Podcast appearances and mentions of Joe Cipriano

George is joined by Robb Smith from the 'Chewing the Fat' podcast. They discuss their experiences at the VO Atlanta conference, the significance of taking breaks during such events, and the benefits of networking. Rob shares his background in voice acting and radio, his role as a first contact guide at the event, and the inspiration behind his podcast, which focuses on mental health and positivity. They also talk about Joe Cipriano's inspiring story and experiences from his podcast. Tune in for a heartfelt conversation filled with insights and camaraderie from the world of voice acting. @chewingthefat https://www.chewingthefatbr.com/ 00:00 Introduction and Season Five Kickoff 00:32 On the Road at VO Atlanta 01:21 First Time at VO Atlanta 03:10 Background and Career Journey 05:48 Chewing the Fat Podcast 09:39 Concluding Thoughts and Farewells Website: http://georgethehtech Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/georgethetech Instagram: @georgethetech Podcast: http://theproaudiosuite.com

Welcome to the 100th Episode!!!If you are Gen X like me then you have heard my guest's voice all throughout some of your most awesome years growing up! Joe Cipriano was the voice telling you to go see Fast Times at Ridgemont High, he was the voice telling you which comedies to watch on that new network FOX, and countless other times his dulcet tones entered your earholes. Now hear how it all started for this good Italian boy from Connecticut, including the ups and downs along the way.Follow Joe on Instagram - @joeciprianovoHis website is JoeCipriano.comCheck out his book Living On Air and the Audiobookand if you want to find out more about his VO Coaching for Promo check out PromoMasterclass.comSupport the showIf you'd like to support this podcast, you can buy me a coffee HERE. Check out the "Keep the Darkness at Bay" Journal & T's Here I'd also appreciate it if you left a 5 star rating and review for the podcast on whichever platform you listen on. Thank You! Special Thanks To: @jasonthe29th - Logo Design @jacobjohnsontunes - Theme Music Pod Decks - Fast 5 Questions DISCLAIMER: Some of the links here are affiliate links, which means I will make a small commission if you click them and make a qualifying purchase, at no extra cost to you :) *I hereby solemnly swear to only promote products and services I actually love and use in my podcast and everyday life!

Christy Harst, founder of Building Doors VO, joins BOSS Anne Ganguzza to share her journey from an aspiring journalist to a champion for gender diversity in voiceover. Her story highlights the importance of perseverance, self-belief, and the power of engaging in collaborations with industry talents. In a bold step to challenge industry norms, Christy leads Building Doors VO, a campaign to amplify female voices in traditionally male-dominated fields, such as sports promos. The BOSSes highlight the importance of community support and the ongoing fight for gender equality in voiceover.   https://www.voboss.com/special-guest-christy-harst 00:01 - Testimonial (Ad) Hey, Anne, just wanted to let you know that I got a chance to listen to the entire podcast with Pilar, part one and two Fantastic interview. Found her very interesting and really enjoyed the entire thing. Thanks so much for the Boss podcast.  00:17 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Hey bosses, are you new to VoiceOver and not sure where to start? Join the VOPeeps VIPeeps membership and get access to over 350 hours of pre-recorded classes, a 15% discount on all VO Peeps, guest workshops and free monthly workouts. This membership is perfect for those wanting to get started in the industry. Find out more at vopeepscom slash join-now.  00:47 - Intro (Ad) It's time to take your business to the next level, the boss level. These are the premier business owner strategies and successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a boss a VO boss. Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.  01:06 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Hey, hey everyone. Welcome to the VO Boss Podcast. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, and today I am privileged and honored to have special guest voiceover actor and the creator of the Building Doors campaign, Christy Harst Yay.  01:22 - Christy Harst (Guest) Thank you very much for having me. I appreciate the opportunity.  01:26 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, Christy, I'm so excited. I feel like we're soul sisters here.  01:32 - Christy Harst (Guest) You have better makeup, but yes, Well.  01:35 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I'll tell you what. It is wonderful to have you on the show because you're doing amazing things and I want the bosses to know about them. So for those bosses that don't know who you are, let's kind of start at the beginning. Talk to us a little bit about your career. You've been in this industry for quite a while, so tell us a little bit about how you got started.  01:54 - Christy Harst (Guest) Sure, thank you. I appreciate that. I majored in broadcast communications and I was supposed to be the next Barbara Walters in case you didn't get the facts in the 80s, it turns out that after an internship at MTV, I saw what women had to do and who they had to be to be at the top and it wasn't something I was willing to do.  02:12 So I pivoted, if you will, and had a career a traditional nine to five career, if you will, in marketing, pr and event planning, la-di-da-di. And I always felt this pull and this tug when I would listen to the radio and I would hear these people and I would say, oh.  02:28 - Intro (Ad) God.  02:28 - Christy Harst (Guest) I can do it so much better than them. Oh my God, it's so painful. And so one year I made a New Year's resolution to get an agent and I did and I didn't get one audition. So the next year I said, well, forget them, I'm going to go get another one. And I got another one. And I was with that agent for 17 years. I booked national campaigns, I did a lot of on-camera.  02:49 That was BC before children, and once my husband and I decided to have kids, we decided to build a studio in the house in the basement and I booked national campaigns from there as well. And now I'm on the first level of the house with a studio brick, so I feel like I'm no longer a basement troll.  03:06 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) There's something to be said for those basement studios though. I mean I had one. I mean we don't have basements here in California and they make great studios they do, that's for sure.  03:15 - Christy Harst (Guest) No, they do, they do, and mine was very makeshift.  03:21 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) But hey, I did it. I mean, I'm just saying that was the only noise really when that went on.  03:26 - Christy Harst (Guest) I always used to have to run and manually turn off the HVAC, go and do work and then go run and my kids would be like it's so cold, it's so cold, I'm like I'm not done, recording I'm not done. And then, most recently I would say in the last five years actually, five years ago I went to my first voiceover conference and it was in Columbus, ohio, and it was something called the Mid-American or Mid-something and I knew no one. I knew absolutely no one and I ended up there meeting. Listen to all the heavyweights that were there and I had no clue. So Roy Yolkerson was there, joe Cipriano was there, mark Scott was there it was his first conference ever that he was teaching a class Rodney Salisbury was there, jmc was there, all these people and I had no idea. I had no idea who any of these people were.  04:16 So I was late getting to some of the breakout sessions and there weren't that many left to pick from and the only one that was left was Joe Cipriano's promo class. I didn't even know what promo was and I was like, oh gosh, fine, I'll go into this one. There was only me and like three other people and AJ McKay was in there running it and I went up and did it and I was hooked. I was like you mean, I can say five words and each word is like a different story. And I'm done, I'm done, that's it. I love it, because I don't do audiobooks. I'm not a marathon runner.  04:52 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I am a sprinter Right.  04:54 - Christy Harst (Guest) Yeah, absolutely. And so from that point forward I was kind of like, oh, I really think I could do this, and so I ended up working with Joe. We flew to New York. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio, but we flew to New York and recorded a demo for Network Promo and Joe is wonderful. Oh my gosh, he's amazing. He really is. He's so gracious. He's a wonderful teacher.  05:13 - Intro (Ad) And.  05:13 - Christy Harst (Guest) I learned a lot from him. Absolutely and it ended up being nominated for a SOVA and I was the only woman in the category. I lost to Dave Fennoy. But again, if you're going to lose to somebody, that's right Lose to Dave Fennoy, right?  05:27 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yes, absolutely.  05:34 - Christy Harst (Guest) Who is also an amazing human being. And then after that I started to try and explore promo and so on and so forth. And I am a former college athlete, I am a former head varsity coach, my kids are both terribly athletic and my bank account shows it, and we're a sporting family. We choose to go to sporting events for almost like our staycations. So I said why don't I do sports promo, like that's a perfect way to match my passion and my ability and my talent? And for a good three, four years I invested in training, I invested in workshops, I invested in demos and it wasn't getting me anywhere and I just was getting really frustrated.  06:10 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) So why do you think you did all the things right? You did all the things right, you got your training, and you trained with some of the best. You got your demos, and so what do you think was the issue? What was not happening, and see, that's the fun part.  06:25 - Christy Harst (Guest) That's where Building Doors, a campaign that I started, really was birthed, because I didn't know. I was doing everything that everyone told me to do. Sure, I was doing out-of-box marketing. I was creating fan videos where I voiced them, I wrote them, I created them. I was doing all of the things that you're supposed to do Email marketing, cold calling, all of the things, and nothing was moving the needle. All of the hard things.  06:46 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) All of the hard things, yeah, but you know I enjoyed it. And yeah, I was going to say, and something tells me that you did it with full force. Oh yeah, Not even like 100%. I feel like you did 150 to 200%. I just get that about you.  07:00 - Christy Harst (Guest) Yeah, well, you know, when I sink my teeth into something, I don't let go.  07:03 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I'm right there with you. I feel that.  07:05 - Christy Harst (Guest) Why not Like? Why, If you're going?  07:06 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) to do it, do it all the way.  07:08 - Christy Harst (Guest) And so I had signed up for a promo workshop with a prominent promo LA agent, a woman, and during that workshop I did a read for her and she was like, yeah, book, it's great book.  07:19 And I was like you know what? Okay, stop, I'm not booked. I'm never booked and I'm not repped by one of the larger agencies, so the access to those opportunities are even smaller. So what are my chances? What are my chances in booking sports promo? And she was very honest. And she said not so much. And I said why it was interesting because my whole body just slumped and there were people in the room, in the Zoom room, were like Christy, no, don't slump, it's okay. No, no, no. And she said it's not for a lack of women trying to create opportunities for women in these niche spaces. These opportunities that are created by women climb and climb and climb up the ladder of decision making and when it reaches the C-suite to a middle-aged man, they say love the concept, not the voice. We're putting a man on it, sure, and she said I encourage you to make your own noise. And so I got off the workshop and I was like but I am making my own noise, I am doing out-of-the-box marketing, I am creating videos for specific teams, I want to voice for I am working my LinkedIn connection, I'm doing everything I possibly can.  08:36 Went to bed, woke up the next morning called Brandon Miller, who is the VO craftsman, and I just went off. Is the VO craftsman and I just went off. Brandon, can you believe what she said to me? What am I supposed to do? I'm so upset. What am I supposed to do? You mean to tell me that just because I'm a woman, that I'm not getting access to these opportunities on my own? That's nuts. So I went to walk the dog. I came back and I called him and I said here's what we're going to do. We are going to get women, other female voice actors and I'm going to partner with women around the world and we are going to revoice scripts originally voiced by men in male-centric genres like construction, like alcohol, like tech, like sports, like automobiles, and we are going to show through these reels that not only are women good at it, but also brands are not going to miss anything from it.  09:25 You know those C-suite men who are saying, oh no, well, why? Because women statistically have anywhere it depends on the globe or United States but anywhere between 60 and 80 percent of the purchasing power in their homes. They make the decisions about what money is spent and where, whether you get season tickets, whether you get swag when you go to a game. What kind of camps your kids go to, what kind everything right. So women have the purchasing power. Number one. Number two women don't want a wine night with pink logoed hats anymore at games. That's not what they want. Women are sports fans. Women are carpenters.  10:02 Women are tech driven, so why are we using men as the messaging? And the more and more and I dug into this, the more it spurred me to keep going. Because here's why, for example, the voice of Sondi I know Sondi, yeah, yeah, sondi, okay, gorgeous voice. She chose to do a spot for Lowe's. So in researching every spot, every reel, I want to have it based in data. So I was doing research and I stumbled upon a study that Lowe's had conducted because they wanted to differentiate themselves from Home Depot. What they knew was that Home Depot was a spot that contractors went to. Typically, men are the contractors. Home Depot is poorly lit, it's messy, there are limited displays and the aisles are super tight. So because Lowe's recognizes that women have the highest purchasing power, they decided to make their stores well-lit really wide aisles, everything is bright and colorful. And then they have these huge displays that show you how you can use the products and what you can create. Yet they rarely use a woman on their branded campaigns for TV and radio Rarely.  11:15 We're missing something here, right, if you had all that money to do a study and you put all that attention into gearing your stores towards women because you know that they have the highest purchasing power. Why aren't you using more women in front of and behind the camera? Sure?  11:30 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, it doesn't make sense, right, comes down to who are those decision makers, right? Who are the decision makers that are selecting the voices, which is, as you mentioned prior, a lot of times and this also happens when we audition, right? I mean, why is it that when we audition, we're told casting specs to be conversational and talking to your best friend and then, ultimately, when it airs, we possibly hear something that sounds like the old announcer-y thing? Well, could be that an older person that was doing the directing or that finally made that choice, made that choice.  12:04 And so I think it really depends on who's making the choice for the voice talent. And I get you in terms of being in male-dominated fields. I've kind of myself have been an engineer back in the late 80s, I worked in technology for about 20 years. I'm a female demo producer, and so I've been treading that line the whole time. So I really feel that a campaign that can bring awareness right, so it's not just maybe the one person making that decision, but they can bring awareness to the world or the companies. I think that that is a really wonderful way to get things going and actually building doors and breaking the glass ceiling for women.  12:47 - Christy Harst (Guest) Yeah, and you know that day after I walked my dog, I was like, well, everyone uses these terms like go kick down the door, go knock on the door, and what I realized is that there's no door for me to knock on. So I have to build it and I'm going to bring a bunch of other women with me. I love it.  13:04 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, let's talk about the Building Doors campaign. When did you start?  13:08 - Christy Harst (Guest) March 1st of 2024. So it's been 10 months.  13:12 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Okay, and what did you do to start building that? What was required for you to do that? A website, a domain.  13:20 - Christy Harst (Guest) No, no, I didn't even have. I had nothing. It was February 9th or 10th and I was like this is what's going to happen, I'm going to do it. And I remember there was a moment I was sitting on my couch and I said to myself if you're going to do it, you have to do it now, but if you're not going to do it, just don't, because it's going to take a lot of work and you have less than two and a half weeks to launch this on March 1st, for in honor of Women's History Month, and I was like, all right, fine, it's done.  13:44 And I started calling all the women that I knew. Then I started researching women online and on Instagram and at first I just used my social media, so I didn't have time to create a page Like it wouldn't have had the impact right. So I launched it on my Instagram, on YouTube, on Facebook, on LinkedIn and on TikTok and I was literally going to do one post. Then one post turned into a month. All right, fine, I'll do a month. And then something happened. People actually watched it, people actually commented and people actually shared, and they shared it to the point where a woman got a job from it, and I think that that shows the power of community when you all unite under a shared mission.  14:26 So Ashley Tirado is a voice actor who did a spot for Honda Sport. She voiced it and about three or four months later she called me and said she doesn't know who, but somebody forwarded or shared this reel. Someone saw it, forwarded it to an ad agency in Florida. That Florida agency reached out to Ashley and hired her to do a slew of Honda spots. Building doors at that point had created an opportunity that otherwise didn't exist for a woman in voiceover in a male-centric lane, and that was like recreational drugs for me. I was like, yes, I'm hooked.  14:59 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yes, I'm hooked. I also do automotive, but I'll tell you what it's been a hard climb in automotive as well. I do not get the amount of automotive that I know my male counterparts do, so it's kind of like I feel like when they want a novelty, when they want a novelty, they want something just a little bit different, they're going to hire the woman, but more than not. I'm hearing those campaigns either. The campaign that I had was taken over by a male voice. So, yeah, it is something that I feel like as a female wanting to have the same opportunities. It's hard, it really is, and you do have to build doors. And so now, after I would say 10 months, what happened after that? Because you bought the domain, do you have a website?  15:46 - Christy Harst (Guest) I do, and you know why? Because there was a woman. I have a lot of Zoom calls.  15:50 I spend a lot of my time trying to get to brands, talk to brands, talking to all these different people, and a lot of my time trying to get to brands, talk to brands, talking to all these different people, and a lot of the brands I've talked to I haven't publicly shared because I'm not ready to yet, but there was a woman who was the former head legal for a major, major major sports an American sports company, if you will, or brand and she said listen, I can totally hook you up with the top people because your message deserves to be heard there. However, I can't do it unless you have a website. And I had been dragging my feet and I was like, well, there's an investment there, yeah, so, yeah, I mean I get that.  16:26 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I have multiple websites, so I know, yeah, yeah, and that is probably coming out of your pocket. It did.  16:32 - Christy Harst (Guest) Yeah, it did, and that's when things started to get really serious. Because I invested in the website, I created it on my own in Wix over a weekend. Fronk his last name, I think, is Fronk he helped me yeah, Jim Jim Fronk.  16:44 Yep, he helped me work through some things. He was wonderful, and so now we have a website. And I mentioned, oh my gosh, the Veal Craftsman, Brandon Miller. He does all the videos for free for me, so he volunteered to do all of the reels for me for free, which is amazing, right? That's fabulous. Yeah, and so I've had some really great conversations with brands like Valvoline, the Cleveland Guardians, the Cleveland Cavs, and I will say that I didn't realize and I want to say this to everyone listening, that is, in voice, acting who's putting stuff out on social media. People, see you, they may never like it.  17:18 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) They may never, comment they may  17:20 - Christy Harst (Guest) never, share it, but they see you, they're watching you, because the person from the Cavs reached out to me. A middle-aged white man reached out to me and said I've been watching you, I've been watching the campaign and I want to put you in a room full of decision-makers across four different athletic associations Nice, so who would have ever guessed that? Right yeah?  17:42 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Who would have ever guessed that Now do you have a separate social media channel for Building Doors?  17:47 - Christy Harst (Guest) We just started it. It is at BuildingDoorsVO, on Instagram and LinkedIn. We are only doing Instagram and LinkedIn because, after a data analysis, I discovered that those are the platforms with the highest engagement and reach. On LinkedIn, our number one post is sitting at 90K impressions Nice and our highest post on Instagram has something crazy like 12 viewing hours and it's a 20-second clip.  18:11 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Now, what is it that you are promoting on the social channels? Are you creating videos with females voicing traditionally yeah, male promo roles. What are you presenting as content?  18:24 - Christy Harst (Guest) I'm so excited for 2025 because not only are we going to be featuring women one per month, they're the door builders that are going to be reading scripts previously voiced by men and male-centric genres but we're also going to be doing a lot of other cool stuff.  18:37 Like, we are going to do a LinkedIn Live and an Instagram Live series. I'd like to do one on LinkedIn a month and one on Instagram a month, but we'll see and they are going to imagine this. It's a panel discussion that is all based under the mission of Building Doors, which is equality, equal opportunity, but it'll include people who support the campaign. So, for example, let's say, the panel consists of a copywriter, a voiceover actor, a graphic designer and then maybe a casting director who knows right, and they're all talking about an issue that not only can be of service to the voiceover community they can learn from, but also highlights our supporters and highlights people who have a service that voice actors could potentially hire from. You know, forming community right now in 2025, is essential, I think, especially in our country, so that people know where to go to communicate, to connect and to know where to put their money so they can support like-minded people.  19:35 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Fabulous, that's fantastic, and so right now you have your socials all set.  19:40 - Christy Harst (Guest) So we've been live on social for about a month or two months, okay, and Instagram is slowly climbing. Our LinkedIn page needs some more followers, right? So at Building Doors VO, I am currently well, it's a holiday so I'm not posting as much but starting in January, yes, there is going to be more women reading reels. Hopefully, those LinkedIn and Instagram lives will be up and running in January. And also, you know, I'm going to be featuring supporters, so people who support us. I feature them in image and help share their story. For example, I have featured an award-winning UK digital marketing agency a.  20:14 Afro-Indigenous puppeteer and comedian, so I'll be featuring those people as well.  20:19 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I'm looking at buildingdoorsvo.com right now and you have an amazing roster of ladies there.  20:27 - Christy Harst (Guest) Well, I appreciate you saying that, because how do I get?  20:29 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) involved. Hey, this is fantastic. You've got quite a few. That's amazing, Like at least 32 that I'm counting right now.  20:38 - Christy Harst (Guest) Yeah, and there'll be 44 at the end of it.  20:40 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) That's it.  20:40 - Christy Harst (Guest) I would like to point out that we are not a talent agency, we are not a brand manager, we are not a casting site. When I talk to a brand, one of the things I ask them is that would you be willing to the next time you need a female voice actor, would you be willing to consider a door builder? And they usually say yes and then they can go to the website and they go and reach out to that person directly. I'm not in it, right. So then they can take that to their agent and everybody wins, I think.  21:09 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) And then if the door builder gets booked.  21:11 - Christy Harst (Guest) I ask if I can share it as a success story. And for example, natasha. Natasha just got booked from her reel. She did a reel where she was reading something for the Oscars. Someone saw it on LinkedIn, reached out and said hey, will you do my podcast intro and outro? And so she got that job. She did it, and getting work for people who are featured is a great cherry on top, but it's not necessarily what is meant for the campaign, right? Because we're not a casting site, we're not a talent agent right.  21:39 We want to show that women can do this. They should have the access to the opportunities to do it, and if you choose one of these women, great. But if not, at least we've planted the seed that, yeah, a woman can voice a UFC spot. Sure. A woman can do a wealth management spot or a tech spot.  21:55 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Now, how are you working on funding? Are you thinking, what are your thoughts about getting additional funding? Because I know, simply because I have multiple domains, this is not something out of your own pocket. Owning the domain, you've got to pay for that. You've got to pay for the website, you've got to pay for the hosting of the website. Ultimately, you've got a domain. Maybe you're going to send email from it, so then you're going to need an email server. I mean, there's just a bunch of stuff Having the social media channels and you're also a working voice actor, so you're donating a lot of your time and I know that you recently have some women that are now on board to help you in the Building Doors campaign. But what are you thinking about in terms of funding?  22:34 - Christy Harst (Guest) I need funding, yeah.  22:37 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Are you going to create, maybe, a scholarship or become like a nonprofit? What's going to happen so?  22:45 - Christy Harst (Guest) I think and this is probably not going to be a popular opinion, but I think that people or groups that advocate for a mission or a cause, they can earn money too. It's okay. It's okay. And no, we're not going to be a nonprofit. I have no desire to run a nonprofit. I worked for nonprofits for years in my nine to five career and I know what the mentality is. I know the paperwork. It's just not something I desire to. We are a for-profit. We are an LLC under CEH Productions, which is my LLC, and I am so blessed to have the ambassadors. These are women that did pay a certain amount to be in the campaign and they get access to make decisions about the campaign and while that money is great, it's not.  23:32 I'm not earning any money is what I'm saying, Like the funds that I've collected to date help cover the cost of the initial investment that I've made and help cover the cost of the website in the future, but I'm definitely not earning any money. So I've been applying for grants for female small business owners. I am open to other ideas and I'm going to be honest with you, anne, it's something that I'm really struggling with right now and trying to figure out, because if this mission is going to have the impact that I want it to have and if I want to do the ideas that I think are necessary for this brand, I need money, and you know I can't continue at the pace that I am, as just me, right, and I do have some help with some of the ambassadors Amy, selma and Sandi.  24:14 They've been so great to me and the ambassadors in general have been really great about picking up some of the stuff that I can't. But if I had it my way, I'd hire a social media manager today. I'd hire a personal assistant today, I'd hire someone to do the books today. And, for example, I've been fortunate enough. I'm going to be going to the WESPN conference in May in New York.  24:38 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I have been encouraged to go there to make face-to-face connections, Absolutely, I mean, that's a cost as well. I mean well.  24:42 - Christy Harst (Guest) I'd like to say that such a voice is paying for my ticket. Well, okay, they're paying for the ticket for me to go, but I still need to find funding for airfare and ground transportation. So that takes time. Right, finding sponsors to take you somewhere where you know you could make the biggest difference and the biggest impact that takes time.  25:01 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Absolutely, absolutely Well, you're certainly building doors, and I completely, completely get that. I mean, you're starting from the ground up, and so there's a lot of work involved, there's a lot of questions, there's a lot of navigating, trying things out. Back in the day, I like to say that I pioneered the hybrid workout, which was online and live at the same time. Back in the early days, when there was no streaming live on the internet before Zoom was a thing, I had some technological experience so I started doing that. So there's no clear path, and so to me, that defines a boss, and I love interviewing people who really exemplify and showcase bossness.  25:44 - Christy Harst (Guest) Wow.  25:44 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Thank you, yeah, so I mean really congratulations. What you've done is the start of something truly amazing. And if there's any way that VO Boss can help you out. We're here to help you spread the message far and wide. How can bosses get in touch with you, christy, if they want to know more, if they want to contribute?  26:01 - Christy Harst (Guest) Yes, so definitely follow us at at Building Doors VO on Instagram and LinkedIn. I also want to give a quick plug that I'm doing an impact study and those links are on those channels as well. If you could fill out the impact study, that would be great. And also, you're more than welcome to email me. You're more than welcome to message me on any of the social media platforms. If you are interested in offering services in exchange for something or if you'd like to donate, by all means, yeah, let me know. Christy at christyhearthcom.  26:28 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Absolutely, and we'll be putting all of your links on our show notes page. Bosses out there, Christy, I want to meet back up with you in six months in a year?  26:38 - Christy Harst (Guest) Oh, that would be amazing.  26:39 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Let's talk about how has it progressed, of course. I mean I'm going to be following you from now on and bosses out there, make sure that you follow Christy, and we will be in touch, and I'd like to have a follow-up interview with you for sure.  26:51 - Christy Harst (Guest) Oh, I'd love it.  26:52 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Because I see great things. I see great things happening. I got good vibes, so I always like to say that I'm a little bit intuitive here. So good stuff, christy. 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In this engaging interview, George the Tech talks with the esteemed voiceover artist and coach, Joe Cipriano. They delve into Joe's journey of setting priorities for personal and professional goals, the inspiration behind creating his online promo masterclasses, and the innovative methods used for effective teaching. promomasterclass.com They also reflect on the extensive collaboration on studio builds and the legacy of their late friend, Don LaFontaine. Joe shares success stories from his students, the impact of asynchronous learning, and the fulfillment of mentoring professionals in the voiceover industry. Tune in for insights on achieving your dreams and the power of a supportive community. 00:00 Setting Priorities for Goals 00:45 Introduction to Joe Cipriano 01:32 Building the Perfect Studio 04:05 Family and Friends 04:53 The Legacy of Don LaFontaine 09:06 Creating the Promo Masterclass 16:12 The Asynchronous Learning Model 23:07 Success Stories and Testimonials 27:05 How to Join the Masterclass Donations: https://streamlabs.com/georgethetech Website: http://georgethetech.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/georgethetech Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/georgethetech Instagram: @georgethetech Webcast: http://vobs.tv Podcast: http://theproaudiosuite.com

