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Oh awesome, what a great idea for a thread! Name: Camo Guitar Specialties: I'm actually a breakfast radio announcer (been in radio for 10 years) so I'm very good at innane chatter, very quick reads with clarity and I can do a sprightly old man voice. 32 year old Australian male keen to read anything you like - fast slow, excited, serious, up to you. Tindeck: No Tindeck, working on it. Contact: Email AlmigoATBigpondDOTcom Payment: Paypal is fine, cheques, rock up and pay my debts in person, up to you. Camo Guitar fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Apr 30, 2014 |
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Hey guys and girls - If anyone's looking for practice, here's a promo script you can sink your teeth into for something/our next 'cost us nothing' stunt we've got coming up in a week or two: It’s the Star Fm Garage Sale of Awesome. The Star Fm Garage Sale of Awesome. As the name suggests, it’s a garage sale, full of awesome. If the Titanic had a garage sale, it wouldn’t come close to the Star Fm Garage Sale of Awesome. The Star Fm Garage Sale – more than just fifty cent books and broken toys. In the latest of their crazy ideas, Al and A.D have decided to take your typical garage sale…and inject it with two tonnes of pure unfiltered awesomeness. It’s the Star Fm Garage Sale of Awesome where daily the boys will swap prizes for your garage sale goodies. And in the end of it, one lucky winner will be able to sell all their collected crap…er…great stuff at their own garage sale for maximum profit! Parts to a Magna? Baby clothes? A whole heap of VHS tapes? Who knows what they’ll end up with! Find out more on the station that gets its crazy ideas from deep within the bargain bin, 91.9 Star Fm! And hell if you want to post up your efforts, go for it. Without any production budget we can't offer any money (we could send you a maccas dinner box but it's only good for this town so it doesn't help) but if we end up using any of your stuff, we'll email through a produced version for your own portfolio. With processing, music and stuff that sounds good. Which might get you hired for the voice of an autobot in Transformers 4 or something. Any questions, just shoot.
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Feb 7, 2012 03:23
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CuddleChunks posted:College radio is the best. I had a lot of fun working at my local station. Hope you're enjoying yourself too! Actually we're a commercial radio station in a provincial gold mining town  And your read was quite awesome - clear and concise with plenty of fun. Also it's great to see that you haven't driven the wav right through the roof of the editor (which so many people do at some stage) We'll definately be using this on air so I'll post up the imaging when it's done and some of it from on air when it's used - top job CuddleChunks! 
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Feb 7, 2012 21:04
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Incredulous Dylan posted:I had some fun with this one! Little did I know due to my headphones being on that the girl scouts were calling around the neighborhood and every dog decided to freak out on most of my little takes You actually sound like a newsreader, which really is not a bad thing at all Couple of tricks to help out - breath. If you need to take a breath, do it. At the end of each sentence, breathe. We have so many people that walk into the booth thinking they have to go from start to finish in one take without drawing breath, it's amazing. Stop when you need to, catch your breath (it takes a while to get used to) and try to approach each sentence with the same energy you started the piece with. A bottle of water handy is a very good idea. One thing I encourage clients voicing ads to do is imagine the emotion of being at their favourite sporting event with 2 seconds to spare before it ends and their favourite player has just scored the winning goal/point/whatever. With that feeling in mind, people brighten right up. And whoever mentioned smiling through a piece is bang on. Grin. Grin like there's no tomorrow. Grin til your face hurts. It's hard holding a grin from start to finish so when you breath, reset that grin and kick on. Compare a non grin bit of work to one where you've held a confident grin the entire time and you'll see a very noticable and positive difference. With more of a grin you'll put more of you in each line and less newsreader. However...I'm using your first bit as a newsreader anyway in our promo (because sometimes you hear something and think 'hey, that'd work much better!' so well done ) so I'll post it up shortly.
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Feb 8, 2012 01:19
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As promised, I present: Voiceover goons in action! With huge thanks to the contributors: Incredulous Dylan Smoothly kicks things off with a news report Cuddlechunks explains how it works with plenty of flair and emotion in the middle. And The Joe Man ends it with a great voice that wouldn't be out of place on Monster Garage. 3 different voices that were all clear, flowed well and had their own unique take on the script. Well done guys, awesome stuff and thanks for helping me make this promo!
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Feb 8, 2012 02:32
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ATwoSlotToaster posted:Just searched for a thread like this, it is exactly what I need exactly when I need it! I finally got a phone inbox for my drum company and my voice message just plain sucks balls. I'm looking for anyone with decent vocals to get me a professionally sounding outgoing message. I'm game, try this one (Hopefully I've got the B-mess-on right..) 
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Feb 22, 2012 01:52
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ATwoSlotToaster posted:That was awesome! I loved it. Is there any way you can just do the lines with the "B Meson" in it and try it with a little more of the "O" in meson. (Right now it sounds more like "Mesan" or "mesin" if that makes sense.) I already know i'm gonna use yours so this would make it perfect! Sure can - here you go!  I'll shoot through the invoice later today but in the meantime if you need anything just let me know via Al@almigoproductions.com (as I don't have PM's)
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Feb 22, 2012 02:43
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CuddleChunks posted:
I'd take your women too but I'm getting married in April so there goes that idea.. Your American accent is way better than mine will be though so you can have all the American accent jobs over here if you like
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Feb 22, 2012 08:08
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you sneaky foreigner, comin' in and takin our jorbs!
