Audie Awards on June 1st in NYC and Hillary Huber nomination, The Voice Acting Hub at Facebook.com, Webinar with Voice Coach Deb Munro, Elie Hirschman Chats about Radio Voice Syndrome, Colin Campbell Fires up the Old Phone Patch, Hillary Huber MP3 and Debbie Munro Mic & Me Workshop in the VOX Box.

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Transcript of Vox Talk #31

Matt Williams: Episode 31

You're listening to VOX Talk! The voiceover industry's number one podcast brought to you by Voices.com. It's about voice acting, growing your business, and sharing your knowledge. VOX Talk is a show that you can be a part of. Getting involved that's both fun and rewarding. It's time for this week's episode of VOX Talk with your host, Stephanie Ciccarelli.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Hi there, I'm Stephanie. Welcome to VOX Talk! This week's episode features Elie Hirschman, Colin Campbell and Hillary Huber as well as Debbie Munro and her Mic & Me Workshop in Toronto next weekend. On to the news.

Matt Williams: The Loop, informing you of news and current voiceover events.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: In voice over news, The Audies, a celebration of the best of the best in audiobook production and beyond, takes place in New York City on June 1, 2007. Hillary Huber, a Los Angeles based narrator, has been nominated for an Audie in the Mystery genre for her work narrating Cornelia Read's "A Field of Darkness". The audiobook was directed and produced by Pat Fraley.

For more details about the awards, visit TheAudies.com. To read more about Hillary and her work, go to the VOX Daily blog at Blogs.voices.com/voxdaily.

In other news, there's a new club in town for voice actors who are members of Facebook.com, a social networking website. Search for The Voice Acting Hub and join the crew today. If you're not yet a member of Facebook, signing up is free and easy. That website again is Facebook.com. Hope to see you there!


In closing, this coming Monday at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, we'll be hosting a webinar for those who are interested in attending the Mic & Me Workshop in Toronto on June 9th and 10th. Debbie Munro will be on the call with us and she'll be detailing her curriculum for the weekend workshop series. To register for the webinar, go to Voices.com and click on the Help Link at the top of the page, then click on "Webinars". That webinar again takes place on Monday, June 4th at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.


Matt Williams: The Biz, helping you grow your voiceover business.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Today in The Biz, Elie Hirschman makes a confession.

Elie Hirschman: Hi there. This is Elie Hirschman with a confession to make. Confession is this, despite having been taught in my voiceover marketing class to aggressively and shamelessly plug myself at every opportunity. I am somewhat hesitant to tell people that I am in Voiceover's voice acting. The reason is the funny looks that I sometimes get when I mention that I do voiceovers.

I think most people that I talk to are suffering from what I call "RadioVoice Syndrome". They expect my voice to sound like Don LaFontaine's or James Earl Jones' or someone with a register far below what I can actually muster up.

Don LaFontaine: In a world where voiceover meets (voices only), one man dares to break the stereo-type.

Elie Hirschman: I've mentioned in previous podcast that my strength lies in accent, learning, and imitation and I could be called upon for any bit part in any voiceover production, voice acting production that Darker Projects has. I've even played multiple parts in one production where each voice had to sound distinct from other. And yes, I'll admit it's been of an inferiority complex that I can't make my voice go quite as deep as those other guys.

"In a world where ..."

But I think people have to clear that out of their minds when looking for voiceover talent. We're not all going to reach that low but we can all do a high energy read like, "Tonight on Dave's! Stephanie Ciccarelli of Voices.com. Plus tonight's top 10 list!"

I believe voiceover talent should be judged on what they can do, not who else they should sound like. If you're looking for a distinct sound for your business, for your voicemail, for whatever production you need voiceover for, you're going to find it based on your criteria, not who the guy sounds like. There could be 12 Don LaFontaines out there but one's going to get the job because he did it right or he happen to be in the right place at the right time.

Let's keep an open mind. There are lots of voices out there and they're all good.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thanks Elie! Radio Voice Syndrome is rampant and I'm glad that you've brought this subject to the fore! Thanks for encouraging us all to keep an open mind.

Matt Williams: Tech Talk, walking you through the technological landscape.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: This week in Tech Talk, Colin Campbell of AffordableAnnouncer.com explains some nuances of the phone patch.

Colin Campbell: Hi. It's Colin Campbell from AffordableAnnouncer.com. I had a lot of questions on voiceover forums lately about how to hook up a phone patch or what broadcast pros call it phone hybrid. Phone patch, phone hybrid, same thing.

These units allow you to hook your system into a phone line so that your client can hear you while you record your voiceover for them. Then they can coach you on the nuances of what they are requiring. Making this little set up work though becomes complicated because of one simple concept. The simple concept is called, mix-minus.

What is mix-minus? Well, mix-minus is simply this. I can boil it down to one sentence. Don't feed the caller back to himself. If you feed the caller back to himself, you'll create what's called the feedback loop and you'll have ringing, awful, horrible noise that everybody will be annoyed by. In a pro set, that is a fairly easy affair because you have multiple buses on your mixer and you simply assign the caller what you think he needs to hear everything but himself.

But a lot of these sub $100 mixers from bearing your Tapco only have one main bus. So the only option at that point is to use the sub $100 mixers stereo capability of your advantage. Into this little mixer that you've bought just for this process, you need to have your live microphone, you need to have the caller and you need to have the PC's playback so that the caller can hear you, the playback of the computer but not himself. So you pick a channel off the mixer and let's say, left. Let's pick the left channel off the mixer and feed that to the phone hybrid.

The caller will only hear everything that's in the left channel. He won't hear what's in the right channel. So on the mixer, the longer input you've chosen for the caller is panned the opposite way. So if he's only hearing the left channel, you pan the caller on the mixer to the right. You can hear him in the right side of your headphones, he's listening off the left, he doesn't hear himself.

Hooking up a phone patch or a hybrid can become a complicated affair if you don't understand the basic concepts. All I'm trying to do is give you those. The first concept of course is mix-minus. You can't feed the caller back to himself. Now, a lot of this depends on what you're using for a computer interface if it's live and hot without the computers help or if it needs the computer before anything happens. Hopefully, you can find the way to split your microphone feed off to the computer as well as make it live into this little mixer that feeds the phone patch.

To recap simple concepts. Number one, mix-minus. Never feed the caller back to himself. Number two, you need to hear the caller and you need to hear the playback, of the PC and you need to hear your microphone. The caller needs to hear the PC's playback, the microphone, but not himself.

