They say success leaves tracks. That’s why I love reading biographies of luminaries in business and the arts. (I highly recommend the biography of Dale Carnegie- “Self-help Messiah”) Rock guitarists spend hours learning the famous licks of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. And artists visit the great museums of the world to sketch the great…
When you book a voice over job most of the time you’ll be recording from home. But every now and then you’ll be called to an outside studio, a professional facility with an audio engineer. All you have to do is show up, take direction and talk. It’s heaven! But there are a few things…
Once I went down to Madison Avenue to audition for a candy bar voice over. There were several women auditioning but there was no script and no mic. The casting director stood us in a line and asked us to say “Oooo!” “Ahhh ” –separately and in unison Then they shuffled the line and had…
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 the job. The truth is there is no way to really…
Before Clark Gable was known as “The King of Hollywood” he spent years rigorously training his voice. His naturally high-pitched voice was lowered with better posture, body control, and breathing. Eventually, he developed the famous baritone that uttered one of Hollywood’s most iconic lines in Gone With The Wind: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give…