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I'm a bit hacked off at an online voice talent bank - YOUR thoughts?

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The Comic Book Industry’s biggest convention of the year is coming up in about two weeks in San Diego, and there’s a significant VoiceActing presence. It’s called Comic-Con. HERE’s their website. Legendary voice actors June Foray and Stan Freberg will be special guests. Know how I tracked-down all this info? On Voice Chasers [...]

CourVO’s Twitter Updates for 2009-07-12

A voice actor doesn't just "talk" for a living — like a photographer doesn't just "take pictures" for a living # A voice actor doesn't just "talk" for a living # Powered by Twitter Tools.

SaVoa Surges Ahead

Maybe you’ve already made up your mind about SaVoa, the Society of Accredited Voice Over Artists. Some people seem to take exception to the rigmarole of having to pay $75, submit to a sound/voice evaluation by their peers, and if they pass muster….what? They get a shield logo with their own personal membership #, and [...]

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….tinkering….always tinkering. This is my nature. You’ve probably noticed a daily addition to my normal blogging activity. “CourVO’s Twitter Updates for 2009-XX-XX” (see directly below) The posts are automatically generated from a WordPress plug-in. ‘Not sure if I like it yet, but as long as I have something halfway worthy to tweet everyday (questionable at best)…you might find something [...]

CourVO’s Twitter Updates for 2009-07-11

@JipMix I was hoping YOU could tell ME! # Voice-Actor? join our Twittgroup with others like you! #voiceover #voicetwitter http://tgr.me/g/voicetwitter ~ # The VO twittgroup for VO people is at 200! But mostly 'cause John Florian joined 5 times #voicetwitter http://tgr.me/g/voicetwitter ~ # If a social-networking/marketing offer requires you to scroll down [...]

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Dave Courvoisier, Voice Actor (CourVO)

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I WORK IN THE VOICE OVER INDUSTRY AS A(N): Voice Actor

HERE'S A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY VOICE OVER EXPERIENCE: I anchor 3 half-hour newscasts daily as the main weeknight news anchor at the CBS-affiliated station in Las Vegas, NV KLAS-TV.

I'm an Emmy-award-winning broadcaster, writer, producer.

I've worked with my voice all my life. I'm a singer, and have years of voice-over expertise, on-camera presentation, live-reporting, public-speaking, hosting, Emcee-ing, producing, writing, and editing.

I'm a blogger of all things voice-over. Come see me at: http://www.courvo.biz

I grew up on a crop farm in the middle of South Central Illinois. Pigs, cows, chickens, horses...wheat, beans, corn...I know the value of hard work and persistence.

University of Illinois, BS, MS 1977...that's my alma mater, and where my oldest daughter now attends as a Dance Major.

Graduate: School of hard knocks in Radio, TV News...all over the country. My first job was at KCCC, The Golden Country sound of Carlsbad, NM.

Interests: Racquetball, God, Computers, reading, 3 daughters, all things internet.

I'm proud to be part of the greatest online community of performers, marrying today's hottest medium (internet) with the world's best artists (Voice-actors)!

VOICE DESCRIPTION: rich, malleable baritone
conversational, yet concise

DIALECTS: Slovak or Russian, German, French, Italian, Boston, Tex-Arkana, Hindi

LANGUAGES: good ole unaffected Midwestern American English

WEBSITE: http://www.courvo.com

AUDIO DELIVERY METHOD: ISDN, Source Connect, Audio TX, FTP, AIF, MP3, WAV

EQUIPMENT: Sennheiser MKH416 P48, Alesis Multi-Mix8 USB, dbx 266, Pre-Sonus Tube Pre, Pro-Tools 7.4, Adobe Audition 3.0

VOICES YOU ARE ABLE TO PERFORM: Senior Male, Middle Age Male, Young Adult Male

VOICE 2008 Was Amazing...!!!

Dave Courvoisier's Blog

Anybody coming...?

...to InfoComm next week in Vegas? Here's the website: http://www.infocomm.org/cps/rde/xchg/infocomm/hs.xsl/events_5105.htm

InfoComm 2008 claims to be: "...the leading business-to-business marketplace for display, projection, audio, conferencing, lighting and staging, digital signage, Internet streaming and networked presentation and communications systems..."

