Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions. UPDATED WITH NEW ANIMATION DEMO!

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Element 117

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

The weird growling voice fails. You tend to do better with the higher, nervous type voices, (not the pitch altered ones) but I'd love to see you take on type voices
 
Shawn

Shawn

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

I've done better with the growling voice. It's a tough one to do over an extended line. Marc's probably going to cut that one down in length. I'm sure he'll cut the Godfather one either down in length or completely out as well. The new stuff I recorded today seemed pretty solid. Had a british metal head, a french version of Spider-man's Trapster villain, a scientist, an army sergeant, and a character using the voice I used for the Diddy Kong commercial in my other demo.
 
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Matt²

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Shawnacy said:
Just got back from another recording session with Marc. This time we recorded some additions to my old animation demo that I had done a few years ago. He's going to take my old demo and add the new voices in where needed. He's also probably going to cut the length of some of the older voices so they don't drag on as much, add some additional sounds/music as needed, and we'll see what the final result will be by some time next week.

But I thought that for the time being I would attach the first version of my animated demo. See if you folks like any of those. And then when I post the updated version you can check out the additions and differences.
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the last half sounded better than the first. You sound best when not going out of your natural vocal range. I really enjoyed the demo though, keep it up!
 
Shawn

Shawn

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Matt² said:
the last half sounded better than the first. You sound best when not going out of your natural vocal range. I really enjoyed the demo though, keep it up!
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I totally agree. I'm sure Marc will note that as well, and likely switch the order up accordingly. It's always important to start with your strongest character. For me, right now, I think it's either the "bats" voice or the "late for work" one. But we'll see what the ones I recorded today sound like.
 
David

David

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Would you have any interest in voicing for flash cartoons? I just finished writing the script for the first episode of a potential series, and will need voice actors.

ROSS & CRAIG - Google Docs

I think your voice could fit Olrik pretty well, Shawnacy. But you're welcome to try any of the characters, if you're interested. That goes for everyone else here interested in voice acting, too.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Looks great! Would love to. Any particular way you want the voice to sound or just with my normal voice? Got a swing shift at work that's going to eat up my Sunday, but I can get you some recordings by Monday. I'll try a few tricks with my comp headset, but if I can't get good quality with that I have to invest in an MP3 recorder anyway for the voice over stuff. Just post or PM me an email that I can send the files to. Looks like a fun script.
 
David

David

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Awesome! Thanks a whole bunch!
david@dave-terry.com

Your "Bats" bit sounded like how I could imagine Olrik talking. When I first wrote him, I imagined his voice sounding kind of like Tom Kenney as Slinkman in Camp Lazlo, if you want to try something similar to that. Feel free to try it however you want.
The other characters I'm not really sure how I picture their voices yet.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Speaking of recording, does anyone know a good quality free program that I can download for recording, editing, and MP3 conversion?
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

I use Audacity, which is free, so you can try it out and if you don't like it, you didn't lose anything.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

I'll give it a shot. Basically I'm just looking for something that allows me to record, move sections of a recording, delete sections, and join seperate recordings.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Yeah, you can do all that. There's other stuff you can do, but I've only messed with moving and deleting sections. It has a lot of options; I just haven't wanted to fuck with it.
 
KCWM

KCWM

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Hey Shawnacy, if you're looking for something to record with, a company called Blue puts out a USB condenser mic called a Snowball that records voice fairly well. Mine came with the mic, small mic stand, and USB cable. I picked mine up for under $50 at a pawnshop, but they normally go for around $100. It has three different settings, though they all sound somewhat similar to me. If my morning allergies clear up, I'll record myself talking and post it for you. The snowball is actually what I used to record my song in the Artist's Corner...works great for acoustic guitar and vocals.

Man, I need to record more songs.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

I've heard about that microphone. A few folks have suggested it in the past. I'll have to look into that. If you post some samples I'd appreciate it.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

The Snowball is a pretty good starter mic, no matter what it looks like. Blue is known for decent sound. We use one at work as the 'I didn't bring a microphone of my own' mic all the time.

Audacity will do everything you need and even a whole lot more that you don't know you'll want until later. And the price can't be beat. Reaper is another free(ish) solution. There are quite a few paid solutions that are pretty easy to use, such as Record, GarageBand (Mac only), Cubase Essentials (Formerly CubaseLE, may be way more than you need), Pyro (formerly SonarLE), Abelton Live Intro (more geared towards DJ mixes, but might serve).