Well, it's not a step by step tutorial on how to hook up a phone patch because there are so many different combinations of hardware out there, but I try to give you the basic concepts of what's going on there and I hope it was helpful to someone.

Thanks! It's Colin Campbell from AffordableAnnouncer.com. Goodnight.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: The phone patch is a mystery to many people. Thank you, Colin for sharing some of your insight in this department of audio recording.

Matt Williams: VoxBox, sharing your audio feedback.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Today in the VOX Box, I'd like to play a sample of Hillary Huber's Audie-nominated performance, sharing an excerpt from Cornelia Read's "A Field of Darkness".

Hillary Huber: Great. I had successfully terrorized an old junkie. "Mr. (Sambles) I am so sorry. I've obviously upset you and that's not at all what I wanted to do." I tried to make my voice softer. "Mr. (Sambles), you know something. Please, you should tell me." I wanted to reassure him, tried reaching toward his nearest hand again. "Don't you touch me," he said. Voice low. "Mr. (Sambles), why won't you talk about it? You weren't worried about it back then. You weren't afraid to tell people. What changed? What happened afterwards?" "So who told you? Who sent you hear?" "No one sent me here. I swear! If I knew any way to convince you of that." "I want you to leave. Get out!" he said. "Now." "Please." "I am an old man but I am capable of forcing you to leave." I stood up. Inside the drawer, I could see the spoon, the stub of candle, the tip of the syringe. "All right," I said moving toward the door. "I'm sorry."

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thank you, Hillary for making this recording available to us to air on VOX Talk. As Marc Cashman would say, break a lip Hillary!

To close this episode, I'd like to play a quick promo for the Mic & Me Workshop - again, we do have a webinar scheduled for Monday June 4th, so be sure to register if you're interested.

Female: Together with Voices.com, we'd like to present Mic & Me. Mic time audition voice workout. This is your opportunity to get behind professional recording equipment and voice your heart out. Your instructor, Debbie Munro will guide you through the audition dos and don'ts no matter what your level. Choose from numerous scripts covering narration, commercials, animations, and more. Discover audition techniques that most won't share, what the casting, agents, and directors look for, how to win them over and taking risks. How to overcome your fears, confidence, and so much more. Debbie was fortunate to be taught by some of the best and her 5 years spent in casting allows her to share tips and tricks that most don't even know about. This exciting class will take you to that next level. All voice sessions will be recorded for you to take home. Go to Voices.com to register.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thank you for listening! We love hearing from you and thank you also for staying subscribed. If you haven't yet subscribed to VOX Talk, you can do so through the iTunes Podcast Directory or subscribe to the RSS feed by email on the VOX Talk blog at blogs.voices.com/voxtalk/. I'm your host, Stephanie Ciccarelli. Take care and we'll see you next week!

Links from today's show:

The Audies Official Website
Hillary Huber Audie Nomination
The Voice Acting Hub
Facebook.com
Elie Hirschman
Colin Campbell
Hillary Huber
Register for the Mic & Me VO Workshop in Toronto, June 9-10

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Official Voices.com User Guide Released, Mic & Me Comes to Toronto, SurePay Success Stories, Darbi Worley Shares Voice Acting Tips, Adam Fox Talks Tech and Networking with Kara Edwards, Jim McCabe's Movie Trailer Spoof in the VOX Box.

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Transcript of Vox Talk #30

Matt Williams: Episode 30

You're listening to VOX Talk, the voiceover industries number one podcast brought to you by Voices.com. It's about voice acting, growing your business and sharing your knowledge. VOX Talk is a show that you can be a part of, getting involved is both fun and rewarding. It's time for this week's episode of VOX Talk. With you host Stephanie Ciccarelli.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Welcome to VOX Talk. This week's episode features Darbi Worley, Adam Fox, Kara Edwards and Jim McCabe, but first, a quick word from Canadian voiceover coach Debbie Munro about her Mic & Me workshop in Toronto presented by Voices.com.

Debbie Munro: You've been asking and we're finally coming Mic & Me comes to the big TO, this two day voiceover work howdy is more than just a work help for your voice. It's an opportunity to learn industry secrets then and a lot are willing to share. You have the opportunity to get behind professional recording equipment and voice your heart out while being directed by me. I'm a full time voice talent and instructor.

My name is Debbie Munro. You can learn more about me at www.debsvoice.com, as talked to me by Bob Bergen who's a voiceover of Porky pig and Twetty and 11 times Emmy Award Winner James Alburger and Penny Abshire with voiceacting.com. Tom Logan, Marc Brandon and so much more.

I'm going share with you tips and tricks that will blow your mind. Tips that will take you to that next level or at least encourage you to begin no matter what stage you are at, this class is cater to all levels and by the end of this workshop you will know exactly what you need to do to get the most out of every script. Ace those auditions and proven steps to setup your own voiceover career. We'll leave and give you before and after recordings of all your sessions that will be sent home with you including my direction. This workshop is worth it. Give me a chance to prove to you why. Trust in me.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thanks Debbie and looking forward to seeing you again in Toronto. Now, on to the news.

Matt Williams: The Loop, informing you of news and current voiceover events.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: In voiceover news, Voices.com has recently released our new user guide, available for download on the VOX Daily blog. The goal of this guide is to educate and inspire you, discussing how you can make the most of your Voices.com experience and features a special chapter on SurePay.

For more details and to get your PDF copy, go to blogs.voices.com/voxdaily.

In other news, I'm pleased to announce that Voices.com is sponsoring the Mic & Me workshop series by top Canadian voice over coach, Debbie Munro. The weekend workshop takes place on June 9 and June 10th in Toronto, Ontario at Ryerson University. Spaces are limited, so if you're a Canadian who has been waiting for a voice over workshop in your neck of the woods, this is an opportunity you don't want to miss.

Learn more about the workshop and by reading the press release linked from the VOX Talk show notes or the article on VOX Daily.

In closing, we've got some updates for you on the SurePay Escrow Service available at Voices.com. To discover more about the process and read a couple of testimonials from voice talent who have successfully used SurePay go to the VOX Daily blog at blogs.voices.com/voxdaily.

Matt Williams: The Biz, helping you grow your voiceover business.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Today in The Biz, Darbi Worley shares some tips with you on how to get more work.