Tap here to text us your thoughts and recommendations!James is joined by Joe Cipriano to talk about Joe's journey to faith and his work with the group "Vagabond Missions."You can learn more about Vagabond Missions at https://vagabondmissions.com/.************Links and other stuff from the show:Pastoral Letter, "On the Unity of the Body and Soul:" archokc.org/pastoral-lettersRed Dirt Catholics Email Address: reddirtcatholics@archokc.orgThe Book "From Christendom to Apostolic Mission" (Digital and Print): AmazonThe Social Dilemma: https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224Daily Examen Prayer: https://bit.ly/309As8zLectio Divina How-To: https://bit.ly/3fp8UTa

Mike and Emma welcome one of the true living legends of the voiceover industry...Promo and Trailer master, Joe Cipriano.

It's a Premiere Radio Networks Reunion as we are joined by two broadcasting legends who worked with Weezy in the '80s and '90s and are now industry heavyweights: voice talent and king of the promo, Joe Cipriano and radio exec and DJ for LA's legendary KEARTH 101, Larry Morgan! We're chatting about legacy media and our collective memories of radio's heyday and processing how we are all evolving within our fields as technology continues its march towards confounding boomers with seven factor authentication.Also with us is new-school content creator, author, actor, and podcaster Travis Richey who shares his utilization of digital tools as he journeys from boy with a dream to working industry professional.We look fondly back on our analog childhoods where we put on a show with our cassette tape recorders and wired our bedrooms for two block radius radio transmission! Joe and Larry each scored radio station jobs as teenagers and Travis was feverishly writing Star Trek spec scripts before traveling to Hollywood to join the Acme Comedy group based on advice he found on Wil Wheaton's blog.We examine how radio has changed both culturally and operationally, as we recall the days of big name DJ personalities, air checks, meter readings, FCC licenses, and stacks of carts.   Joe remembers his first voice over home studio and his pioneering ISDN line efforts for remote recording and he previews his unique opportunity promo Masterclass! Learn from Joe how to be like Joe! Larry shares how Covid inspired radio stations to evolve quickly into broadcasting with just a laptop and some wifi, and Fritz shares his experience as a radio station music director. Then we dip into the future, as AI steers us in exciting and terrifying directions!Plus, Fritz and Weezy are recommending Franklin on Apple + and The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Podcast.Path Points of Interest:Joe CiprianoPromo Mojo MasterclassJoe Cipriano Promo DemoLiving On Air by Joe CiprianoJoe Cipriano on FacebookJoe Cipriano on InstagramJoe Cipriano on X/TwitterLarry MorganLarry Morgan's Snark Monkey PodcastLarry Morgan on FacebookLarry Morgan on InstagramTravis Richey on IMDBRobot, Ninja & Gay Guy2 Hot Guys in the ShowerThe Vampires' Curse: (Decimus Book 1) by Travis RicheyExposing Ourselves PodcastTravis Richey on FacebookTravis Richey on Instagram Franklin on Apple +The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Podcast

