 Hey, hey, it's time for voiceover body shop. We got a great show tonight. Our guest is Matt Calrick. Hey Matt. Say hi Hey, hello. How are you doing? We got lots of great stuff to talk to him about plus We have a cautionary tale from Mrs. Leonard who will be in here in just a minute And if you've got a question for Matt or for George and I throw it in the chat room Jeff Holman I know is in there taking down every last word we say He's really good at that. Yeah, it's gotta write really fast. Anyway, your questions. We want them Matt Calrick with us tonight You ready George? Let's do it. All right voice over body shop right now From the outer reaches they came Bearing the knowledge of what it takes to properly record your voice over audio and Together from the center of the VO universe. They bring it to you now George Wittem the engineer to the VO stars a Virginia Tech grad with the skills to build set up and maintain The professional VO studios of the biggest names in VO today and you Dan Leonard the voiceover home studio master a Professional voice down with the knowledge and experience to help you create a professional sounding home VO studio and Each week they allow you into their world Bringing you talks with the biggest names in the voice of a world today Letting you ask your questions and giving you the latest information to make the most of your voice over business Welcome to voice over body shop Voice over body shop is brought to you by voice over essentials.com home of Harlin Hogan signature products source elements remote studio connections for everyone voice actor websites.com where your VO website isn't a pain in the butt VO heroes.com become a hero to your clients with award-winning voice over training JMC demos when quality matters and voiceover extra your daily resource for VO success and now Live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are the guys Well, hello there, I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whidham and this is voice over body shop or VO All right, yeah, the beard does make me look older, but what are you gonna do? Keep growing it. I want to see the Colonel Sanders thing. Oh, yeah, but then I have to have curly white hair And that'll be totally totally weird. Anyway, we got Mount Calry coming up in just a couple of minutes But my wife has arrived back from Italy with a cautionary tale So we're gonna invite her in and she's going to tell us about her adventure. So lean right in there Hello Hey, Marcy Marcy. I'm Marcy and Dan and I had this wonderful vacation plan and Because we had had four vaccinations and we were so excited to get to travel We went on a Viking river cruise and then we went to Paris for a few days and then Dan took his Covid test on Friday. It was negative. He flew home and I flew to Florence and This represents the first part of the trip the lovely poppy dress Sunshine poppies Poppy poppies This is not the second part of the trip. So So I started to get what I assumed was allergies on Monday And I was so tired that I could have laid down in the middle of the street and just stopped And so I'm sneezing and I'm coughing and I'm buying more Allergy medication and one of my friends my close friends from Buffalo met me in Italy We were staying in Florence in this beautiful condo with Four bedrooms and it overlooked the Arno and it was in the perfect location except on Tuesday I tested positive for Covid and So I was feeling pretty sick and I was in a foreign country and although I did go abroad to Italy in 1980 to study Italian I Am good enough to order dinner and find the bathroom Component to negotiate health care in another country fortunately, I found a virtual doctor who spoke English and She told me I had to go to the emergency room and That she wrote me a letter in Italian because thank God nobody spoke English in Italy the cab driver speak English the waiter speak English the people trying to sell you dresses and shoes speak English But not the doctors the doctors now and I got shipped to a COVID hotel and And you think oh, it's a COVID hotel in Italy. It'll be nice the food will be good We got microwaved hospital meals and I'm gluten-free and I got the same yellow soup like four times It was like and then and then overcooked Spinach or something that just stank the food was not very good It was really not very I really thought you were gonna lunch because I'm gluten-free. They don't always get a gluten-free step I literally got a stack of cheese Like four packages of cheese That was my lunch and I'm not allowed to leave. I've got nine I ended up nine days in the COVID hotel In one room in one room right in one room it was kind of like a youth hostel cement walls I had a little desk. I did take an online watercolor class. So my watercolor skills haven't proved I Kept myself busy every time I opened my window. I I was bitten up I had so many mosquito bites, but I had to be able to open the window So I would open the window and I would wait until I saw a red car and when I saw a red car I closed the window, you know You gotta do Ferraris and peanuts. It had to be a red one in there somewhere It takes a long time in Italy to find a red car. I gotta tell you they're they're mostly white and gray and silver anyway, I Had to wait till I test it negative and there was an entire hotel full of people and once I finally posted it Everybody's telling me. Oh, yeah, so-and-so stuck so-and-so stuck. We have a friend stuck in in Spain right now and I am never traveling out of this country again as long as they live I say that right now, but if you're planning on going Abroad and they're not wearing masks in those countries. I was