 Hey, it is time for voiceover body shop, and we got a crowd in here tonight because it's our Holiday party and you're invited We have thrown the Streamyard link into the chat room and We're leaving it up to you guys. We trust you. Yeah, but don't be shy I mean we're voice actors. It's up to me really. It's actually up to Sue. Sue's here in the show tonight It's up to Sue. Look who's here Sue is here fear is this here Hi, Fifi June and Jeff our actual chat room mod is physically here and Sue is remote for for very good reasons tonight. Sorry, Sue. Yeah, but we miss her anyway. Yeah, I Got my box of tissues. I didn't want to give you guys a head cold. Oh, yeah, appreciate that. Okay. All right Here's how this thing works. It's supposed to work like this. It's time for voiceover body shop Join us come in here and we're gonna have a great time tonight right now It's time for voiceover body shop Brought to you by voiceover essentials.com the home of Harlan Hogan signature products source elements the makers of source connect Voiceover heroes become a hero to your clients with award-winning voiceover training Voice actor websites.com where your voice actor website doesn't have to be a pain in the butt voiceover extra your daily resource for voice over success and World Voices the industry association of freelance voice talent and Now here's your hosts Dan and George Well, hello there. I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whitton and this is voiceover body shop or vo Be Finally a crowd in here to do this stuff with there. They all are We got a big crowd over here. There's my hand in the way is George and Frugia and Jeff Holman our our medias are yeah, he's here in the flesh In fact, this is the last time fears and Jeff saw each other too was when he was here in the studio Before pandemic before in the before time. Yeah. Yeah, we got to get you on Mike Jeff get yourself a little bit closer to that one You can swing it around or just pull it around closer to yeah, whatever Extended there you go Yes, doing tech stuff on the fly. Well, we're here You can use this mic while he's done. You know, I could do that. Yeah, you got the controls. I know I am controlling these things That's it, what's my which Mike are you on George? Okay, okay. All right now I got it. Never tap the mic. Never do what I just did never never do that Never do this scratch. Yes. So it's it's the holiday. So all right tonight is Tonight is the last night of Hanukkah. It's so actually it's over now because the sunset gotcha. So it's no longer Hanukkah and Have your jelly donuts or is that not of course? I had my jelly doughnuts. So we've gone out. It's what they're called and Lotkas and I have lot this here tonight, but you're not here. So Sorry, but we we're having we're having a little bit of a party here as you can see Yeah Twisted twist it the other way. There you go. He's made it tight This was the adjustable boomstrap Harlan, where's the adjustable boomstrap? Send us another one, right? We lost the other. Yes Anyway, if you would like to join us here on voiceover body shop tonight and be part of the party George has put the Streamyard link into the chat. Have you not I did I did put the stream yard link into the chat All you got to do is click on it and that will put it you in the waiting room and at any time We can throw to you and bring you into the show and Sue is in control, right? So while while we're here, why don't we talk to the guys that really make it happen on our show? And that's Sue and Jeff because Sue is our director. She's the one doing all the switching and all that stuff and Okay, and George is No, he does his thing I'm doing this part right and Jeff who's making lots of noise with that microphone is okay All right He is our he's our guy that runs the chat room so when if you have questions or something like that you type it in the chat room whether you're in Facebook or whether you're on YouTube or you're at our website vobs.tv which is actually YouTube and And that way You can be part of the show That's right. We want to have you guys here to just to hang out with us. It's tonight's an informal informal night We're just very informal very important. I feel like we're doing a telethon or something. Yes, so send your money now We don't usually we did to the end of the show usually ask you for your money tonight. We're starting right off from the top Improv yes That's that's the whole point hey we're voice actors We need to know improv and it's so great to have all of you here with us tonight So make sure you click on those links, which is now in the in the chat room there and You can join us. Do not be shy. I I'm always fascinated by the fact that people are The three voice actors. They're they're shy. They're like, oh, I don't want to be okay I don't want anyone to hear me. You're in the wrong business if you think that so Anyway, you need to be able to step up and speak up when you need to be heard. That's right Um, anyway, so tell us I was about to ask Sue. Yeah, because Sue is the one that makes everything happen And we've been doing it remote for Geez now over, you know Almost three years now. Is it three years? Yeah, 20 20 21 20. Yeah yeah, and You know it's interesting when we first started doing remote because what we used was like the remote team viewer or no Or zoom share my screen or something. Oh, yeah, and then using a Mac on this side and Remoting into a PC. It wouldn't let me like cut and paste. It was like some different little Things that you couldn't do on a PC that you can't do on a Mac and vice-versa Little complicated. Yeah, cuz we switched from v-mix to Streamyard when right at the beginning of the pandemic right at the beginning of the pandemic great timing Well, I think I guess I think we try to run the show remote via v-mix for a while Right doing it completely remotely and that was such a difficult Challenge. It was like it hurt my brain every time. Oh my gosh. It was so hard to do we did it for a while We suffered through it. Well, you had you had all these different connections in here Here's how we hear this person. Okay, and then we put this one here. Here's how we hear that person Yeah, and really