Now, I know that's not exactly everything a voice-artist would buy a plane ticket to see, esp. at today's fuel prices... but if you're… Continue

Posted on June 11, 2008 at 3:48am —

Rate Sheet Returns

Well, it took longer than I expected (a funeral and TV ratings kinda got in the way), but my little survey on what voice-actors charge for their talents is now done, and you can download your own copy of this MS Word.doc HERE

Names have been deleted to protect the innocent. You'll find a little bit of everything here...but overall, something for everybody to learn.

Thanks for of you who helped with the cause!

CourVO

Posted on May 29, 2008 at 9:20pm — 1 Comment

Rate Sheets

I'm hoping to get responses from voice-actors everywhere on their formulas for quoting clients.

I promise to collate, assimilate and disseminate the results to everyone.

I'd write up my proposal again here, but it's already on my blog at:

http://www.courvo.biz/2008/05/friends-country.html

Your input appreciated. Feedback by commenting at the bottom of the blog or e-mailing me personally. courvo@courvo.com.

Thanks!

CourVO

Posted on May 9, 2008 at 7:07pm —

Livin' the Life -- Voice Acting in Vegas

Hey everybody!

Dave Courvoisier here in Las Vegas. Nice! Very nice place on the web here. I'll be visiting often.

In the meantime, please come and see what's happnin' on my blog Voice-Acting in Vegas @
http://www.courvo.biz

Dave Courvoisier
702-610-6288
http://www.courvo.com

Posted on May 6, 2008 at 3:05am —

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At 6:20pm on April 22, 2009, Louie Benson said…: Hey, caught you on the Mike Shain send-off. Haven't told you until now because I haven't been on here until now.

At 1:49pm on November 2, 2008, Alex Myers said…: Hello Dave,
I saw your quote on Nancy Wolfson's site, she does seem pretty impressive. Would you recommend her coaching? Are they any other coaches that you've worked with that you've found helpful?
Alex

At 9:06pm on October 13, 2008, DAVID ALDEN said…: Hiya Dave,

Pardon the generic email, however, I just want to touch base with those of you on VOU & Voices.com to THANK YOU for commenting on the my recent podcast re TV Promos on Voices.com. In my world everyone is a winner... so if I can be of any assistance and answer a breif question or two, please feel free to contact me.

Best regards,

David

p.s. btw you were an awesome MC for VO2008

At 3:26pm on September 26, 2008, Greg Hamilton said…: Hi Buddy I see you're on line Hows life?

At 10:02am on September 26, 2008, B.Z. said…: Sup Dave? Just stopped by to say, sup? Have a good weekend, bruh.

At 3:56pm on September 23, 2008, John Pruden "Voice Acting With Character" said…: BTW - thanks for the link to the manual - I didn't even see that on the Senn site. Time for glasses? Yikes. I only saw them for sale on other sites for $10!

At 3:53pm on September 23, 2008, John Pruden "Voice Acting With Character" said…: I just did a shoot-out with some "low-end" (i.e., affordable) pres. The Universal Audio Solo/610 ($510 eBay) beat out the Groove Tubes The Brick ($300 eBay) and waxed the MBox-only. The 610 is nice because you can adjust the color. I have an MP3 of the three side-by-side I can send you, which also includes a TLM103 on all of them, too. I think I'm about to pull the trigger on getting an Avalon M5 - when I try one out I'll let you know how it turns out.

At 9:05am on September 23, 2008, John Pruden "Voice Acting With Character" said…: Hey CourVO! Hope you're doing well. Just read you Dan Lenard interview on you blog - nice job! Hey, I just picked up a 416, but no users manual came with it. Know where I can get one? Also, what pre are you using with yours? Take care!

At 10:27pm on September 12, 2008, Merlên said…: Hi Dave,
Thanks for the note! Hope you and your girls are all doing well (as I recall, you mentioned in Vegas that you had lots of daughters but no sons...is my memory right?) I saw you briefly from a distance on Thurs in LA (Aug 7., the day of Jim's birthday) but I was whisked away by Aussies and didn't get a chance to pop around to say HI in person. You looked great, as usual! Enjoy yr weekend.

At 6:40pm on September 12, 2008, Jay Lerner said…: That sounds great Dave. Please let me know what works for you next week, and we'll make that happen!