watching yesterday the Queen's Jubilee. Oh my god Stay away from England. You'll get sick You know and and I'll just say one more thing So I had to stay in the COVID hotel COVID hotel is not a nice place to say it's like a motel six No motel six would at least be friendly. I mean nobody spoke English it was really not very comfortable and The people who cleaned our rooms and the doctors that came in were wearing hazmat soup but the people that worked in the hotel weren't even wearing masks and so they would be on our floors We all have COVID and I said to one of the guys in my broken Italian Why aren't you wearing a mask and he says I've been vaccinated? Every friggin person in that hotel was vaccinated and There's so many people on cruise ships are getting booted off And if you're on a cruise ship in Italy or England, you're gonna get dumped in a COVID hotel Stay home Order good food out rent some good travel movies and like explore, California So that is my cautionary tale from someone who was looking so forward to seeing the world. I Am not going anywhere ever again And she asked well I'm not gonna be able to do any shopping in Italy and I'm like that's okay I only want one thing back No You feel like you're doing the right thing you waited till the pandemic mostly was that you know calm down Yeah, and and you've you're all vaxed and the whole nine and then that didn't matter It didn't matter you're gonna get this stuff no matter what anyway Let's move on to our special guest tonight. Although it was wonderful having Marcy on for once Joining us From British Columbia Matt Calrick's voiceover career spans over 20 countries Utilizing multiple accents in a variety of voice types and age ranges. That'll be interesting His clients include an impressive collection of the world's top brands and multinational companies Matt records for commercials Animation corporate and industrial narrations promos and many other mediums And he all and he does it all from the wilds of British Columbia. Let's welcome Matt Calrick back to the show. Hey Matt Hello. Hi guys. Hello. Hey, buddy. Great to see you again. How you doing great to be back. Yeah. Yeah doing well Thanks, that's that's great and saying in his booth. Yes. Yeah, don't leave. Don't leave the booth Take out booths with us on international travel. Yeah, really I used her medically sealed. Yeah I used to say when when this pandemic started, you know, you know, if it wipes out mankind All of voice actors are gonna be hiding in their booths and we will rule the world so Well, that was a really long e-learning narration Audio books will save us all It saved me it saved my wife to ask for darn sure she listened to like 10 books while she was in there So you do a lot of stuff All over the place, but first tell tell us a little bit about your background because you're not from British Columbia You're from you're from Oz. No. No. Yeah, I started in yeah, the Beginnings were in Queensland in Australia and I grew up there and Did some travel overseas spent lots of time in in Europe and before COVID was a thing and I lived in London for a while and Then headed back to Australia and just randomly ended up on Vancouver Island in British Columbia And the plan was just to stay here for a little while, but it's now Going well over a 10 years that I've been here. Well, 2011. So yeah decade and change and Never never managed to leave and I'm pretty permanent now Yeah, so so what brought you to British Columbia? Oh It was that old story Dan a Canadian girl Yeah, I was just ready for the next travel adventure as well and Kind of had itchy feet after doing all that that travel in in Europe and I just said, you know what the hell and Packed up and moved over here and the plan was to sort of stay for a for a little while and then the relationship ended and I stayed Love the way of life over here and at that point you know, I was doing more and more voiceover work and It was really useful being on the Pacific time zone and so close to eastern whereas in Australia It's it's bedtime when everyone's doing business So that was a you know, definitely a bonus point for me there and then yeah, just really became a Permanent resident and Theoretically and and literally and Yeah, then I'm a wife and we've got a four-year-old daughter and wow fabulous. Yeah, definitely settled. That's great once again, our guest is Matt Calrick and If you've got a question for Matt as we discuss stuff Throw it in the chat room Jeff Holman is in there and he will get those questions to us So I mean tell us a little bit more about this rural location that you're in now first off Victoria Island is an island It's not part of the mainland of British Columbia. The only way to get there is by ferry Yeah, ferry or light plane They do have an international airport in Victoria and Vancouver Island itself is a huge island I think it's like as nearly as big as the UK a lot of it is Mountains you know fjords and mountains and forest which is which is wonderful But the population of the actual island is only around a million I think And so Victoria is is a reasonably sized city just under fourth out 400,000 people and but there is really no large Media entertainment industry here to speak of that's a lot. There's a lot of location shooting for films, but You know, there's no There were no studios doing a lot of production work when I moved here, so my my voice over career has Pretty much exclusively been remote except when I travel over to Vancouver for work before COVID and that's that's generally only for animation and video games and Documentary work ADR work, right? So what did it take to get like internet out