Join us for a special live broadcast from the bustling floors of NAB 2024 in Las Vegas! This episode dives deep into the latest trends and technologies shaking up the audio industry. We're bringing you the inside scoop straight from the heart of the action, featuring: Exclusive Interviews: Robert opens the bag in whats in SourceConnect four, which is set to revolutionize how we handle Atmos and multi-channel audio streaming. Product Spotlights: Discover cutting-edge products like the new vocal booths that promise unparalleled sound isolation, even on noisy show floors as their VP of Marketing Freddie Gateley joins us for a chat. Tech Insights: Learn about the tech that's driving audio innovation, including the latest in virtual set technology that could change film and TV production forever. Live Demos: Experience the power of Austrian Audio's OC 707 microphone, designed to deliver exceptional sound clarity, even in challenging environments. Whether you're an audio professional or a tech enthusiast, this episode is packed with insights that you won't want to miss! A big shout out to our sponsors, Austrian Audio and Tri Booth. Both these companies are providers of QUALITY Audio Gear (we wouldn't partner with them unless they were), so please, if you're in the market for some new kit, do us a solid and check out their products, and be sure to tell em "Robbo, George, Robert, and AP sent you"... As a part of their generous support of our show, Tri Booth is offering $200 off a brand-new booth when you use the code TRIPAP200. So get onto their website now and secure your new booth... https://tribooth.com/ And if you're in the market for a new Mic or killer pair of headphones, check out Austrian Audio. They've got a great range of top-shelf gear..  https://austrian.audio/ We have launched a Patreon page in the hopes of being able to pay someone to help us get the show to more people and in turn help them with the same info we're sharing with you. If you aren't familiar with Patreon, it's an easy way for those interested in our show to get exclusive content and updates before anyone else, along with a whole bunch of other "perks" just by contributing as little as $1 per month. 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They also discuss the impressive soundproofing capabilities of their trade show booth and the advantages of prefabricated booths over custom-built studios with guest Freddie Galey. The hosts delve into the logistics and costs of shipping vocal booths internationally and highlight Vocal Booth's diverse market applications. Additionally, they share their experience using the Austrian Audio OC 707 microphone for recording on the road and discuss the advancements in virtual production technology showcased at the expo. The conversation also touches on the extravagance of Las Vegas and the use of wireless technology to record podcasts in a crowded convention setting. #AudioTech #VocalBooths #NABShow2023 loading loading Timestamps (00:00:00) NAB Highlights with George and Robert (00:00:57) Streaming Atmos Audio with SourceConnect Four (00:04:35) Soundproofing Magic at the Trade Show (00:05:57) The Value of Prefab Booths (00:11:26) Shipping Vocal Booths to Australia (00:15:12) Vocal Booths: From Testing to Pets (00:19:00) Building Recording Booths for Any Space (00:22:12) Recording on the Road with Austrian Audio (00:24:17) Virtual Production Advancements at NAB Show (00:28:53) The Excess of Las Vegas (00:29:55) Wireless Tech Powering Podcasts at Convention (00:32:24) Wrapping Up and Staying Connected Transcript : Y'all ready? Beat history. Get started. : Welcome. : Hi. Hi. Hi. Hello, everyone, to the pro audio suite. : These guys are professional. : They're motivated. : Thanks to Tribooth, the best vocal booth for home or on the rote. Voice recording and austrian audio making passion heard. Introducing Robert Marshall from source elements. And someone audio post Chicago, Darren Robbo Robertson from Voodoo Radio Imaging, Sydney Tech to the Vo stars, George the tech Wittem from LA, and me, Andrew Peters. Voice over talent and home studio line up. : Learner. Here we go. : And welcome to another pro audio suite. Thanks to tributh, it's your freedom. The golden handcuffs. And don't forget the code TripaP 200 to get $200 off yours. And austrian audio making passion heard. Now, lots of things are being heard at NAB as we cross live to George and Robert. : Yeah. We are here at NAB 2024. Hello, everyone. We're in Vegas, baby. : What happens in Vegas instead of. : Well, not today. : Yeah. I hope the sales keep on going outside of Vegas. : That's right. But we don't want the money to stay in Vegas. We want it to go with us. We're all here to make money. That's the bottom line, we have to admit. : It's true. It's very true, actually. We want to show our stuff. That's what we really want to do. And then if it makes money, very. : Gordon Gekko of you, I must say. : Yeah, exactly. Very few people leave Vegas. : I'd be buying everybody and dismantling their companies if I was Gordon Gekko, wouldn't I? : Yeah, something like that. : Yeah. Greedy's good. I'm not in on that name, but I'll google it later. : It's that movie where he's like the Wall street guy, and he just buys other companies and destroys them. And all the union people are like, no. And he's like, fuck you, capitalism. : Yeah. So we're. I'm here because of vocal booth. Vocal booth.com. We've done a little story about them already and what I've done with them. But we're here. I'm here because I wanted to hang out with them and meet all of their customers and help them make. : Then it might be the right decision. : And Robert is, of course, here with source elements, and he's helping to promote the launch of SourceConnect four, which is doing some very impressive stuff. : Yeah, we got nominated for our best in show award. Specifically, we made source connect four. The upper end version is going to be able to stream Atmos end to end. And that actually doesn't sound like that impressive because it's possible to stream multi channel audio right now. But the difference is source connect four will be able to stream all the bed, all those channels, all the objects which could be up to like hundreds and 128. And the metadata for all those objects so that the receiving side can render that locally for their system on the fly. And then you can do that for up to five connections simultaneously. So you could have a director monitoring an Atmos mix and the stage could be on a 25 speaker system. The director could have a twelve speaker system. The producer could log in from another location and just receive on binaural and maybe the writer logs in and they're at home and they only have five. One. And all those things can be rendered locally for each system so the stage doesn't have to dumb down or render down to the common denominator. Yeah, that was great. : Mind bending stuff. : I think we need to add a caveat to that though. You can do all that unless you're on the australian NBN. : Well if you have Andrew's Internet then all you can do is half a channel. : That's right. South of Melbourne. Not so great. Sydney. No problem. : It seems that way, doesn't it? : Yeah. : But seriously though, is that dependent on your connection? : Well yeah, if you're streaming 128 channels of audio we figure on the realistic side you need at least five megs upload. But really each person and it can add up quite a bit. So we're really talking about people with really good pipes. But the intended audio audience for a product like that tends to be mix stage for a feature film. They're sitting on top of a ton of bandwidth. And then on the home side, most people's download, I mean you can get a gig download without even thinking about it. : Yeah. : So yeah, it'll take your average podcasters. : Not going to use it, let's be honest. : Of course. : Or you just need George's cell phone that can get a gig from. : Yeah, we can get on 5g here. I can get 1.2 gigabit download. : Wow, wow, wow. : Inside a building. : I'm moving to the states, so I'm done. : I think the towers are in the building. : Yeah, no, there are definitely microcells inside this building. So it's. Anyway, to try to paint the picture. We are in the middle of the heart of the central hall. It's about as central as this show kind of gets. The main stage is about 150ft in front of us, right down the hall, which has tremendous sound levels. There's music playing. There's presenters. It's all kinds of stuff going on and yet we can get away with recording in this noisy environment until, uh oh. : Bing bong. : Hello, we have a guest. Until that door opens, you can hear the noise. : I think we should do that again. : Yeah, yeah, let's hear that again. : Before and after without all the talking. : Over. Take two. Take two. : Silence. : Open the door. : Wow. : And then close the door. : That's crazy. That's insane. : It is really good at a show floor because I've been to plenty of booth demonstrations at shows and it's really a hard, like, this is, this is as bad as it gets. You know, if you were doing a sports thing and who knows what's going on outside. Maybe not NASCAR racing, maybe not Formula one, but who knows, like a football game, you could probably get away with quite a bit with some stuff like this. Especially if it's, you know, off, you know, place in the right place. : Yeah. : Well, we've got another folk, another folk here. Yeah. Freddie Galey, which we've spoken to before. You betcha. How you doing, Fred? : I'm doing awesome. : He's the reason we're all, at least I'm here. And this is the reason why we have this booth here. : That's why we have the booth. : How many years of nab for you now? : This would be. Oh, when was my first one? In 2012? 2013? : I think so. So that was after we teamed up because guy was the first one that we. : Yeah, we were. I just, you know what? My Calvin, our owner, just sent me a photo like a couple days ago and he happened to be the one that we were down there and I said, source elements here is 2015. : Wow. : Yeah, it's not been a while. : And. : I've been coming to these spottily over the years, but I'm so glad that I came to this one because the, the quality of the, of the people that attend nab are top notch. I mean, these folks are not just creatives, but they're like education directors, station directors, managers, just incredible high level people here and they understand the value of this thing. The first thing I'm always impressed by is when you tell them what this, this is a big booth we're in, what, eight by ten? : Yeah, this one's an eight by ten platinum plus. Or a double wall with an extra layer of mass loaded vinyl. : Yeah. And you know, if we were at a music convention, you might tell them the price and a sticker shock might roll over their face, but not at a show like this, because people understand the value of what this thing does. : What's something like this? Like 15,000? Yeah. : So the basic one of this one would go out as seen here at an eight by ten. And the platinum double wall, including all the shipping be 23,000 shipped. : And the shipping is like two, three. : Grand on the chunk of it. : It's pretty stiff, but we pay for the shipping, so that's your out the door price. : That's what I love. These guys price everything shipped in the US, which really takes away any of the mystification of what stuff credit really. : Costs and, like, parts and materials and someone to build it. You're spending that much money, at least, and then double it for the frustration. : I've done a lot of custom studio designs and builds with contractors, and it's excruciating. : Yeah, excruciating. : Like, I. One of the things I get hard to do so often is, should I build or buy? And the build argument is so strong now more than ever, because construction's so damn expensive. It's very frustrating to deal with contractors. Not that they're bad people. : They don't understand the details of, like, I even did it now, and my contractor, I said, put these little rubber pads underneath the floor, blah, blah, blah. Do not screw the new subfloor to the old floor. What did they do? : Yes. : Thousand screws in it. By the time I got home from work, it's like, it's done now. My floor is coupled, and I didn't want it coupled. : You can spend gobs of money way more than this thing for something this size, and then have one mistake. One screw goes through his timber, short out the build, and it's ruined. : You ruin the whole. : That's a couple. Yeah, yeah. : One of the things, too, that I've had clients and stuff in the past is they've called us. They were already pretty well down the road with somebody, and then they were like, I'm just gonna see about having some. A prefab. And we came in, they're like, oh, you guys are a third the cost, and you can have it here this month. Yeah, game on. Let's go. And then that was the other big thing for them, too, is they were like, hey, I'm not modifying my real estate, so this is not going to be something I have to try and resell. This pool house with a recording studio in. It's like we just take it each. : Part of the art, right? : You have to include that cost, which is once you want to sell it, you've now modified some basement room to something that people don't want, and then you got to put it back, and that'll cost you at least half as much to undo it all. : Yep. I know. Watching Joe Cipriano's custom built studio I designed 15 years ago essentially be dismantled and destroyed because the people that bought the house don't need it was rather heartbreaking. : If there's one way to devalue your property, build a studio. : Unless you're very lucky. : Yeah. Unless you actually find you're just lowering the pool of people that want to buy your house on resale. Seriously. I had a real estate agent, and I was talking about building my studio and this and that, and I was like, definitely do not get rid of that bathroom. But all in all, I was like, you're devaluing your property by building this huge studio in it. It's like, well, I'm not moving in my case, but if you don't know or you're building, you know, buying an investment house and you might be planning on selling it, building a studio in there will cost you at least as much as a prefab booth. It will cost you more to get rid of it, and you will be frustrated by the whole process, and it will take you longer. : It's a serious commitment. Yeah. : What's even wild, too, is that recently, schools have been getting into that, too. I had one school that built an entire second story out of an acoustic floor just to be able to put our booths in on top of that so that they didn't have to later demo all the sheetrock and all the studs and everything. They're like, let's just put 17 big booths up here, make it look like it's all one structure, wood veneered, and wire all the h vac and everything into it. But later, we can just get rid of it. : Do you know one of the best tricks I've seen? You buy a booth, and then you just build the simplest wall in front of the booth, and the whole thing looks like it's built into the house, and it's only been one wall with one stud and one layer of drywall, and it looks like Joe Cipriano's place, practically. : Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. : So, gents, down there in Australia. : Yes. : What do you guys have in mind? What do you want to know? : I actually have a quick question about the booth you're in, because every Aussie and every Englishman is asking, yeah, it's great. 23 grand in the states. But if I want one down here, what's shipping going to cost me, and I'm Bhop. : Funny you brought that up. : 50,000, 100,000 australian. What's the conversion rate is off. : It fluctuates. : We've been seeing NAB is very international. So there are Qatar people from Qatar, Dubai, Europe. And you guys, did you ship something overseas not too long ago? : Well, even just thinking about Australia is just this last year we did University of Sydney down there and we did. I mean, containers full down there and they did a whole room full of booths and stuff. So logistics are the big thing down there. So if it's something going to Sydney or going to a port city, that's not too big of a deal. We have really good air options, we have really good freight options for the ocean options as well. And if we do a full container down there, it's really easy. We can even get that dropped off at the place and then it's almost like having a trailer. : So we're talking group orders. Maybe get together and do a group order or something, then fill a container. : Yeah, exactly. You know, we can always use somebody consolidating stuff over there. : So the shipping, the 23,000 for this booth shipped, that's continuous us states or is that. Yep. : That's going to be anywhere where we don't have to cross borders. Because then once we do get into, like, Canada, of course, we've got all the tariffs and fees and stuff that has to go in there and somebody has to be grabbing it on the other side. It's usually. It's funny how it's really not sometimes that much more. Sometimes it's like an extra $150 on our freight side to get it over there, but on. And that's if they're taking care of all the tariffs and all the import duties. We can do that. We can act as brokers for people too, though, and make it pretty easy. But again, it just depends on the level of. : It's a really world market now. I mean, we are doing build outs in the US where the windows and doors come from, China. This is not unusual. This is all happening right now. So things moving between continents is not nearly. Now, I know there was a little problem besides missiles. Yeah. ICB vocal booth. Intercontinental ballistic vocal booth. : I'm sorry, it just crossed my mind. I don't know what. : Filters. Filters, yeah. So, yeah, no, it's not unheard of. Would you buy maybe a little one off, four by four? I don't know. It depends on. Because you're sharing a container when you're doing like, one booth. Yeah. : And we do international crates, and so we can get it priced out just for a crate. The hard thing is that that is even a fluctuating market. So we've seen, all of a sudden it'd be dirt cheap, like, where we can get something down there for $1,200 shipping, but then we'll see it, like, just absolutely spike. Like, of course, we saw weird things during the whole COVID pandemic, like ships that were just sitting out there with stuff rotting on it. So it was just astronomically up and down, so you never really knew. But we do really quick turnarounds on quotes, so that's something that it's all up front, like, you know, order the boot and then find out how much shipping's gonna be once you guys, when somebody's happy with the way that the quote is, they're ready to go ahead and move to the next level. We're on the phone with our logistics. : Guys and we got it done. : So AP's just texted me, he'll take a container load, please. : Right. : Right away. : When you're all done with the container, you can just line it with double wall and make a booth out of the container. : Maybe we should line it with other things to pay for it. : Yes. : There you go. : Exactly. I think this just became evidence. : Hello, ASIO, if you're listening. Yes. : Yeah. So what's your biggest market? Is it people like myself, like a voice over talent? Or is it more studios, as in, you know, commercial studios? : I'm guessing it's broadcasters and production companies. : Yeah, it's funny. Our biggest market, probably. I mean, if we wanted to talk just dollar wise, it's going to be education and corporate, even testing. So those are the biggest ones that are getting really big boosts. So some of these will be 16 by 32ft and nine or 10ft tall. Some companies, like Medtronics or Philips, respiratronics or something, they'll be doing really big production stuff and want to move all their testing stuff inside because they're in a bigger factory. And so this is something that they can pop up right in a factory, bolt to the floor in there, and have a whole way of stuff coming in and out. : Bolt it to the floor. You're gonna couple it and then you're gonna get all those vibrations through the. : Yeah. : And so again, what they're all about is they don't need an anechoic chamber, but what they need to do is have all that equipment out there and bring it down to a level that's good enough for their testing inside. And so even inside of that big booth will be other booths. : Oh, wow. : Yeah. So it's a big crazy thing. But again, to bring a level down to another level and to another level also, we've been doing a whole lot of stuff with Apple and Amazon and stuff too, and their testing departments. And that's just one of the most consistent things that we have. : And then what stuff do they need? : A big thing that we designed for them is custom testing enclosures. And so this will be stuff to test all of their small. I don't know what my NDA can let me say, but you all know. : What Apple devices, that they all know. : What Apple branded devices about the size of an iPad or the size of generally portable things. Portable. So a lot of stuff in the testing facilities where they'll want to stack up like maybe 15 or 20 of these and have run localizations on all of those and not have them talk to each other. So they don't need like an insane level of isolation, but enough to where they're just not straight talking to each other or maybe even like speaker arrays or weird things on the inside and then even up to that. So, like, booths that are this size that they can go in and then have stuff kind of bounce around even. We do a lot of stuff like in the broadcasting world and stuff like the Nielsen Corporation that the Nielsen ratings and stuff too, where they build living room sets inside of our booth. So they have big 16 by 32 sets. : Wow. : And they're all dressed out and they have robotics arms and stuff, but they can build all those living room sets, put all their listening devices in there and then run all the tests around. And they have, like, I can't remember, they run like 32 of their own little tv stations in the back. And so they can broadcast to their own little closed circuit. Not closed circuit, but just a very small power thing and then test how this works across all of their tv stations and what it sounds like in this living room and what sounds like in that living room and if this thing is working and stuff. So again, that's the crazy thing about vocal booth, is that we never know who's gonna call and stuff. So we do get the people that, you know. Yeah, I'm unfortunate. : I rarely say no. : It sounds like, you know, yeah, we pretty much say no to very little. : Do parents ever call and they just wanna put their kids in the booth, actually. : Okay. So recently I did get a call and somebody wanted one for. They wanted one of our ant boxes that would perfectly fit a dog crate. And so they could put their dog in there because the dog had anxiety issues and he could be put in there. And we have ventilation and everything. And that crate slid right in there. And the dog could sleep in a nice, very quiet environment when they went to work. And then we had later one that somebody bought a three carat diamond for their parrot. So that thing was driving people crazy and the neighbors crazy when they go to work. And so they both. And I don't know. I mean, you don't ask questions. : Polly's got a booth. : We just don't say no. : Back to this. Back to the dog crate one, though. It's school holidays here, so I'll take four of those, please. : Absolutely. : And they stack nicely. : Yeah, yeah. Nice one. : What, the children or the boots? : The serial killer. Did the serial killer want an environment to do his thing in? : A less eating Las Vegas hotel food for too many days in a row. : Haven't had that customer yet. : There was somebody who wanted their entire bedroom put in one. : Oh, wow. : What were they getting up to in there then, I wonder? : I don't think. : I didn't ask, but I don't think it was all about what kind of sound was coming from the inside, but from the outside, so that's okay. They actually, it was one of the writers on Jimmy Fallon's show. And they were like, I get done writing after the last show is done and we get too busy and I might not get home until 08:00 in the morning and done writing, and then I'm in Manhattan and this is a nightmare stuff. So sent a booth, and from our booths, they can all be built from the inside out. They have nice ventilation and everything. So he just built it right into his bedroom and then threw all the bedroom set and everything aside. : That's very interesting. Your boots can be built from the inside out. You can put the floor in a corner and you're not screwed. You can put it in the corner. You don't have to, like, build it in the middle of the room and then shove it in the corner. : That's huge. : I have built enough booths that that's a big deal. Like, I didn't even realize that. That's really. : That's huge. : Yeah, we put all the stuff on the inside because so many places you want to maximize your, you know, your. Maximize your space. And so some people will even call, they just have an alcove like that. That's a big thing with corporations stuff, too. They're like, we've been given the area where the printer used to be. And that's our recording studio now. And so, yeah, no problem. As long as you get there from the front, build all the sides, and even with really short ceilings, we can build it right up to within, like, two inches of the ceiling and then slide light in, you know, the ceiling panels so that you don't have to go up and above and lay them down and then put that final wall in there. And that's a. : That's a really big deal. I mean, building booths is, you know, building your own built in booth is really frustrating, but it's still a task. It was. : It. : I mean, it's gonna, like. I'm sure you guys can put this thing together in, what, like, 2 hours or something, but if your first time on this, you're gonna spend the day building this thing. : Yeah. : At least the day. How good you are with instructions and how far it is you have to bring the panels or whatever. It just depends on the people and. : How it's like going to Ikea. : I was just there yesterday. : Very heavy Ikea, insulated with Romo. : Okay. : So funny enough, Ikea has actually become one of our clients, as last time. And we just sent him one of those little wrenches. : Yeah, yeah, yeah. : We seem to have lost our Allen key. : Yeah, that's right. : Well, you've got a few leftovers, like. : Yeah, yeah. : What do I do with my missed. : Yeah, yeah, totally. : On that wall. : You guys don't mind, I've got. I've got some clients and stuff to see out here, too, but it's great talking to you guys down there. And always a pleasure. So, Freddie, thank you for letting us enjoy. : Cheers. : Love having these guys around, and it's been fun. : Thanks, Freddie. Cheers, man. : Thanks. : Cheers. : Now listen to the door. Here we go. : Let's hear it again. : Seriously, it's good. : That's very good. : It is good. : That mic is doing good, too. From the distance, it's picking him up really clearly. It's hard to tell how it really is when you're the speaker. : Yes. : But when you turn it on him, it's good. : For most of you are probably only hearing the show. This is really an audio show today, and we are using the austrian audio OC 707. I promised I would make this my on the road mic. : It's a tighter polar pattern than the. Than the OC eight, I think. Right? : I think so. Like, I'm. So we're. Right now, Robert and I are equidistantly across from the mic, and it's still getting both of us. But it's a little more diffuse. Right? It's not as focused. : It's got a good presence. Like, that's even more presence. I hear that. And that's just rotating the mic, like, 30 degrees or something. : So very cool. It's definitely not. It's not a wide cardioid. It's a more narrow, maybe almost hyper. : I think it might be hyper. I don't know, but it's. I think it's doing well. : Yeah. Well, it's weird, because in this booth, we have other mics. We have some earthwork ethoses, and we have some other gear. But I opted just to go single mic handheld, which sounds old school and weird, but the nice thing about that is I can essentially engineer this. So I'm controlling and mixing manually. This is an old school thing, but I'm literally mixing the three of us. And because we have one mic, we don't worry about fading and crosstalk. We can get away from the glass. That's. This booth has a lot of glass because it's all about showing off. And, yeah, it's working out really well. : It's funny you should talk about mics, though, because the file I sent to you, that was done in the back of the car with the austrian audio, Cc eight, I sent to one of the engineers at big radio network here. And he said, what mic is it, and where do you record? I told him, CC eight with the mic four pro in the back of my car. And his reply was, nuts. Absolutely nuts. He couldn't believe it. : Right? : Yeah. : So from now on, you're doing all your sessions from your car? : That's right. : Yeah, exactly. : Exactly. : Well, I gotta say. So I don't know how much time you've had to really see the joint. I've only walked one lap of the central hall briefly, because, honestly, I've had so much to do here, I've not had a chance. : I mean, I walked one row down, so just the aisle. We got a pretty good boot spot. So we're on, like, a main aisle, but I just got to go all the way down and back. And I did see one thing that was really impressive. So do you know what a video wall is? : Yeah. : Like an led screen. It bolts together and is modular. : Not quite. More like, okay. You used to shoot stuff on green screen. Why shoot on green screen when we already have the whole background shot? : Oh, yes. : So now they have this thing. It's a $4,000 box, which is like. This is like million dollar shit. And now it's like $4,000 box. You can build the whole environment virtually. Or if you go through a bigger process, you can shoot it all from multiple angles. It'll stitch together. Then you shoot it with an iPhone or some camera that has the same thing that you use for VR. So wherever you move the camera, the video behind you moves in the exact same way. So you get the same angle. And all the parallax. Not only that, the thing controls all the lights that you set up around it. So if you turn it to a place where you say, this is dark, the lights will go down and. : Whoa. : Yeah, well, this is million dollar stuff. Like, I don't know exactly how much the real deal stuff is, but this is like $4,000, I think. : I remember seeing it here the last four, five, six years ago, and it was extremely, like, science fiction and extremely expensive, and it's. Now it's accessible. So what do they call it? Virtual sets, right. : Well, it's more than a virtual set, but yes, it's a virtual set, but now it's. I thought they call it a video wall or something, and it just negates the need for. Because a virtual set, you're sitting there just looking at a green screen. But on this thing, the actors, like, running around doing this thing, and they look behind, and if there's a character, they can make eye contact with the screen. They can act and feel it much more than pretending that they're talking to a green screen and imagining what's there. They can focus their eyes in the right places. : Right? Yeah. : Well, there's a couple of guys I know here who set up a thing called Dreamscreen, which you can google, and that's the same thing. But they've got massive sets with the whole back of the set is giant video wall. And they've shot a lot of films there. In fact, they were up for Metropolis, the remake of Metropolis, the Fritz Lang film. : Yeah, it's. : Oh, wow. : Except bring your own screen. : Yeah. : But they said it will work with projectors, so you can stitch together multiple projectors and fill a, you know, who knows how big of a wall. : Well, they did a. They did a big thing here. One of the first things they did was a series called fires. It was all about the bushfires drama. And they, of course, could actually, you know, have the. Have the fires actually happening with the actors on set, on the screens. So the actor, even though they had, like, the, you know, the car there was on fire or whatever, they had blah, blah, blah. But they had the screens in the background so the actor felt like they were actually in the middle of a bushfire. : Whoa. : Wow. : Yeah. This is the kind of thing you see at nab. It's all the traditional stuff, like mics, camera booms. Um, but you're seeing way more of this virtual type production. There's. There are apparently 150 different classes here on AI stuff alone, because there's a huge amount of education that comes along with it. We're just. We're just here for the expo. You know, we're here to sell. But there's a huge education component. : I mean, that's. That's the problem with being an exhibitor, is that you can't do it. You can't see all this stuff. It's like, it takes an nab. You can probably do in a. It'll take you at least two days or three days to really see everything. : And your feet are gonna kill you. : Yeah. CES is insane. You'll just shoot yourself when you're done. But as an exhibitor, you get to stand on your feet all day. But you only get to see your own stuff because. : Yeah, so. So I haven't seen anything too revolutionary. There's another company here that does soundproof windows, which I've known these guys forever called, literally soundproof windows. And they have an entire Conex shipping style container that they've converted into a quiet space so they can show off all their doors and windows. And it is damn impressive. As quiet as it is in here, takes it down another ten to 15 decibels. : That's. That's like a whole other level. : That's, you know, that's probably a hundred thousand plus install. : Yeah. You're not shipping that to a residential place, and you're not building that on your own in a day. : This thing's on a. This thing's on a flatbed truck. It's trailered in, and they've used it in am show and stuff like that. You know, so it's. I'm staying a whole extra day tomorrow just so I can start seeing things that I haven't been able to see. Yeah. : Because if you lose weight. No, it's impossible to lose weight here. That's my problem, actually. : You know, a six dollar order of onion rings at the Westgate is enough to feed like a starving family. : Yeah. And they don't even talk about the buffets. : I ate a $30 omelet this morning because that's. It was a buffet. And all I wanted was a damn. Yeah, that's Vegas. : Right. : Well, let me tell you. I mean, we just had the Sydney Royal Easter show here, which is like our big carnival of the year, I guess in Sydney, a cup of lemonade was dollar 18. : What? Oh, my gosh. : Yeah. $18 for a cup of lemonade? : Oh, my gosh. : That's ridiculous. : Well, the other thing I want to mention is that, you know, again, we've been talking about source elements and their new product. We're using Nexus right now as our communications portal. So we're all communicating real time over Nexus, and we're using source Connect 3.9 because that's the version we have currently installed. Third four just dropped, but we're using that. And the amazing thing is, we're doing all that on my laptop, which is running on a battery I don't even have plugged in. We're using a mic port pro, which is also running on batteries. And we're using a hotspot on a phone connecting all this via wireless to a mobile, you know, a mobile data connection. And we're doing all which. : That is mind blowing because I've been to so many of these conventions where usually you have to come in with three separate cell phone connections and you do what's called bonding them into one. When you get 100,000 people here with their cell phones, the towers just bog down to a crawl and you have to brute force it with three parallel connections. You're just doing it like a pedestrian turn on my hotspot. : Yeah, yeah. If you're on Verizon here, you're in good shape. If you're on t mobile, you're pretty well screwed, because Verizon, which I should. : Mention the source elements booth, is using a Verizon connection, which they were very gracious to provide us with. And we hooked up and it was a gig. And I was like, gigabit. : Yeah. : Gigabit connections on wireless. : Wow. : So we've been just leveraging all this technology to do shows from here. We've been recording from this booth. I've done. This is my fourth podcast since I've gotten here, and it's just incredible we can pull off these days. And, you know, and by the way. : Everyone, I like to point out that this, in a show floor that's really loud, is much better than most of the audio I give. : Yes, indeed. : This is a true fact. Actually, talking about the amount of bandwidth you've got there. I'm just looking at my hamster, and he's giving me the hairy eyeball saying, give me a break. I'm puffed out. : Yeah. : Yeah. So it's been great, guys. So I'm watching a ton of people outside the booth that are, like, circling. They want to come in and they're. : Going to start huffing and puffing and. : Like, they're being tutting and rolling their eyes. Is that what's going on? : We'll put a. Yeah, no, no, no. There's just people that want to come in, so. : And I need to go huff and huff. : You do HR puff and stuff. : Exactly. : That's right. : All right, we're out. : Yes. : Well, that was fun. Is it over? : The pro audio suite with thanks to tribers and austrian audio recorded using Source Connect, edited by Andrew Peters and mixed by Voodoo Radio Imaging with tech support from George the Tech Wittem. Don't forget to subscribe to the show and join in the conversation on our Facebook group. To leave a comment, suggest a topic, or just say, g'day. Drop us a note at our website, theproaudiosuite.com.  