Darbi Worley: Hello, this is Darbi Worley from the Everything Acting podcast. I'm coming to you today with some audition tips for voice actors, here is the deal. I do not have the world's perfect voiceover voice far from it. I have a really noisy S and I'm challenged constantly to keep my mouth lubricated, so I don't have mouth noise, you can probably that form listening to me for 10 second. If I had to count on my voice to get a jobs, I would probably never work but I do work and I think that it's because I bring some acting chops to the studio and I'm a pretty good auditioner. I also spent 3 years working as an assistant to a very busy casting office in New York, so I picked up a lot of insider info in terms of what clients are really looking for from their voice talent.

Today, I'd like to share some of the things that help me give good audition. A trend that we're seeing in New York is that client will specify on the break down, "Actors only, no announcers" and what they mean by that is that they want people who will sound real as suppose to the perfectly articulate and perfectly voiced performer. Someone who's more concern with their sound than getting a message across or telling a story is not what is really booking the jobs today, of course if you have the opportunity to study at a good acting school that will only increase your chances of being a working voice actor.

So, I recommend that but here are some shortcuts to becoming a better auditioner, I think the most important thing in any audition whether it's for film, TV, theater or a commercial, is the relationship of your character to the other person or other people in the scene. The relationship is going to determine your tone and how you use your voice. So, there's two parts to that, who are you and who are you talking too.

Let's start with the who are you part, are you a mom, a dad, a best friend maybe you're an expert in some field, maybe you're business person or a commercial-worker, a boss, all of these are common roles in voiceover work and think about it, when - if you've ever had a day job and work in a office or a restaurant or a bar.

You talk differently when you're at work than you do when you're at home with your family or hanging out with your friends. Secondly, you need to know who you're talking too, are they a kid, are they your boss, your bestfriend, someone you're maybe helping at a business or online maybe your customers service rep. How long have you known them? Are you related to them? Are they a stranger?

In voiceover as in life your relationship will determine how you talk to that person as you deliver your message, so that's something to keep in mind as you do your audition. So, that's the first tip, relationship. I've got lots more if you like what you heard please let Stephanie know and maybe I'll be back again in a future podcast. If you have questions about what I've covered please feel free to visit me at darbi.voices.com, that's Darbi with an "I" dot voice.com and in the mean time break a leg in all your auditions.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thank you Darbi. As Darbi mentioned, this is the first time she has contributed to VOX Talk. If you want to hear more from Darbi, please let her know. I'd love to have her back and she knows it already but she doesn't know that you want to hear more. Visit her at darbi.voices.com, that's D-A-R-B-I.voices.com.

Matt Williams: Tech Talk, walking you through the technological landscape.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: This week in Tech Talk, Adam Fox and Kara Edwards chat about tech and networking.

Bob Oaskman: One name strikes the hearts of Post-Production talent everywhere with fear. In my interpretation I cannot say the name but his initials are Adam Fox. There I said it. All deal with the consequences you just enjoy the show. Here's Adam Fox with this weeks Voices.com podcast.

Adam Fox: Well, howdy folks and welcome to another edition of the podcast. Today's topic is going to be a little bit different, yes I know I have a different topic but today is it actually be both a Tech Talk segment or it could also be a networking segment but I'll try to approach it from the best technical angle that I can and we'll see what we can make out of this, all right? Here we go.

Recently I did a couple of ad campaigns for a diamond company on the East coast, now the first time I did the ad of course as with many ads I provide my part of it, they have their part of it and then they go ahead and assemble at on their end and we have a finish commercial. So, that's how a lot of us are doing our work these days, so I submitted my part and I of course ask the company for a copy of the commercial for my demo reel. Most companies don't have any problem with doing that at all and while waiting for that demo reel, I got another campaign to do for the same company, they said, "Hey, it was great. We like the work last time. We have another campaign that we'd like to you have do, so, we're going to go ahead and send you the script for is and go ahead and knock this thing out for us and we'll just get the second campaign moving as well."

So, to my surprise I found that I did have a friend on the project and that friend was Kara Edwards, yes 2007 Voicey winner her self. Well, I really happy to see that, I always look for opportunities to work with another people and here's one of the networking part of it comes in, it's always nice to be able to know the talent that you're working with and it's a great opportunity to build that sense of community that's sometimes can be loss with such a competitive business that we're in and I'm always looking for ways to build good friendships and good working relationships with people because we're all out there, we're bumping in to each other and the more you'd work, the more chance you have a bumping in to this people and working with them on projects that didn't even know. So, I got together with Kara and that was great and that's the networking part of it but here is the technical part of it.

The technical part is that we were able to share our pieces of the same puzzle to be able to put them together and have a complete picture. We were able to use a high speed internet delivery, MP3 files that all of us are so costume to use in this days and we were able to in this technological world of being able to send something at the snap of a finger. We were able to use that to make the project better, so I think I probably could have explained that a lot better. So and here to explain it a lot better is 2007 Voicey winner, Kara Edwards.

Kara Edwards: Hey, Adam. It's good to hear your voice again, I was in radio for 11 years so for all that time I would go to an office actually sitting in studio and when I spoke I got to looked at the person I was speaking too of course that was because I was on the morning show with three other guys, poor me. Anyways, the biggest adjustment for me so far in my new voiceover career is well, you don't get to meet the people that you're working with usually and you don't get to hear them and very rarely do you get actually bounce of them or interact with them.

So, this was an exciting opportunity and something new for me when I got an e-mail from Adam and do you see it turns out that we have been hired for the exact same project and when the client send the e-mail out, she didn't blind copy anybody so we could see the other e-mails. It turns out I had a friend on the project, Adam Fox, see we were playing and engaged couple, kind the cute. And so we needed the opportunity to kind the bounce of each other and know what the other sounded like and the level of energy that they were using. So, I recorded my audio first, I shouted over to Adam and then he was able to actually react off of me, is this technology cool are what? Of course in our discussion we figure out that this actually isn't the first commercial we've worked on together, there has been a other that we got do but we didn't get to interact and even though the commercial turn out just fine, I think it would have been really cool to be able to hear what he we was doing and then bounce off of that.

My advice to everybody is find out who you are working with on different projects because if you know them or hey it's an opportunity to network and make a new friend, you can actually interact and maybe the commercial or whatever the project is will be better because of it in the end I think our project rock. I can't wait to hear it. Adam it was so much fun working with you, you all that in a baggage chip babe. Talk about all that in the baggage chip, that's Kara Edwards all over folks.

Adam Fox: Well, thanks Kara. Thank you so much for putting that piece together and send it in my way, I really do think that it made this particular podcast segment a lot more rich and full and it does again show that wonderful community that's out there that working together can ready be a great thing.

