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Beginning & Advanced Voice Over Clinics

David Radtke — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:15:09 +0000

Now in the comfort of your own home, you can improve your voice over skills for auditions and jobs in a new series of monthly online copy clinics with top voice talent, author and trainer (and incredibly cute ) Terri Apple!

You'll be coached as you cold read scripts alone and with other class participants - getting direct feedback - and also learn as a "fly on the wall" when you hear Terri coaching others on how to improve their voice over delivery.

Follow the link below to learn more:

Beginning and Advanced Voice Over Copy Clinics

Take your social media game to a new level

David Radtke — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:45:05 +0000

Are you ready to take your voice over social media game to a whole new level of awesomeness? Then let the voice over super socials show you how!

There's no other way to describe Terry Daniel, Trish Basanyi and Dave Courvoisier - the best known and most authoritative voice actors on social media today. And VoiceOverXtra is presenting them in three major live webinars beginning Aug. 17, revealing their time-saving methods for making money through social media.

To learn more about these fantastic webinars follow this link:
The Voice Over Social Media Success Webinars

Double webinar whammy!

David Radtke — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:04:46 +0000

The good people over at VoiceOverXtra have been very busy this summer with lots of webinars. Here are two more that are worth checking out!

Voice Acting and Copy Reading Techniques

Three top talents/coaches (Bettye Zoller, James Alburger & Penny Abshire) reveal the techniques for making the right delivery choice for voice over scripts - to win auditions and voice actual jobs. Attendees will learn confidence, how to sound "natural" and how to quickly create and practice characters, read and practice cold copy, and much more. Starts 9 p.m. ET on July 12th.

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Twisted Wave: The Basics and Beyond

Learn how to set up, use and get the most out of Mac's new Twisted Wave audio production software, in this live interactive webinar demonstration by acclaimed home studio expert George Whittam. Registered attendees also receive a recording of the entire audio/visual session. Online demo instruction includes setting audio device preferences, file management/organization, basic audio unit effects, creating effect stacks, exporting files, batch processing and more. Starts 9 p.m. ET on July 18th.

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Fast Commercial Tags With Rodney Saulsberry

David Radtke — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 02:03:46 +0000

How to do voice acting without getting caught!

David Radtke — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:06:36 +0000

A while back I stumbled across this excellent audio seminar by voice coach extraordinaire Nancy Wolfson (the audio is brought to you by voice actor Dan O'Day) titled How to do voice acting without getting caught! It's probably one of the most eye-opening seminars I've ever listened to. In it you learn exactly how to not sound like you're selling something. Instead, the vital skills needed to put the sound of truth, honesty, and believability in your words (plus a whole lot more ) are taught.

The 2-hour 45-minute audio seminar isn't free, however. But hey, the only way to become successful is by investing in your eduction right now, right? And in my opinion, investing in anything Nancy Wolfson teaches is a good deal.

Check it out:
How to do voice acting without getting caught!

How to choose the best mic! (webinar)

David Radtke — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:53:48 +0000

Once again the good people over at VoiceOverXtra bring you a fantastic webinar!

On Monday, April 25th Dan Lenard (the Home Studio Master) will teach you how to choose the voice over microphone that's BEST for you and how to use that mic to win auditions and in performances. In addition, Dan will test various mics so you can hear the differences for yourself!

How to nail voice over copy!

David Radtke — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:45:40 +0000

On Tuesday night, March 15th, the good people over at VoiceOverXtra will be presenting another killer webinar called How To Nail That Copy! The webinar will be presented by best-selling author and voice actress, Terri Apple.

During the webinar you'll learn:

How to understand FULLY what all specs mean
Know the difference between your VOICE and THE SELL
How to get out of your EGO and into the writer's perspective
When it's OK to improvise
What an ALTERNATE read means
How to create winning alternate reads
How to nail the SELL and re-nail it
How to re-create your winning audition in the actual session
How to create more "range" in your auditions
The 4 Easy Steps to cold reading
And more!

To sign up for the event or to learn more, just follow this little blue link!

Script delivery and technique tele-seminar

David Radtke — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:28:02 +0000

Grab this free tele-seminar with VO extraordinaire Terry Daniel and legendary voice over artist Bobbin Beam as they discuss script delivery and how it applies to doing voice overs.

Get it here

Voice over “Great web reads”

David Radtke — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:49:25 +0000

I subscribe to a wide variety of blog RSS feeds. Some are really good. Some are just okay. And some are better off being lost in the backwaters of Google's 100th page of search results. More often than not, when I see a great post I get the urge to write about that same topic. But two things stop me: 1) I don't have the time and 2) I realize that I couldn't do it better than the original author (number 2 being the case more often than not.)

With those two reasons staring me firmly in the face I have decided, instead, to round up some of best posts I've seen during the past week or so and present them here. I'll try to make this a regular feature here on VAN under the Great web reads category (say THAT five times fast! )

Here's the first installment:

Voice over related:

The power of pricing
Is Voices.com playing a numbers game?
A recent review of the voice over business
Interpreting and voicing a commercial script in under 7 minutes
Getting to “Yes” means different things!

Are you a dumb little man (or woman)?

David Radtke — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:23:39 +0000

I admit it. I belong to a not-so-elite group of people who proudly wear the title of "dumb little man." And the good news is that this group isn't exclusively for men only, women can be a part of this group, too.

So, if you fall into this category, what can you do?

Simple: check out the Dumb Little Man blog. It's a blog filled with some pretty well written articles that cover pretty much every area of your life. It has nothing to do with voice acting directly, but the articles can help your VO life indirectly. Good stuff.