Your vocal brand is the key to getting noticed in this world of noise. It's much more than just the sound of your voice. It's who you are, what you believe in and what matters to you. Anne & Lau discuss what goes into a vocal brand & what you can do to develop yours. Vocal branding is all about uncovering your uniqueness in order to let it shine through in every project you take on. Take time to get to know yourself. What matters to you? Why are you a voice actor? A voice is like a fingerprint: no two are exactly alike. Once you've figured out what makes your vocal brand stand out, it's time to learn how to harness it. The key here is authenticity. And it's not just what you say—it's how you say it. Figuring out how to combine all these elements into one cohesive brand can seem overwhelming, but don't worry! Anne & Lau are here to show you how it's done.    Transcript    It's time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.   Anne: Hey everyone. Welcome to the VO BOSS podcast. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza. Welcome to the VO BOSS superpower series with the one and only Lau Lapides. Yay.   Lau: Yay. Hey Anne.   Anne: Hey, Lau.   Lau: Love being back as always. Love it.   Anne: Superpowers, superpowers. I love that we named our series Superpowers.   Lau: Because we have so many of them.   Anne: Yes.   Lau: Like we can't even uncover, identify all of them.   Anne: Business superpowers. And I think that our superpowers, it's in all aspects of our business, right? So including our superpowers to be able to stand out from the crowd. And to be unique. All businesses have competition. And I know that people talk about VO -- VO is so cool because there's competition like technically speaking, but not really, because every single one of us has such a unique product. And I think it's important that we know how to bring out that unique product and not just know how to bring that out. Also, to be able to market that. And that goes right into our brand. And so a lot of what I do with students is I will tell them that I am going to not only brand them in terms of what genre should I be in, but vocally brand them, right? And that really is something that's not just a visual brand on a website, but something that it is absolutely related to their product. Right? A vocal branding.   Lau: Absolutely.   Anne: So what does vocal branding mean to you, Lau?   Lau: Oh gosh. It's such a big umbrella. It really is. I mean, the first thing that comes to my mind, Anne, is just having the knowledge of knowing as a coach, that no one in the world has the voice you have. Everyone has a unique sound, distinctively unique sound. Okay? They may have similar qualities, but they're distinctively unique. So number one, uncovering that uniqueness in your voice through specific qualities that you could maybe even poll, like pull your group, poll your team, poll your family and say, give me qualities that describe my voice. Because when I'm gonna look at specs of a breakdown for an audition, the client's gonna break it down for you. they're gonna give you vocal qualities. So that's one of the big ones I feel that really distinguishes your vocal branding from someone else's and says, oh, I know that. That's Deb. That's Susan.   Anne: Oh, I know that voice.   Lau: Yeah, I know that voice.   Anne: And you know what's so interesting to me is I find that there's a lot of people who come to me who will try to perform and sound like they think everybody wants them to sound like, and not enough about sounding like themselves. Because I truly believe, and I say this all the time, I truly believe that we are human. We wanna connect. We want to understand who you are. And that comes through, that shines through in your voice, that very unique voice. So unless you're doing a soundalike for someone, or even a character where you're trying to sound a particular way, I think that your vocal brand needs to be brought right up there, front and center, because I think that's what truly makes you unique. And it brings the acting out.   So it's not about the sound, right? It's about how do I bring the acting out? And that becomes a vocal brand for you because the personality is intermixed. I think personality has a lot to do with creating a unique vocal sound. Right? Your personality, your, your heart, your essence. I don't know, Lau, you always have great words for this. What would you say your ethos, I dunno, the ethos of your vocal branding?   Lau: The ethos of your vocal branding.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: It's like the height. Like what is the apex of what someone is thinking about when they think about you? It's like they think about you with this word, with this adjective, with this action verb. Your name comes up. That's like, to me, that's the zenith of it all, is like, when they think of this, Anne Ganguzza comes up. When they think of that, this one comes up. And that to me is amazing. And in no way should that feel limiting to people. Like, oh, does that mean that's all I can do? Or that's all they think of me as. Well, they think of you as, as a product, as an incredible product that has this vocal branding. And that's the first and foremost that you want them to think about. You don't want them to be confused. You never want your audience to be confused. You always want them to think of you for doing the best thing. And with your vocal quality as a vocal talent, they wanna know you as something, whatever that something is.   Anne: And then whatever that something is, learn how to define that also in words because that words can translate to words on a page or words in an email that you are submitting with a demo to an agent, something that sets you apart. And it can also be different unique aspects of your voice. Like let's say an accent, right? A tone, if you have that really beautiful bass, baritone or that bright mom sound or whatever that might be. Bilingual, right? Can you sing? Like, those are all vocal qualities that can really help distinguish you from the competition. And so know what those vocal qualities are and be ready to be able to explain them to a potential client. Also showcase them. I think it's so important that these vocal brandings are basically shown or in a demo, right? So that people can hear that vocal quality. And if you have a good producer, they're going to know that and they're gonna know how to bring those vocal qualities out.   Lau: And you know, it's having a visual now of like a performer, a theater actor, a professional speaker who's in front of a crowd live, they're in front of a crowd. What's the first and foremost thing we see visually is their visual branding. So that might be a costume or wardrobe or particular visuals that we're getting on camera or on a stage. Right? Well, that's a big part of the kinds of roles they play, but that's not everything. We have to know what's underneath it. We have to know what's the internal process that they're using to bring out their personality, their persona, their humanity, the thing that we connect to. But that covering, so to speak, that like coming in and saying, I can sound like this. I can put this on, is great to have, it's just not the whole job. It's not the whole thing. You have to be able to do the internal work to really have the authentic connections to the process and then put the wardrobe on it, and then put the schmaltz as we say on it, the frosting on it. Right? But you have to have the cake first. You can't just have the frosting, even though we'd like to, you gotta build a cake first.   Anne: I'm always astounded when I work with different voices. Now, there are some voices who tonally, right, will have varying degrees of range tonally. But sometimes I think when students are just beginning, they think that that's what range is all about. And I beg to differ because range is not just a tone or I have a high pitch, I have a low pitch. I think really range for an artist an artist really comprises the tone mixed with the personality, mixed with the performance, mixed with the acting.   And so whenever people say, I want range in my demo, right, I will actually focus more on the acting first, rather than, oh, can you pitch your voice up? Can you pitch your voice down? It's so hard for people to do that because then they get so consumed with, I'm going to sound very low, or maybe I'm just gonna sound very high and I'll just do this for the rest of the copy. And so Lau, I know you've had lots of experience working with students do that.   Lau: Oh, oh my goodness, ton. And it's that what I call the over management, the maneuvering, every M word you can think of, the manipulation of sound, which of course, technically if you're a singer, if you're a rapper, if you're a speaker, if you're a vocalist of any kind, we do have to learn mechanics. We have to have a vocabulary that we can rely upon that helps with repeatability so that we can repeat deliveries for sure. But that still does not do that internalized work of understanding the language, the syntax, the cadence, the rhythm, all of that, which I believe is --   Anne: The story.   Lau: Yes. The story.   Anne: The story.   Lau: And whether you are religious or not, religious is irrelevant. There's a spirituality, there's something that we can't quite put our finger on that is larger than us. It's bigger than us that we can connect to, which creates a universal internal connection to your audience that they can't put their finger on either. It's just, it's real, it's authentic. Our friend Jim from Lotas talks about that all the time, authenticity. What is authenticity? What is that honest connectedness that we have? I'd like to think it's partly psychological, but it's also partly from the heart and the soul and the gut.   Anne: Oh yeah. Absolutely.   Lau: Right?   Anne: And that's where people, if they're nervous about synthetic voices, this is where we've got them .   Lau: Yeah. Yeah.   Anne: If you can really stand true to your authenticity and bring that out in your acting and in your voice, then that is what is going to surpass any synthetic voice out there. And know that your connection and your vocal brand has very much a place in voiceover now and for the future, absolutely. And I say this after, gosh, close to 40 episodes, talking to people in synthetic voices, knowing that there is a place for that. But there's very much a place for our unique vocal brand and our unique, authentic brand, authentic voice.   Lau: Absolutely.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: And it's hard, if not impossible, to decipher exactly what it is. It's like when we see a brilliant performance, we hear a brilliant dissertation, we hear something rhetorical that moves us -- it's hard to completely put into words why we are moved to a call to action. Why we are changed, why we are cathartically shifted in a way. It's that beautiful recipe and combination of the visuals, the vocals, the internals, the connectedness to the audience that create that concoction that is so unique, that becomes persona. I mean, that's persona personified , as they say. It's, it's, that's your brand. Like your brand is how do I move you? How do I shift you?   Anne: Yeah. And I think it's one of the hardest things for people first entering into the industry to really accept and recognize. I know, I can't tell you the amount of people who don't really like the sound of their voice. They're true voice--   Lau: But yet they wanna make a living at it .   Anne: And they wanna make a living at it. And yet they're in voiceover and they wanna pursue voiceover because they think what everybody wants to buy is this performed sound that they have heard. I think we're such a product of our experience in listening for years. Right? When voiceover first came onto the scene, it was very much an announcer style. It was very much a, a unique style. And so hearing that, depending on your age, really, this does depend on your age. Kim Herdon actually in one of my workshops mentioned it too. And I thought, yeah, when you are being directed, a lot of times it is a factor how old the person is that is directing you. Because what they hear in their ears as a conversational or authentic read might differ from let's say, somebody that is a millennial that might be directing you.   And so I think no matter who's directing you, if you can bring forth the authenticity and your own unique style, I think that that is the place to absolutely start. And if you can bring that out, I feel like that's, you're at the height of your acting. It's kind of like, how many times have we watched a B movie? And it's so obvious, right, that the actors are maybe not as sincere or maybe they're not connecting with the audience. And so for those of you that are trying to figure out what your sound is, stop because it's not a sound. It's not a sound.   Lau: No, no, it's not. It's the land, what I call the land like how it lands on someone. How is it received? How is it thought of that's the most important? And the second is like great acting like Meisner exercises, like the second I'm thinking about myself -- which is natural. A lot of us will lose focus at times, think about ourself. But that's a really good gauge for us as business owners, as BOSSes, as delivery folks doing vocal delivery. The second I'm thinking about myself is the second I've lost contact with the other, the other.   Anne: Absolutely.   Lau: Whoever that is. It just be an admin. It could be an executive assistant, it could be whatever. But if I lose that level of focus, not only did I lose the information of what they're giving to me, but I also lost the authentic response of how what I'm saying and doing is landing on them.   Anne: Yeah, absolutely.   Lau: And then I don't have authentic queuing anymore. I lost my queuing ability. Anne: Yeah. And I think even when we're talking about niches -- again, I always talk about people starting out here and you're trying to figure out where you belong in the industry. Like, where do I fit? I think no matter what niche you're pursuing, commercial, corporate, explainer, promo, there is absolutely in every niche, there is a unique you in that. Even if, let's say promos, right? And they sound announcery. right? And oh, great, I get to be an announcer. Sure. But you've still got a whole lot of personality that's put into that announcer, and you're bringing a whole lot of you to that. Like, I'm just, makes me think of Joe Cipriano, like I could pick out his voice in a second because he brings his personality to it. It really is something that you have to be comfortable with. And I think that's a journey for a lot of students to become self-accepting and to allow -- and vulnerability, right -- that to come out in a performance.   Lau: Absolutely. And I think you have to be okay, okay, sometimes more than okay with whatever you're saying and doing, when it does land, and it's being accepted and it's being rewarded, being okay with that being enough. In other words, if I get into that mindset, yeah. But I, they haven't seen me do this and I don't love that as much as I love this da da -- take that out of the situation and say, look, they're seeing one potential within me of value. And they're loving that and they're valuing that. Let that be okay. Let that be enough. Go other places to show other sides of your voice and other sides of what you can do. But if that's okay, if that's what a big part of your branding is, because sometimes it's enough; people don't wanna know you as everything.   They don't want -- I'm sure we've all had that experience where we see a movie star that we know and love, and we are tracking them, and all of a sudden they're doing a role that they love. That's challenging to them. but we don't wanna see 'em in that role. It's like, it's almost uncomfortable to see them in that role because we don't know them as that. It doesn't seem authentic to us. It seems pushed or it seems weird to us. Does that mean they're not capable of doing the role? ? No, of course not. It just means we've compartmentalized in our brain their branding to us.   Anne: Sure, sure.   Lau: And that means something to us. I think that branding, for some weird reason can have a negative connotation like it's simplistic or superficial when it's not. It has a real lifestyle meaning to people of how they place you Sure. And compartmentalize you within their life, in their lifestyle.   Anne: I wanted to kind of tap into what you're talking about in terms of is there just one brand? Do you just have one brand and maybe not, maybe you can have mult -- I mean, I have multiple brands actually. And so each one of those brands though has a piece of me, has a piece of authentic me in that. And again, I think that that's one of the most important things that we want to emphasize here. And that vocal brand should be something that people can remember you by and then easily come back.   And that's the whole thing, right? Because we're talking about the physical properties of your voice and the physicalities of how we sound and what we can offer as a unique value proposition to our potential clients. Now, how are we going to market that? In my corporate narration world, I have a particular demo that really has my sound, my unique value pro -- I call it my unique value proposition for corporate. And I may sound different when I am doing e-learning, and in reality I am because I'm a different person, right? I am teaching when I'm an e-learning versus corporate, I'm selling, or even commercial, I'm a little bit selling. I'm trying to convince people. So because the context is different, you get a different part of me. And that part of me is still very much me, but it is also a different brand. So I think that for each of your vocal brands, you need to have demonstrations, demos that really showcase yourself in those particular niche  markets.   Lau: Right. You have to have that. That's a necessity. And from my experience, Anne, in my business, people come in, potential clients come in, prospects for a particular specific branding. Once they work with you in that, they start trusting you that yeah, you do that, you do it well. They're getting their value, they're getting what they need. They will open up to cross branding, which I call cross pollination, which means --   Anne: I love that, cross branding.   Lau: I offer, you offer three, four, five, six different services, whatever.   Anne: Hey, could you do this?   Lau: Yes. But they're not unrelated. Like, I'm not gonna clean your curtains, and I'm not gonna babysit your kids. Right? So they're not unrelated, they're all within this sphere. But they're much more open, and rightly so as I would be too, moving into those services once they are educated to understand what they need and what they want, versus coming in off the street for those services because they already came in for a particular brand.   Anne: Sure. And once they do that, I think it's important that you remain consistent in that brand.   Lau: Yes.   Anne: I think branding is just all about consistency, right? I mean, we've spoken about branding before. I mean, obviously look, I've got my headphones, I've got my glasses, I've got the whole red thing for VO BOSS. Visually there's a brand, but also there is that vocal consistency that comes to the show that you and I, we're giving of ourselves. We have our authentic selves. And that is a very important part of the VO BOSS brand. People don't listen to the podcast to look at my headphones. It's about my delivery, our conversation, our heart, our authenticity between the two of us. And that is, again, something that works in conjunction with marketing, maybe a visual. Right? And that has to be consistent for people, to make it memorable for people.   Lau: Yes. I would say it has to be consistent, but not necessarily constant.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: Like we oftentimes think, oh, I have to be online all the time. I have to be posting on social all the time. I have to -- well, to some degree, yes. But do you need to be constantly doing that? Probably not. But you do have to be consistent in what you're doing so that it's gonna cause the attention that you want. Anne: I'm glad that you said that, because there's absolutely a thing of being too much into, right?   Lau: Yeah.   Anne: I actually, myself, even when we're talking about marketing and advertising, and I offer workshops, obviously the VO BOSS podcast -- how much am I going to be marketing that brand? And so you don't want it to be so much --   Lau: You're overdoing it.   Anne: -- that it becomes an annoyance.   Lau: Right.   Anne: But what's so interesting is -- I listen to Gary Vaynerchuk. I don't know if you do, but Gary is everywhere on social media. And his philosophy is that not everybody's on social media all the time. So therefore, the fact that he pushes it out so consistently and so constantly and everywhere means that at any given moment, somebody's going to be able to know his brand and understand who he is. I think you just need to be consistent in that, but not pushing on any one particular. Right? I think that can be something that's tiresome. It's like performance. Right? Anything that repeats really becomes like white noise and people will not pay attention to it anymore.   Lau: Yeah. Yeah.   Anne: So whatever it is that you are giving vocally in your brand or marketing in your brand, give it authentically, and make sure it's not the same thing every single time. Because then it will become an annoyance.   Lau: Yes. And I would say too, like check your ego at the door. Check it at the door. Because none of us are so big and brash and bold that we can't be learning every moment how to make our branding better, make our value better. Here's a quick example. I do my news blast that I send out, and I'm listening to my people. Am I doing it too much? Am I doing it not enough? Da da da da. I just had someone email me, someone who I've known for a while, and he said, listen, Lau, if you don't mind my saying, he emailed me -- if you don't mind saying there's too much animation in this, things are moving, I'm nauseous. I can't read what you wrote.   Anne: I'm nauseous from your email.   Lau: Right? Like, welcome to the inside of my head. I'm thinking, you know what I'm saying? That's like the inside of my head. And I had to stop and I had to say, right, right. I didn't catch it. I didn't think about it. Da da. By Monday I'm gonna fix it. So that doesn't mean that you're always gonna agree with everything that everyone says. You're not. But if you see it's sound advice, no pun intended, sound advice, you see, it makes sense. And you see it's making someone's world harder to get to know you and get the value --   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: Take out the firewalls.   Anne: Take out the homework. I always say, don't give --   Lau: Get rid of it.   Anne: -- people homework. Yeah.   Lau: Yeah. Don't be egotistical and say, well why? How could he say that to me? He doesn't like my pet -- I don't care about that. I care about him getting value from what I'm sending out.   Anne: Absolutely.   Lau: And if he cared enough to say that to me, I'm gonna care enough to take it under consideration.   Anne: Sure. Absolutely.   Lau: And in this case, case taking action on it.   Anne: Absolutely. I think that that's so important. And I also think it's important to not just be consistent, but also keep the market trends in your back pocket. Research them, understand what they are, and update accordingly. Really vocal trends change over the years, in a grand scheme sort of way. It's gone from announcery to authentic and conversational, mostly. And a lot of that, by the way, is driven by advertising. Right? What sells, right? Again, we don't like being told we're smart consumers. We don't like being told what to do. We like to be able to make our own decisions, and we often ask our peers.   And so that I think is the biggest reason why advertising and the vocal trends changed to a more natural talking like your friend, like, hey, I'd use this product because we don't wanna be told by some loudmouth announcer that we need to buy this product. I mean, we're offended by that. And again, it becomes how can you and this vocal brand service your potential client or your client? It's not about what you sound like. It's not about distributing the vocal noise out there. It's about distributing something that can connect with a listener and move them, inspire them, motivate them.   Lau: Inspire them.   Anne: Yeah.   Lau: Yes. And I would even add in technical, technique-wise over time, add a little hook for yourself in there. Something you may not always do, but you find you're doing consistently that works -- it might be a little glitch in the voice, it might be be a moment of pre-life. it might be a pick up swing on something you do.   Anne: Sure.   Lau: Add something that's yours, that's part of your signature, whatever that is. And just do it consistently. If it works, if it annoys people, they'll let you know. If it doesn't work over time, you'll know.   Anne: Right.   Lau: But do something that's unique to you, authentic to your persona, authentic to your process. And that's something that people will start thinking of you for as well. So many people don't even think, Anne, when they're doing an audition, they want it to be so clean that they don't even think a little, -- is good. Just like a little exclamation, a little moment of vocalization. You know what I mean? Anne: It's too perfect. It's too voice talent. It's too voice actors, too perfect. Yeah.   Lau: It's too edity.   Anne: I can't tell you the amount of times I would have a student, a lot of times this will happen with a male student who has a beautiful, like lower baritone, and at the end of their sentences they'll land it. And I'm like, you need to only give me that gift once in a while, and when I don't expect it. Because if you give me that gift every single word or every single sentence, it's gonna not be a gift anymore. And so you need to give that to me in an unexpected way that's going to capture my attention and not become the same repetitive. That's really what happens when people try to sound or mimic or imitate, unless of course you're doing an impression. But that's a different thing too. Like a lot of times people will be confused when I say that, but when you're a character, I find sometimes when people like character and they're character actors, they are able to bring authenticity to their characters more than they can bring to their own voice.   Lau: Yeah. No doubt about that. And sometimes their alter ego, if they consider it an alter ego, they're doing it all the time. They do it like a tic, it's great, they love it, whatever. Sometimes it can have more authentic appeal than their daily sound can, because their heart and soul is in it. They're so connected to the success of it.   Anne: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And that's the thing, their heart and soul is connected to it. And so I'm always trying to convince people that like, you may not be a cartoon or a very dynamically changing character, but for everything that you do in voiceover, you are. You are a character. It's a version of you. It's an excited you, it's a passionate you, it's a somewhat confused you or whatever is called for in the copy. Right? It becomes that -- or I always say, you own the company. Right? If you're trying to talk about your product and sell for a company, then you own that company. So you're always a character.   Lau: It's like the argument we have in the acting world for actors who are not vocal actors, they're actors who are, you know, on camera or stage actors. They're saying, am I becoming someone else? Or am I opening the door within myself to other experiences that connect to my real history? Now I'd like to think it's the latter because I think that most people who are in this field, who are successful, can bring that connection, whether they do it through a sense memory, whether they do it through an extreme empathy exercises, they don't have to have experienced it. They have to connect to the experience. And that's a totally different thing. And ironically, a lot of folks who go through the actual experience can't emotionally connect the way you can as a vocal actor.   Anne: Yeah, exactly. Exactly.   Lau: Right? But you have to have that conduit, whatever that conduit is, to the authentic connection, you have to have it and find it.   Anne: That is what I think so many people, they just, they're coming in to do their auditions, they run into their studio and they're good readers, right? And they read it and then they apply a melody to it that makes it sound like they're in a scene, but they're not really in a scene or acting, reacting, that kind of thing. And so I think for every piece of copy, you've gotta be so in the scene that you're not even thinking about what you sound like.   Lau: Yeah. And then it becomes mono patterned.   Anne: Exactly.   Lau: And we're thinking, why am I feeling sing songy? Why am I feeling in the pattern of this?   Anne: Exactly. Exactly.   Lau: Yeah. Right.   Anne: So vocal branding, it is absolutely a thing. It is absolutely something that I think all BOSSes out there, you need to know. Understand your vocal brand, understand who you are within that vocal brand, and then be able to market that vocal brand. So make sure that it's defined, and it can evolve, by the way. It doesn't have to always be one way. You can evolve that, evolve multiple brands. Make sure that you are able to bring that front and center proudly. And that will help to, I think, get you those gigs. Good discussion.   Lau: And dirty it up. Like, don't be so perfect.   Anne: Don't be perfect.   Lau: You don't need to be so polished and perfect. Because emulating real life is like we do make mistakes, and we do have rough starts. And sometimes that will get you a job. Love it. Great discussion.   Anne: Ah, yeah.   Lau: So good.   Anne: All right. So BOSSes, it may seem difficult to make a huge impact, but as a group, we can contribute to the growth of our communities in ways that we never thought possible. You can find out more. Visit 100voiceswhocare.org to learn how. And also great, big shout-out to my sponsor, ipDTL. You too, connect and be BOSSes. Find out more at ipdtl.com. Have an amazing week, guys. We'll see you next week.   Lau: Bye.   Anne: Bye.   Join us next week for another edition of VO BOSS with your host Anne Ganguzza. And take your business to the next level. 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Bob talks with Joe Cipriano about his incredible career as a voiceover artist and radio host. Joe has worked at radio stations all over the country, and on television, you'll recognize him as the “Voice of Fox.” Joe is also a prominent announcer and in-show narrator across television networks. Bob and Joe, the radio heads, have a lively conversation about the craft and career of using one's voice in so many unique ways. Bob discusses his methods of DJing and mixing with CP, so you'll even hear how some of the magic happens at The DJ Bob Show. You don't want to miss this peek behind the curtain of pure talent!

Ever felt like “Everyone's Making it But Me?” That's exactly how this guy felt and now there's few people in this country that haven't heard his voice. *SOURCES: * Living on Air Book - https://amzn.to/3j12U7c (I am an amazon affiliate, so I do get commission on any sales) *Subscribe or follow on social media to get your weekly Encourage Minute: * www.HeidiRew.com https://www.instagram.com/heidirew https://www.facebook.com/theencourageminute Sound Design By: James Younger

Today's show is about media, but also has a spiritual spin to it, as veteran radio broadcaster Stefan Rybak and I talk about his personal memoir "The Shadow On My Heart - Faith. Family. Forgiveness.",  a Top Ten Best Seller on Amazon. Stefan discusses his 40 years of success in radio, starting from his early days working at his hometown station in Waterbury, Connecticut  (where he was an intern for local radio personality Tom Collins, later known to millions in the entertainment industry as voiceover professional Joe Cipriano); his work ethic that stretched from On-Air Talent to Program Director to General Manager, as well as several years of nonstop partying which led to a serious health scare. Stefan also tells the story of his parents (his mom, captured by the Nazi's in Poland and forced to work as a slave laborer, and his dad, a POW in Germany during WWII); how prayer was the key to their survival and later for himself as he faced surgery to correct a previously undiagnosed congenital heart defect. Listen as he talks about literary agents, working hard for what you want, his take on "processing problems through spiritual perspective" and the three important goals he had for writing his current book. 