complicated. Yeah, and the thing was I think we kept thinking like a lot of people did that This is not gonna last forever. No Chris told pandemic thing. So why bother solving it permanently? But I think by June or July realized this ain't going anywhere anytime soon So that's I don't know if that was when we did the stream yard, but somewhere around there It was yeah within the last two and a half years or so. Yeah, really. It's really helped The stress level of producing this show. Yeah a lot Yeah, when you consider how things have been set up in the past. This is yeah, this is this is like drawing with crayons It really is and before that we had a thing called wirecast Do you remember that? Yeah, they ran through the beast. We had a giant Mac Pro Tower computer We have had at least five distinctly unique system that we've shown on it took five computers in one dog to run it So we do have someone in our in our green room, I don't know if we want to introduce him or not sure oh my gosh It's Geron McGuire Bring him on board 12 I've been watching you since the beginning guys you may not have known this But I remember when you were buddy Hawking little useless And you know all things from Buffalo, but I tell you I've learned so much from you guys I appreciate you. You're wonderful. I've had you've had great holidays great guys Well, thanks, and how's your career going these days? What career? So You're just retired and you're like I watch some voiceover thing all the time Look, I just keep watching you because I've you know because I love you I think you think you're all very entertaining and I find George really interesting and I you know and I communicate with my pal back in Australia, you know, you know, I'm talking about and You know, I'd like to fiddle around with equipment and stuff like that So I enjoy it but on a personal side Daniel depreciate that my wife of over 30 years died last this time I've been in isolation since So you need a community around you Gerard, yeah, absolutely and you guys are fun Thank you. I'm having a dinner right now and some Irish whiskey, which is an appropriate thing for an Irish person Cheers Cheers, so we're boy you anymore get on with the show. All right, watch it. All right. Your peas and mash exactly Yeah, yes So anyway, we're so we were we're asking you. It's like so how hard is it to do this stuff now? Since you can now sit in your dining room and you're done there and do it from there It's not it's not really even that difficult anymore. It's Because v-mix we had to build the show every single week, you know, it was it was like a rebuild And just learning that was difficult and then we kind of conquered that So it's pretty it's pretty basic it's pretty simple. I mean, it's definitely some limitations with stream yard With not having a back room, you know, but they've They've made it easier over the past year and half they listen to their fans. They're very Open to suggestions and yeah, they do make changes and it's it's been pretty easy to do this That's the one real missing feature right is the green room kind of thing where you can have a like we're all the guests Can maybe can talk to each other behind the scenes like there's no back channel Like Gerard should be able to talk to whoever else is in the waiting room And we should be able to talk to them and back and forth in some kind of way So hopefully that's gonna come. Yeah, so if you want to sound like Gerard, which is hard to do because he's really good You're going to go into you know look go into the chat room where you see the link for stream yard and Join us because we want to see you we want to hear you because we're voice actors and we want to hear what's going on with you Anyway, so our our other big guy here is Is Jeff Holman? Hey there. Yeah, how you doing? Good, how are you good? So your job is social media and chat room stuff That's right That's right. I talked to the fans get their questions Transcribe them for you guys so you can see them the show notes Yep. Yep sounds like a really hard job Well, you know, I I enjoy it I like to Not just you know take the questions and put them in but you know be like I like that question or yeah That's let's uh, let's wait and hear what they say about that or I'll bet it's this but let's see what they say So and that's and that those are the skills that one needs as as a producer You're not bad. We lost your camera. I try to be I'll fix that I know how to fix that now you make sure like they get their questions heard and yeah A couple of times yeah, it gets down to the end and you're like, oh, it's we're about out of time. I'm like, no No, let's get that last one in Jeff I really like the way you communicate with everyone on the boards like you welcome them and Sorry, I like the way you communicate with everyone on the boards. I think it's pretty cool And they're familiar with you being there and just thank you very much Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's neat. That's the important part about about the chat room is that it is a community And we want people to participate as a community and Jeff's in charge of making sure that happens And that's always good to good to hear and good to see So, uh, but you've you've had an amazing 2022. Have you not you've been in you you were in a It wasn't it did it win an Academy Award? No, it was nominated for an Academy Award, but but being the Riccardo's was It didn't it didn't win but that's okay. It was great to be nominated, you know in a film that was nominated For the actors and it was really cool. It was great. We're getting to work with them giving a dog bomb. Yes Yeah, I love this little puppy dog. He's huge. We do have another Interloper. Oh good. We'll get to we'll get to Mike in a second here Yeah, but but Jeff was telling us about his experience being a Hollywood bigwig now, you know I mean, it was wonderful to watch the movie and like hey, there's Jeff And you've been doing a couple of TV series too, right? That's right. That's right. I was on Yellow Jackets last year and We'll see if they call me up again this year but Yeah, I've been doing some stuff one up to You know went out to film some things can't really