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Comment by Patrick Sweeney on September 29, 2009 at 7:34am

Thanks Joe for the welcome. Marian, just finished taking Bob Bergens workshop on the Voicelympics Cruise and it was one of the best workshops I have ever taken. If you get a chance Floridians, don't miss it when he comes in November. He gets the best out of you.

Comment by Joe J Thomas on September 24, 2009 at 12:06pm

A big Howdy and Welcome to all our new members!

Talk it up gang!
Joe

Comment by Lani Minella on July 19, 2009 at 7:09pm

Hi everyone! I thought I'd post this here first because, as a computer game casting director and actor, being able to do a whole slew of USABLE characters in USABLE accents, different ages and textures is a MUST ---I have found that even the most talented character actors who haven't done a lot of game VOs have a tough time being able to spread themselves thin enough to cover the quantity of characters needed to cover the small number of lines each character has.
So------if you think you are already a real pro and have done this stuff before, feel free to visit Talent Assessment page. Classes and coaching links are also there, if you'd like more instant help to get where you need to be to land those jobs.
Best of luck to all, and please note: I don't make a living teaching and what I teach is really intense, highly useful immediately and everyone gets a lot of personal attention. I won't be offering these for very long, but I do want to help as many people as I can...and heck----if I can put you to work---we all win! Thanks and have a great summer!

Comment by Herb Merriweather on March 28, 2009 at 2:32am

Hey, Joe...
Finally getting around to visiting -and commenting. You say you are singing and reading in character. That's great! I don't do it as often as I should. I'm reminded of the classic-and hilarious version of "Blue Christmas" performed by Porky Pig. What a hoot! However, I can't imagine the Sun King singing"Little Drummer Boy".

Comment by Joe J Thomas on March 14, 2009 at 12:41pm

A big "HOWDY" to all the new members!

Feel free to post new topics for discussion above...

MJ - I like it. That's a great way to play thru the day.

I've taken to singing songs as a given charcater (or in an accent).
Also, reading out loud as the character, recording, and playback are fun.

While I'm driving, I'll try to voice-match whatever is on the radio.
(yeah, you may wanna drive somewhere far away from me!)

Happy Saturday,
Joe

Comment by Traci Odom on March 10, 2009 at 2:56am

Hello there,
I'm getting my feet wet in the industry and looking forward to sharing successes with everybody! I reviewed some of the threads and this group looks awesome! Yee-haw!
:)

Comment by milly ozaki fukushima on March 9, 2009 at 11:52pm

Working as a VO character would be amazing!! This is the most fun field to work, I would think.
I want to learn everything I can to be in this field. :D

Comment by M J Lallo on March 9, 2009 at 1:39pm

got characters!!!???? I practice getting up in the morning as one of my many characters and going through the day as that character---too bad one of em invested in the stock market!!!:)))--Animation is too fun!

Comment by Tim Simmons on February 23, 2009 at 9:28pm

The Mackie is a small mixer. I only use one channel just to get my mic signal from the mic to the DAT (digital audio tape) machine and then to the PC. Just how I do it since I don't want to upgrade and get some preamp with SPDIF or other thing built in, etc.

So, I use WaveLab for editing. I use Acid for creating the final production if it needs music/sfx/mult voices.

I used to have an emu e64 sampler. awesome samplers. but... it's gone. $ you know. hehehe

That's about it.

Comment by Luis Acevedo on February 23, 2009 at 9:09pm

Wow...that is amazing T. Well let me tell you what I have...As I said I have an Emu1616m mic preamp which goes into the Emu card in the back of my computer. That was around $279. The computer I built myself and it is just for VO stuff. I have an Intel Core2 Duo processor with XP. Great computer. All that came out to around $380. I am using Audacity as the software. I know my system has the DAT but I don't know it well enough yet to make sure I am doing it right.

Are you familiar with Emu1616m? It is pretty powerful (if you know how to use it).

Now your Mackie, is it just for the pre-amp or do you really need the 8 channels?

Once I get the Mic (just shipped today) I will take some pictures of the set up and send it to you. I use a good size walk in closet in one of the spare rooms of the house.

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