It's no secret that Joe Cipriano KNEW what he wanted to do, and went ahead and made it happen.  This is not only a passion that needs to be there, but you've got to understand HOW this business works.  It's unlike anything else we do.  So, are you curious?

The VO Meter is proud to be back as Official Podcast of The eVOcation Conference 2021. We'll be brining you great previews from the presenters, as well as live interviews during the conference. Stay Tuned! 

Despite all of the downsides of 2020, we still had one heck of a time here on The Middle Class VO Podcast didn't we?  We learned a great deal about the voiceover industry, and laughed A LOT while creating so many memorable moments with you throughout the past year. Which is why we thought it would be cool to ring in the New Year by rehashing some of the BEST moments taken from MCVOP's TOP 10 episodes of 2020! We will be taking a stroll down memory lane, refreshing our minds with some great tips in the industry, and of course laughing along to some of the crazy times shared last year. So if you're ready, let's dive straight into 2020's TOP TEN moments!  #10 Casting tips with Voice Acting Coach/Casting Director Mary Lynn Wissner #9 J. Michael Collins – Knowing your Worth #8 Cliff Zellman and His favorite guitar heroes #7 Kevin's THINKS He's stealing a case of Jack Daniels #6 Bobbi's Stalker is LEGIT #5 JEFF BELL is JUST A GIRL #4 Tanya Buchanan - Agent Pet Peeves #3 MCVOP WINS AGAIN – Scott Parkin #2 JOE CIPRIANO, COVID TALK #1 RACISM IN VOICE OVER – Krysta Wallrauch, Tre Mosley

Some Wild VO Stories to start 2021 with Joe Cipriano This weeks VOBS podcast is great talk with our good friend Joe Cipriano! VO booth disasters and triumphs! Succeeding in Promo, Imaging, voice work in general, and just fun stuff! Hear from one of the successful masters! Joe Cipriano is best known as the promo voice of literally hundreds upon hundreds of television shows on America’s most watched networks. Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, CW and many more. In syndication, Joe voices promos for shows like The Simpsons, and studios such as Warner Brothers, Buena Vista, King World, Lionsgate, Freemantle and more. He’s the promo voice of daily shows such as Harry Connick Jr., The Talk, Queen Latifah and others. With a resume like that, you know he has the knowledge of what it takes to reach the top levels of the voice over biz.   We want to thank YOU, our supporters and donors for your continued support. VOBS can’t be here without YOU and our other great supporters: Voiceoveressentials.com, VOHeroes.com Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com, VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and JMC Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production  

Well well well, Nintendo finally poked their heads out and made an announcement that stole the gaming worlds attention. With Nintendo paying tribute to Mario and his legendary 35 year run, that leaves Joe and I plenty to talk about - Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-landi-lodge/support

America's Got Talent, The Grammys, The Emmys and more. This week's guest has done them all. He's USA's #1 Voice Over artist, Joe Cipriano.  This episode we chat to him about his career and love for tennis.   Do Subscribe and Share.

There are thousands of people looking to break in the VO industry and it can be a little overwhelming no matter where you are in your voice over career. The humble, kind and extremely talented Joe Cipriano, reminds us that we can make a SUCCESSFUL career in VO no matter how big the competition! As long as you keep a positive attitude, show up EVERY day, and continue to put in the hours in order to keep moving forward in this business, you CAN make it! So grab a donut, press play and always remember that work begets work!!!   Be sure to stick around until the end to hear Joe's PRIME-TIME COMEDY cold-read challenge!   If you enjoyed this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, like and share with your friends. We appreciate you and look forward to seeing you next time, here on The Middle Class VO Podcast!

This double packed feature brings you two incredibly talented guests who will not only pique your curiosity further but are sure to wow you! Louise Palanker is the guest on the first episode and is a writer, producer, director, comedian, filmmaker, photographer, songwriter, tv talk show host, teacher, drummer co-founder of "Premiere Radio Networks" that has become a division of "I Heart Media." She created an in-depth documentary, "Family Band: The Cowsill Story," which appeared on Showtime for two years and is now available on Amazon Prime. She described how this film was so compelling and how the famous family exemplifies an average family. She also has a documentary short about a 97-year-old artist, called, ”Margaret Singer: Seeking Light” about a woman who escaped the Holocaust who didn't follow the norms for a woman and was an inspirational freethinker. In addition to the capturing life on film, Louise writes a weekly advice column for Noozhawk.com and founded the advice app and podcast “Journals Out Loud” that brings life out through visual context. With all of this, one could expect that the other sense, auditory life touching, would be something Louise extended her help and growth reach to others. And that, she does! Louise hosts a podcast called, “Things I Found Online” that features guests who share the internet through their own eyes. Meaning how the internet is viewed differently by different people and how is it presented by these people to the world. Her show brings a with it co-hosts Joe Cipriano, Larry Morgan and Lisa Arch who light up conversations and bring insight into topics with perspectives you may not have thought of. http://www.louisepalanker.com and https://www.thingsifoundonlinepodcast.com/ In the second episode guest Kennedy Phillips who is a voice-actor- and the creator of, "Magus Elgar" an audio drama, prides himself to adhering to a “higher standard of nonsense and tomfoolery” and says, “Just because you have something ridiculous or silly to present to the world doesn't mean the execution can be anything but professional.” He spends the majority of time in Post Production and holds an M.F.A. in Film Production and a B.F.A in Cinema Studies with a Minor in Creative Writing. Kennedy has worked with companies such as DreamworksTV, the Jim Henson Company, Ubisoft, and Melodygun. All of his work is now under the name of his personal company: Gale Dramatis LLC. Kennedy shares the passion of the audio fantasy comedy of Magus Elgar, an 11 episode audio drama with a full cast of characters for those from say 12-35 on up. The entire series is composed in theatrical quality sound design and pulse-pounding music that will capture your attention and ignite your imagination, taking your mind to its own theater. The story takes the listener to the magical world of Hearth, where learning magic is as dangerous as it is exciting! Magus Elgar is one of the finest Casters out there and with luck, he just might finally have a student that lives through the lessons! Join Magus Elgar and the Magical Anomaly Inter-dimensional Locators (M.A.I.L) as they search the world for Scientific Tools Augmented with Magical Power (S.T.A.M.P.s), encountering animated chicken nuggets, crazy wizards, giant goo monsters, and a cornucopia of puns along the way. With luck, they'll find a way to diffuse these dangerous artifacts before all of reality is ripped apart, or at least be there with a bag of popcorn when it happens! Kennedy has a unique ability to bring script to life through his voice and will leave the audience awestruck with the dynamic range of voice-acting he can do! https://www.kennedyphillips.org and https://www.maguselgar.com

Scheduled for August 14, 2019 at 12:00 PM This double packed feature brings you two incredibly talented guests who will not only pique your curiosity further but are sure to wow you! Louise Palanker is the guest on the first episode and is a writer, producer, director, comedian, filmmaker, photographer, songwriter, tv talk show host, teacher, drummer co-founder of "Premiere Radio Networks" that has become a division of "I Heart Media." She created an in-depth documentary, "Family Band: The Cowsill Story," which appeared on Showtime for two years and is now available on Amazon Prime. She described how this film was so compelling and how the famous family exemplifies an average family. She also has a documentary short about a 97-year-old artist, called, ”Margaret Singer: Seeking Light” about a woman who escaped the Holocaust who didn't follow the norms for a woman and was an inspirational freethinker. In addition to the capturing life on film, Louise writes a weekly advice column for Noozhawk.com and founded the advice app and podcast “Journals Out Loud” that brings life out through visual context. With all of this, one could expect that the other sense, auditory life touching, would be something Louise extended her help and growth reach to others. And that, she does! Louise hosts a podcast called, “Things I Found Online” that features guests who share the internet through their own eyes. Meaning how the internet is viewed differently by different people and how is it presented by these people to the world. Her show brings a with it co-hosts Joe Cipriano, Larry Morgan and Lisa Arch who light up conversations and bring insight into topics with perspectives you may not have thought of. http://www.louisepalanker.com and https://www.thingsifoundonlinepodcast.com/ In the second episode guest Kennedy Phillips who is a voice-actor- and the creator of, "Magus Elgar" an audio drama, prides himself to adhering to a “higher standard of nonsense and tomfoolery” and says, “Just because you have something ridiculous or silly to present to the world doesn't mean the execution can be anything but professional.” He spends the majority of time in Post Production and holds an M.F.A. in Film Production and a B.F.A in Cinema Studies with a Minor in Creative Writing. Kennedy has worked with companies such as DreamworksTV, the Jim Henson Company, Ubisoft, and Melodygun. All of his work is now under the name of his personal company: Gale Dramatis LLC. Kennedy shares the passion of the audio fantasy comedy of Magus Elgar, an 11 episode audio drama with a full cast of characters for those from say 12-35 on up. The entire series is composed in theatrical quality sound design and pulse-pounding music that will capture your attention and ignite your imagination, taking your mind to its own theater. The story takes the listener to the magical world of Hearth, where learning magic is as dangerous as it is exciting! Magus Elgar is one of the finest Casters out there and with luck, he just might finally have a student that lives through the lessons! Join Magus Elgar and the Magical Anomaly Inter-dimensional Locators (M.A.I.L) as they search the world for Scientific Tools Augmented with Magical Power (S.T.A.M.P.s), encountering animated chicken nuggets, crazy wizards, giant goo monsters, and a cornucopia of puns along the way. With luck, they'll find a way to diffuse these dangerous artifacts before all of reality is ripped apart, or at least be there with a bag of popcorn when it happens! Kennedy has a unique ability to bring script to life through his voice and will leave the audience awestruck with the dynamic range of voice-acting he can do! https://www.kennedyphillips.org and https://www.maguselgar.com

Scheduled for August 14, 2019 at 12:00 PMThis double packed feature brings you two incredibly talented guests who will not only pique your curiosity further but are sure to wow you! Louise Palanker is the guest on the first episode and is a writer, producer, director, comedian, filmmaker, photographer, songwriter, tv talk show host, teacher, drummer co-founder of "Premiere Radio Networks" that has become a division of "I Heart Media." She created an in-depth documentary, "Family Band: The Cowsill Story," which appeared on Showtime for two years and is now available on Amazon Prime. She described how this film was so compelling and how the famous family exemplifies an average family. She also has a documentary short about a 97-year-old artist, called, ”Margaret Singer: Seeking Light” about a woman who escaped the Holocaust who didn't follow the norms for a woman and was an inspirational freethinker. In addition to the capturing life on film, Louise writes a weekly advice column for Noozhawk.com and founded the advice app and podcast “Journals Out Loud” that brings life out through visual context. With all of this, one could expect that the other sense, auditory life touching, would be something Louise extended her help and growth reach to others. And that, she does! Louise hosts a podcast called, “Things I Found Online” that features guests who share the internet through their own eyes. Meaning how the internet is viewed differently by different people and how is it presented by these people to the world. Her show brings a with it co-hosts Joe Cipriano, Larry Morgan and Lisa Arch who light up conversations and bring insight into topics with perspectives you may not have thought of. http://www.louisepalanker.com and https://www.thingsifoundonlinepodcast.com/In the second episode guest Kennedy Phillips who is a voice-actor- and the creator of, "Magus Elgar" an audio drama, prides himself to adhering to a “higher standard of nonsense and tomfoolery” and says, “Just because you have something ridiculous or silly to present to the world doesn't mean the execution can be anything but professional.” He spends the majority of time in Post Production and holds an M.F.A. in Film Production and a B.F.A in Cinema Studies with a Minor in Creative Writing. Kennedy has worked with companies such as DreamworksTV, the Jim Henson Company, Ubisoft, and Melodygun. All of his work is now under the name of his personal company: Gale Dramatis LLC. Kennedy shares the passion of the audio fantasy comedy of Magus Elgar, an 11 episode audio drama with a full cast of characters for those from say 12-35 on up. The entire series is composed in theatrical quality sound design and pulse-pounding music that will capture your attention and ignite your imagination, taking your mind to its own theater. The story takes the listener to the magical world of Hearth, where learning magic is as dangerous as it is exciting! Magus Elgar is one of the finest Casters out there and with luck, he just might finally have a student that lives through the lessons! Join Magus Elgar and the Magical Anomaly Inter-dimensional Locators (M.A.I.L) as they search the world for Scientific Tools Augmented with Magical Power (S.T.A.M.P.s), encountering animated chicken nuggets, crazy wizards, giant goo monsters, and a cornucopia of puns along the way. With luck, they'll find a way to diffuse these dangerous artifacts before all of reality is ripped apart, or at least be there with a bag of popcorn when it happens! Kennedy has a unique ability to bring script to life through his voice and will leave the audience awestruck with the dynamic range of voice-acting he can do! https://www.kennedyphillips.org and https://www.maguselgar.com

Scheduled for August 14, 2019 at 12:00 PM This double packed feature brings you two incredibly talented guests who will not only pique your curiosity further but are sure to wow you! Louise Palanker is the guest on the first episode and is a writer, producer, director, comedian, filmmaker, photographer, songwriter, tv talk show host, teacher, drummer co-founder of "Premiere Radio Networks" that has become a division of "I Heart Media." She created an in-depth documentary, "Family Band: The Cowsill Story," which appeared on Showtime for two years and is now available on Amazon Prime. She described how this film was so compelling and how the famous family exemplifies an average family. She also has a documentary short about a 97-year-old artist, called, ”Margaret Singer: Seeking Light” about a woman who escaped the Holocaust who didn't follow the norms for a woman and was an inspirational freethinker. In addition to the capturing life on film, Louise writes a weekly advice column for Noozhawk.com and founded the advice app and podcast “Journals Out Loud” that brings life out through visual context. With all of this, one could expect that the other sense, auditory life touching, would be something Louise extended her help and growth reach to others. And that, she does! Louise hosts a podcast called, “Things I Found Online” that features guests who share the internet through their own eyes. Meaning how the internet is viewed differently by different people and how is it presented by these people to the world. Her show brings a with it co-hosts Joe Cipriano, Larry Morgan and Lisa Arch who light up conversations and bring insight into topics with perspectives you may not have thought of. http://www.louisepalanker.com and https://www.thingsifoundonlinepodcast.com/ In the second episode guest Kennedy Phillips who is a voice-actor- and the creator of, "Magus Elgar" an audio drama, prides himself to adhering to a “higher standard of nonsense and tomfoolery” and says, “Just because you have something ridiculous or silly to present to the world doesn't mean the execution can be anything but professional.” He spends the majority of time in Post Production and holds an M.F.A. in Film Production and a B.F.A in Cinema Studies with a Minor in Creative Writing. Kennedy has worked with companies such as DreamworksTV, the Jim Henson Company, Ubisoft, and Melodygun. All of his work is now under the name of his personal company: Gale Dramatis LLC. Kennedy shares the passion of the audio fantasy comedy of Magus Elgar, an 11 episode audio drama with a full cast of characters for those from say 12-35 on up. The entire series is composed in theatrical quality sound design and pulse-pounding music that will capture your attention and ignite your imagination, taking your mind to its own theater. The story takes the listener to the magical world of Hearth, where learning magic is as dangerous as it is exciting! Magus Elgar is one of the finest Casters out there and with luck, he just might finally have a student that lives through the lessons! Join Magus Elgar and the Magical Anomaly Inter-dimensional Locators (M.A.I.L) as they search the world for Scientific Tools Augmented with Magical Power (S.T.A.M.P.s), encountering animated chicken nuggets, crazy wizards, giant goo monsters, and a cornucopia of puns along the way. With luck, they'll find a way to diffuse these dangerous artifacts before all of reality is ripped apart, or at least be there with a bag of popcorn when it happens! Kennedy has a unique ability to bring script to life through his voice and will leave the audience awestruck with the dynamic range of voice-acting he can do! https://www.kennedyphillips.org and https://www.maguselgar.com

Lori Alan is one in a million! Talented, witty, gorgeous and willing to share her knowledge! We never know what she'll bring up! And YOU can ask her questions! Lori has played a long-running role as Pearl The Whale Krabs on the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. She also voiced Diane Simmons on Family Guy, the Invisible Woman on The Fantastic Four, and The Boss in the Metal Gear video game series and the unforgettable “Chairy” on PeeW Wee Playhouse. We warmly welcome her back to our VOBS studio! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

Joe Cipriano has been the signature voice for some of the biggest networks, brands, TV shows, movies, and radio stations around the world. You probably know the voice but do you know anything about the man behind the voice? On this episode of Benztown Stories host, Loren Kling, chats with Joe about... His first job at WWCO in Waterbury, CT at age 14. How he was two of three finalists for a job at a radio station in D.C. His decades plus years as the voice of both the Fox and CBS TV Networks. At one point losing three quarters of his income at a time when everyone thought he 'had everything.' Co-writing a book with his wife, Ann, called "Living On Air - Adventures in Broadcasting". ABOUT THIS EPISODE'S GUEST: Web: JoeCipriano.com Facebook: Facebook.com/JoeCipVO Twitter: Twitter.com/JoeCip Joe and Ann Cipriano wrote the book, "Living On Air, Adventures in Broadcasting", available on Amazon and Audible.com. You can also purchase a signed copy at Joe's website. ABOUT THE PODCAST: Benztown Voiceover Stories is brought to you by Benztown branding and podcast services and hosted by Loren Kling with Alan Ng. ABOUT BENZTOWN: Benztown is a leading international radio imaging, production library, programming, jingles and voiceover services company with over 2,300 affiliations on six different continents. We provide custom VO and imaging across all formats, including commercial VO and copywriting. Benztown Radio Networks produces, markets and distributes high-quality programming and services to radio stations around the world. In 2017, Benztown was named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 by Inc. magazine for the fifth consecutive year as one of America’s Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies. Twitter: @benztownpodcast Web: benztown.com

Troy McCallum had it all figured out. He listened to the episode with Gruff Gushnowski and knew that doing the podcast in the car would be a fitting place to talk radio. After all, he spends up to 3 hours a day in the car listening to the radio on the way to work as program director at Boom 97.3 in Toronto. Troy and I spent about half of his commute home talking about his early days in radio, his affinity for the Classic Hits format, programming said format, and discussing two trips he took last year. One to Philadelphia where he had his first breath of podcast air at Podcast Movement 18, and a trip to New York where he got to meet the legendary Broadway Bill Lee at WCBS-FM.There's so much to learn about Troy and the roots of his creativity which stem from performance, to acting and then directing, to the collaborations of some Boom 97.3 mainstays like 97.3 Seconds and Behind the Vinyl. He also writes a lot of imaging, and has a good relationship with station voice Joe Cipriano, a must for any successful radio station.There's more about this episode on our show page!Thanks also to the people who make this show possible every week including:PromosuiteMatt Fogarty VoiceoversJustin Dove at Core Image StudiosMegatraxNLogic

Here We Go! Joe Cipriano of The Super Sammich Brothers joins us on The Lodge today! Join us as we discuss what IS and ISNT a sandwhich, Video games and much more! You can follow Joe on isntagram @joey2cip and follow the Super Sammich Brothers across platform (Instagram, YouTube, etc) as SUPERSAMMICHBROTHERS --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-landi-lodge/support

Voice Over Body Shop  You Wanted More VO Tech, And VO BS Delivers! Every other week, Dan and George expand their tech offerings! More topics, more demonstrations and more answers to your questions! Got some? Send your questions to THEGUYS@VOBS.TV, and we'll answer it! This week we have George's Tech Update with the latest in VO technology! We show you our newly refurbished multi-Media studio! We answer your specific questions sent in to theguys@VOBS.TV. Plus much more! Starting this Monday on our homepage: VOBS.TV, our YouTube Channel, where you can watch any past VOBS Episode, and of course here with our podcast edition. Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com,Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com,VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show

Joe Cipriano is a legendary voice over actor who has been the signature voice for some of the biggest networks, brands and television shows in the world. He is the announcer for Deal or No Deal, Hollywood Game Night  and America’s Got Talent and does radio imaging for over 25 stations around the country and Canada.  You’ve heard the voice, now meet the man behind the mic as he joins TomGirl host J.J. Jurgens to talk about his career, give advice and discuss his travel bug. AfterBuzz Tv's TomGirl is a brand new vodcast series hosted by JJ Jurgens, covering all aspects of sports, entertainment, fashion, and adventure! Each week, tune in on TomGirl Tuesdays LIVE or listen on iTunes or any other podcast location, to find conversations with leading members of the community. Follow JJ Jurgen on Twitter @JJJurgens and the show's official twitter handle at @TomGirlTV! Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV Buy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tomgirltv/support

