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Monday Nov 19, 2018
Monday Nov 19, 2018
ON THIS EPISODE OF VOICE OVER BODY SHOP, Dan and George welcome three time Clio Award winning voice actor Samantha Paris! She is the founder of Voicetrax in San Francisco, one of the largest and respected voice over academies in the United States.Samantha has trained over 10,000 voice talents from all walks of life since 1988 with a philosophy that “Talent can be taught!”Above all, Samantha has transformed the lives of people through the process of helping them find their true voices and ultimately, find their bunnies, And in that process she found HER bunny. What does that mean? Samantha is author of a book, “Finding The Bunny” where she peels back the the curtain on our fascinating world of Voice Over and much more. ALSO!!! Dan and George share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week, the VOBS/Voice Over Xtra News and much more! Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com,Vo2Gogo.com, Sourceelements.com,VoiceOverXtra.com, VOICEACTORWEBSITES.comand J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production
Monday Nov 12, 2018
Monday Nov 12, 2018
As Voice talent in 2018, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A WEBSITE! However, there’s so much you have to know to create an effective site that allows your customers to easily find you and HEAR what you do. Joe Davis and his team at VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com are the best, most knowledgeable, innovative and of course nicest guys in the Voice Over website business! Joe is our guest on this weeks Voice Over Body Shop and he answers questions about websites, SEO, and functionality!
ALSO!!! Dan and George share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week the VOBS/Voice Over Xtra News and much more!
Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry’s most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games.
George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios.
Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it!
The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today!
GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry’s top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds.
http://www.georgethe.tech/
DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others.
http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/
CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show
VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY:
Voiceover Essentials
http://voiceoveressentials.com
Vo2Gogo
Vo2Gogo.com
Source Elements
https://source-elements.com/
Voice Over Xtra
https://www.voiceoverxtra.com/
J. Michael Collins Demos
http://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/
Voice Actor Websites
VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com
Monday Nov 05, 2018
Monday Nov 05, 2018
A VOBS EVENT YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS!
Brian, Rosi and Alisa Amador are Sol y Canto! A latin folksong trio from Boston! They'll did a live backyard concert here at the Voice Over Body Shop! Listen and be amazed!
Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com, Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com, VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Voice Over Body Shop Dan and George continue bringing you the best guests and VO tech advice. Our guest this week, Adam Verner, is an accomplished, full time voice over talent and audio book narrator with almost 400 titles to his name. He’s been working professionally in the voice over world in all genres since 2003, voicing thousands of TV and radio commercials, eLearning courses, and industrials. He holds his MFA in Acting from the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. We'll talk about his career and his tips for Long-term voice over success.
ALSO!!! Dan and George share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week the VOBS/Voice Over Xtra News and much more!
Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry’s most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games.
George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios.
Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it!
The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today!
GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry’s top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds.http://www.georgethe.tech/
DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others.http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/
CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show
VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY:
Voiceover Essentialshttp://voiceoveressentials.com
Vo2GogoVo2Gogo.com
Source Elementshttps://source-elements.com/
Voice Over Xtrahttps://www.voiceoverxtra.com/
J. Michael Collins Demoshttp://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/
Voice Actor WebsitesVOICEACTORWEBSITES.com
Monday Oct 22, 2018
Monday Oct 22, 2018
If you use Adobe Audition, Listen to this special VOBS.
At Voice Over Body Shop, we’re all about voice over recording technology! And this Monday night, we’ll try not to get overly geeky with our very special guest Durin Gleaves! Durin is a Product Manager for Audio at Adobe, defining new workflows and directions for Adobe Audition, Premiere Pro, and other tools. He’ll share the gospel of great sound, sharing tips and stories for voice actors and artists using Adobe Audition. Audition appears to be one of the top choices voice talent make when recording and editing their audio. We know its mysterious to some, but lets break it down to with expert explanations and demonstrations!
ALSO!!! Dan and George share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week the VOBS/Voice Over Xtra News and much more!
Brought to you by:
Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com, Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com,VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Voice Over Body Shop
Published by Dan Lenard ·
Yesterday at 10:27 AM ·
If there’s one thing that “The Guys” at Voice Over Body Shop have shown over the more than 7 years of Producing their show, its that building a career for a voice actor takes persistence, patience and passion. That is what this weeks VO BS guest, Las Vegas based voice talent Melissa Moats is all about. She loves her work, and gets lost in it every day. She voices for television promos, documentaries, phone systems, video games, corporate training videos,.. the whole gamut. That includes promos for The Ellen Show, doing national tv commercials for Best Western Hotels, being the North American guide voice on the video game Wii Yoga, and narrating documentaries for super stars Justin Timberlake and Drake! She’s also heard heard regularly on Pandora Internet Radio.
Melissa really enjoys mentoring others who share the same dream of voice acting. Her and her husband, Troy, founded The Voice Actors Studio in Las Vegas in 2015 to train the next generation of hopeful voice talent. She’s also now the voice over instructor for UNLV! She believes in paying it forward and sharing everything that has served her well over the years.
ALSO!!! Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week and much more!
Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com, Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com,VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Voice Over Body Shop
Our guest this THis Week on Voice Over Body Shop, BILL RATNER, is one of Hollywood’s premier voices and storytellers, narrating movie trailers, Documentaries, voicing Cartoons, Games, Promos, and storytelling conferences and festivals. He is a 9-time winner of The Moth Story SLAM and a 2-time winner of The Best of The Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension for solo performance!
Check out BillRatner.com and you’ll instantly know his voice!