It's always a bonus when you know somebody on the project and it does in my opinion, it bring us closer again to that time when voiceover artist were all get together in the same radio booth or the same studio to act off each other and use each other energy to be able to make the project so much better. It really is a great thing and thank you so much for your contribution to the piece.

Well, folks thanks again for listening to another edition of the podcast, I yes, it's a technical thing, yes it's a networking thing, I hope I didn't cross to many lines by trying to combine those thing and didn't want to sway to much from the technical aspects of things but if you look at it, all this businesses is interconnected. We're utilizing this wonderful technology tools. We're utilizing these great networking tools to do what? Making a better product for the client and that's really what it's all about, right? It keeps the client happy. It keeps them happy with us. It keeps us happy because it keeps us working and definitely ensures that repeat business when they're thinking about jobs and who's going to give them the best bank for the bulk, I always help to do the extra mile and try to ensure that for ourselves.

So, thanks again folks. As always you can drop your question by me here at the Voices.com website at adamfox.voices.com or you can hit me on my website at defiantdigital.com. Thanks again Kara and thank you very Voices.com for the opportunity to do this podcast and we'll see you next week folks and until then, bye for now.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Has that ever happened to you? Did you discover that you were working with a friend on a project and strive to make it the best possible recording by playing off each other? Send in your feedback to Adam at his website defiantdigital.com.

Matt Williams: VOX Box, cheering your audio feedback.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Today in the VOX Box, I'd like to play movie trailer spoof that I received from Jim McCabe. I hope you enjoy.

Jim McCabe: It's something you don't want to think of. It's something you tried to put ahead of your mind. Coming this summer from the cinematographer of "What's up, Tiger Lily?" And the, "Key Grip" from Howard Dean, comes a chilling new trailer, "What's up Howard Dean?"

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thanks Jim. If you liked Jim's spoof, let him know. You can contact Jim by visiting his website, jimmccabe.voices.com, that's J-I-M-M-C-C-A-B-E.voices.com.

Thanks for listening. We love hearing from you and thank you for staying subscribed. If you haven't yet subscribed to VOX Talk, you can do so through the iTunes Podcast Directory or subscribe to the RSS feed by email on the VOX Talk blog at blogs.voices.com/voxtalk. I'm your host, Stephanie Ciccarelli. Take care and see you next week.

Links from today's show:

Voices.com Official User Guide
Debbie Munro's Mic & Me Workshop
Sign up for Mic & Me in Toronto
SurePay Success Stories
Darbi Worley
Adam Fox
Kara Edwards
Jim McCabe

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North Carolina Voice Actors Event, Screaming Bee's MorphVOX Voice Changer Pro Upgrade, New Feedback System at Voices.com, Betty in Boca Finds a New Use for the Movers & Shakers list, Colin Campbell and Analog VS Digital, and Dr. Seuss in the VOX Box.

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Transcript of Vox Talk #29

Matt Williams: Episode 29

You're listening to VOX Talk, the voiceover industries number one podcast brought to you by Voices.com. It's about voice acting, growing your business and sharing your knowledge. VOX Talk is a show that you can be a part of, getting involved is both fund and rewarding. It's time for this week's episode of VOX Talk. With you host Stephanie Ciccarelli.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Hi there, my name is Stephanie. Welcome to VOX Talk! I'm pleased to announce that Betty in Boca and Colin Campbell are in the house. Let's get this show on the road!

Matt Williams: The Loop, informing you of news and current voiceover events.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: In voice over news, voice actors in North Carolina are invited to attend a first-ever get together of voice actors in the Tar Heel State on Saturday June 23rd, 2007 in Winston-Salem. The plan is to gather around 11:00 AM at the Village Tavern Restaurant for lunch and then make your way over to the AMF Bowling alley. You can RSVP to Donovan Corneetz.

For more details and Donovan's email address, check out Bob Souer's blog at bobsouer.com/blog.

In our second story, Screaming Bee's MorphVox Voice Changing Software has recently been improved to enhance audio quality. The new algorithm can shift a voice's pitch more than two octaves with excellent quality, while using minimal computer resources. As a result, the audio output of MorphVOX Pro is touted as crystal clear and vibrant. I heard this straight from Screaming Bee CEO Mark Ramirez himself, so go check it out.

Read the press release by clicking through the VOX Talk show notes or by visiting ScreamingBee.com.


In closing, we've heard you loud and clear! Voices.com will be revamping our Feedback system to move toward a transactional rating and reviews system, dropping the Top Rated column on the Movers & Shakers list! For more details, visit VOX Daily. For a direct link, go to the VOX Talk show notes.

Matt Williams: The Biz, helping you grow your voiceover business.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Today in The Biz, Betty in Boca finds a unique way to warm up your voice using the Voices.com website?

Betty Coppleman: This is Betty in Boca. Has this even happen to you? You get up in the morning or whenever and you think, "I can't wait to do my vocal exercises", me neither. They're boring. Does anyone actually do that stuff or is it something to fill space in a book or coaching session? Well, I have a secret for you, Voices.com being humble and modest about the services provided, doesn't have this list of new top rated and favorites for any other reason than to give us some more interesting and down write fun way to warm up our voices. If you're not high on that list or never on it at all, don't worry. It really doesn't matter. It is just one more way for Voices.com to be creative and edgy, I mean have you actually read through some of those names? Here are a few done with my best attempted pronunciation, Lakshmi Manchu, Lakshmi. Lakshmi, Lakshmi, (Brett Brezzi), Juliet Siegfried, Ed Gentzler, Gentzler, Gentzler, Connie Terwilliger, Terwilliger, Terwilliger "Yikes! That one even warms up my nose" Martin Papinchak, Drew Hedwal, Kelly Klemolin, Klemolin, Klemolin and Ricardo Rivadeneira. Oh, I feel so warmed up.

My own name Betty Coppleman is hard to say fast even for me and I've been saying it for a really long time. If I say it too fast it comes out Coppleman, Coppleman, Coppleman, Coppleman. Anyway, I'd love to know how this lists work for you. Write me at Bettyinboca@earthlink.net, Oh I missed a really good one, Ciccarelli, Ciccarelli, Ciccarelli. Sorry, Stephanie. I couldn't resist. I got to go.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Interesting idea Betty and quite humorously done, I must say. If you liked Betty'sss segment, write to her at Bettyinboca@earthlink.net

Matt Williams: Tech Talk, walking you through the technological landscape.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: This week in Tech Talk, Colin Campbell pits analog audio against digital audio. Who's going to win this cage match? Find out!

