Ever listen back to a recording of your voice and hear a hissing sound whenever you say a word with the letter ‘s’ in it? That’s plenty of words and it doesn’t sound very good, does it? In fact, if a hissing S is not controlled it will stop your promising voice over career dead…
There are a lot of moving parts to a voice over performance: your character, the product, the microphone. But there’s other key piece that’s often overlooked: your sense of timing timing. Beginners often get so carried away with their performance that they forgot the commercial needs to fit within :60 seconds or less. You’ve got…
Aaargh! Mouth noise. It’s the curse of every voice talent. You record your best takes, listen to the playback and there they are-crackles, slurps and clicks. Don’t think your potential clients won’t notice. They do. Bad mouth noise can completely blow an audition. Voice buyers know it takes valuable time for the recording engineer to…
Imagining leprechauns and pots of gold? Then you’re perfectly in synch with today’s Inside Voice Over video lesson, which is all about imagination, the third tenet of voice acting. To do good voice over, win auditions and get lots of work, you really need an active imagination-because if you don’t see vivid, technicolor images in…
Do you have a hard time staying focused? Does your mind wander or jump from one thing to the next? If so, you’re not alone. In this age of information overload almost everyone feels like they can barely keep their thoughts straight. Yet being able to really concentrate and stay focused behind the mic is…