Today’s expedition was to the media production studio at the local college – with a stop along the way at the Technology Fair at the Campus Center where I saw a Mac running Windows and pigs flying. The audio engineer at the media studio gave me a tour of the facility, which was awfully generous [...]
I visited a producer yesterday of whose existence I’ve been aware since almost the first day I started in the voice-over business, a bit over a year ago. His company is situated a scant dozen miles from me but we had never met. In addition to doing voice-over and production, he can duplicate CDs, which [...]
Ever notice how much more often things go wrong with computers than in the old days? I notice it a lot. I wish I could just “set it and forget it” as the Fidelity ad goes. But I set it and then play with it until it breaks. That’s what happened to me last Saturday [...]
Although iSpeek isn’t out yet, and although it has been in beta-test within the U.S. for some time now, Frank tells me he tried it for the first time today with a European client! And that latency was on the order of 50 ms!! That’s better than ISDN! The session was to record a perfume [...]
The subject of ISDN does not come up on a regular basis for me, but it does come up. When a producer asks me if I have ISDN or access to it, I have to tell them that, well, yeah I have access to it but it would cost $100 an hour in addition to [...]
The Art of Voice Acting Newsletter notification arrived in my email box last night. I always enjoy reading it and hearing about what other voice actors have been up to in the last month, and I especially enjoy reading Penny Abshire’s advice column. Her suggestions are always wise and her perspective is always one of [...]
Today I went to a Business-to-Business Expo in a nearby city, sponsored by the chambers of commerce. That was some kind of fun! In two hours I made more contacts than I would have done in several days from my office, and this was face to face. I met people from ad agencies, marketing companies, [...]
No, I’m not talking about voicing an episode of Jackie Chan. I’m talking about using the voice in karate. I was thinking about that during class this evening, as my mind sometimes wanders (telling me I am ipso facto insufficiently focussed on the art which is like OMG so totally not karatedo). That one needs [...]
A few weeks ago, a funny thing happened to me. A prospective client offered me the opportunity to bid on a gig – a medical narration (my favorite), and asked if I could recommend another female VO for the smaller part of the gig. I could and did. To cut to the punch line – [...]
The voices I’m hearing today are avian – it’s really spring and the eastern phoebes have returned to Massachusetts. Red-winged blackbirds have been here for over a month, but the phoebes are the first truly insectivorous species to come back. I brag sometimes about being able to imitate bird sounds, but honestly, it’s pretty hard [...]