editing software absolutely FREE! Plus a lot more!

These videos are not currently available on the public blog…They are offered to people that have signed up for the newsletter first. As time goes, I plan on also posting these to the public blog.

Until now, these videos were only available to the students that took my Voice Over Success Formula course and classes….but for now they are only available to anyone who signs up….And it’s so easy!

Just look to the upper right hand side of this blog to find the form….Just put the email address you want the stuff to be sent to…and that’s it! I don’t use the address for anything else…just this Voice Over info….PROMISE!

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This kind of relates to the last post, but a former student sent me a demo to listen to.

She couldn’t figure out where the faint hum was coming from in her recording. She was asking if I thought it might be the microphone or something else. Wellll…..after listening several times, very closely, I realized what the low hum was….

TRAFFIC! Outside her window….the same window she cracked open to let some of the warm fresh spring air into her studio.

Remember as the weather gets nicer and you open those doors and windows to let a little fresh air in…You have to close them again, tightly before recording. Or you too may find yourself scratching your head, wondering where that “low hum” is coming from on your next recording.

Just a quick tip….Talk soon…

“I have discovered over the years that theater actors make the transition to voiceover acting for animation easier, smoother, and faster than feature-film actors. Many performances are barely more than a whisper in on-camera acting, but in animation it’s got to be bigger and broader.”

Click here for the full article on Casting for Animation

The agreements for each union cover performers working in commercials made for and reused on television, radio, the Internet and new media. If you are a voice talent that belongs to one of these unions, get the latest by clicking here to get the details.

Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon plays Ginormica, a 50-foot tall superwoman in Dreamworks’ new animated movie, Monsters vs Aliens.  She provided some great insight to the voice over/ voice actor industry.  We wanted to share it with you.

The Times asked Reese: What was it like to provide a voice for Monsters vs Aliens?

It was an interesting process. I went in to meet Jeffrey Katzenberg, just as a general idea, once I started seeing the Dreamworks animated movies over and over again with my children.

He walked me through the process of what they do and I ended up seeing the boards for this movie and I got very excited. It seemed like a good idea, revolving around a great image of my character sitting on the roof of a gas station. It was really cool. So I signed on, and about a year later, I began doing recordings — which I like to call “actor in a box”.

I had never done voice-over work before, so it was really helpful to have [directors] Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon there to walk me through everything because it is sort of stop and go. You pick up scenes here and there and you double back and get them again. It really is a very director-focused medium because they have to inform the actors where they are at, otherwise they would be incredibly lost. It is also ever evolving, the narrative is always changing.