We had the distinct pleasure of recording at MAVO 2018...over 2 hours worth of gold! So, we are going to release out the interviews in full over the next few weeks until we can compile the highlights into our next episode. Here is interview number 3, Joe Cipriano. https://www.vometer.com https://www.paulstefano.com http://www.dailyvo.com/ https://www.vocalboothtogo.com/ https://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ https://www.voiceactorwebsites.com/ https://www.audiopub.org/ https://globalvoiceacademy.com/ https://timpaige.lpages.co/podcast-demos/

As Voice talent in 2018, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A WEBSITE! However, there's so much you have to know to create an effective site that allows your customers to easily find you and HEAR what you do. Joe Davis and his team at VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com are the best, most knowledgeable, innovative and of course nicest guys in the Voice Over website business! Joe is our guest on this weeks Voice Over Body Shop and he answers questions about websites, SEO, and functionality!   ALSO!!! Dan and George share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week the VOBS/Voice Over Xtra News and much more!   Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games.   George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios.   Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it!   The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today!   GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/   DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/     CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show     VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY:   Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com   Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com   Source Elements https://source-elements.com/   Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/   J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/   Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

 Voice Over Body Shop Dan and George continue bringing you the best guests and VO tech advice. Our guest this week, Adam Verner, is an accomplished, full time voice over talent and audio book narrator with almost 400 titles to his name. He's been working professionally in the voice over world in all genres since 2003, voicing thousands of TV and radio commercials, eLearning courses, and industrials. He holds his MFA in Acting from the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. We'll talk about his career and his tips for Long-term voice over success. ALSO!!! Dan and George share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week the VOBS/Voice Over Xtra News and much more! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

  How do you get chosen for a Voice Over project? For big commercials and other projects, the upfront gatekeeper is the Casting Director. Our guest this week will give us the inside view of what goes on when being chosen to even audition for project, let alone chosen for the gig. Kathryn Horan has been a Casting Director, Demo Producer, Audio Engineer, and Voiceover Coach with The Voicecaster since 2012. Kathryn has cast for major brands like Honda, ampm, Ashley Furniture, Verizon, Nike, and many more! She has a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Acting from New Mexico State University and has been in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles for over 10 years! And Of Course!!! Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech. Voice Over Body Shop is helping you get to the top! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

Things I Found Online 48 - We are talking trailers with Jimmy & Ted from the Trailer Junkies Podcast and with voice over legends Joe Cipriano and Jack Daniel! We're exploring what makes a trailer great, how the internet has inspired and influenced film advertising and how to execute the perfect movie trailer voice over read. All that plus #What'sTwitterTrending? Facebook Feedtime and The Number One List of the Week: Top Ten Movie Trailers!

ur distinguished guest this week on VOBS is Paul Pape! Paul began his professional acting career in New York as one of the original members of the Collonades Theater Lab. Paul was cast to co-star as 'Double J' opposite John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever". Paul has also been performing as a voice-over artist with over 7000 credits to-date. He's been heard in virtually every media - including commercials, narrations, promos, trailers, television series, films, video games and national political campaigns. Recent accomplishments include being one of the voices of President Obama's re-election campaign in 2012 and Hillary's Clinton's Presidential campaign in 2016, along with numerous U.S. Senatorial and Gubernatorial races. He is a voice for various environmental and energy related campaigns nationwide among his other corporate commercial credits. Paul co-produced and co-wrote the film with his best friend, voice-over legend Don LaFontaine, who passed away a short time later. Both men acted in the film and Paul received nominations in the writing and supporting actor categories Paul is the President and CEO of New Trails Productions.  A member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Paul also serves on the Board of Directors of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. He is a Co-Founder of the Foundation's Don LaFontaine Voice-over Lab, which he helped build in memory of his best friend. And Of Course!!! Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week on Mic technique and much more! Bringing you the best of guests! Only on VO BS! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

Our guest this week on Voice Over Body Shop, Bob Bergen, needs little introduction. He is the current voice of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters Porky Pig and Tweety Bird and formerly hosted Jep!, a kids' version of the popular game show Jeopardy! Bob is also a tireless advocate for working voice actors everywhere through his work with SAG/AFTRA. We're sure you have a lot questions for Bob about his impressive career in animation, technique for improving your character voice skills and of course issues concerning union membership and benefits. ALSO, DAN AND GEORGE WANT TO ANSWER YOUR HOME VOICE OVER STUDIO QUESTIONS sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week on Pre-amps and much more! Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how thoffettey do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbod... Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-prod... Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

  Perhaps most recognized for voicing various animated characters on The Simpsons, Chris Edgerly has a sweeping vocal portfolio that spans animated television and multiple hit video games. He has even made a few television appearances including Hot in Cleveland, The King of Queens, SeaQuest 2032, and Kenan and Kel. While Chris enjoys his time on-screen, he is at his best when lending his vocal talents to animated television, movie, and video game roles. He's also been doing stand-up comedy for the last ten years, traveling around the country. He's also producing a Web series with his Brother David: Edgy Brothers Presents Happy Hour! We'll talk about his multi-faceted career in all these genre's and about what its like to produce the web series. And Of Course!!! Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: THEGUYS@VOBS.TV and share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week and much more! Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

J. Michael Collins is everywhere! Doing Voice Over, being well known voice in the VO biz, taking on the “bad” guys and winning awards for his outstanding demo production for voice talents everywhere! He and his demo engineer, A.J. McKay join us for a lively discussion about how they go about making demos, why they work well together, what demos should be like, the different types, and how to use your demo effectively to gain VO work. A discussion you don't want to miss if you're wondering what they and your demo can do for you! ALSO!!! The VOBS/Voice oVer Xtra News and Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week on Mic technique and much more! Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbod... Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-prod... Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

Mike Lenz is the former mayor of Saratoga Springs in upstate New York. But he's really made his mark since as a full-time professional voice talent and podcast producer. For more than 10 years Mike has worked with clients on eLearning projects, corporate and web-based videos, audiobooks, brand imaging and commercials. Mike is also a Voice Arts Award nominated podcast producer, creator, and host of the Mike Lenz VO Podcast and creator of Podcast Snap (podcastsnap.com) – a concierge podcasting service, helping his clients with every step of their podcast creation and production. We'll talk about his transition from politician to voice talent and how podcasting is becoming bigger than big! Dan and George will also answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech! We'll also get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News much more! Looking at the Voice Over world like no one else! We're VOBS! Voice Over Body Shop! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

Chuck Duran and Stacey Aswad join Joe Cipriano and Louise Palanker for hijinks and hilarity. We are talking voice overs, Disneyworld, Rock Sugar, cursing babies and Roseanne! (We heard she's in trouble.)

Many of us share our VO careers with our families and loved ones simply because we live with them.. What if you bring your kids into the booth and get them involved in helping pay the rent by also pursuing a VO Career? Kristin Lennox is a successful voice talent with clients like Ocean Spray, Subway and Royal Caribbean. Kristin's daughters share the family sound booth and all contribute to the family. She and her daughter Ryleigh join Dan and George for a fun discussion about having VO family and how they balance Business and family life. We'll answer your questions for Kristin and Ryleigh, along with all your VO studio tech questions for Dan and George  We'll also get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News and much more! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com  

L.A. Podcast Fest creator Graham Elwood helps us Devine the future of podcasting as Joe Cipriano joins us from the hub of the history of broadcasting, The NAB Convention in Las Vegas. Where have we been? Where are we going?  How important is video and Patreon? Can indie podcasters cut through the noise? Should podcasters attempt to fill a niche or speak their passion? How sweet is the swag at this year's NAB? All will be revealed. Plus newly minted podcaster Alex Morgan taps Graham for tips and tricks.

Direct from the eye of the Stormy Daniels scandal, Inside Edition’s Jim Moret joins Joe Cipriano and Louise Palanker to talk about Stormy vs. the law, medical mysteries, his groundbreaking George Michael coming out interview, depression, Dr. Phil, life lessons and the challenges of being the son of his dreamy, heartthrob father, James Darren.

Mike DelGaudio is a non-union voice actor out of Pittsburgh PA. In addition to radio and TV commercial work, you may have heard him narrate for the New York Times weekly on Audible or as part of the regular troupe on the No Sleep Podcast, a popular podcast that dramatizes horror stories. He also hosts a Youtube channel called “Booth Junkie” in which he helps people set up their home studio so they can start to perform behind the microphone. We'll answer your questions for Mike along with all your VO studio tech questions for Dan and George submitted either to theguys@vobs.tv or in our live and interactive chatroom! We'll also get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News and the unpredictability of a live show! It doesn't get any weirder than this on VOBS! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

Joe Cipriano is a 40 year veteran of the voiceover industry, his extensive resume includes many years as the voice of networks such as NBC, CBS, Fox, ABC, Disney, Sony Television, The Food Network and many more. His resume is long and varied, including commercial, live announcing (including the Emmy and Grammy Awards), imaging and radio, but Joe is best known for his work in promo. And promo is the subject of this weeks episode! We are taking a deep dive into the world of promo with one of the its most experienced practitioners. What is promo? How does one get into it? What does a typical day look like for Joe? How important are mentors? What are the skills needed to compete? And how does network and cable promo fit into SAG/AFTRA. We answer these questions and more on this weeks VO School Podcast! http://www.voschoolpodcast.com

On Voice Over Body Shop, aside from bringing you all the latest VO tech stuff, we pride ourselves on bringing the bests guests in the VO Webcasting business! You don't want to miss this episode as we welcome a very successful actor and voice actor, Roger Rose! He's a former VH1 VJ, and known for such films as Ski Patrol and for voice work in animated films and television series such as Happy Feet, Rugrats, Scooby-Doo, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and Quack Pack. He is also an very busy Promo and imaging voice for many network programs, as well as lots of commercials. We'll talk about his career, but more importantly, his views on the business of voice acting in todays marketplace! And we'll take your questions for him in our chatroom. We'll also answer your studio tech questions and present PHOTOS OF YOUR HOME STUDIOS submitted to THE GUYS@VOBS.TV And we'll get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News and the unpredictability of a live show! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VO BUZZ WEEKLY IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

I Tonya and Blades of Glory ice skating choreographer Sarah Kawahara joins us along with marginal skater, comedian and artist Brett Gilbert. How did Sarah engineer The death defying Iron Lotus? How scary is Tonya Harding once you get to know her? Can you learn how to skate and/or be a comedian online? Is Instagram's Explore page crushing our souls? So much is revealed with special guest, Nick Broussard, budding comedian, Bryan Vogt Nelson, and lovely co-hosts Joe Cipriano and Louise Palanker.

A VOBS You Don't Want To Miss! In the world of voice acting for animation, Debi Derryberry is one of the best. As one of Hollywood's most active voiceover artists AND multi-talented kids' entertainer, Debi Derryberry is probably best known as the voice of Jimmy Neutron. Wednesday in The Addams Family cartoon, and Jackie in Bobby's World. In English language dubs of anime, Derryberry provided the voice of Ryo-Ohki in the Tenchi Muyo series. She received a Best Actress in a Comedy award at the American Anime Awards for her work as Zatch in Zatch Bell!. Quite a resume'! Debi brings her bubbly personality and in-depth knowledge of the animation voice acting world to the set of Voice Over Body Shop this Monday night, Live, at 9 ET, 6 PT at VOBS.tv. She's always entertaining and informative. We'll talk about her career, how she now coaches the accomplished and hopefuls, some tips on creating characters and whatever else we can think of. Plus we'll have a special appearance of her noted band Honey Pig! Live music on VOBS! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VO BUZZ WEEKLY IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/ Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

Tom Clark joins me and Joe Cipriano for a candid conversation about dating, hook-ups, blogging, fame and Aziz Ansari. Plus, Spike TV's angry internet exit and a stop sign at The Amazon Go store.

If you're into narrating audiobooks, this Voice Over Body Shop is one you can't miss. Aside from all the top of the heap home voice over studio tech info, our guest is Sean Pratt. He's been a working professional actor in the theater, film, TV, and voice-overs for twenty-five years. He has been an audiobook narrator for seventeen years, has recorded over 700 books in almost every genre, and has received eight AudioFile magazine Earphones Awards and four Audie Award nominations from the Audio Publishers Association. For the last ten years, Sean has been helping actors, both students and professionals, to understand the complexities of the BIZ as well as reinvigorate and refocus their careers through his easy-to-understand, dynamic concepts. Showing you all parts of the VO Biz, We're VOBS! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry's most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games. George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios. Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it! The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today! GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry's top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds. http://www.georgethe.tech/ DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” An expert in how to set-up a home or "Personal" voice over studio. Wether your a beginner in VO or a working pro with little to no experience on how to record at home. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and many other up and coming VO Stars. http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/ He is a FOUNDING Board member and Vice President of Technical Standards of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbod... Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY: Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Vo2Gogo Vo2Gogo.com Source Elements https://source-elements.com/ Voice Over Xtra https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/ J. Michael Collins Demos http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-prod... Voice Actor Websites VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com

Chuck and Stacey are pleased to welcome voice director of more than 50,000 network promos, respected voiceover coach and actor, David Alden. David offers gratitude for Chuck and Stacey and the value of VO Buzz Weekly and shares memorable moments working with the legendary Don LaFontaine for more than 18 years. He talks about the authenticity, humility and talent of pros like Scott Rummell, Joe Cipriano and Vanessa Marshall and the importance of being of service and giving back. David reflects on his journey to become a voiceover coach and how his performing experience and love of teaching tennis have influenced him. He stresses the importance of positivity and enthusiasm and explains some of the ways he helps voice talent connect with the copy. Having earned his Master’s in Spiritual Psychology, David discusses the ways it’s helped him get to the heart of the matter, both personally and professionally. He talks about some of the obstacles that prevent a talent from delivering their best reads and offers how he approaches the copy as a voiceover talent. David speaks to the illusion of control as a talent for booking the job, staying persistent, being authentic patient, grateful and having fun along the way. He shares some insights about directing talent and why he needs to have a variety of takes and options. He talks about growing up in Los Angeles, his acting background in theatre and television, finding voice acting and voice directing and closes with great advice for pursuing a voiceover career.   Follow on Twitter @vobuzzweekly @demosthatrock @staceyjaswad @MyVOCoach On Instagram @staceyjaswad @vobuzzweekly On Facebook VO Buzz Weekly, Host Stacey J. Aswad, Demos That Rock   SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://goo.gl/fEKnBm Watch more videos and get the latest voiceover news, advice and updates on exclusive contests and giveaways at http://vobuzzweekly.com and make sure you join our newsletter. Past giveaways include: Coaching, Books, Studio Gear and even Agent Representation.   CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/VOBuzzWeekly Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/VOBuzzWeekly Instagram: https://instagram.com/vobuzzweekly Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/vobuzzweekly/   VO BUZZ WEEKLY IS SPONSORED BY: Demos That Rock http://www.demosthatrock.com Neumann Sennheiser Microphones USA http://www.neumannusa.com http://en-us.sennheiser.com Throat Coat Tea http://www.traditionalmedicinals.com Entertainer's Secret http://www.entertainers-secret.com Najla's Bodygood Bars http://najlas.com/index.php/products/... Stacey J. Aswad http://www.staceyjaswad.com Voiceover Essentials http://voiceoveressentials.com Voiceover T-Shirts, Hats, Jackets, and MORE! http://www.vobuzzweekly.com/store.html   Have you ever wanted to be a voice actor? Maybe you’ve heard the voice from a movie trailer, TV commercial, video game, cartoon, celebrity impressions, internet or radio ad, and thought, “I want to do that!” Do you wonder what it takes to succeed in the voice over business? Or, are you a fan looking to finally put a "face to the voice" of the biggest and best celebrity voice artists? Well, your search is over! VO Buzz Weekly is the hit global voice over web show that's inspiring, educating and entertaining viewers in over 85 countries around the world. Every week, you get up close and personal with a top narrator, voice actor or actress from your favorite cartoons, animation, television promo, TV show, movies, audiobooks, movie trailer, TV commercials and video games, along with the top voice casting directors and agents working in the industry today. You’ll get the inside scoop on how voice artists work from home in their own home studio! Get tips for setting up your vocal booth and voice over equipment. Learn proper microphone technique and other critical skills to enhance your audio and find the right sound for your voice to nail voice over auditions and casting calls. Learn what to look for when seeking a voice coach, and peek behind the voice casting curtain to learn the secrets that improve every voice over audition and narration. VO Buzz Weekly is so much more than just “how to do voice over.” From voice coaching to home business advice, every episode is full of tips, inspiring personal stories and insights to help you succeed in the booming voice over industry, and in life. It’s comprehensive voice over training like you’ve never seen before. Whether you’ve been doing voiceover work for years, or are interested in voice acting, VO Buzz Weekly has something for you! Subscribe now and never miss an episode! VO Buzz Weekly primary focus points: How To Do Voice Over, Voice Over Training, Voice Over Classes, Voice Over Business, Voice Over Coach, Voice Over Lessons, Learn Voice Over, Voice Over Technique for Voice Actors.    

Comedian Taylor Williamson and Comedy Writer Kirk Rudell guest as we get into behind the scenes dish on America’s Got Talent, Will & Grace, American Dad, The New Yorker, Fan pages, Twitter wars and being political online. Things I Found Online takes a look at life through the lens of the Internet with Joe Cipriano, Larry Morgan and Louise Palanker. Youtube here: https://youtu.be/eFoLbl50L9k Taylor on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/TaylorComedy Kirk on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/krudell

Radio legends are exploring the Internet starring Joe Cipriano and Louise Palanker with guests opera tenor Omar Crook, comedian Lauri Roggenkamp and teenager Rae Bernstein. We are talking about talent, stage fright, studio vocals, standup comedy, improv comedy, online comedy, Twitter feeds, sexual harassment, gender identity, sexual preference, tumblr lists, conspiracy theories and turkey facts.

Oscar Nominated screenwriter Alan Wenkus is Straight Outta discretion as he shares Straight Outta Compton behind the scenes secrets. Plus, screenwriting tips, Oscar dish, Name That Senator, Straight Outta memes, and is your iPhone watching your boobs. TIFO stars Joe Cipriano, Larry Morgan and Louise Palanker

Joe Cipriano, Larry Morgan, Lisa Arch and Louise Palanker are delving into fan girls and fan boys, fandoms, ship wars, Hamilfans, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Almost Like Praying, Seth MacFarlane, Orville, Does The Dog Die and The Pope's Ted Talk.

Chuck and Stacey continue their conversation with the amazing Marc Graue, voice actor in commercials, promos, animation, video games likes World of Warcraft, in-show narrator of Alaska State Troopers on National Geographic Channel and Owner/CEO, voice over demo producer and recording engineer at the Legendary Marc Graue Recording Studios in Burbank. Marc talks about some of the projects he is working on and what he feels are his strengths as an actor. He shares why he likes to coach actors and share his experience with them so they can get solid information, training and business knowledge. He reflects on advice that he got along the way that helped him in his career that includes being honest with yourself, having a game plan, and being committed to becoming great at what you do. He talks about his experience acting in Lake Bell’s movie, In A World, with friends and VO colleagues Fred Melamed, Joe Cipriano and Mark Elliott and what he still loves being in the voiceover business after so many years.He answers when he feels the most content and happy and the importance of finding ways to give back that makes someone else feel good. He speaks to what he still wants to accomplish in his life, expresses gratitude for his career and the desire he has to always improve his craft and skills. The episode closes with Chuck and Stacey sharing their gratitude and admiration for their friend Marc and his integrity and genuineness. Follow everyone on Twitter @vobuzzweekly @chuckduran @staceyjaswad @marcgraue On Instagram @staceyjaswad @vobuzzweekly @marcgraueWatch more videos and get the latest voiceover news, advice and updates on exclusive contests and giveaways at http://vobuzzweekly.com and make sure you join our newsletter. Past giveaways include: Coaching, Books, Studio Gear and even Agent Representation.CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/VOBuzzWeeklyTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/VOBuzzWeeklyInstagram: https://instagram.com/vobuzzweeklyPinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/vobuzzweekly/VO BUZZ WEEKLY IS SPONSORED BY:Demos That Rockhttp://www.demosthatrock.comNeumann Sennheiser Microphones USA http://www.neumannusa.comhttp://en-us.sennheiser.comThroat Coat Teahttp://www.traditionalmedicinals.comEntertainer's Secrethttp://www.entertainers-secret.comNajla's Bodygood Barshttp://najlas.com/index.php/products/...Stacey J. Aswadhttp://www.staceyjaswad.comVoiceover Essentialshttp://voiceoveressentials.comVoiceover T-Shirts, Hats, Jackets, and MORE!http://www.vobuzzweekly.com/store.htmlHave you ever wanted to be a voice actor? Maybe you’ve heard the voice from a movie trailer, TV commercial, video game, cartoon, celebrity impressions, internet or radio ad, and thought, “I want to do that!” Do you wonder what it takes to succeed in the voice over business? Or, are you a fan looking to finally put a "face to the voice" of the biggest and best celebrity voice artists? Well, your search is over!VO Buzz Weekly is the hit global voice over web show that's inspiring, educating and entertaining viewers in over 85 countries around the world. Every week, you get up close and personal with a top narrator, voice actor or actress from your favorite cartoons, animation, television promo, TV show, movies, audiobooks, movie trailer, TV commercials and video games, along with the top voice casting directors and agents working in the industry today. You’ll get the inside scoop on how voice artists work from home in their own home studio!Get tips for setting up your vocal booth and voice over equipment. Learn proper microphone technique and other critical skills to enhance your audio and find the right sound for your voice to nail voice over auditions and casting calls. Learn what to look for when seeking a voice coach, and peek behind the voice casting curtain to learn the secrets that improve every voice over audition and narration.VO Buzz Weekly is so much more than just “how to do voice over.” From voice coaching to home business advice, every episode is full of tips, inspiring personal stories and insights to help you succeed in the booming voice over industry, and in life. It’s comprehensive voice over training like you’ve never seen before. Whether you’ve been doing voiceover work for years, or are interested in voice acting, VO Buzz Weekly has something for you! Subscribe now and never miss an episode!VO Buzz Weekly primary focus points: How To Do Voice Over, Voice Over Training, Voice Over Classes, Voice Over Business, Voice Over Coach, Voice Over Lessons, Learn Voice Over, Voice Over Technique.