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The Joe Man posted:Just checking in with everyone to see if anyone's done some voicework in the meanwhile and if you've been successful in finding local acting lists to sign up for and buffed up your resumes. Not recorded voicework per se - but still involving voicework (of a description) and something that I reckon a few people on this thread with confidence and strong voices should start investigating...MC work! If you don't have a fear of public speaking, have a friendly outgoing nature and you can ad lib (ie bullshit) then you're well on your way. You don't have to be an expert on what you're hosting but more of a plan of how you're going to do it. You might have to do a couple of free gigs/friends weddings to build up practise/ a reputation but you'll find there's plenty of events in charity/sport/everything that need someone who can talk credibly. They don't pay the MC to steal the show (unless you're a stand up comedian) but to ensure the night runs smoothly, make the guests look great and make the audience enjoy themselves. In the last month I've done a couple of easy MC jobs on weekends, one at a football club I don't follow (I follow their rival team) and a netball festival were I was paid to introduce players to the court (what do I know about netball? Nothing. But I can introduce people, do half time announcements and just keep the show going.) I've got two more weddings on the horizon and an event down at the casino in October. It's time consuming and some of the events have a supreme lack of organisation but the money's good (I average anywhere from $50-$100 per hour depending on the size of the event) and a great trick to find extra work is to make friends with another busy mc - both of my recent jobs were referred to me because the first guy was booked out. So goons if you're struggling to find recorded voicework, keep on the lookout for the live version
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Apr 5, 2012 02:23
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blinkeve1826 posted:Okay, so, remember this project from the last page? You're probably knee deep in working out who is possibly doing what at this stage but at a quick glance is there any male role you know you haven't had any applications for yet? Or is it best to voice what we'd like to go for and try our luck? 
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Mar 24, 2014 00:17
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blinkeve1826 posted:
Email sent
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Apr 30, 2014 02:59
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Please read this and let me pay you money to write things
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The Joe Man posted:Just finished a large chunk of work on an upcoming RPG and they now mentioned that they want 16 more voices. Since I've already done 8 myself, I've kinda hit my limit on suitable character variation. Love to be part of this if you're still looking for voices
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Jun 16, 2014 23:20
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The Joe Man posted:
Sending you these shortly!
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Sep 18, 2014 04:06
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MockingQuantum posted:My current recording space has some horrendous flutter echo. It's not the worst thing in the world, but it's more noticeable when I'm trying to record VO. I'm planning on building some absorption panels, but in the meantime is there anything I can do that's quick and cheap to at least lessen the issue? Would putting some blankets up on the walls be enough to make it worth the hassle? Egg cartons are also a poor man's sound deadening (my music class at high school used them for years until the built proper panels) just use the part the eggs sit on, not the lid. Also keep mics pointed away from reflective surfaces such as screens and windows to limit bounce.
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May 23, 2015 09:23
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MockingQuantum posted:While egg cartons do actually have some absorption to them, it's nigh-useless. Combine that with how insanely flammable they are and there's no reason to ever do this. The ones we have here are all cardboard - I can't remember seeing a foam version in Australia. But still flamable of course.
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May 24, 2015 01:30
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CuddleChunks posted:Our egg cartons are made of cardboard but egg carton foam is this stuff: Ahh that stuff! Still seen in many a country radio station production suite to this day (just don't lean against it..)
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May 25, 2015 00:35
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Edit: All spots filled on the project, thanks for all the help Goons!
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Jun 24, 2019 06:56
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I don't have Discord but I'll be getting it now - thanks Jossi! Edit: My god, this place is massive. In as Almigo, thanks again!! Camo Guitar fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Jun 24, 2019 23:54
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WarpedNaba posted:I'd give it a shot, but it's winter right now so when I get back from the gym my voice box does the best impression of a walnut. A walnut...in space?
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Jun 25, 2019 12:51
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SwitchbladeKult posted:Is there a deadline? I'd love to have all voices filled/locked down at least by the Friday week (July 5) after that I'll be plugging the parts into the project as they filter through.
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Jun 25, 2019 22:02
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One voice filled for the project a few posts up - plenty left if you're keen. Participation may increase your sex appeal. Results may vary.
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Jun 29, 2019 07:04
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First ep of Space D.I.R.T done - thanks to everyone who shot through an audition! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK6_UkCeuxc Now to work on the next ep!
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Jul 30, 2019 02:19
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Edward Mass posted:Yeah. I don't talk about him much because I've had auditions, but no actual gigs. Literally the only paying VO work I've done I got from doing Space D.I.R.T., which got posted in this very thread! And that was enough for a couple of beers so the money would have well and truly be gone by now
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Jan 31, 2020 08:17
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As long as it was just a script and you didn't have to watch it..
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Feb 9, 2020 04:24
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Seconding Audition as I was using it right up until my station decided they didn't want to pay for any more Adobe licenses. Haven't played with pro tools for over 10 years ago but I remember it being as good as the user and the guy I worked with setup EQ settings for every single voice in the building and knew his craft so well, his work was incredible. No idea what a setup for it would be nowadays but at least they moved into plug in boxes rather than massive cards c:
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Jul 7, 2020 22:40
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Emailed a couple of voices too - looks like a great project!
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Aug 31, 2020 06:42
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