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

HERE'S A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY VOICE OVER EXPERIENCE: As many others, my background is in radio. Been doing that since I was 13, so this year it's 23 years ago - whoa...
Around 1997, I had the chance to audition for a small-market local tv-station, who did their own commercial production. Actually I nailed it, but due to my cluelessness (is that even a word??) about the VO-business, I made all the classic mistakes: I sounded the exact same way on every recording, as I did on the radio. So if I remember correctly, I did three jobs for them, and they never called me again.
A couple of years later, there was an opening for the male danish VO-job for a tv-homeshopping network. For the next four years, I did TONS of informercials and learned quite a bit, besides making a fair amount of money. I even got my first experience with true voice acting, when I did ALL the voices of baby animals on the Danish version of "Marty Stoufer's Wacky Babies". I also did narration for other films in that series. This was truly my real break in VO.
In 2003, I bought some second-hand gear and began to voice commercials for numerous local radiostations in Denmark. Nothing fancy, they all did their own production and I only provided a raw voice recording. Somewhere along the linebigger projects turned up, and I slowly began to invest in better equipment.
Then... in 2007 and by sheer coincidence, I discovered Voice123 and the Voiceoversavvy-forum. From there, things literally took off like an Saturn V-rocket. Through the forums I learned so much, and a whole new world evolved. When I joined Voices.com, it was my "Neil Armstrong-moment" in VO: gigs and enquiries from seekers all around the world began to come in on a regular basis, and I landed quite a few. Now I'm with several international agencies and databases in countries like the US, UK, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Sweden, France, Czech Republic...
I'm also the first (and so far the only) Scandinavian-based voice artist accredited by SaVoa.

VOICE DESCRIPTION: Friendly, guy-next-door

DIALECTS, Character voices and vocal impersonations: All sorts of Danish ones

LANGUAGES: Danish

WEBSITE: http://www.provoa.com

AUDIO DELIVERY METHOD: FTP, AIF, MP3, WAV

EQUIPMENT: Microphones: Groove Tubes GT67, Rode NTK
Preamps: Tube-Tech MEC 1A, Joemeek VC1Q
Console: Behringer MX2804A
Interface: Echo MIA
Monitors: Genelec 1019A, Sennheiser HD25
Editor: Steinberg Wavelab or Sony Vegas, depending on project.
Misc: dbx "Project One" 266 compressor/gate, D&R phone patch

VOICES I AM ABLE TO PERFORM: Middle Age Male, Young Adult Male, Teenage Boy

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OK, stop! Just...stop for a second!!

Okay, let me explain...

I LOVE the idea of forums and communities... I'm with all of them: Savvy, VO-BB, Voice-overs.com, MySpace FaceBook... and of course also Voiceover Universe.
I love that we can network, share our experiences, thoughts, advice, have fun etc. through all of these places.

Basically, I like the idea of a voiceover-related MySpace/Facebook kinda place. And it's really amazing that Rick has gathered almost 1000 members already, and the contributions from industry icons like Jo… Continue

Posted on July 2, 2008 at 4:30pm — 5 Comments

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At 4:35pm on February 18, 2009, Bob Souer said…: Jacob,

I hope you are having a very Happy Birthday!

Be well,
Bob

At 6:53pm on February 17, 2009, Haneen Arafat said…: Hey Jacob...Happy Birthday (in advance)! Hope all's well.

At 12:52pm on November 20, 2008, Steen Bojsen-Moller said…: My Father was born in Denmark, moved to New Zealand in his twenties so I was raised in NZ, now live in LA but go to Denmark every 2 years or so. There you have it! How about you?

At 9:44am on November 19, 2008, Josh Mahler said…: Thanks for the invite, Jacob! Hope all is well!

At 10:50am on July 6, 2008, Maxine Dunn British and American said…: Hi Sweets!

How's my favorite Dane with the sexy red chair? Just got back from a gorgeous early morning hike in the foothills and suiting up to do some gardening today.

Hope your summer is going well ~ how do you like Sweden? Is it very different from Denmark?

xoxoxo
Max

At 9:47pm on June 4, 2008, JC Haze said…: Hey Jacob!
I'm just finding my way around here...and just signed up. Glad to see your smiling face!
Keep rockin!
JC