Chuck and Stacey are back with a whole new look! They wrote and produced a new show opening with Chuck singing the new theme song and the voiceover done is by Chuck, Stacey, and amazing VO pals Scott Laverty, Scott Rummell and Joe Cipriano. Be sure to listen during the new show credits too for Joe Cipriano again along with the totally fabulous, Vanessa Marshall. The vision Chuck and Stacey had for the new opening was brought to life through stunning graphics by the super talented, Mariana Brang. Episode 201 welcomes the accomplished voice actor, former studio executive, voiceover coach and founder of the TRUETELL METHOD, Dave Walsh. Dave tells how he started in radio and television in Boston and eventually moved to Los Angeles to work in the entertainment business. He shares how the discovery of the book, Word of Mouth written by Sue Blu, literally changed the course of his life and helped start his VO career. Having worked in all genres of voiceover, Dave talks about how important it is to create a self-motivated career in this day and age, why he feels not everyone can be a voice actor and some misconceptions that people have about doing voiceover.  Watch more videos and get the latest voiceover news, advice and updates on contests and giveaways at http://vobuzzweekly.com

Chuck and Stacey welcome Mark Elliott, one of the most iconic and beloved voices in the industry who shares stories of his early days in radio in Des Moines that ultimately led to voicing network promos for CBS and FOX. Mark talks about getting his first trailers for hit movies like Smokey and the Bandit and the radio campaign for George Lucas’ Star Wars. As the memorable voice of Disney trailers and promos from 1977-2001, Mark talks about what it has meant to him to have that opportunity and how he captures his authentic signature sound through knowing the value of the words on the page. Mark explains how he landed a cameo part in Lake Bell’s movie, IN A WORLD, with VO veterans Joe Cipriano, Marc Graue and Fred Melamed and talks about the changes in the voiceover business that he likes and some of the things he misses. Watch more videos and get the latest voiceover news, advice and updates on contests and giveaways at http://vobuzzweekly.com

Let the VO Buzz Weekly LIVE celebration begin, presented by DEMOS THAT ROCK and EDGE STUDIO! Chuck and Stacey marked their epic 200th episode milestone of VO Buzz Weekly in style by filming the show in front of a sold-out crowd at the historic El Portal Theatre in the NoHo Arts District of North Hollywood, CA. Since starting the show in 2012, Chuck and Stacey have sat down with more than 100 amazing guests and this two-hour show taping brought many of them back to the stage to enlighten and entertain the audience… yet again. As the show’s Emcee, Scott Parkin delivered brilliantly as did Graeme Spicer, Dee Bradley Baker, Jess Harnell, Jim Cummings, Maurice LaMarche, David Goldberg, Jeff Howell, Jodi Gottlieb, Marc Cashman, Nancy Wolfson, Bob Bergen, Charlie Adler, Dave Fennoy, Townsend Coleman, Joan Baker, Pat Fraley, Scott Brick, Rudy Gaskins, Debi Derryberry, Erin Fitzgerald, Kari Wahlgren, Lori Alan, Andrea Romano, Butch Hartman, Ginny McSwain, Mary Lynn Wissner, Beau Weaver, Joe Cipriano, Mark Elliott, Scott Rummell, Bill Farmer, Cam Clarke, James Arnold Taylor, Fred Tatasciore and Jeff Zannini of Celebrity Talent Booking’s Twisted Toonz. It was a truly memorable night that brought together the voiceover industry’s best and brightest voice actors, talent agents and managers, teachers, producers, voice directors, writers, casting directors, loyal friends and fans alike from all over the globe. We are so honored to be a part of this incredible community and offer our heartfelt thanks to all of you amazing people who have supported the show these last four years. To our incredibly talented and dedicated VO Buzz Weekly crew who work with us all year long and those wonderful people who brought their talents to 200th Live Show, thank you so much, you rock beyond measure! Thanks to the generosity of all our ongoing show sponsors- Demos That Rock, Entertainer’s Secret, Voiceover Essentials, Multiin Tech, Najla’s, Neumann Sennheiser, Traditional Medicinals, Vocal Booth To Go and to our LIVE event co-sponsor EDGE Studio and giveaway sponsors- Apogee, Cole Michaels Salon, Kaotica, Najla’s Neumann Sennheiser, SOVAS, Vocal Booth To Go and Voiceover Essentials- you’re so amazing in every way! To our loving and supportive friends and family, thank you for going on this wild journey with us… we love you! Watch more videos and get the latest voiceover news, advice and updates on contests and giveaways at http://vobuzzweekly.com

Positioning yourself to make BIG bucks in todays voiceover business. Talented voice actors, Mike Brang and Beau Stephenson, are back to discuss the important role taking workshops and continuing to study with top industry pros like Jodi Gottlieb, Jeff Howell and Mary Lynn Wissner has played in their careers. Mike and Beau talk about their approaches to making the popular online casting sites work for them and how they position themselves to maintain their business integrity and value. They offer their support for Voices.com and Voice123 and appreciate the opportunities they have gotten from them. They talk about how the online profile setup is a game changer by utilizing correct SEO and keywords. Mike and Beau discuss the challenges they face on a daily basis like setting their rates, negotiating with clients, discerning what jobs to take and knowing when to walk away. They share what they want to accomplish in their voiceover careers in the future and the episodes closes with Mike and Beau answering IF questions about relationships and voice over super talent, Joe Cipriano. Watch more videos and get the latest voiceover news, advice and updates on contests and giveaways at http://vobuzzweekly.com

Yes, this is actually EWABS reborn as Voice Over Body Shop!Your buddies George Whittam and Dan Lenard together from their new studio in Sherman Oaks, CA.

Roger Leopardi's CPA KK Barton takes your questions on how to setup your business, preparing for taxes, and going S corp or LLC.George has video from VO Atlanta from Joe Cipriano and an interview with young voice actor Anna Cate Donelan.

Julie talks with Joe Cipriano about getting into the genre of television promo, his book project, and more.

Julie talks with Joe Cipriano about getting into the genre of television promo, his book project, and more.

Joe and me in the MonkeyCage You've heard his voice on Fox-TV, CBS-TV...heck even NBC-TV (I didn't know that either) as well as commercials, promos, movie trailers, radio imaging and who knows what else and where. Joe Cipriano started out on the East Coast doing radio, ended up on the West Coast doing radio, and now is the King of the Promo. He even wrote a book about his journey, "Living On Air: Adventures in Broadcasting" - but in the latest podcast we cover some territory that he only hinted at in the book (which is excellent, by the way) as well as reminisce about our own experiences in the mid-80s at what was then the biggest radio station on the planet, KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. We also cover how a fluke in the on-air schedule launched a major career, the future of TV and how he works, the importance of always improving, why disc jockeys are fatties, and lots more.  This is fun, funny, radio nerd-y and right up there on the Snark-O-Meter. One of THE great voices and an even greater guy...enjoy.  -LM Learn more about Joe at joecipriano.com follow him on Twitter @JoeCip and like him on Facebook here...

Joe and me in the MonkeyCage You've heard his voice on Fox-TV, CBS-TV...heck even NBC-TV (I didn't know that either) as well as commercials, promos, movie trailers, radio imaging and who knows what else and where. Joe Cipriano started out on the East Coast doing radio, ended up on the West Coast doing radio, and now is the King of the Promo. He even wrote a book about his journey, "Living On Air: Adventures in Broadcasting" - but in the latest podcast we cover some territory that he only hinted at in the book (which is excellent, by the way) as well as reminisce about our own experiences in the mid-80s at what was then the biggest radio station on the planet, KIIS-FM in Los Angeles. We also cover how a fluke in the on-air schedule launched a major career, the future of TV and how he works, the importance of always improving, why disc jockeys are fatties, and lots more.  This is fun, funny, radio nerd-y and right up there on the Snark-O-Meter. One of THE great voices and an even greater guy...enjoy.  -LM Learn more about Joe at joecipriano.com follow him on Twitter @JoeCip and like him on Facebook here...

Episode 159, September 29, 2014 Guest: Marc Cashman and his new book V-Oh! George answers fan questions Dan shows his clicker editing 0:01:49  They begin! 0:03:35  If you have questions for George or Dan, write to ewabshop@gmail.com 0:04:20  Q: What's the best material for a VO floor?  A: Carpeting.   0:05:16  Dan adds that wooden flooring will absorb sound some, George adds that floor reflection generally go back into your mic.   0:06:25  Joe Cipriano is looking for better internet connection.  George helped him and found California Internet http://cainternet.net/.  They provide “the last mile” to Joe's house with microwave.  The downside is you need line of sight from the tower with the signal.  Another vendor: Towerstream (http://www.towerstream.com/) 0:09:06  Satellite is another option, but latency (delay) may be an issue.  Microwave has very low latency.  Satellite can add 2 sec. of latency.  This could be an issue with Skype and ipDTL. 0:10:32  Q: What are your opinions on ipDTL?  A: Dan discusses.  A common question is how do you record at your end?  Dan mentions SoundFlower.  http://soundflower.en.softonic.com/mac.  Others: Audio Hijack https://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/ 0:12:40  This will be a year of transition, George predicts. 0:13:20  Q: Resources for newbies.   0:13:50  George plays the question.   0:14:58  George and Dan answer. (The question came via Speakpipe.  To send in a spoken question, go to http://www.ewabs.net/, scroll down to the SEND QUESTION sideways tab you'll see.)  First, great audio quality!  But, if you don't have a budget for training, you may not be able to start a VO business.  Lots of coaches work remotely.   0:16:23  Start at Episode 1 of EWABS.  Or, google “EWABS coach” and you'll see every issue of EWABS where a coach was on. 0:17:19  Break.  VO Studio Tech.  Larry Davis bumper. 0:18:45  Dan has a webinar coming up on October 15 on VoiceOverXtra (http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs110/1102478472127/archive/1118561011103.html) Dan will talk about audio quality for auditions. 0:20:13  Tip of the Week: Using sound codes for audio recording and editing. 0:26:22   George tries out another sound! 0:27:01  Write to Dan if you have a Tip of the Week topic at ewabshop@gmail.com. 0:27:47  Break.  Home Studio Master and Sponge Bob. 0:29:12  They're back with Marc Cashman.  http://www.cashmancommercials.com/  Dan recalls the last time Marc was on, giving Dan directions for a read.  See Episode 139, April 7, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfhFMIT_wY 0:29:55 Marc shows his new book, V-Oh!, 35 years in the making.  http://www.amazon.com/V-Oh-Tricks-Techniques-Sustain-Voiceover/dp/0990395804/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1412091907&sr=8-2&keywords=V-Oh! 0:30:40  The book is a compilation of 15 years' worth of writing, plus 25 percent more.   0:34:39  Dan asks for an example of a tidbit from the book.  Marc talks about the chapter called “The Sounds of Punctuation.”  Punctuation has sounds!  Marc explains. 0:36:45  We are voice actors and our audience is “blind.”  They can't see us.  We have to compensate.  Sometimes it comes down to the “sound” of a punctuation mark. 0:37:55 Dan recounts his favorite tip, that the script isn't in stone.  Marc says you just have to know when it's appropriate to know where the script IS in stone.   0:38:50  Audiobooks and plays are in stone.  Legal copy is set.  E-learning modules have to be right to the letter.   0:39:53  You can change advertising copy, if you're judicious about it.  Don't be a VO lemming.  Correct obvious mistakes.   0:41:08  Q: Is there an audiobook version of the book?  A: That's his last big project of the year.   0:42:26  Dan asks how much voice work Marc does himself.  Marc says it varies month to month.  Every day is different. 0:43:42  Dan talks about taking classes.  What is teaching a class like?   0:44:07  Marc is going on 15 years of teaching.  He recounts how he got into it.  Through substituting for another teacher, he began developing a curriculum and syllabus.   0:45:45  Now his classes are in a professional, commercial studio with an engineer to record the work and direction.  Classes are on Saturdays and include mid week homework, and other material like scripts and articles. 0:49:00  Commercials are your Bachelor's degree in VO.  Specific genres like audiobooks and promo are advanced degrees. 0:49:30  The best actors never stop learning, never. 0:50:07  Example: Al Pacino wants to go back to stage acting, to be on the wire without a net.  Marc knows VO actors who are in workout groups that meet regularly to keep honed.  He brings the tough scripts he has trouble with to those groups. 0:52:15  It's Harlan Hogan's birthday.  To help EWABS, use the banner ad at www.ewabs.net to reach Voiceover Essentials.  There's now a lot of video content at Harlan's site.  See the Digital Media library at http://voiceoveressentials.com/ 0:55:06  They're back with questions for Marc.  Q: Discuss the process of taking eyes off the script.  A:  Marc discusses.  As an aside, he's developed techniques to help actors with dyslexia.  Marc asks his students to take eyes off the script for cut lines and key phrases.   0:57:12  Marc describes stage actors learning to “throw” or “lift” lines without reading the script.  Get off the script whenever you can.  The last line is one natural place to do that.  To not sound like you're reading, don't read!   0:58:58  Keep your eyes on the script when the copy is dense.  But for short lines, there's no need to read them.  Anytime you can get your eyes off the page without losing your place, you'll sound sincere. 1:00:08  Q: What are you thoughts about ad libbing?  A: Be judicious.  When they say “be conversational,” you can ADD (not change what's on the page)—enhance rather than change.  You're not an editor or copywriter, you're an actor whose job is to bring copy to life.  “You know,” “you see,” and so on, can be added when appropriate and be judicious.  Pick your places.  And make it better.   1:02:52  Q: Please talk about things to keep in mind when you self direct?  A: Marc talks about working in a vacuum, as we do when we're in our booths.    1:04:05  How many takes is too many?  When it starts sounding studied.  Sometimes you won't know until you listen back during editing.  Other times, you may need to take a break. 1:06:45  Q: Can Marc read a passage from the book?  A: Marc reads from page 162: 1:07:22  A 21st Century Rant.  How to say the year we're in.   1:10:07  Q: What is “tough stuff” for you?  A: Marc discusses how really short copy is really hard for him.   1:11:46  Also, poorly written copy is hard and he refuses to audition for it.   1:12:42  Marc's book is at Amazon and his website, cashmancommercials.com.  Coming soon: the ebook on Kindle.  The audiobook is coming. 1:14:18  Break.  VoiceoverXtra.  And several bumpers. 1:15:33  They're back with announcements.   1:59:59  George's mom and Ella are in the studio.   1:16:51  New sponsor: Narratorhelper.com, which can help audiobook narrators with post production work, proofing, and pre-reading.  Amy Whittam does this. 1:17:55  October 6: Anthony Mendez will be the guest.   1:18:30  October 13: Randi Thomas will be the guest.   1:18:55  October 20: Audio Masters Roundtable for personal studio technology.  Send questions to ewabshop@gmail.com. 1:20:07  Thanks to sponsors Edge Studio, VoiceOver Essentials, VoiceOverXtra, VO Peeps, Home Studio Master, and more! 1:20:42  Thanks to wives and families.   1:21:00  Tune into the podcast!  ewabs.podbean.com 1:21:53  Good bye from the Whittams 1:22:44  End of show.

Simon Mainwaring is the founder of We First, the leading social branding firm that provides consulting and training to help companies tell the story of the good they do to build their reputation, profits and social impact. He is a member of the Sustainable Brands Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Center for Public Diplomacy at the USC Annenberg School, the Transformational Leadership Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. He contributes to Fast Company, Forbes, Huffington Post, Mashable, and GOOD Magazine on branding and social technology.Prior to starting We First, Simon was an award-winning Nike creative writer at Wieden & Kennedy and worldwide creative director for Motorola at Ogilvy, as well as consulting on dozens of Fortune 500 brands for leading advertising, production, and digital companies. As writer or creative director, he worked on the U.S. launch of all generations of the Toyota Prius, the largest national service campaign for the Entertainment Industry Foundation that brought together all four major TV networks for the first time in U.S. television history, and numerous award-winning campaigns for Nike. His creative work has received over sixty international creative awards at the Cannes Advertising Festival, the One Show (U.S.), the Kelly Awards (U.S) and the British Design & Art Direction Awards, among others.Joe Cipriano began his career as a broadcaster in Waterbury, Connecticut, while still in high school. Since then Joe has worked on the air for the Fox, NBC, ABC and CBS TV and Radio networks, achieving success on and off camera.In 2010, Cipriano celebrated his 22nd year as the “Voice” of the FOX-TV Network. For the last 13 years Joe has held a similar position as one of the Signature Voices at CBS. He also spent two years as the voice of NBC dramas Heroes, ER, and Law and Order. In the past several years Cipriano has also been the “live” announcer for many of television's biggest events such as the prestigious Grammy Awards which broadcasts live from Los Angeles to 195 countries reaching an estimated estimated 1.7 Billion viewers. Cipriano has also been the live voice of the 57th, 59th and 60th Annual Emmy Awards broadcasts. In 2010 Joe was awarded the very first Don LaFontaine Legacy Award which recognizes a voice of impact as determined by a specialized industry committee.