talk about So like a second quarter 2023, but yeah some got some stuff coming up We just started watching minks and I saw your I saw your your bid in that Do you show up later in the episode or was that a kind of a one scene? No, that was just a that was just a I mean, I'm in that one episode, but not not any more of the series. Yeah, okay. I don't need to watch the rest Yeah, how long if you've been out here in Hollywood and waiting for the opportunity to do stuff like that Yeah, well, I've been an actor ever since I was in the first grade, but professionally out here for 25 years Wow, and so you did what you know theater and you did small films and Yeah, yeah back in Denver. I did a lot of theater and and local short films and stuff like that and and then Finally took the plunge and came out here 25 years ago and and I've been doing it ever since So I made my living now man, I mean It just I just want to say like the stick to it of Ness the persistence To to be in this business and do that year after year be rejected thousands of times Get on some shows and keep doing it. You're it's just Every time I see an actor who's made it on it on any show let alone the A list celebrities It just I blows my mind. It's a level of I Don't know. It's a level of tenacity that I can't imagine having to want to keep coming back and just saying That wasn't the one for me, but I'm gonna try it again. Thanks man. I appreciate it. Yeah No, we were so proud of you that it's like we know you've been working at it And it was really cool to see you up on the literally on the silver screen. Yeah, and and you and you were great I mean you I can see why they cast you in that particular part in the The one about the Well, the only problem is we know who you are so the illusion of you disappearing But you embody that character you disappear into the character, which is the whole that's the whole thing That's the whole point, right? So, yeah, I know it's you're doing well. Thanks you guys. I really appreciate you saying that Well, we really appreciate all you do for us, you know get keeping the chat room in order who else is here Yeah, who do we got well Gerard is still in there somebody was in there and then they left. Yeah, come on back I couldn't hold on, but yeah, hopefully I'll come back. Oh, okay. Oh, it's Conrad Yeah Was Conrad in here too on his show on your son? Okay? Yeah, all right So what were we talking about? Oh, we were talking about what we were going from Transitioning smoothly without any kickups from our friend Jeff to whoever's in the chat room right that room person left I'm trying to get Uncle Roy to join. I've sent him the link a few times Uncle Roy click on the link and join us. Will you already? Yeah for gosh sakes. We need to see him polishing his Emmy Please come and polish your Emmy with us So, you know We do this show for a very specific reason it's because well the original idea was specifically Just utter shameless promotion of what George and I do which has helped people with their home voiceover studios and stuff But then we had Pat Freiland Like the second week we did the I'm like, okay now we have to interview some important guests and some almost 12 years later. We're still doing it. Yeah, it's a lot of fun Yeah, I'm glad the technology is getting less obtrusive in the process You know it used it used to feel like the whole job of doing the show was just getting the show on the air Yeah, and now it's like the job of getting you know now we can like spend time talking about the show What we're gonna do and adding more elements to the show and it's just it's just how you we can finally just more freely Produce this thing and not feel like every show is Apollo 13 Right? It was for a long time, right? Oh, yeah every week. It's Apollo 13 The reference being that Apollo 13 used to have a problem. Yeah, who weren't around for that one It was almost it was touch-and-go. You never knew they were gonna die in that capsule or make it I had that's how the show that's for a long full confidence in NASA to bring and that's why we never Invited Tom Hanks. I Never travel with that man Cannot be trusted COVID Yeah, you're in a spaceship or a boat. Just don't travel with them Yeah, wasn't either first guy to famous the first really famous person with COVID he was he was that's what it's like Oh, I guess it's real Well, we gotta get Uncle Roy on so Uncle Roy Yokelson What whatever body shop you're on you're right. Hey, I'm on here. I am Here I am Happy last night of Hanukkah and Merry Christmas and Festivus and whatever it is that you're that's celebrating this week Uncle Roy Can you hear us? He's still listening to the Yeah, you're 30 seconds behind there Roy. You gotta actually turn up your radio. Yeah, turn the radio down How do I fix that? You can mute the browser window that you are watching the show on or close that yeah So if you're watching in Facebook or something like that Facebook Facebook, okay? Yeah, and then the audio there and now you should be here I shut off Facebook there, but that gives me a heart attack to not be on Facebook So yeah, so these socks What about those socks? They're Chinese food containers and Oh, yeah, now I can see it Fortune cookies because that's what we do for Christmas, right? Isn't that what you do Dan? Yeah, many times. Yes Dan's enjoying his new camera that I recommended that he get and it you'll notice it automatically zooms away from his face whenever There we go now That was automated there sure you don't have to just tighten that screw that you know like the microphones dip like that It's basically a chicken head camera, you know, it's got the little head that can move around like this You know, oh, it's in a while the head of the camera just goes like this Insta 360 everybody yeah, send them a letter. Yeah, well, we've seen you an awful lot in 2022 there Right because you we were we saw you in Toronto. We got to physically leave our cells, right? Not too many right you saw me in Atlanta, Toronto Dallas Yeah, I and I saw you in my my house George saw me at my house. That's right. I'm Washington and Now we've added now. You'll see me in Orlando next year. Yeah, right. We'll see you there May 