I’m constantly being asked about voiceover recording equipment and how best to set up a home studio.  I don’t know!  I’m a casting director and a coach, not an engineer, sorry!  But – I know people.  And I know how to google stuff.  So, what follows is a link to a guy named Crispin Freeman, a voice actor, who has done countless voiceovers in animation,...

There is danger in going over a cliff, right?  The lump in your stomache tells you so as a genius biological warning to save you from danger.  Going over a cliff is an ABRUPT way to end life, wouldn’t you say?  It’s also an abrupt way to finish a sentence in a voiceover script.  Or any sentence in life, period.  When you throw a sentence off a cliff, it’s...

My areas of knowledge are in voiceover casting, voiceover coaching, and voiceover directing.  I’m sorta clueless on the business side of things.  I prefer to stay on the right side of the brain, where things are a little mish mashy (see, on the right side of the brain you can even make up words!), never right or wrong.  But with all these, the business...

Voiceover performances.  That’s the problem right there.  The performance part.  I recorded someone’s demo a few years back and noticed a very specific pattern.  The actor would give these huge over-the-top performances and you could hear it throughout the spot.  It shouted, “I’m a voice over, hear me roar!”  And roar it did.  He eventually got tired,...

The voiceover demo is a big deal.  Financially and as a representation of all that you offer to a potential buyer.  It can either open or shut the door for you immediately.  It needs to be PHENOMENAL.  This means, if you are not reading your spots phenomenal before you ever step in the booth the record your demo, you’re not ready to make a demo.  I discuss...