Published on May 19, 2014 Guests: Paul Strikwerda, VO and author of “Making Money in your PJ's” George on audio processing Dan on the best mic for VO 0:02:30  Next week: no show.  George tells about his head wound.   0:03:14  Dan shares the mustache gifts he gets and a non-mustache gift he got. 0:05:07  Thanking the sponsors!  Harlan Hogan, John Florian at Voiceover Xtra, and Edge Studio. 0:05:43  Dan's Tip of the Week—what microphone is “best” for VO?  Which ones aren't good?   Among those: SM57—good for guitar amps and snare drumheads, not live VO.  You don't sound real talking half an inch from someone's eardrum. 0:07:32  The RE20 is great for radio, but not the best for VO.  We take a side trip into Dan's radio history.   0:09:08  Tip of the Week: In your personal studio, the less optimum a mic you need to use.  Without a professional booth, don't spend a lot of money on a mic.  A mic between $200 and $350 will work if you use it right, it will capture YOU. 0:10:05  Dan shows his mice -TLM 103.  It's extremely sensitive and not so good for noisy days.  And it's $1000 -E100S.  Great mic.  Not expensive. -Harlan Hogan's VO1A.  Good price and good sound. -Sennheisser 416 shotgun mic.   Anyone of along with the Perception Series, will fill the bill. 0:12:28  While any mic can fill the bill, you have to know how to use it and interpret copy.  Our job is present our voices to potential clients in the way they want to hear them.   0:13:26  George joins the discussion.  It's the mic you already have (unless you have a bad sounding or broken mic).  Nobody will know what mic you use.  Nobody needs to see where or how the sausage is made.  Keep your audio chain simple.  Don't overthink it. 0:15:15 End of rant. 0:16:04  Break 0:17:42  They're back.  Dan has Studio Suit in the basement.  Buy it so Dan can clear the extra bed he needs in June when it mom visits.   0:19:07  George's “Whittam's World Episode 18” on audio processing.  George describes applying processing filters. 0:28:19  George is back.   0:28:59  Break 0:30:20  They're back with Paul Strikwerda.  Paul tells about his journey in writing books on voice-over.  Paul's website: http://www.nethervoice.com/ Paul appeared on EWABS in Episode 30 (Dec. 4, 2011; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lty2kDbnpFA) and Episode 58 (July 29, 2012; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUjQrchEj8) 0:36:30 Paul wanted something with staying power.  He wondered if he should write about being a freelancer or being a VO actor.   0:39:00  He wanted a book about how to be a professional not just for VO actors only, but for all freelancers.   0:39:40  Dan comments that people don't know what it means to be an entrepreneur anymore.  Paul replies that people know a lot about their art, but not about being in business and marketing yourself. 0:41:40  Dan asks Paul what makes his book different.  Paul has developed his writing style from 4 years of blog work.  He's found it isn't effective to tell people what to do.  But, if they hear stories about other people, that's more digestible.    0:43:34  Dan asks Paul for a sample reading.  Paul also shows his colored computer glasses.   0:44:50  Paul reads a story from the book about the “Most Obnoxious Man in Voice-Over.”   0:47:10  Paul ends the great story and discussion ensues.   0:48:56  Dan asks where can you can get the book.  It's available for download devices, Amazon, and from http://makingmoneyinyourpjs.com/   0:49:28  Paul has a contest.  Buy the book in the next 3 weeks, take a photo of themselves with the book, and send it to Paul to win some prizes, including getting interviewed for Paul's blog. 0:50:00  George asks when the audiobook version will be available.  Paul thinks in about a month. 0:51:15  VO is hot right now, and this book gives insights into that.  Some people are reading the book together including people in other fields. 0:54:24  George asks Paul how he learned an American English accent. 0:56:16  Harlan Hogan commercial. 0:58:20  Back with Paul.  How do you say his name? 0:59:14  Dan asks Paul about his blog 7-8 months ago about pay-to-play sites.  Paul has tried them all and now has said good bye to them all, including Bodalgo.  He thinks they have cheapened the industry.  We've traded convenience for low pay and low quality.  He can't price for profit at the pay-to-plays.  They're for the hobbyist.  You have to do a lot more for a lot less.  There are good things about them too.   1:03:50  Paul wrote a blog post, “Leaving voices.Com.”  He plays bad auditions he heard on just one day.  George talks about how so many people don't get additional coaching.   1:05:40  Paul comments that there's so much information online.  Ignorance is no excuse.   1:06:41  Dan thinks the whole business is going through a major shift in the next year or two.  Paul talks about crowdsourcing and how he used it to design his book cover.  Paul said if pay was better and quality control was better. 1:08:41  Dan asks about Paul's new studio.  Paul describes it.  He wrote a book, “Building a Booth on a Budget,” available only on his site.  Paul won his mic at http://recordinghacks.com/   He goes on to talk about his gear. 1:11:57  George shows an example of Paul's new interface, the Audient ID 22.  http://audient.com/products/id22  Paul talks about his use of the interface, and his previous preamps. 1:14:50  Questions from the audience: Where are your main customers in the U.S., Europe or both? A: Sixty percent are in Europe, 30-40 pct in the US.  He also has clients in Egypt and Oman. He gets up early! 1:16:04  Q: What do you think of crowd sourcing at VoiceBank.com.  A: Paul wishes it were different.  He'd rather get work through an agent, like Eric Shepard, to get his top five.  Sorting through the 100 auditions crowdsourced is a waste of time, Paul says. 1:18:43  Break 1:19:28  They're back.   1:19:48  Announcements: Dan asks George what's up with Joe Cipriano is doing with BSW.  Joe is working on a way to get more 416s in people's hands.  You get a Sennheisser 416 and Joe's book, “Living on Air,” for $799.   See more at: http://alturl.com/urpgc   Buy from BSW and use promo code: Livingonair. 1:22:14   Thanks to the donors.  To donate go to http://www.ewabs.net/ and click on the DONATE button, in the upper left of the screen. 1:23:10  George is on a “Twitter-chat” on Wednesday at 5 p.m. Pacific, 8 p.m. Eastern.  Tweet with the hashtag, #ACX, to ask a question or @VOSTUDIOTECH.COM.   1:24:20  There's a YouTube Channel for EWABS.  https://www.youtube.com/user/ewabsshow  where you can see all 144 episodes! 1:25:00 EWABS Essentials—a pile of short tidbits from EWABS.   1:25:50  No show next week for Memorial Day.  The chat room will still be there. 1:26:28  On June 9, Debra Deyan and Colleen Marlow from the Deyan Institute  http://www.deyaninstitute.com/home.html .  They offer classes for audiobook narration. There are marketing and demo demolition roundtables in the works, too. 1:27:37  Thanks to sponsors.  LIKE us on Facebook!  Follow us on Twitter at EWABS_SHOW.   Like the YouTube videos.  Thanks to the wives and support staff.   1:30:42  End of show.

Episode 140, April 21, 2014Third Anniversary Show, together at the Ganguzza's house in Irvine, Calif.  0:3:10 Guests: Many, including Dan's mom.0:4:00  Dan tells about meeting a SoCal mouse at his mom's.0:5:25  Dan tells some EWABS history, starting with a talk George gave at Voice2008.  Then, at Voice 2010, it started to jell as Dan and George collaborated on solving a problem.  They took inspiration from NPR's “Car Talk”—hence the “body shop.”  Now we're at episode 140.  0:9:55  Dan admits to editing with a razor blade.0:10:05  George admits his age (40), and then Dan does, too.  (+17)Some shoutouts:0:10:45 Bob Sauer0:11:04 Adam from SLC0:11:29 Andy at Top Voice-Over0:11:37 Andy Boyns and Memet Onur sing happy birthday in Turkish (and sing it well)0:12:12 Anthony Gettig from the U.P. Michigan0:13:00  Break0:14:25 Back at the party.  0:14:50 Dan prepares to roam the room.  Dan talks with Johnny Cavetas and his camera.  0:15:34  He then moves over to see Larry Hudson and Sylvia McClure, the EWABS “bumper” folks.  Is it “Dan and George” or “George and Dan”?  Simon Vance is the cameraman.0:17:30 Katherine Curriden, the EWABS producer for the last two years.  She's the person who gets the great guests for the show.  0:19:08  Connie Terwilliger.  She met Dan at Voice 2007 in Las Vegas.  Unconscious incompetence is curable.  Connie is a good source on forums for good information.0:21:17  Denise Chamberlain.  She worked with Dan on Voice-Over Virtual last summer.       Dan sent an ALL CAPS email.  They originally met at Voice 2007.0:22:30  Karen O'Bryant, a frequenter of the EWABS Chat Room.  She recalls her favorite “cluge” when George had to broadcast Dan's image from an iPhone perched on his forehead (Episode 125, Dec. 30, 2013).  Her other favorite moment was a long discussion by George with no audio—the Chat Room filled in with their own words.0:24:28  Alex Apostolides0:25:13  James Alburger and Penny Abshire came up from San Diego for the event.  Voice 2014 will be at the Anaheim Hilton this year.  The theme is “Better than Ever.”  A Las Vegas headliner will do a show and a talk later about the show, “Creating a Million-Dollar Mouth.”  Other presenters will be new, too.  Lots of surprises.  0:27:45  Martha Kahn, who helped Dan with the Voice-Over Virtual conference last summer.  More shoutouts:
0:28:44  Joe Cipriano, the view from the wiring tangle, behind and underneath it all.0:30:03  Cliff Zellman, from his studio0:30:20  Dave Courvoisier (CourVO) from his car0:30:49  Ed Waldorph with a distinguished shoutout0:31:35  Break0:32:50  They're back.  George has a new virtual audience toy.  It has cheers, crickets…0:33:30  Dan wanders over to meet Simon Vance.  Simon tells us about his current audiobook work.  He recounts his 700 title-career.  He explains why he worked under other names.0:36:55 Dan asks Simon how he's seen the business change.  MP3's contributed to the change, and then Audible combined with Amazon which “democratized” audiobooks, but drew in a huge number of new actors and changed the standards.  The industry has expanded hugely.  0:42:03  Ann Ganguzza, the party host.  Ann talks about Voice-Over Peeps.  She remembered the fun of Episode 103, last July 28, when Dan built a Studio Suit booth in Ann's living room.  More shoutouts0:45:42  Elaine Clark, from Voice One in San Francisco0:46:00  Jerry Pelletier, from Florida, and his Studio Bricks studio0:46:32  John Taylor, in his house0:46:57  Kevin Scheuller from his EWABS inspired cave, with his EWABS clicker!0:47:30  Source Elements (Robert Marshall and Rebekah Wilson) sends a shoutout0:47:57  Break0:49:18  They're back with a dead mic and frozen video.  (Apollo 13 continues.)0:49:54  A wave from Dan's mom.0:50:06  Dan's mic dies.  Gear shift.  Cover SFX.0:52:30Q  Is Dan shaving off his mustache in honor of three years?A  Detailed answer0:53:20Q  What equipment are you using to do the show?A   (George adds a mustache).  0:53:50 George gives an extended answer.  Be ready to take notes on all the details!0:57:00  Prizes offered to the assembled fun-havers.And then it was time to “fork a poke,” … er…1:06:50Announcements:
Next week: James and Penny talking about Voice 2014The week after: VO Marketing Roundtable (Ann Ganguzza and others)1:08:00We still have clickers.  $5.  Get them at EWABS.com.1:09:30Sponsors: Harlan Hogan has a supply of “personally vetted,” very dense foam at half the cost for studio monitors.  He has a shotgun mic with “field replaceable o-rings.”  Harlan will be on the show in May.  He'll talk about a new audio interface for iOS.1:11:59  Contributors: Eric Erigoni, who donates weekly.  Thanks to the wives.  1:12:45  Our sponsors: Harlan Hogan (Voice Over Essentials), Edge Studio, VO Studiotech.com (Soon to be Edge Studios), Voice-Over Xtra.   Voice-Over Xtra's daily newsletter is worth a daily read.  Edge Studio's newsletter got a shoutout too.1:13:15  LIKE US on Facebook, LIKE our videos on YouTube, FOLLOW us on Twitter, SUBSCRIBE to YouTube.Thanks to show support staff, like Katherine Curriden; Ann & Jerry Ganguzza; Lee Pinney for the Podcast; Jack de Golia for the show notes.1:14:42  We wind up with “Happy Birthday”!  (Actually sung pretty well!)Time to stick a fork in it.More shoutouts!1:16:19  Nathan Cundiff1:16:29  Lee Pinney from Voice Around Town1:17:09  Steve Tardio with Three Clicks!1:17:26  Andy Barnett from KC1:18:06  End of Show

Published on Jan 20, 2014 Kelly Passinault shares HUGELY helpful info about casting VO, Dan's experiences in Vegas with Marice Tobias, and Joe Cipriano, George on phone patches. Dan's tip of the week: Vegas! Dan was recently at Maurice tobias' workshop in Las VegasDan has some great footage, including some of Joe Cipriano reading from his new book.  Visit Dan at HomeVoiceOverStudio.com/ Or follow Dan's Twitter: @HomStudioMan Whittams World: Phone Patches George shows us how with: Skype Earbuds Cell phone Hybrid Visit George at VOStudioTech.com Or follow George's Twitter: @EWABS_Show Special thanks to Edge Studios. Full service voice over production, education, and resources.http://www.edgestudio.com/ See George's Vlog "Whittam's World" at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8VuT... Welcome this week's guest: Burbank Creative Director, Kelly Passinault. Head of casting for voice caster, demo producer, and much more. http://kellylynnmarie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/kellylynnvo http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kelly-pas... Interview topics, and questions included: How did Kelly get started doing all these varied skills? What did Kelly study in college? What exactly does a casting company do? What does she look for that causes her to choose one voice talent over another? How important are the specs on a particular piece of copy? How much of an audition does Kelly generally listen to before moving to the next one? Does she still choose mostly California talent, or does she find talent everywhere these days? Dan asked about the teaching, coaching, and production work that also goes on at Voicecaster. What part does audio quality play in a good audition? Kelly explains the classes at voice caster. What sort of equipment is available at Voicecaster? What are the criteria for working with Voicecastor? Voicecastor can also direct your audition via VO 'n' GO. What's the quickest way for talent to get passed over? What's the best way to get to read for Kelly if you're in LA for a few days?? What sort of equipment does Kelly use to listen to auditions? Does Kelly often choose Talent she's already familiar with for projects? John Florian, and Voice Over Xtra.  The daily resource for voice over success. http://www.voiceoverxtra.com/index.htm  Thanks to Harlan Hogan, and Voice Over Essentials. voiceoveressentials.com/ Harlan is the exclusive supplier of portable studio booths for TED. Announcements: Focusrite drivers are now available to make the Scarlet a class compliant item. http://global.focusrite.com/answerbas...  George is at Nam show this thurs, fri. George will be in New York at Edge Studios next week to include: 6 p.m. Thursday night party at edge studios, and.. Tuesday through Thursday George is available to work on your studio if you are local to the New York area. Dan introduces us to a new studio in Toronto Special thanks to VO Peeps, and and Anne Ganguzza. Next Week: Google hangout - rsvp ewabshop@gmail.com to be a guest. WOULD YOU like to be one of our monthly sponsors???   Contact us at ewabshop.com to discuss! Join the EWABS Correspondent Contest. Make a VO or home studio related video, and send it to ewabshop@gmail.com  The best way to keep track of the shows activities is to visit the EWABS Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/eastwest.aud... EWABS Twitter: EWABS_Show Thanks again to our sponsors. Harlan Hogan's Voice over Essentials. voiceoveressentials.com Voice Over Xtra  http://www.voiceoverxtra.com/index.htm  Thanks to Larry Hudson, Silvia McClure, Larry and Elizabeth Davis, and Rosemary Benson for the show's bumpers, promotions and drops. Special thanks to the shows producer, Katherine Curriden, Dave Courvosier for providing the shows weekly intro, Lee Pinney for posting the podcast, and to Jason Lawson for providing our weekly show notes. Send us questions, and be on our show where Dan and George will solve your home studio problems live!  Call 818-47EWABS, that's 818 473-9227, and leave us your question in the voice mail box.   Go to ewabs.com for details.  Contributions are also welcome at shop.ewabs.com

Published on Nov 18, 2013 What a unique opportunity we had this episode! Joe Cipriano came on to talk about his book "Living On Air" and had to break away for a promo VO job, but he took us with him into the booth and we got to experience the entire session from start to finish. Soooo cool! Plus, George features a Whittam's World on EQ and Dan and George discuss Mac for VO. The guys chat with Joe about his new book "Living On Air," which will also be available in audiobook form directed by Maurice Tobias. Then, Joe gives us a tour of his studio which leads to an impromptu ISDN session. You'll love watching Joe work live. Visit Dan at HomeVoiceOverStudio.com/ Or follow Dan's Twitter: @HomStudioMan Thanks to Harlan Hogan, and Voice Over Essentials. voiceoveressentials.com/ Harlan is the exclusive supplier of portable studio booths for TED. Whittam's World: EQ. George gives us a hands-on demonstration using Twisted Wave. Notch filter? Add some punch? Roll-off? George shows us how. Special thanks to Edge Studios. Full service voice over production, education, and resources.http://www.edgestudio.com/ John Florian, and Voice Over Xtra.  The daily resource for voice over success. http://www.voiceoverxtra.com/index.htm  Dan's Tip Of The Week: Why choose Mac for voice over?  Both dan, and George give us their reasons for recommending Mac. Announcements: An updated EWABS logo? Viewer challenge: Send your submissions in any medium. Prize: Possibly airtime on EWABS for your business, though it is yet to be announced officially.  Deadline: December 28th, 2013. Dan has a Home Studio Wizardry Webinar with VoiceOver extra December 10th at 9 p.m. Eastern. EWABS "clickers" are now available for purchase. Potentially new swag for next year... send in your ideas. Thanks to Eric Arigoni, and other chat room viewers for their recent donations. Please begin sending in your specific suggestions for this year's highlights show. George will be sharing a Google spreadsheet where you can fill in the particulars. Ewabs.com  Next Week:Audio-master's Round Table. Dec. 2nd: Wes Dooly of AEA microphones. WOULD YOU like to be one of our monthly sponsors???   Contact us at ewabshop.com to discuss! Join the EWABS Correspondent Contest. Make a VO or home studio related video, and send it to ewabshop@gmail.com  The best way to keep track of the shows activities is to visit the EWABS Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/eastwest.aud... EWABS Twitter: EWABS_Show Thanks again to our sponsors. Harlan Hogan's Voice over Essentials. voiceoveressentials.com Voice Over Xtra  http://www.voiceoverxtra.com/index.htm  Thanks to Larry Hudson, Silvia McClure, Larry and Elizabeth Davis, and Rosemary Benson for the show's bumpers, promotions and drops. Special thanks to the shows producer, Katherine Curriden, Dave Courvosier for providing the shows weekly intro, Lee Pinney for posting the podcast,  and, to Jason Lawson for providing our weekly show notes. Send us questions, and be on our show where Dan and George will solve your home studio problems live!  Call 818-47EWABS, that's 818 473-9227, and leave us your question in the voice mail box.   Go to ewabs.com for details.  Contributions are also welcome at shop.ewabs.com

Published on Nov 4, 2013 Fred Melamed gives us 40 minutes of his time to share his experiences and wisdom as a screen and voice actor. Dan fills us in on the current happenings at World Voices, including voice over coaching, and demo production. See this months newsletter for more. George's Tech Tidbits: George shares this weeks "Whittam's World." George's bi-weekly vlog, This Week: Reducing your noise floor.  Visit Dan at HomeVoiceOverStudio.com/ Or follow Dan's Twitter: @HomStudioMan Visit George at VOStudioTech.com Or follow George's Twitter: @EWABS_Show Special thanks to our newest sponsor: Edge Studios, full service voice over production, education, and resources.http://www.edgestudio.com/ See George's Vlog "Whittam's World" at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8VuT... Welcome This Weeks Guest: Fred Melamed. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577329/ http://www.voiceoveruniverse.com/prof... http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/... Interview topics, and questkons included: Fred's demo reel. Did Fred originally set out to be a stage or film actor? Fred's early beginnings, and his decision to get involved in voice over. Fred's approach to voice over. Fred's home studio, and how he was one of the first to have a home studio. How often does Fred audition? What one book would Fred recommend on voice acting? Does Fred Miss New York? Why did he move to California? How did Fred approach his dubbing work? What does Fred think of the violence in video games today? What are fred's thoughts on breaking into the US market from a foreign speakers point of view? Does on camera work bring any advantages to performing as a voice over? What is it like working with Larry David? What has Fred's experience been in regards to "In a World?" What is Fred's advice to mid-level voice actors looking to accomplish more? Fred ad-libs a spot for Harlan Hogan. Thanks to Harlan Hogan, and Voice Over Essentials. voiceoveressentials.com/ Harlan is the exclusive supplier of portable studio booths for TED. John Florian, and Voice Over Xtra.  The daily resource for voice over success. http://www.voiceoverxtra.com/index.htm  Announcements: November 7th voices for voices event benefiting the Don LaFontaine lab. November 10th at 3 p.m. James Arnold Taylor's "Talking To Myself." November 18th Joe Cipriano. November 25th Audiomaster's Round Table. Please begin sending in your specific suggestions for this year's highlights show. George will be sharing a Google spreadsheet where you can fill in the particulars. WOULD YOU like to be one of our monthly sponsors???   Contact us at ewabshop.com to discuss! Join the EWABS Correspondent Contest. Make a VO or home studio related video, and send it to ewabshop@gmail.com  The best way to keep track of the shows activities is to visit the EWABS Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/eastwest.aud... EWABS Twitter: EWABS_Show Thanks again to our sponsors. Harlan Hogan's Voice over Essentials. voiceoveressentials.com Voice Over Xtra  http://www.voiceoverxtra.com/index.htm  Thanks to Larry Hudson, Silvia McClure, Larry and Elizabeth Davis, and Rosemary Benson for the show's bumpers, promotions and drops. Special thanks to the shows producer, Katherine Curriden, Dave Courvosier for providing the shows weekly intro, Lee Pinney for posting the podcast,  and, to Jason Lawson for providing our weekly show notes. Send us questions, and be on our show where Dan and George will solve your home studio problems live!  Call 818-47EWABS, that's 818 473-9227, and leave us your question in the voice mail box.   Go to ewabs.com for details.  Contributions are also welcome at shop.ewabs.com

Terry and Trish chat about seasonal voice over demos and marketing on your downtime.  Plus, a new character makes his debut, Bish gets cheeky, and we find out the “king of promo” has a naughty side! The post The Voice Over Cafe EPISODE 15 – Joe Cipriano appeared first on voice over cafe.

Join Voice Over Expert David Alden in debut his lecture "Let's Talk Promos Be A Voice Over Olympian". Listen to this revealing episode and be initiated into the highly lucrative and exciting world of promo voice overs as shared by someone who has coached top promo talents including notable voices such as Joe Cipriano, George Del Hoyo, Beau Weaver, Ben Patrick Johnson and the late Don LaFontaine.

CreatiVoices Productions VoiceWorx workshop, The Simpsons Sound Alikes Challenge at Voices.com, Break Into VoiceOver Teleseminar, Darbi Worley on Improv in Auditions, Adam Fox with some listener feedback and Musings on Assumptions, and the conclusion of Jesse Springer's interview with Joe Cipriano, Part 3 of 3.

European Radio Awards Open for Nominations, The Simpsons Sound Alikes Challenge at Voices.com, VOICE 2008 in Los Angeles, Jesse Springer's interview with Joe Cipriano, Part 2 of 3, Adam Fox on Working While on the Road, and a Voice Acting Workshop Survey at VOX Daily.

Pierce Brosnan new voice of Thomas & Friends, "Walking the Labyrinth" at the 2007 London Fringe, 60 Second Pitch Winners Announced, Jason McCoy's Winning Pitch in The Biz, Adam Fox on Syncing Audio to Video, and Jesse Springer's interview with Joe Cipriano, Part 1 of 3.

Joe Cipriano prefers his Neumann, Finalists for Voicey Awards, Michael Douglas and Technology, Don't be a Bottom Feeder, Pop Filters, Voicey Finalist John Small in the VOX Box.

ACTRA Strike, An Inconvenient Truth, VO Jobs of 2006, sound like you think, Joe Cipriano teaches podcasting, and Julie Williams in the VOX Box.