VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD!

Philip Banks · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:55 am Post subject:

Love you too Sweetie pie xxxxxxx

By the way if any one is having trouble sleeping this will help ...

http://www.matrixscience.com/movies/experimental_design.html

dhouston67 · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:37 pm Post subject:

mcm · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject:

Wow, this is an oldie.

If you're asking with an eye to formulating an MO, I would say it isn't possible to come up with a consistent practise. Most people I deal with are okay with an mp3 but enough ask for a CD that I have to keep getting the darned things (and am currently at a cover art & demo crossroads and basically paralyzed). I dislike CDs more and more since they mean one is kind of locked into a demo for as long as the pile of "compack dicks" lasts.

I suppose one could just get a CD printer (not labels) and burn 'em as needed. Then one would have maximum flexibility. That's another thread...

P.S. I don't do imaging so disregard everything I said.

Hart · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject:

David,

Oddly enough I've been doing a lot of thinking about this too. As anyone who knows me.. well, knows imaging is my favorite part of this biz.

As a former pd here's my experience:

CD's usually got at least 30 seconds of my time. If I liked what I heard they were put on a shelf and saved for later. Sometimes months or even a year or two later as we were thinking about a new voice for the station.

Postcards were generally kept in a stack on the same shelf. Sometimes the stack got too big and the ones on the bottom automatically got pitched out.

Unsolicited emails with links to mp3's (or even worse attached files) might garner a quick listen but probably not. Then they were either deleted immediately, or left to rot in my inbox for 6 months and then deleted.

Of course I was a packrat. To prove it, I have on my desk right now a copy of William Morris Agency's RadioVoices from 1998. Why? I don't know. I like listening to the demos I guess.

As a former production manager:

If it was a cd the pd gave it to me. If it was a postcard the pd gave it to me. If it was an email he'd forward it to me. All got thrown out.

Is this helpful? Maybe, maybe not; but it's two real world experiences for your reference.
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dhouston67 · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject:

Mary,

Thanks; I'm getting ready to re-do my graphics (CD & site) as well. Maybe I'm just looking for an excuse to skip the headaches of CD graphics, printing, dupes, etc...and will probably not get to.

P.S. Watch your mouth, young lady. Wink

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dhouston67 · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

Brian,

I'm a pack-rat also, as my wife will sourly attest. I hear ya.
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COURVO · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject:

Hey, PJ....good to see you again! Where you been?

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mcm · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject:

Travis · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:44 pm Post subject:

I haven't sent out a CD in about four years. Not that I haven't meant to, but I've just been too busy to run them off and mail them. If someone wants to hear my work, I send them to my web site.

Interesting change in the last few years. A decade ago every producer would have a CD player in their office. Today, they usually don't - but they DO have a computer - tied to the internet. It takes less time to get to my website than it does to take a CD out of the stupid (and probably broken) jewel-box and put i into the CD player.

I happen to run a very small internet radio station... (another project that doesn't get enough of my time). I frequently get emailed demos from musicians who want to get airplay. It clogs up my maiboxes and wastes my time. I'm not very likely to play anything submitted by someone who has sent me an .mp3 file without getting my permission first. On the other hand, a nicely worded email with a LINK to a website or .mp3 download is much more likely to get results.

A demo on the web can be played by anyone with a computer on their desk. A producer can send the link to a client instantly.

There is one place where having a CD on file comes in handy - In a lot of recording studios which have VO demo libraries, they still make use of them. I'm sure I've lost a bit of work 'cause I haven't kept them supplied with my latest demos.
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