Colin Campbell: Well, it's been a while. It's Colin Campbell from Affordableannouncer.com with video tips number 10. This is analog versus digital audio, what is the difference? Analog audio, the term analog is the root word of analogy and there's a reason for that. Analog audio whether it be say, a final record or magnetic audio tape of the old days, creates and analog, an analogy of the original signal. As your voice fluctuates the magnetic diaphragm in the microphone that influences those magnetic pulses on audio tape or the grouse, the waves in the grouse of a final record that match or analogy of that original signal. Work great for many, many decades. Problem is it's very, very easy for that kind of a system to pick up any noise whether it would dirt in the grove of the final record or the inherent hiss that is available from magnetic audio tape as part of the system, it all becomes part of the final output and you hear that noise. So they came up with the digital over the years.

Digital audio attempts to take the sound that's coming into the recording system or mechanism and describe it with numbers. Now, imagine that, it's really very interesting, take the sound of the human voice or music and describe it with numbers. That's exactly what's happening of course it has to be a lot of numbers. Typically you'll record at 44,100 samples per second that means every 44,100th time per second a snapshot of what the system is hearing is taken. In that little slaver, that little spectrum a 44,1000th - hard to say 1000th of a second it then only has 16 different values it can apply in a typical 44,116 bit system.

The magic of that it's much like the way Motion Picture Work, a Motion Picture might have 30 frames per second or 30 individual photographs per second but when strong together they form a movie and because you're eyes fooled you, you can't really perceive that those are 30 individual frame or photographs, it just looks like motion same thing with digital audio. I have 44,100 samples per each second, so I can't tell that each one of those is an individual blipped. If you want to see how this works, take your audio recording software, say you use all the Adobe Audition, zoom in to the sample level. You can do that, you can zoom all the way down or you can see one sample, one 44,100th of a second and where that sample lays in the amplitude of that signal. It's really very fascinating.

Now, when you get down to that sample level you have 16 what they called bits to describe that one sample. Basically meaning you have 16 difference values that can be applied to that sample, it is one, two, three, four up to 16. Now, while that certainly seems like it's plenty of samples and plenty of ways to describe one 44,1000 100th of a second, it's still has a resolution to it, a finite description of that particular point in time in the audio and a lot of people will tell you that go back, like I do. Back to the old analog days, that well yes digital is quieter. It's still has harshness about it and the reason it has a harshness is because it is being define with a resolution, a certainly finite description of the audio and not fluid like analog audio.

It really is very a kin to the difference between film and digital photography, I don't know if you've ever notice. If you really study a very well taken film photograph versus a well taken digital photograph. Yes, the digital photograph looks great but it has sort of two dimensional flat look about it, it you really study it and you compare it with a film photograph that's because when you take a picture with film you have an infinite amount of color and light. It can be anywhere in the spectrum of complete black to complete white in the terms of how bright or dark it is and in term of color again an infinite, literally infinite amount of color can be recorded on that film.

In digital, well it might be 16 million colors but it's still 16 million not infinite, there is a difference and if you really study a digital photograph and a film photograph, you will see that a digital photograph still has a flat look about it because there is an inherit resolution to it. It is not infinite, it is finite.

Wow, well I think that's enough for now, I'll think of more stuff to say next time. Session three video tips Colin Campbell from Affordableannouncer.com. Thanks for listening.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: What do you think? Do you prefer analog or digital audio? Let Colin know by visiting him at affordableannouncer.com.

Matt Williams: VOX Box, cheering your audio feedback.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Today in the VOX Box, I'd like to draw your attention to a special
someone, who has given you incredible tools to improve, exercise and challenge your vocal and voice acting skills. His name? Dr. Seuss of course, try reading one of Dr. Seuss' books and you'll see what I mean. On Wednesday, I wrote an article on the subject, complete with benefits and suggested books to check out at your local library.

So far, we have comments on the blog from Jerome Santucci and Ed Gentzler - wow, Ed's been mentioned twice now in this episode - good on you, Ed. Again go to blogs.voices.com/voxdaily to get your dose of Dr. Seuss.

Thank you for listening! We love hearing from you and thank you for staying subscribed. If you haven't yet subscribed to VOX Talk, you can do so through the iTunes Podcast Directory or subscribe to the RSS feed by e-mail on the VOX Talk blog at blogs.voices.com/voxtalk. I'm your host, Stephanie Ciccarelli. Take care and see you next Thursday!

Links from today's show:

North Carolina VO Get Together
Screaming Bee's New Release
New Feedback System to Go Live
Bob Souer's Blog
Betty in Boca
Colin Campbell

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Liam Neeson to Lead Voice Acting Cast for Fallout 3, Successful Teleseminar with Nancy Wolfson and Anna Vocino of Break Into Voice Over, Rodney Saulsberry Tongue Twisters on YouTube, David Boyll Chats About Interpreting Scripts with Flexibility in Studio Sessions, Colin Campbell Explains Equalization (EQ), a thank you from Bettye Zoller and Doug Rein's Humorous Demo.

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Transcript of Vox Talk #28

Matt Williams: Episode 28

You're listening to VOX Talk, the voiceover industries number one podcast brought to you by Voices.com. It's about voice acting, growing your business and sharing your knowledge. VOX Talk is a show that you can be a part of, getting involved is both fund and rewarding. It's time for this week's episode of VOX Talk with your host Stephanie Ciccarelli.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Hey there, this is Stephanie. Welcome to VOX Talk. We've got David Boyll, Colin Campbell, Bettye Zoller and Doug Rein so let's get going.

Matt Williams: The Loop, informing you of news and current voiceover events.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: In video game voice acting news, Irish-born actor Liam Neeson will lead the voice acting cast for Bethesda Softworks' game, Fallout 3. Liam, known predominantly for his screen acting work, also has dozens of voice over roles under his belt, including the lion Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, audio book narrator of The Polar Express and a dozen or so documentary narration credits.

To learn more about Liam Neeson's role in Fallout 3, visit the VOX Talk show notes for episode 28 at blogs.voices.com/voxtalk.

In other news, Nancy Wolfson and Anna Vocino treated an appreciative and talkative audience to a class on Acting for Advertising through their Break Into Voice Over educational series. We were proud to sponsor the teleseminar and are looking forward to future opportunities with the delightful duo. If you missed the teleseminar and hanging with the North Carolina contingent that attended, you can find out more via a link in our show notes to Bob Souer's blog. Go to bobsouer.com/blog for more info.

