VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Before the internet and social media is was a huge no-no. Your voice will be judged by your look. You might have a baby face but a voice like James Earl Jones. Today, everyone's face is a mouse cli ...

I don’t know who he is, but St. Louis is my home town. I just moved way too young to know any radio people. But I knew Corky the clown! Did I date myself?

Anyway it's still early days for AI so I'm sure it will get better at approximating feel. And even human announcers are perfectly capable of delivering canned generality on a bad day.

It actually i ...

Oh, this is not new. Just high profile, like James Earl Jones. Yup, this is going to happen more and more. But the world of on-camera and print has used a similar business model for years. If/when ...

Hey buddy! First of all congrats! That's the most important thing.

Now, I'm not sure what value you get from asking a critique for a gig you already did and got paid for. You did a gig and got p ...

All interesting stuff. I myself would never use Slack or Discord. But, it's not about me. If this is what the masses prefer, go for it. I'm extremely active on vo group pages, and am able to reach o ...

So, here's the deal. I still check this page out from time to time. Not much happening. I joined this page years ago, maybe even decades ago. I loved it as there was nothing like it anywhere on the ...

My first demo SUCKED ASS. Maybe we should have a thread "Are you brave enough to post your first demo here?" Not a single agent was interested, but I persisted.

Buddy, MY first demo suc ...

Pure Meisner, which is the acting technique I studied for 2 years. This is the preparation all actors must do, including a vo actor in every genre of vo. You need to make choices. Even with directi ...

In high school I was a big fan of "Chicken Man" and everything Dick Orkin!

GOD I miss Radio Ranch! Some of the best written spots I ever worked on. And they were so loyal to talent! Di ...

To answer Mike's questions:

1) How would the Union ensure compliance?

The same way we ensure compliance with every union contract. If need be we file claims. Being that there will be signatori ...

look at me coming in hot...4 years later!

On the topic of conferences, what would be the one to attend? If, let's say, you were only going to go to one of them every 5-10 years or even just one.
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This is something I'd wanted to do since I was a kid. I had no idea there was a term for doing this or that it was even a business. I just knew I wanted to do voices for cartoons. I grew up in the ...

As non-union talent, I've never once been paid for a lift on the back-end like Bob; it's always been front-loaded/worked into the one and only rate I'll ever receive for that recording session, unless ...

Thanks Bob. Are the 'lifts' spelled out in the SAG-AGTRA rates then?

Couldn't tell ya. You can look at all the rate sheets, but they are pretty vast:
https://www.sagaftra.org/production-center/co ...