4th through the 7th It's Dan's fault and neither of us have given each other COVID yet. Oh I got it in Dallas. So, oh I'm sorry. I missed that one. I'm really happy. I had a feeling that was gonna be a massive COVID Festival and that was one of the reasons I didn't go to but but so was beyond north and I didn't I didn't catch anything there But 30 people got COVID. Yeah. Yeah, I avoided it, too. That was terrible Actually, I wore a mask a lot. I remember Yeah, we were we were we're trying to mask quite a bit that everybody like that show here I have do you like this? How's that? Oh very cute. Love it Love it You know what? I think that show is so well loved because they kept the scale, you know me Manageable in terms of size and I think that's the golden thing that makes a lot of the the show is successful Is they keep the scale? Keep it small. Yeah, like Mavo Mavo, right? I haven't been till yet, but I hear that one's a hundred or so 125 something like that. Yeah, it was like I'm around a hundred. It was a lot of fun Actually, it keeps the you know what the show that really started that whole micro thing the micro conference was Fafcon, right? Yes. Yeah, the whole Fafcon. They kind of started the micro conference and that That keeping that energy going and all these other Michael on conference the on conference on nothing scheduled about it That's right. Yeah, what will con is going to be a little bit more like that Yeah, that's cool. More more intimate that way. So nice. You have to join world voices to find out why Be there because you have to be a member to come to the local car Which is really important, but Uncle Roy will be there George will be there. I'll be there There'll be all sorts of people that's three good reasons to go right there exactly exactly And and everybody should put September 30th and October 1st on their calendar to come to my house. Oh That's right for the annual 18th annual Where George live streams seven hours? I think I watched an hour and a half of it this year It's still in the archives if anybody wants to see it badly enough. Let me know just go just go on Facebook and search Uncle Roy's 17th annual and it's right there. Boom links right there. Yeah, I appreciate that Always a good time lots of voice over people from the Tri-state area. Yeah, well and and farther well this year. We're gonna have all of Canada there. So Yeah, Devin row her husband Ellie Ray Kim handy sides, oh, you know the good Canadians would all the good ones Well, it's gonna be not conflicting with can it Canadian Thanksgiving, right? The reason that was the screw up now I understand yes, it was It was the Columbus Day weekend Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, who knew but now we know and now it's gonna be even better Had it been the weekend before it was pouring rain. So it was it wasn't upside to You're right. I'm digging those radios behind George's head. I know they're not they're not his but Another dance. Those are those are all my radios That there's a 1928 Peter Pan, which is black one That black one there so it'll make just that one. Yeah, that's a theta. Yeah, I have one that looks Except my grill is black. Yeah, you know if those of you who know radios, which is probably none of you Minor over there is somewhere You really have to zoom in a lot to go see him But yeah, but Roy and I have a competing collection here and microphones too. There's some matter microphone Yes, in there. Yeah, yeah got an RCA 77 Okay, you've got the one I don't have DX or yeah, okay Yeah with a new ribbon and then the Altec Western Electric 639 Combination ribbon and dynamic the bird cage bird cage exactly Yeah, see now. Now, you know that you were taught listening to two real old radio Like that all the cockas are here. Yeah, there's the Altecocker set free to join our panel tonight if you want to change the subject We're gonna talk old radios folks. Yeah Microphones. Yeah, and old microphones Yeah, so so tell us a little bit about what some of the other stuff that you do aside from attending lots of conferences for the food and And the bagels and the bagels my carry-on luggage as everybody knows is three or four dozen bagels So I'll be bringing them to Orlando because Orlando probably doesn't have good bagels, right, right Yeah, we've just finished Val Kelly's animation demo We're gonna release it January 3rd. She'll do a little mini podcast and we'll put it out there. I Co-directed with Before we started We're back the stream yard went Wow, what happened in the sky for five seconds fast forward. What happened there? Go ahead. I don't know what was the question Tell us a little bit about ant land productions and all the stuff that you Make killer demos. I'm in friendly competition with Dan and George. I don't design studios like George. That's his thing But yeah Adobe audition is my thing if you Would like my two-hour life changing Adobe audition set up and training session. There's that Little plug I get a lot of clients that have had that and they rave about it. That's good I think Dan said if anybody asks about an Adobe set up, he's just gonna send them to me. So I appreciate that Right George is too busy with Tired of the one-on-ones just just sign up for a webinar. Yeah, I don't know Trish Besany was telling me I should restart recording content and this way send out some content pre-recorded and I won't have to spend all my but but it's a social event I who wants who wouldn't want to spend two hours just talking about old radios with me, right? You know, but you know what? Uncle Roy, I love that you do that you do make it two hours like you're not trying to pack it in Get it done as fast as humanly pop. You're giving him two full hours. It's too generous It's it's too generous hours and everybody learns at their own pace and some people I can get it all in file splitting and multi-track it and most people Might need a third hour, you know, because yeah by the time I show them everything I know their head is exploding. So they have to take a breath a breath Now they don't have to take that and and digest a little bit and you get a print out of my Workflow and everything and so if you want a fast workflow and shiny