Voice Over Body Shop

Online Casting and RatesGreat discussion from the voice actor's point of view.  Peter BishopMatt CowlrickMelissa ExelberthPaul StrikwerdaThe opinions expressed during this episode are those solely of the panel, and are not representative of the producers of EWABS, nor its sponsors.

Commercial and imaging voice David Jeremiah joins us from his elaborate Los Angeles studio this week, sharing entertaining tales from his 30 years in the biz. Dan's got a Tip of the Week on Audio Interfaces. And we answer a whole slew of audience questions, like we do every week, post yours at ewabs.com

George gets a visitor in his studio this week when voice actor and standup comedian Rachel Butera joins us. She tells us about her journey from Jersey to Los Angeles, joining the union, landing an agent, contesting on America's Got Talent, calling in to Howard Stern, voice matching, impressions of Whoopie, Wanda Sykes, Rosie O'donnell, Joan Rivers, her Mother, and a lot more funducational stuff.

Eric Leopardi, creator of ISDN to Go tells us about the genesis of his ISDN bridging service, which works with IPDTL, Source Connect Now, and Source Connect Standard.  Dan's Tip of the Week is about moving homes and selecting the right place to have a voiceover studio. George shares a #whittamsworld on IP Audio Codecs from Comrex at the NAB show.

We have friends and supporters of EWABS Larry David and Elizabeth Stuart on this episode. Larry and Elizabeth are voice acting pros who love to share their stories of success, and take a huge amount of questions from the chatroom. George shares highlights from WovoCon and a few product spots from NAB, including Shure, Pelican cases, and JK Audio.

Multi-facted voice actor David Kaye joins us from his beautiful home studio and shares his story from womb to tomb. OK, no tomb. Tip of the Week on recording VO with an iOS device, and some highlights from George's Vegas trip covering NAB and WovoCon II.

George takes the show on the road to attend NAB, NMX, and WovoCon, and lands at Melissa Moats' Voice Actor's Studio in Henderson, Nevada, complete like the Vegas Voicers providing a lively audience! We also talk to Jack de Golia and Mike Martin. Special thanks to Troy Moats and Alex MacDonald for their technical assistance.

Edge Studio's very own vocal care expert and speech therapist Lara Hirner answers a deluge of questions from Dan and our audience. Dan share's a Tip of the Week on studio acoustics vs sound proofing, news, and viewer tech questions. More info about Lara http://www.edgestudio.com/lara-hirner

Roger Leopardi's CPA KK Barton takes your questions on how to setup your business, preparing for taxes, and going S corp or LLC.George has video from VO Atlanta from Joe Cipriano and an interview with young voice actor Anna Cate Donelan.

Our first ever segment en Espanol, Simon Fojgiel interviews Rene Figueroa and Emma Rodero at VO Atlanta during their Spanish Day.  George interviews Susan Bennett, the original voice of Siri. We also have news about the new Macbook, Google Plus, and we take questions from YOU!

A huge range of topics pertaining to producing audiobooks covered in this edition of Audiobook Masters Round Tables with Jeffrey Kafer, David Wilson, and Karen Souer.  George shares more highlights from NAMM show, including MXL mics, Contour Shuttle Pro, and Blue Mo-Fi headphones.Dan has a Tip of the Week on cheap vs. expensive microphones. And the news, and your questions!

Published on Mar 9, 2015We get to share the perspective of voice talent on 4 continents, Susannah Kenton in New Zealand, Debby Barnes in the UK, Ramesh Mahtani in the Canary Islands (Spain), and Jonathan Tilley in Germany, and US in the USA!

Rosi and Brian Amador, bilingual voice talent couple from Boston join us this week to share how they share a studio, their love for music and performing (with some music!), and take questions from the chat room. George has another NAMM show highlight and Dan takes on your questions.

Voice actor and online casting "P2P" success story J. Michael Collins joins us from his home studio in Luxembourg... Yes, Luxembourg! He stays up WAY past his bedtime to answer our questions, as well as the chat room's. Dan's Tip of the Week is on dealing with shelving reflections in your VO booth. George answers questions on audio interfaces and signal chains, cloud-lifters and phantom power...

Promo, commercial and narration voice Thomas Pinto shares his wisdom on this edition. Dan is in Santa Monica with George this time around.

Influential and helpful voiceover casting director Mary Lynn Wissner Voices joins us this week from voicecasting.comGerald Griffith, founder of VOAtlanta tells us what's to come for VOAtlanta 2015 coming March 12th. George has hits from the 2015 NAMM show, too!

Pablo and Al the Voiceover Pals in the Garage bring some levity to the show and share their pearls of wisdom. Dan's Tip of the Week on Personal Studio Troubleshooting, questions, news, laughs, info, it's all here.

Roger gives and gives on this information packed (aren't they all) episode. George's open letter to engineers' message about adopting IP audio codecs, News, Dan and George answer questions, and Mugman!

World Wide Wadio producer Jeff Howell is our esteemed first guest of 2015. George asks the chat room what they plan to do to boost their VO careers in 2015 and shares some thoughts of his own. George and Dan answer viewer questions, and Dan's Tip of the Week is about "Personal Studios".

You submitted your favorites and here they are, plus some of ours, too. Happy New Year, see you in 2015, same time, same place!