In closing, Rodney Saulsberry sent me a link earlier this week to some fantastic tongue twisters he put together in a YouTube video that are sure to challenge and captivate even the most experienced voice talent.

You can watch the video at VOX Daily or go to YouTube.com and search for Rodney Saulsberry.

Matt Williams: The Biz, helping you grow your voiceover business.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Today in The Biz, David Boyll of davidboyll.com shares a real life experience for being flexible in a professional recording studio setting is not just an asset, it's a skill.

David Boyll: Hi, this David Boyll from San Francisco, and today I'd like to talk about being flexible in a session and offering your client options. Recently I booked and industrial video narration gig for a major accounting firm, I arrive for the session early as this is my practice and was able to sit down with the writer and get her take on how she felt the copy should be read. She should be a rough cut and explain that this very artfully shot day in a life piece should be narrated by a "foreign film narrator "and she sited the film (Omaley) as a great example of the kind of style she was thinking of, great

So, I make my notes and read over the copy as the production team and client arrive and the engineer setup up the portable booth, so we get rolling and I read through at once and style what the writer had suggested. Her feedback was very positive and complementary but the rest of the team including the client were absolutely silent. So, the director clears his throat and says, "Yes, we like that but could you speed it up a little and please put some more energy into it." Sure, I can do that, so I did.

And then again, they ask for more speed and energy until by take three the read (bore) absolutely no resemblance to the first take. In that one point I could feel there was little tension between the writer and director and so being the class clam I am, I noticed a line in the copy that read, "In a world of complexity", so what do you think I did? Yes, Don LaFontaine. Well, there was an instant eruption of laughter and shoots from the client area and everyone except the writer who by at this time had gotten very quiet was shouting "Yes, yes do it like that." So, I did and they were happy except of course the poor writer.

Now, it really makes no difference to me which take the client uses from a session or even whether I agree with their choices. The point is I was flexible enough to roll with the changes and in the end deliver what was ask for and that they like my work. So, the upshot, be nibble, be mobile. Be ready to change the idea that you had in your head when somebody throws something of the wall, also if there something in the copy that you see that sparks your interest or sparks an idea, throw is out there. If the mood seems right and your client or director seems open to suggestion, it couldn't hurt. Maybe that would be that will be take they use. Thanks for listening. This is David Boyll.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thank you David for showing us a different aspect of the biz when being directed inside the booth. We're privileged just to listen to what you experienced and how you overcame a sticky situation. This is why they call it voice acting folks.

Matt Williams: Tech Talk, walking you through the technological landscape.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: This week, Colin Campbell teaches us a thing or two about EQ or Equalization. Get comfy, this one is definitely something we all need to hear.

Colin Campbell: Colin Campbell for Affordableannouncer.com, talking about Equalization or EQ as we call it. Any recoding be at voice or in music is made of frequency range or spectrum from the lowest lows to base baritones to the highest high and the semblance soprano and then flute at the high end, base drums at the low end or the sound of a telephone of tiny AM radio in the middle. This range is described in hertz and kilohertz.

The average human can hear from about 20 hertz to about 15 or 18 kilohertz or thousand hertz. If you've ever had a home in your equipment that was undesirable that is usually cause by some problem with your power supply and that home is at 60 hertz. So, if you think of home from a guitar amp or a microphone preamp and you know exactly what that sound is, that is at 60 hertz because electrical alternating current in your house travels, resonates, vibrates at 60 hertz. If you've ever heard a television channel with the technical problem there's been a tone on it usually that tone is at 1000 hertz. A typical telephone where there is no high crisp tritely clarity is because it usually tops out about 3K or 3 kilohertz or 3000 hertz.

Once you get a feel for this spectrum then you can play with it, you can alter it to make your voice sound better for instance. A lot of times a male voice might want to extenuate as I do somewhere around 3K or 4K and what that does is make your voice more intelligible or punch through especially when you audition might be played on low quality computer speakers where you've got no upper or lower end to play with, so you punch through what's available.

One way that might help you understand it is to go to microphone website maybe for the microphone that you use and look for a frequency response curve and what that will show you is what your microphone does in the frequency spectrum between 20 hertz and 20,000 hertz. It might have an inherent peak somewhere in the spectrum, usually there's a few ripples up there around five, eight, 10,000 hertz and this is what you called self-noise in the microphone and even know they referred to it is noise. It's not really noise per se as we think of it. It's how the microphone affects what it's being presented with. Sometime this so called self-noise in the microphone is what make it's desirable to someone, it's why there voice sounds good on that mic because it's accentuating some part of this frequency spectrum that as particularly favorable or flattering to their voice.

Now, if you have a microphone that you're dealing with that maybe isn't so favorable, you can correct for this things with an equalizer. An equalizer allows you to affect this frequency response spectrum from low to mid through high in different ways, either you boots or cut part of the spectrum and when you do that, usually you have the choice of how wide a swath of that gain or cut you're going to affect and exactly where that gain or cut is, generally that's referred to as parametric equalizer. A parametric equalizer allows you to define three different parameters for whatever part of the frequency spectrum you're working with and that is where in the spectrum it is, how wide of a swath you're affecting and how much boots or cut you're going to put in that part of the spectrum.

Well, it's a very technical subject I gave it a shot in 3 some odd minutes. So, there you go. See you next time, Colin Campbell from Affordableannouncer.com. Thanks.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Colin, thanks for explaining this highly interesting and crucial topic. Again folks, this is information you will not find anywhere else. Let Colin know how much you appreciate his work at affordableannouncer.com.

Matt Williams: VOX Box, cheering your audio feedback.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Last week, Bettye and I co-wrote an article on VOX Daily blog about audio engineering, voice acting, and how the two aren't necessarily the same thing. Here's Bettye.