audio Especially with Adobe, what do you type in there, Sue? I'm not I'm not typing anything. It's Jeff. No. Oh Jeff Jeff's doing his job. That's that's what Sue's head was moving like I was agreeing. I I do a do be everything in Adobe. So Okay, please join the class. We're doing a little bit of a teacher. I don't need to take your you can teach my class. I love it Oh Yes, and we just had the 12 of you gifts of Christmas with the Mark Scott What he's going on No mispronounce it it's Adobe not a doobie. Yeah, he said a doobie. Yeah Oh, that's what I thought he was talking about. Oh, you can teach about a doobie. Oh Like right here. Oh man That's a good sweater. I knew you'd like it. I wore a sweater that my mother made for me when I was 11 That's my ugly sweater. It's what would you put it on now? I could put it on it's a little short Because I was I was a little shorter than does it go over the belly button or does it not quite make it over the belly button Just it's like belly button Yeah, the trance stamp and the belly button just peeks out right underneath the edge Well, that's all right. It's a good thing. I have all these other shirts on Tough to hide the belly button Belly buttons hidden by the Grinch's foot Hey, look everybody else we'd love you to join us and be part of the party. Yeah on voiceover My name is Grace. I see you all in there Well Your art there he's waving. Yeah, okay. We'll come back to Gerard in a second. You know what else we got to talk to We have to talk to Fifi Fifi Yes, everyone's asking There's a lot of people going who's the lovely lady next to George. Yeah You're famous already. Yeah What's new oh, what's new You're back safe and there Pee-pee was on the delay feed Yeah, how are you doing? Why did you come to the show tonight? This is the last show of the year the last show ever hold on I didn't ever know What Yes And then we're gonna shoot the first show of 2023 after this. Oh my god That's why we're here for two full hours And that's why there's food That's Mishka Mishka she is so lovely she is a beautiful She stopped parking and that's the best part Yes, we're bribing your dog with chips. Yes, she will eat anything But I got a really nice time and Joshua tree together. That's where we decided to spend our Christmas Eve Christmas together and Boy, if you're in if you're in the Southern California area and you want to get away from everything for a while I Can't vote strongly enough for Joshua tree. Yeah, I hear the stargazing there is amazing next And it's still reasonably affordable like rent like a house, especially if you can do a little bit spontaneously Yeah, we got a usually good deal on a place because we did it last minute, you know People don't want to have their places empty, you know Oh, it's like a huge deal deals and we got this place was like 80% off. Wow Oh, it was awesome. Yeah, it was beautiful and quiet and peaceful and Windows it But then our friends good friends of fear is those are architect designers and they got to build their own desert house Which is completely like open space all around the house And it's got a big it's got a pool in the back But deep enough and long enough to swim laps and a jacuzzi and you can sit out there and literally stargaze. It's just That's amazing. It's insane Airbnb in the next couple of probably month or so. Okay, when they get it done Anyway, we've had a wonderful time That's great. That's terrific. My daughter would be here except she is ice skating She had a very important ice skating meetup with her buddy We have watched her grow up on this show When you think about it When you moved here, she was about a little bigger than the dog Do you remember crawling around? Oh, yeah, wouldn't sit still and she was like Totally ants in the pants, you know, like she could now it's like I can't get her to move Yeah, well, no, she'd always want to go in the house and play with my wife. Well, yes She would be entertained by your wife, right? I got snacks. Boom. She's gone. Yeah out the door Yeah, but now it's like I can barely to get her to move. So when she said I'm going ice skating I was like, go ahead kid go do something outside. George. Why are you too close? Should you back off? No, this camera was like this close before right? So that's why I called it George too close. Oh, okay. Oh, okay Well, guess what guys we want you on this show I see Mike Cunningham's gonna be joining us and I'll go Roy is with us We got a if you want to be on click on the StreamYard link that is in one of the chat rooms whether you're watching I keep pace pasting it keep pasting it in Because we want to see more people in next half hour, but we're gonna take a quick break And we'll be right back after these good messages on voiceover body shot. Don't go away This is the Latin lover narrator from Jane the Virgin Anthony Mendez and you're enjoying Dan and George on the voiceover body shot well, Merry Christmas and Merry Christmas. We are celebrating Christmas twice Never seen that before but then I'm old Go figure. 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It's my time to talk about source connect Well source elements in general anyway, so source elements as you guys are all well aware by now Is a company that's innovating for years good mute just Mike and they've been Innovating for years creating remote collaboration tools and there's some cool stuff coming next year that I've heard some teasers about that I can't talk about But source connect and source nexus are the big ones that are going to be in use by so many studios Nexus is interesting because it's a tool set that's going to allow Connecting together not only different things around the world remotely But also things within your own computer and when that is becomes fully realized in its next level a layer of functionality It's gonna be a game changer for the way productions work remotely I guarantee it But even today you can get nexus I think it's version 1.2 and it lets you bring audio into your DAW from other Software, so let's say you are producing yourself a podcast and you want to record what's coming out of Well, I don't know zoom or any other software even a chrome browser You can have that