I only have personal experience with Cubase, GarageBand, and Record (sorta, I'm a longtime Reason user), so those are the only ones I know well enough to answer questions. I honestly think that Record and GarageBand are the best two to consider for 'get me some audio into the computer right now with as little learning curve as possible,' though.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Found a review of the Snowflake, another mic by the same company that makes the Snowball. It's a great choice if you want something portable.

--Patrick
 
Shawn

Shawn

My old animation demo has just been revitalized and expanded. A few of the weaker voices taken out, a few hopefully better ones added in. I hope to get your opinions! I've attached it to the first post.
 
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Matt²

Very good (and very loud!) ,... still love the "Oh look, bats!" .. the army guy and panicked guy is really good. Brett sounded like it was from a movie already! Good show!
 
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Matt²

see my Crazy Cat Capers for some packing info! ;)

AFA me.. dunno, I keep getting the "NO" vibe AFA moving my business down there. but I'll actually be DOWN there to see with my own eyes what the situation is like, (as far as finding a good, non entry level position somewhere I could enjoy) in a couple days so then I can tell ya better.

I can tell you - I'm tired of all the pollen, and the rain.
 
Shawn

Shawn

My allergies go crazy here when the seasons change (which they do surprisingly). But it's dryer here and that has helped me get over a lot of health issues I had in Colorado.
 
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Element 117

Voice Career or Bust. Looking for your opinions.

Much better demo this time around.

I like the war demo.
 
Shawn

Shawn

BTW, I was curious what people thought of the English and French accents. I mean they are over-the-top, but I still wonder what people's thoughts are regarding them.
 
doomdragon6

doomdragon6

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Yee! Excellent demo!

The army guy was excellent, as everyone else has been saying. All the voices were good. I'd say you have potential to get into some good stuff!

English guy: Great

French guy: A little too "I'm a doing a French accent"y as opposed to over-the-top Frenchman, if that makes sense. With some tiny tweaks it'd be great.

I like it Shawn. I really hope you get into something so I can be all I FUCKING KNOW THAT GUY!!!
 
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Element 117

start applying to Funimation.

I can't wait to see you mobbed by tween girls at cons. Haha.
 
Jay

Jay

I heard Nikto at the end! Awesome all along. I really enjoyed it. You got some real talent Shawn.

You do want criticism though right? If so, read my spoiler :

Your French accent gets points for effort but lacks timing. I don't know if you were pressed for seconds but the french are arrogant pieces of crap, thus a longer "the world belongs to me when I speak" pause will really accentuate the voice

Other than that, awesome. :)

Sent this to anyone yet?
 
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Matt²

Perfectly honest? Please forgive me if I'm brutally honest, but study up on Doctor Who before attempting the British accent (don't use Eccleston's accent! mimic Tennant's) .. just didn't sound right to my ears.. BUT the French one sounded really good!

Sorry Shawn! Please don't shoot me!

I also liked the war one as well.

hey here's a thought... how bout trying to do a few lines of the Crocs from Pearls Before Swine comics? I haven't yet figured out what accent that is supposed to be?
 
Dream Goddess

Dream Goddess

I can't stop listening to it. You sound like 6 different people! I admit, the only one I didn't care for was the French one. But, OHMAGOD, everything else = you sound like SEX ON A STICK. *swoon*
 
Shawn

Shawn

Lovin the feedback.
I'm super excited about this endevor. I hope I'm able to go far with it.
I've slowly but surely been making my way through my current list of VO agents. So far not many responses, but on the plus side no outright "No. You suck." either.

In other news I just got my Blue Snowball microphone in. I'll give it a try tomorrow and start working on the copy you gave me, David.
 
Shawn

Shawn

The Microphone works great. Though it has caused other problems by being very sensitive. For instance, due to the setup of my room, I really have little choice but to kneel on the floor when I record. Can't sit in my squeaky ass chair without the mic picking that up.
I'll probably have to invest in a music stand and some sort of hook for the mic. They sell a shock stand for an additional $40.
Heh. Now I'll need to get my roommate to run the computer for me.

It's good practice for my breathing though, as I need to learn to take breaths between lines.
I've noticed that I tend to take some annoying breaths during some of Olrik's screaming rants via David's script.
 
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