I love tea. How about you? I learned the hard way that certain teas and voice over don’t mix. Black tea? The tannic acid in a good strong ‘cuppa will close your throat like drinking sand. Add milk and that blobby green monster from the Mucinex commercials will take up permanent residence in your nasal…
Back when “Daydream Believer” was playing on every scratchy-sounding car radio, my parents gave me the songbook of The Monkees Greatest Hits and an upright piano to go along with it. They also hired a piano teacher with bad breath and a penchant for digging a pencil into my finger every time I hit a…
It’s kind of a Catch-22. To get that rich, warm voice over voice everybody wants you have to stay relaxed… letting the tension flow from your body, your jaw like gauze, the muscles of your face like soft, malleable clay. But how can you stay relaxed if your new voice over career is making you…
Ever hear the phrase “made by the loving hands of home?” People say it with a sarcastic twinge to refer to homemade items that are less than professional -like those ever-so-slightly lopsided business cards that are so easy to design on your home computer. Hey, I’m all for saving a buck and packing your own…
This week we’re going to talk about warming up your voice. And it’s something you have got to do for voiceovers. I mean, your voice is your instrument. So if you haven’t been trained as an actor, if you’re not used to this, this is something new for you. So let me take you through…