Bettye Zoller: Hi, Stephanie. It was so great being with you in Las Vegas at the VOICE 2007 Conference. Were I thought recently and that was the first time we had met getting to know one other and I wanted to just thank you for the blog you've put up here. I've been thinking about this topic for something as I said what I wrote you and it is so, so important that those who seek voiceover talent on Voices.com understand that there are getting a voiceover talent in some cases not an audio engineer, not a person experienced in a recording studio. It is very important to distinguish between a voiceover talent and an experienced audio engineer capable of engineering your project for you. Sometimes a talent is both like me and there are of many others, sometimes that's not the case, so choice wisely. We want satisfied clients and we want satisfied voice talents and thank you Voices.com and Stephanie for helping.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thanks Bettye, Also I thought it would be fun to bring this episode to a close with another humorous demo submitted by Doug Rein about dentures. Let's take a listen:

Doug Rein: Attention denture wearers. Had this ever happen to you? Well, there's onetime I was eating corn on the cab, they pop out wreck a shade off the refrigerator and took a bite out of cat. Hey, Mildred who about you and I take a ride down to the - I was doing my standup act in the (inaudible 00:11:17) when all the sudden, my denture shot out of my mouth. It was totally scary man. The guy was talking and his teeth just flew across the room and got stock in the wall. It was the most disturb thing I'd seen in my life whether then the time I saw the Teletubees. Yes, I had to use a knife and fork to perform my work. I really can't afford to have more teeth fall out on the stage during the concert too. Again, yes we use to call Benny the shark, now we just call him Benny the gums. (inaudible 00:11:48) all respect for me after they found out this born to me natural choppers.

Yes, I was playing my trombone to invent to hit a high note, instead I hear the tuba player, right in the (inaudible 00:11:59) nettle. Is undependable denture adhesion ruining your life? Try denture guard the industrial strength denture cement because the denture guard, even baby food would make my teeth all out but now they hold so well, I can know (race) to barbwire. Unpredictable denture destroyed my love life but now the chicks dig me. Thanks denture guard. After I got me dentures, I couldn't eat any haggis but thanks to denture guard, I can eat sheep-goat until I burst. Denture guard available wherever hardware and blasting supply are sold.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: That's a very unique way to showcase character voices and accents. If you liked Doug's demo, send him a note at his website, dougrein.voices.com.

Thank you for listening. Next week, we'll hear from Betty in Boca and Adam Fox, so stay subscribed. If you haven't yet subscribed to VOX Talk, you can do so through the iTunes Podcast Directory or subscribe to the RSS feed by email on the VOX Talk blog at blogs.voices.com/voxtalk. I'm your host, Stephanie Ciccarelli. Take care and see you next Thursday.

Links from today's show:

Liam Neeson in Fallout 3
Break Into Voice Over
Monday's Acting for Advertising Teleseminar Sponsored by Voices.com
Bob Souer's Blog
Rodney Saulsberry's Tongue Twister Video on YouTube
David Boyll
Colin Campbell
Bettye Zoller
Doug Rein

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David Boreanaz Lands NHL Playoff "Quest For The Cup" VO, What's Holding Female Voice Talent Back in Movie Trailer Voice Overs?, TFormers.com Interview with Peter Cullen "Optimus Prime", Elie Hirschman's Ways To Keep in Practice, Adam Fox answers Jesse Springer's PodMail and S. Michael Leier's Humorous Demo.

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Transcription of Vox Talk 27

Matt Williams: Episode 27

You're listening to VOX Talk, the voiceover industries number one podcast. Brought to you by Voices.com. It's about voice acting, growing your business and sharing your knowledge. VOX Talk is a show that you can be a part of, getting involved is both fun and rewarding. It's time for this week's episode of VOX Talk with your host Stephanie Ciccarelli.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Hi, as Matt Williams just said, I'm Stephanie Ciccarelli, your host. Welcome to VOX Talk.

Matt Williams: The Loop, informing you of news and current voiceover events.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: In voice over news, actor David Boreanaz, star of the FOX TV drama Bones, landed a series of commercial voice over spots for the NHL's "Quest For The Cup" promotional run, detailing the stories of the teams who have made it thus far in the 2007 Stanley Cup NHL playoffs.

To learn more about David Boreanaz's voiceovers and to find a link to his NHL blog, go to the show links for Episode 27 at blogs.voices.com/voxtalk.

Other news, we know that the movie trailer voiceover business is a man's world, but why? Just what or who is leaving female voice over talent out in the cold? Perhaps it's because we just simply isn't ready for a feminine spin, or more likely, there politics at play. Whatever your opinion on the matter, have your say on the VOX Daily blog at blogs.voices.com/voxdaily.


In closing, I spotted a cool interview conducted at Anime Matsuri 2007 with Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime in the highly anticipated blockbuster movie "Transformers". Peter Cullen was the voice of Optimus Prime on Transformers cartoon series back in the 80's and has reprised his role nearly 20 years after the fact by popular demand.

If you're a Transformers fan, you can get a dose of Peter by visiting TFormers.com or visiting the VOX Talk blog show links.

Matt Williams: The Biz, helping you grow your voiceover business.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Today in The Biz, Elie Hirschman of ElieHirschman.com reminds us of the importance of keeping in formed and in practice.

Elie Hirschman: Hi, this is Elie Hirschman. As we begin to take off in your voiceover career there of course basic things that you need to keep up, you need to keep up your marketing efforts. You need to keep contacting and sending out your demos, that goes without saying anybody who's been in the business will tell you that you need to do that. But there are also other forms of maintenance that someone in voiceover needs to keep up and that's keeping informed and keeping in practice.

Bye keeping informed, I mean that the voiceover talent needs to know what other voiceover talent are up too. What kind of jobs that available out there and basically stay on the cutting edge but continuing to rid up on their career. Checking out various voiceover blogs and podcast is of course a get way to keep informed but there are also various Yahoo and Google groups out there dedicated to voiceover and voice acting which will allow you to network with other voiceover talents and pick their brains and see what work for them and what didn't. Beside Yahoo and Google groups, there are forums such as the voiceover bulletin board VO-BB.com and the Indie flavor forms at IndieFlavor.com. You'll hear this a million times that your voices is your instrument and of course keeping in practice make sure as always in the finest shape and that you're comfortable behind the mic and ready to perform at anytime.

If you don't have a radio station that you can volunteer and do it overnight shift at. Another idea might be to join an online audio group, there are many different groups out there, Darker Projects, Dream Realm, Broken Sea, Dream Seed, there's even the Voice Acting Alliance, the amateur voiceover board. All these groups will post audition notices and let you participate in their audio dramas which is a great way of increasing your range and proving acting skills and just generally staying comfortable behind the mic.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thank you Elie. It never hurts to get back to basics.

Matt Williams: Tech Talk, walking you through the technological landscape.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: This week, Adam Fox of DefiantDigital.com answers some
PodMail from Jesse Springer in Anaheim.

Bob Oakman: You're listening to another Defiant Digital Podcast for Voices.com.
Here's you host, Adam Fox.

