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Diminishing Returns
When the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was in Las Vegas in January, I made a B-Line for the Blue Microphones booth so I could drool. I wrote about that visit in this January blog: CES for VO’s…then...
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Here’s a Scary Thought for Halloween…
…there are just two months left to 2012! …and if you are into the whole Mayan Calendar prediction…there’s not even that much time. (but the positive side to THAT school of thought: you won’t have to...
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COACH VOAT Totals
It just seemed appropriate that I would FINALLY crunch some numbers on the Voice Over Awareness Today (VOAT) contributions from September, on this, our national election day. Many of you participated,...
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Awesome Pre-Thanksgiving Tune-Up
There’s a fine line between passing along great opportunities and endlessly shilling for eager enterprises. I hope you know, I really try to keep my blog largely free of shameless promotions…opting...
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Scene & Herd
Terry Daniel & CourVO at VOICE 2010 When the 5th annual NYC VO mixer happens this weekend, I know I’m gonna wish I had spent the money to go…but honestly, it’s the time, not the money that I can’t...
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Days and Times
If you collect enough data, you start to see patterns. Being a pack-rat, I tend to keep things a long time. You never know when you might need it, right? My wife wants to throw away perfectly good...
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Death to Dry Mouth
Tonite, I’ll climb into my studio, and once again face the spectre of dry mouth. Dry mouth equals mouth clicks, and mouth clicks equals a noisy recording. Long-format narrating can really do it to...
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Resolve To Be Resolute
Embarrassment is a huge motivator. It’s behind the fear of public speaking, the shame of failing, and the guilt of broken promises. For that reason, many have urged the open sharing of goals with...
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Soldiering On
Luckily it happened AFTER my holiday vacation. The common cold. Like most of you, it began with that “uh-oh” feeling you get, when alla sudden it hurts to swallow. My wife — the RN — saw the white...
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Voices For All
Just in the last week, I’ve been approached 3 times by people who want to know how to break into the business of voice-overs. No wonder it’s such fertile ground for unscrupulous “coaches” promising the...
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Finding Your Way Through the InfoNoise
Yesterday, word spread fast that Scott Fortney had a heart attack. Scott is known to us all as a helpful voice actor who often posts Adobe Audition tutorials on YouTube, and started the Adobe Audition...
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Getting Dialectic
Very few of us can carry off an absolutely believable accent for some regionalism of our own language, much less that of another. The key is: could you fool a native of Mobile, Alabama with a...
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Garret/Fraley Get Serious About Comedy in Vegas
How many times have you heard that you won’t break through as a voice talent until you’ve taken some acting classes? Have you ever taken a class from Pat Fraley? No? Make an appointment with yourself...
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12+ Ways to Avoid VO Fatigue
You’ll find it right there in the Voice Over Dictionary: VO Fatigue: ”…a psycho/physiological syndrome exhibited by the accumulative stress and exhaustion resulting from the endless pursuit of...
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Seriously? Unimagineable!
Every once in a while, I’ll get a particular email response back from one of my blog subscribers. It’s an automatic message, and it says the following: Hello there, In order for me to appropriately...
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The Fraley Magic
Everyone has favorites. Pat Fraley is everybody’s favorite…coach, that is. But beyond that, don’t you just appreciate a guy who loves his work, and takes pride in his student’s achievements? That’s...
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Rohe’s Rocky Road
Many of you know of the travails of Tom Rohe in the last few years. Tom is the force behind Sunspot Productions, a voice-over production company with three locations in the Southeast U.S. In 2009,...
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Turnabout
At the end of February, I posted a video interview with Constantino de Miguel — an international journalist, producer, and voice talent. You can see that interview here: DIRECTVOICES. Constan is...
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Constant Contact vs. Mail Chimp
Traditional online services that helped you create and send newsletters have morphed into such multi-use platforms, that I’m not sure what to call them anymore. Constant Contact – one of the oldest and...
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‘Best $47 You’ll Ever Spend
In less than two weeks, the Audio Publishers Association Conference (APAC) takes place in New York City. The conference itself is only one day, but the entire Audiobook publisher’s community makes...
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