record into a track in your DAW all through nexus So it's an extremely useful tool for production You don't need to use source connect with nexus nexus is just a means of routing audio from here to there Inside your computer, so it's something worth checking out if that might be up your alley But anyway, we want to thank source elements their support for the show has been Unwavering for over six years. We really appreciate your support Over all of you at source elements and let's get back to the show after just a couple more quick spots right after this Don't do not make me go to I think Sue just got kicked off one maybe that's what it is You know the whole night we've been singing the praises of StreamYard and simplicity That's that comes with using a tool set like this, but the thing is folks It's still running on a web browser Yeah, and anybody knows in professional production Relying on web browsers to run everything not always the greatest idea true and this is an exact reason why But here's the next spot that should we do a spotlight we could know we don't have to do a spot I just have to click this hey there I'm David H. Lawrence the 17th and with my company VO heroes and my team of coaches and my community a voiceover talent We guide voiceover actors along their journey You may be watching VOBS here and not nearly as far along as many of the other people who are watching You may not even have started yet, and we actually specialize in helping you do just that So if you're watching all the stuff going on here on VOBS and going I have no idea what they're talking about I don't know, but I really want to do this. I'd really like to help you Please go to VO heroes comm slash start. That's a VO heroes comm slash start And you can take our getting started in voiceover class Which tells you everything you need to get started as a voice talent And I'd love to hold your hand along the way and help you with that journey Again, VO heroes comm slash start. That's VO heroes comm slash start. Well, let's get to some other people who are here Somebody's been very patient with us, and that's Mike Cunningham. Mike. Welcome to the show. Hi. How are you? Good? We're good Excellent. I uh, this is the first time I've actually come to check this out. This is your first time here It is a grace introduced me to it and so figured I'd show up and see what was going on And I saw Terry and a bunch of other folks. I know and Uncle Roy and seemed like the place to be Way to show up Mike. Yeah, really by showing up you showed up Oh Everything going really can So tell us It's a little bit about Your oh, I'm losing your voice over. I think we're frozen up Journey so far. There we go. I think we caught up. Um, well, oh, yeah Yeah, I wonder if it's my end up for Well, I've been doing this for about a year now. I met up with a bunch of really slight internet issue That'll happen So tell us a little bit about how your voice of your journey is going It's it's starting to pick up now. Finally. I've been doing this for about a year and started getting coached by Tim Powers real great guy and Was very unsure of myself about all of this for a very very long time and Excellent. All right. Well, you tell us a little bit about what you got in your studio there right now. I'm using a Mojave Audio MMA 200. I've got a Mo 2M2 interface and I got this lovely road And I can't remember the model name the the one a one-plus arm for Christmas The AI one. Yeah, the interface for the arm the arm the arm. Oh the arm a one-plus. Yes, PSA one-plus Yeah, it's the one that has like a sleeve over it. Yeah, make any noises when you love it. Love it Yeah, it's well-designed. I have one too super psyched about it. I mean, uh, this whole thing I built with my bare hands What are we in a closet a box? No, I built I built a fully insulated Like room. It's freestanding. I have a small house I live in a little Cape Cod and I didn't have a closet because these don't really have closets So I had to figure out what to do. Otherwise, I would just end up listening to my dogs parking me all day So I built a little you know some ventilations lighting all this and rock wall insulation. It's been it's been pretty great That's great. It sounds sounds pretty good. Yeah, it's not bad For not knowing what I'm doing Well, you probably know more now than you did then that's for sure certainly true That's great. Well, we're glad you're here. That's your first time actually watching the show and it is and you get to be on Other people been watching for almost 11 years and haven't shown their mugs yet You know the sun shines on a dog's butt every once in a while, right? Good absolutely Then well, thanks for joining us. Yeah, thank you very much for having me This is really neat. Yeah, we think it's neat too, which is why we keep doing it And if you stick around to the second hour, we'll be talking tech. So yeah, so stick around So yeah, let's be here. All right, great. All right What else we got to talk to well, we're waiting for Jim Edgar who keeps turning off his oh, there he is So now we're gonna add I didn't let me in tonight. I thought that I didn't have a red hat or anything I've got the fez didn't get here through you Jim Edgar you are you're in one of the one of the I Generally count on one hand guys who actually know What we're talking about when it comes to home voiceover studios and you're one of them. Oh, thank you Thank you, you know and people people come to you So tell us a little bit about you and your voiceover stuff and the stuff that you do Yeah, I'm thinking I'm gonna stick with it. I'm kind of like No, I I've kind of fumbled my way into voiceover in about 2007 I was working full-time in retail marketing and things like that and started taking some classes and Just knew I had to do it for the rest of my life So also what I found about like the second voiceover class ever took was that All those years watching tape rewind and trying to make computers talk to instruments in the studio is paid off Because who knew you had to record yourself, but so yeah It was it was well They used to tell people like the first class I took they all told us how when we went to our agency We'd have to you