Adam Fox: Hi, folk and welcome to another audition of the podcast. I'm going to start of by doing some podmail today, it's been a couple of weeks since I've been with you and I've been getting a lot of podmail since then and it's seems that the focus this last couple weeks has been on some technical issues regarding the streaming of recording or to have your gear setup. So, I'm just going to go ahead and cover on of this letter today and that should give us a new insight on how to setup our digital recording gear for session. So, here we go.

The letter I'm going to covered today is from Jesse Springer. His a voice talent out of Anaheim and you should check out him at Jessecharlespringer.com, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. So, Jesse writes in his letter.

"Hey, Adam, I'm a 19 year old voiceover artist in Anaheim. I like to Tech Talk section on VOX Talk and I was wondering if you could help me with a technical question. I just bough a PreSonus Firebox, Firewire free and I've been having some skipping issues. I use Adobe Audition CS2 for WAV form capturing and editing and usually more then once per minute when I'm capturing, I have section that when I listen back during playback skip several frames. I can rarely get through a few sentences without having to patch back in and record the lines. I also encountered similar issues when I'm playing back the audio, it will stop, jump, skip etcetera. I'm wondering if this is some sort of issue with my latency settings or if it might be something in audition?"

Well, let me tell you, I've actually been able to help Jesse solve this problem and I tell you what we did. Let's start with a basic definition of what latency is. Latency is basically the log time that it takes from the input signal that you're putting into the computer, that time that computer has to process it and the time that it's actually spitting it out. So, it's basically the log time that it takes from your input signal to your output signal and it has to run through the computer, it has to be process. The computer has to understand it, convert it in to digital numbers and then be able to spit that back out in something that's it have been translated into an audio signal back out for you to be able to monitor.

So, there's a whole lot going in there just from the time you're putting your voiceover in until the time you're hearing it in real time and latency is that delay that can occur. Now, a lot of things can affect latency, a processor speed, hard drive speed, how you have your hard drive set up or you have your scratch disk setup for recording and where your program is utilizing the resources of your machine both in RAM and in hard drive usage. There's a lot of things that can go into that, so let's just, let's go down how we broke down Jesse's problem and solve it.

What we started with was I asked him what kind of history he had with this kinds of problems, if he had this problem before he bought that piece of gear or did just start popping up when he bought this new piece of gear and starting using it. I also asked him how long his been using the software. Is the software also something that he just now incorporated with the new piece of gear because sometimes that double your problem, you're adding a piece of hardware and software, now you have two new things to setup and troubleshoot rather than if you've been using the same piece of software you put a new piece to hardware into the chain and now all of the sudden you start having problems, at least you know where to look first, right?

So, what we basically found with Jesse we went through all his configurations, his RAM, how much memory usage he was using with his software and all that another kind of thing and what we discovered was that we was using his USB hard drives to actually record and capture too. Well, the USB hard drive were actually external hard drive and so therefore you're actually adding a step, you're actually having to go outside of the internal chain of hard drives and go out to an outside external source and the time that log time that it takes to go out to there records, scratch disk that and then shoot it back in to be able to process, there's an audio signal was causing his latency issue.

So, what we did was we suggested that Jesse go ahead and his scratch disk, his internal drive, his operating drive and now even you have a machine that has two drive the C and the D drive, generally I will use the C drive from scratch disk and I just make sure that because it's also the windows drive that I'm using and that actually runs a system, I just make sure to defrag it once a week and give it a good thorough defragmentation so that it kept at optimal operating efficiency.

Well, I know that solve Jesse's problem and if you out there have some similar problems with latency or if you have some other issues of hardware or setting up and how to properly setup the hardware and software to work with each other, you can always go ahead and drop me an e-mail at the Voices.com website at adomfox.voices.com or you can certainly drop me a line at defiantdigital.com. I can be reach there as well.

Well, thank you very much for listening today and it's been a couple weeks. It's good to get back and give you guys a podcast and thank you so much for all your letters, they've definitely given a source of conversation and I like to continue that to dialog in the future and hopefully we'll just go ahead and have some excited topics for you again next week, so until then. Bye for now.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thank you Jesse for sending in your PodMail. I'm glad that Adam was able to help you out. This is what it's all about, folks. So, keep sending that podmail in.

Matt Williams: VOX Box, cheering your audio feedback.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: If you remember last week, I sent a call out for humorous demos. I received one from S. Michael Leier entitled "The Overworked Producer." Let's take a listen:

Male: Please state your name.

Michael Leier: S. Michael Leier.

Male: Okay, yes go ahead and read from the script.

Michael Leier: Everybody may love Friday but soon everybody will be talking about Thursday.

Male: Okay, cut. Can you be a little less happy?

Michael Leier: She had a dream but little did she know her world was about to shattered. Next time on a very special -

Male: No, no. How about angry? Can you do angry?

Michael Leier: Label an outcast. Now, on a mission to save his name, filter their world upside down.

Male: All right, that was a little scary.

Michael Leier: Okay, you want scary? It came to our world from beyond the grave. One man has the power to stop it but will he be too late.

Male: I know, I think we're going to go a different direction maybe a woman.

Michael Leier: I can eat all the pizza and donuts I want and still loss 20 pounds. You can too, just -

Male: Just enough. Thank you.

Michael Leier: How about a dog? Kibbles 'n Bits, Kibbles 'n Bits Oh, want to give me some Kibbles 'n Bits.

Male: Next.

S. Michael Leier: How about a drunk? Does everyone know when the bus to Albuquerque gets here?

Male: Security?

Michael Leier: I can do a cow. Moo, moo.

Male: Okay pal, let's go.

Michael Leier: Wait, wait how about a drunk cow? Moo-hek-moo. Wait, wait, wait.

Male: Fine. Okay, next.

Michael Leier: How you all doing? My purpose is I talk really goodly.

Male: I hate my job. Next.

Stephanie Ciccarelli: Thanks for sending that in Mike! If you enjoyed Mike's demo, let him know. You can visit him at his website, smichaelleier.voices.com. Thanks for listening. Next wee we'll here from David Boyll and Colin Campbell, so stay subscribed. If you haven't subscribed to VOX Talk already, you can do so through the iTunes Podcast Directory or subscribe to the RSS feed by email on the VOX Talk blog at blogs.voices.com/voxtalk. Take care and see you next Thursday!

Links from today's show:

David Boreanaz NHL VO
Movie Trailer VOs - Where are the Ladies?
Peter Cullen Optimus Prime Interview
Elie Hirschman
Adam Fox
S. Michael Leier

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