Bill just published an insightful book called ‘Parenting in the Digital Age.
In that vein, joining us will be his Daughter Arianna! An accomplished voice talent in her own right, voicing commercials and video games!
A great night of stories and VO tips for all!
ALSO!!! Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week and much more!
Monday Sep 24, 2018
Monday Sep 24, 2018
Voice Over Body Shop
Published by Dan Lenard ·
September 22 at 11:22 PM ·
Peter Bishop… or more often just “Bish”, is a native Londoner… born and bred under the flightpaths around Heathrow Airport. He came to the colonies in the late nineties while still playing the part of a corporate warrior for a large multi-national company. Deciding that he liked the US, but not the corporate life, he found his way to the world of VO.
Now a Resident on Long Island, Peter is known for his sharp wit, no-holds-barred, biting commentary on the state of our industry and is the new President of World-Voices Organization (WoVO) the international industry association of freelance voice talent.
We’ll talk about his shape-shifting career, the state of our business and how we can all work together to make it a better place! Peter is chomping at the bit to take on your questions! BE READY FOR SOME HARDCORE OPINIONS!
ALSO!!! Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week and much more!
Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS!
Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com, Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com,VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Monday Sep 17, 2018
VOBS RETURNS with special guest KAT CRESSIDA! SHE'S EVERYWHERE!Talk about versatility!Like many great actors Kat went to a great school, UC Berkeley and A.C.T. in S.F.! KAT landed her first gigs in The Biz On-Camera. But when she took her first VOICE-OVER workshop– she found her niche! A few months later, she booked her first VO gigs: PROMOS for TNT’s JAMES BOND MARATHON... and “DEE DEE” in DEXTER’S LABORATORY for CARTOON NET.
She’s also voiced NATIONAL Campaigns for Major brands, Animation for many network shows, Promo, and Trailers. She was the first woman to do Announcing LIVE for NFL DRAFT, and first to be the Voice for PBR Network, on NBC, Versus, + ESPN.KAT can be heard regularly on: RADIO, RADIO DISNEY COUNTRY DISNEY, Disney/ABC Channels, MLB NETWORK, and TNT.
She also excels at celebrity voice matching,voicing for : NEVE CAMPBELL, SCARLETT JOHANSSEN, HELENA BONHAM-CARTER, and many others!
She was also just invited to be a Celebrity Judge for the MISS USA PAGEANT 2018.
ALSO!!! Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech, our topic of the week and much more!
Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS!
Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com, Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com,VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production
Monday Aug 27, 2018
Monday Aug 27, 2018
How do you get chosen for a Voice Over project? For big commercials and other projects, the upfront gatekeeper is the Casting Director. Our guest this week will give us the inside view of what goes on when being chosen to even audition for project, let alone chosen for the gig.
Kathryn Horan has been a Casting Director, Demo Producer, Audio Engineer, and Voiceover Coach with The Voicecaster since 2012. Kathryn has cast for major brands like Honda, ampm, Ashley Furniture, Verizon, Nike, and many more! She has a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Acting from New Mexico State University and has been in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles for over 10 years!
And Of Course!!! Dan and George want to answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech.
Voice Over Body Shop is helping you get to the top!
Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover industry’s most loved “how to do voice over” shows and the go-to VO resource for voice actors everywhere. From their Los Angeles studio, hosts George Whittam and Dan Lenard talk voice over tech, training, recording, and business. Learn from the best voiceover narrators; voice actors from your favorite cartoons, animation, and television shows; and the biggest names in promo, TV shows, movies, audiobooks, movie trailers, TV commercials, and video games.
George and Dan also ask for tips from the top agents, managers, and voice casting directors working in the VO industry today. And since voiceover is now done largely from home studios, we ask the best in the biz how they do it from their own home studios.
Not only that, but we invite you to ask questions that George and Dan AND their guests answer live! So you can get the answers you need on vo tech, equipment, microphones, DAWs, cables—you name it!
The guys will also help you find the best voice over coaches to help you make the most of your VO career at any level. Get tips from the best voiceover teachers in the industry that you can apply to your VO work today!
GEORGE WHITTAM is a renowned voice over tech consultant, having worked with nearly all of the industry’s top talents on their studios. His clients include Don LaFontaine, Joe Cipriano, David Kaye, Lori Alan, Jim Tasker, Pat Fraley, Scott Rummell, and many more. Let him help you with technical questions from Pro Tools to major studio builds.http://www.georgethe.tech/
DAN LENARD is known worldwide as “The Home Studio Master.” He is a board member of World-Voices Organization (WoVO), a non-profit, member-driven industry association of professional voice talent. He has a long list of happy home studio clients, including Debi Derryberry, Marc Cashman, and Paul Strikwerda, among many others.http://www.homevoiceoverstudio.com/
CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/voiceoverbodyshop/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWABS_show
VOICE OVER BODY SHOP IS SPONSORED BY:
Voiceover Essentialshttp://voiceoveressentials.com
Vo2GogoVo2Gogo.com
Source Elementshttps://source-elements.com/
Voice Over Xtrahttps://www.voiceoverxtra.com/
J. Michael Collins Demoshttp://www.jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production/
Voice Actor WebsitesVOICEACTORWEBSITES.com
Voice Over Body Shop Podcast
The entire voice over and voice acting community knows, when it comes to creating and maintaining a “personal professional voice over studio,” the place to get the proper information on how to do it right is the Voice Over Body Shop. Dan Lenard and George Whittam make it easy and fun and, hopefully prevent thousands of dollars of mistakes and hours of mind-numbing frustration.