know, find a quiet corner so we could concentrate on the script and about a month later They stopped saying that because all the Bay area of I'm up in the San Francisco Bay area The agencies up here told everybody to stay home and record themselves So hence the the little side gig that came along with everything else at that point where I started helping people set up studios So That's kind of kind of continued to be a thing So I'm lucky enough to to get to do this is my day job. So it's a nice thing plus I get to hang out with guys like you So I get you guys totally locked up to me, but I will maybe I could do like little sock puppets for each of you Well Jim, thank you very much. Would you please you know send us a check so that we put this on the air Okay, sure that sounds good Perhaps I'll do something like that Now you're back. Okay, good. I didn't think I could keep going there for a while. That's good. That's good. So I Figured I'd pop on just so I could be someone who's alive and moving. Okay. No, we got other people who want to come in here Come on. You still got a chance We still got about 10 minutes if you want to come on and say happy holidays and all that and what I didn't say Thank you to all's y'all yet. So let me if I can take me off you have you have the floor I've been with you since it was east-west and At that point you were like a voice of sanity that said you don't have to like put gobs of compression and reverb on every voice-over thing So thank you for what you've done to the community for the last 23 three decades. I think you've been on the air something like that. No, it's the 12 years 12 years. Thank you both Thank you all for that Well our job here is to do Is to say this do less You must do less Sounds fair, you know, we a lot of us come from production radio music recording We have all these incredible tools at our disposal and so we tend to want to use them My favorite thing to do Jim. I don't know how often you get to go into people's studios But to physically unplug a lot of stuff. It's nice. Yes You don't need a 24 channel board for doing voiceover through a single mic Yeah, I'm really speaking. That's what I found the first time I walked in the Don LaFontaine studio I could get a 32 by 8 Console Very nice sitting in there. I was like who sold you this Well, you can keep your lunch warm. It's nice. So you got that going good point. Yeah. Yeah, so it's been I also know Jim and I also have this shared affinity for bicycles were kind of pretty huge bike nerds. Yeah Jen would probably you would admit to that, right? I would definitely yeah I worked in the bike industry for a lot of years and I'm one of those silly people who likes bikes that don't let you coast So I kind of like that and I like, you know, I'll Get any excuse to get out on the trails. So we still you still owe me a trail ride when you come up here So we totally do and you're in you're in the I'm just north of San Francisco. So I've got the area of Marin County Yeah, so we've got all the mountains and other trails up here to go hit. So that must be beautiful Yeah, we'll be up there. We'll be up there. Sure. Excellent. It's kind of excellent call ahead. All right. I will Okay, okay, let's see here we have Terry brisco What's up Terry to see again Pump up your game turn up the game pump up the jams. Sorry. I was doing a dubbing session. They like halfway Yeah, exactly. Make sure you said it back then. Yeah So, where are you located? I'm in Clarksburg, Maryland about 20 minutes outside of DC. Yeah, okay That's why we ran into each other in Washington You were there at Mavo Right, exactly and I got to meet you at Uncle Roy's. Yes, you did That's right, man. That's right. That was great. You're lucky to have electricity. I understand I heard some folks in your knuck of the woods lost power right before Christmas There were some yes, there were some and we also had a plane hit a transformer a couple weeks ago, too So, oh great tree always exciting. Oh, wait, is that the plane that got hit a pole and was hanging from the pole? Yeah, that's my that's probably like 10 minutes from my house. Oh Wow Not quite close enough to hear it, but you might have seen the flashing in the sky though, huh? I think they flew down from New York Was it like a big plane like a airbus? No, it was a last night. Yeah I was like the one that landed in the ocean in Santa Monica a couple days ago Yeah, you guys hear about that and I missed that one Mayor of Santa Monica from the 60s. Yeah, it was flying with somebody else just going for a ride They crash landed in the surf right next to the pier They wouldn't anybody somehow didn't anybody. Yeah, and unfortunately the mayor the former mayor didn't survive. Oh, yeah pilot Just had minor cuts and scrapes, but the mayor did not live. Is that strange irony or what? That's very Very bizarre anyway Man, it's been nice to have you. I'm glad you could join us tonight You got you got any parting shots about how we can what we might do in the show for 2023 to take it to the next level Yeah, really. Oh man. Oh I wouldn't tell you to change a thing keep doing what you're doing I love the guests that you guys have a lovely to have a tech talk in addition to things. So I mean I've gotten some great advice over the year And you have the best staff in the world We like those two for sure. Yeah, thanks, man. Great to see you guys. Happy holidays. I hang out for tech talk if you got a question there, too All right, so yes, you know Sue and I are now fighting over the Back Dan, then yeah, you can relax Control your camera whenever it wants to look over See, it's it's not doing it, but it will it will zoom now. Is it gonna zoom now? It's working. Do it again. Do it again Here we go. So you go up There how do you like them apples? That's cool, man Yeah, but we'll bring everybody on to say goodbye. Maybe well, we will in a second. Let's see. Is there is anybody left here? I want to jerk Gerard has walked away Uncle Roy is just staring into his into his He's here. Okay Okay, so but I would have liked to have seen more of you But I would say you should stay and hang out for tech talk Then we'll get into some really heavy-duty stuff this was