by Susan | Nov 27, 2019 | Voice Over Articles
Hope you had a terrific Thanksgiving! I was at a pot-luck dinner in the Catskill Mountains of NY state with live music, kids, people of all ages-heaven! Today I thought we’d take a break from all the Black Friday madness to talk about the health of your... 
by Susan | Oct 31, 2019 | Voice Over Articles
One of the most frustrating things about being a voice talent today is that you rarely, if ever, get feedback on your auditions. Sure, maybe you’ll get a “like” on one of the voice casting sites but that doesn’t help when you don’t book... 
by Susan | Oct 24, 2019 | Voice Over Articles
As you grow your voice over business, one thing you can count on is that you will rarely, if ever work without a script (also known as copy). But scripts can be frustrating little buggers. Sometimes they are formatted weirdly or the punctuation doesn’t make... 
by Susan | Oct 10, 2019 | Voice Over Articles
Professional musicians can teach us a lot about how to do better voice overs. Guitarists, for example, study the greats by picking a song, listening to it over and over, singing it with and without the music, figuring it out on the guitar, writing it down in their... 
by Susan | Oct 10, 2019 | Voice Over Articles
Egads! What’s that slurping noise? Have you ever listened to a recording of your voice and been bothered by the sound of your breathing? Those loud, annoying breaths have no place in a professional voice over and they have to go. You can mute and edit the... 
by Susan | Oct 3, 2019 | Voice Over Articles
We lost a great voice last week. The ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson, whom you might remember as the voice of the doggie dummy Farfel from the vintage Nestle’s Quick commercials, died at age 90. In the commercials, Nelson’s human dummy Jimmy O’Day sings...
