Voice Over Body Shop

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-pr

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

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

 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; v

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

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 201

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!

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@VOB

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

  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

ur distinguished guest this week on VOBS is Paul Pape! Paul began his professional acting career in New York as one of the original members of the Collonades Theater Lab. Paul was cast to co-star as 'Double J' opposite John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever". Paul has also been performing as a voice-over artist with over 7000 credits to-date. He's been heard in virtually every media - including commercials, narrations, promos, trailers, television series, films, video games and national political campaigns. Recent accomplishments include being one of the voices of President Obama's re-election campaign in 2012 and Hillary's Clinton's Presidential campaign in 2016, along with numerous U.S. Senatorial and Gubernatorial races. He is a voice for various environmental and energy related campaigns nationwide among his other corporate commercial credits. Paul co-produced and co-wrote the film with his best friend, voice-over legend Don LaFontaine, who passed away a short time later. Both men acted in the film and P

Our guest this week on Voice Over Body Shop, Bob Bergen, needs little introduction. He is the current voice of the Warner Bros. cartoon characters Porky Pig and Tweety Bird and formerly hosted Jep!, a kids' version of the popular game show Jeopardy! Bob is also a tireless advocate for working voice actors everywhere through his work with SAG/AFTRA. We’re sure you have a lot questions for Bob about his impressive career in animation, technique for improving your character voice skills and of course issues concerning union membership and benefits. 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 on Pre-amps and much more! Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS! 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,

Our guest is Jamie Muffett, a British voice actor who lives and works in New York City and Bucks County Pennsylvania, Coming to NYC from the UK in 2009. He’s worked in voiceover for ten years, and has been in music and audio production for over 20 years. He’s voiced for national TV ad campaigns in the US, UK and across the world. AAA video games, promos for NBC, ESPN and Nickelodeon, documentaries in the US (Nat Geo/Smithsonian) and UK (Channel 4) and featured at film festivals such as Cannes, Phoenix and Toronto. He also hosts and produce the VO School Podcast, which is devoted to the art, craft and business of voiceover. We talk with Jamie about this industry we call ours and look at ways you can make the most of your business! 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, our topic of the week on Mic technique and much more! Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS! Thats this Monday night! 9 Eastern, 6 Pacific or foreve

  Perhaps most recognized for voicing various animated characters on The Simpsons, Chris Edgerly has a sweeping vocal portfolio that spans animated television and multiple hit video games. He has even made a few television appearances including Hot in Cleveland, The King of Queens, SeaQuest 2032, and Kenan and Kel. While Chris enjoys his time on-screen, he is at his best when lending his vocal talents to animated television, movie, and video game roles. He’s also been doing stand-up comedy for the last ten years, traveling around the country. He’s also producing a Web series with his Brother David: Edgy Brothers Presents Happy Hour! We’ll talk about his multi-faceted career in all these genre’s and about what its like to produce the web series. 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, our topic of the week and much more! Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover

J. Michael Collins is everywhere! Doing Voice Over, being well known voice in the VO biz, taking on the “bad” guys and winning awards for his outstanding demo production for voice talents everywhere! He and his demo engineer, A.J. McKay join us for a lively discussion about how they go about making demos, why they work well together, what demos should be like, the different types, and how to use your demo effectively to gain VO work. A discussion you don’t want to miss if you’re wondering what they and your demo can do for you! ALSO!!! The VOBS/Voice oVer Xtra News and 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 on Mic technique and much more! Voice Over Body Shop is VO BS! 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 vo

on Voice Over Body Shop: A Perspective From Behind The Recording Studio Glass!   For over 3 decades, Tim Keenan and his wife, Linda, have owned and operated Creative Media Recording, a professional media Recording studio In Cypress, CA. They serve independent producers, corporations and ad agencies throughout Southern CA.   A civic minded professional, Tim served 8 yrs on the Cypress City Council from 1996 -2004 as well as 2 yrs as Mayor! (I sense a theme from last weeks show)   Our discussion will cover the gamut from Networking, Marketing, Social Media, Casting, Demos and how to prepare to record in a professional studio. Tim is one of the nicest guys in the business, and a great resource for voice talent everywhere!   Dan and George will also answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech! We'll also get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News much more!   Looking at the Voice Over world like no one else! We’re VOBS!

Mike Lenz is the former mayor of Saratoga Springs in upstate New York. But he’s really made his mark since as a full-time professional voice talent and podcast producer. For more than 10 years Mike has worked with clients on eLearning projects, corporate and web-based videos, audiobooks, brand imaging and commercials. Mike is also a Voice Arts Award nominated podcast producer, creator, and host of the Mike Lenz VO Podcast and creator of Podcast Snap (podcastsnap.com) – a concierge podcasting service, helping his clients with every step of their podcast creation and production. We’ll talk about his transition from politician to voice talent and how podcasting is becoming bigger than big! Dan and George will also answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech! We'll also get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News much more! Looking at the Voice Over world like no one else! We’re VOBS! Voice Over Body Shop! Voice Over Body Shop, or VOBS, is one of the voiceover ind

When it comes to VO Stars, Anthony Mendez shines brightly! He’s our special In-Studio guest, live this Monday night on Voice Over Body Shop! Anthony is a voice-over actor with an impressive list of credits to his career, including on-air promos, movie trailers, and TV commercials in both English and Spanish. Anthony has written and is currently working on a TV pilot inspired by his own life experiences of growing up in the headstone business, but with a supernatural twist, called “Mike Tomb.” He hopes to have it adapted into a serialized and motion comic book. His break-through role came as the “Latin Lover Narrator” on Jane the Virgin which earned him two, consecutive primetime Emmy nominations in 2015 and 2016 for “Outstanding Narrator.” Dan and George answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech! We'll also get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News much more! Covering the world of Voice Over and nothing less! We’re VOBS!  Brought to you by Voiceoveressentia

At Voice Over Body Shop, we’re all about the voice business, and in our industry, one voice stands out as a leader: Dave “CourVo” Courvoisier. He’s our special guest this week on VOBS! He’s more than just a classy name. He recently retired from a 30 year career as News Anchor in Las Vegas! To people in VO, he’s known as the Former President and one of the four Founding Members of World-Voices Organization (WOVO) a prolific blogger and author. We talk about his exciting career, WoVO, and more importantly, the issues we all face together as voice talents and what we can do to make the industry a better and fairer place.  Dan and George also answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech! We'll also get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News much more! Covering the world of Voice Over and nothing less! We’re VOBS!  Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com,  Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com,VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoi

If you missed Phil Proctor on VOBS a few months back, you missed a treasure trove of hilarious stories about his acting and voice acting career. So funny in fact, we asked him back for more. Phil was a part of of the legendary Firesign Theater which still has a cult following from their avant garde collection of comedy albums in the 1970’s. Knowing how Producers and Directors want to see auditions that show our unique takes on copy, we’ll talk about how to be spontaneous and have more fun in our voicing careers. Dan and George will also answer answer your home voice over studio questions sent to: theguys@VOBS.tv and share the latest in VO tech! We'll also get the Voice Over Xtra/VOBS News much more! Our Monday night webcast that creates VO community togetherness! we’re VOBS!  Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com,  Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com,VOICEACTORWEBSITES.com and J. Michael Collins Demos jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production