just a little bit of a party because we want to thank you guys for watching the show all these years and and that's really what makes it happen is you guys asking questions and Telling us what you need to know and we'll tell you What it is supposedly that we know We'll make up everything else. That's right. We'll leave it up to you to figure out which is which we'll call Jim Edgar or something Are you kidding? We taught all these guys everything they that's right Whipper snappers. Yeah So anyway, there's a lot of gray hair tonight Dan and most of it wasn't ours I know I'm assuming these guys have been at it for a while. All right. Well, okay I'm gonna let everybody all right Sue let everybody in you know have control we give the control of your TV set back to you the hangers on Gerard Mike. Hi, thanks for joining us Yeah, you're welcome guys. This is great. All right. Well hang out for tech talk because we want to talk tech Definitely got some questions for that. Okay super duper. All right. Well, we're gonna take a break right now We'll be right back to get things rolling for the next hour right after this. So don't go away It's not the top of the hour yet we still have another break here. 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That's voice over x t r a dot com Hi, this is bill farmer and you are watching voice over body shop. It's great and we're back To say goodbye at least to this segment because by the time you're watching this One it's already over because you're watching it now, but if you're watching it in replay Really over Oh now Debbie Derryberry is texting me and asking me if my family in Buffalo is okay. Oh, thanks. Thanks Deb We really appreciate that We have one quick purse. Can we just bring someone else on quick? Sure. Sure. Who is that? I'm not sure somebody from grants grand rapids voice. Hey, how you doing rapids voice over. Hey, what's going on? Happy holidays Thanks for joining us Thanks for inviting us. Yes. My name is George No, it's not get out of here. I'm a tech my name is George And I got a mustache like dan so wow. Oh my god. This guy is the clone. He's the literal mash-up of me and you We have we have the actual if they made it right here right now. That's right. That's why I'm such a fan Thanks, George. He's missing his red hat. Thanks man. Thanks for joining. Thanks for joining Thanks for the invite hang around for the a tech talk if you can I'll be here already George Okay, I thought he was jerking my chain. No apparently apparently not somebody google that guy see if he's not full Yeah, really Uh next week on this show. Uh, uh, actually we're gonna we have tech talk number 93 Yep, which we're about to record and if you're watching live You really should just hang out without to do that because it'll be a little bit more organized and civilized theoretically um But on january 9th kelly mozinski will be joining us from the voice caster Excellent and then on january 23rd that whole week jason lenear white will be here cool That dude, I I grok what he does he's he's doing he's he's making it happen. That's the most important thing Uh, so anyway, we have uh, we have donors We need to thank them even if they're not watching tonight, although i'm sure some of them are like, uh, robert leadham Uh, grace newton Where are you? You're on a different one than I am. Maybe maybe i'm two episodes ahead. That's right. I'm time traveling Yeah, kasey clack jonathan grant until george catches up tom pinto whose birthday it is today Greg tom has Yeah, uh, shelly avilino. We did that one dr. Voice ant land production Martha con 949 design christopher epperson sarah borges philips appear brian page patty gibbons rob writer shana pettington baird Don griffith tremosly diana birdsong and sandra man willer Thanks guys for keeping things running here. Why by supporting us financially. We really appreciate that Uh, we got a plug home voiceover studio.com because Well, we'll get to that in a minute and you and you've got stuff coming up, too, right Yes, uh next year and in the middle of the month of july, uh, january, sorry, um, we're going to be doing the next Level production and vo recording techniques webinar. So trying to just do a cornucopia A smorgasbord of different audio recording technologies and tools and everything to share with you guys That one's going to be a very discounted one at 29 bucks Uh, but if you want to interact you're a vip you can join it at the 49 dollar level We're just like I said be there live and watch live. So that's what we're doing coming up in january january fifth three p.m specific time all right Uh, we need to thank our sponsors like harlan hogan's voiceover essentials voiceover extra source elements vo heroes.com voice actor websites.com and worldvoices.org at the industry association of freelance voice talent Go to our website click join why join and we'll tell you why Uh, thanks jeff holman. You're actually here. Thanks jeff. Thanks jeff And uh, sue marlino for getting it done even though she's feeling a little under the weather. Please feel Appreciate that you would be We were hoping you would be here. So I will eat a potato chip in your honor Anyway, I just realized the camera wasn't on jeff. Jeff's having a drink. Oh, perfect time to show the camera All right, here's to sue. I wish you were here. All right. Well, yeah, I'll be better soon. Hopefully Well, we we we appreciate that you still are able to do it from home, which makes it a lot easier anyway, um Well, let's see we're past christmas And hannika hannika is now officially over. Mm-hmm. So what's left new years now? It's all downhill from here Yeah, it is and then it's 2023 2023 is going to be a good year. This is the lame duck week I remember teaching, you know, it was like Thanksgiving week. It was like my day tuesday. Maybe wednesday I'd just show them a marx brothers movie. It was the best way to deal with that Anyway, uh, we're gonna. It's rack it up for tech talk here In the meantime, you know, it's not an easy business But it's important to us that your audio is right because if it sounds good, it is good I'm dan lennard. George widdum and this is voiceover body shop or vo b Stay tuned for tech talk