where you're because you're not like in the city of Victoria You're like, yeah, like at the end of some dirt road somewhere Yeah, it's it's kind of crazy Victoria's become an interesting like the greater Victoria region has become an interesting Spread or sprawl but Chosen the municipality in which I live is is only about a 35 minute drive from downtown Victoria When there's no traffic But when you get here, yeah, you really feel like you have hit the most rural of Areas and I basically do live in the rainforest There's no Mobile reception at all Yeah, like in my in my house at least I have to do the old like, you know stand on one foot and Ten foil So there's no mobile cell signal But I am able to get I'm able to get fiber Gig down gig up which is which is crazy to me and that's that's pretty easy to obtain out here and It it works really solidly That's great. What's going we're talking with Matt Calrick if you've got a question for Matt throw it in the chat room right now Now You're you're from Oz you're from Australia and you have a distinct. I think it's mellowed a little bit since the years I've known you but Australian accent Yeah, it's become how I would describe What do you work in all different accents, I mean you work in Australian accent you work in British do you work in in English? And do you do it in Canadian and then can you do a decent Canadian accent? Yeah, yeah It's funny when when we would have first met actually Meeting both of you. I think my my main thing was being an Australian voice and My brand was down under voiceovers and big honking kangaroo as the logo and over time My work has evolved where now the majority of what I do is US English working with yeah clients in the US and overseas and I do I do British work Mostly what we might call British for Americans or British for Canadians Explain yes, what does that mean give a sample it means it means it might not fly in the UK But but actually I have done some some national broadcast work in the UK over the years and you know No one complained and I kept getting asked back. So You mean you mean like Disney English. Hello governor. You mean that kind of British for Americans. No, that's how does that make you guys feel? Yeah, yeah, something bad. Good. It's like the you know the gecko gecko Yeah, yeah, actually caught me and Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of what I do with the UK accent ends up over there But it's not not a huge portion of what I do. I'd say the the largest amount of work after US and Canadian is What we dub as transatlantic or the intercontinental Accent You know just that global sound and the nice thing there is I've always framed it as doing an accent badly but consistently Okay Yeah, so like, you know, maybe a German guy who learned English in the United States So yeah, has that like German accent, but it sounds it sounds vaguely European so you can't quite place it and and You know a lot of a lot of the global brands like that sound because it sounds luxurious and fancy Right. That's an almost perfect imitation of arm and heist that are when you I don't know if I've ever heard his voice out loud. Oh, no You have to be the words. Yeah, good singer. Good singer too. Anyway, once again, we're talking with Matt Colerick out of Victoria British Columbia and he is a multiple accent voice actor and you do a lot of different stuff What primarily you're working on right now? Accent wise Anything what kind of work have you been keep what's been keeping busy? Oh, yeah, mostly commercial these days like like many of us I I play in a lot of the genres which I enjoy but I've been doing more and more Character work in in animation and games as of late. It's nice to see the that work has opened up more remote opportunities But yeah, I'd say mostly I'm doing commercial and short form Like short video content That's that's the bulk of what I do on a daily weekly basis Yeah You talked to yeah, I know you mentor a lot of people people are always asking you about how do I get into voice over? How do I do that and you're noted for that for some reason? I mean they they call George and I too or like, you know you could go to law school but How do you how do you work with people? Are you coaching at all or are you mentoring anybody or? Do you just take the letters and just answer them all as they come? Yeah, I I like the the mentoring approach tend to only you know work with one person at a time and and Decide what we want to get out of the relationship or you know how I can help them I don't do performance coaching. That's not not something that I've ever personally got into over the years a lot of other talent have asked me to help them with their their business software specifically CRM and at first it was kind of casual and just you know answering questions and pointing people in the right direction and eventually enough people were asking me to to work with them and in creating a workflow and a setup that they could use for Doing outreach to leads and even just tracking jobs and auditions That sort of thing that I started doing some consulting. So, yeah, that's a that's a piece of what I do as well And I really enjoy it because often it's working with people that are Quite far along in their voice over careers and they're just trying to develop more fluid systems to Not lose their minds Try to like get in and remove that pain point so Explain to people what a CRM is for those of the people are there that don't know what a CRM is and and and how do you assist people with it? Yeah, so CRM is client relationship management or customer relationship management software and It can be many things to different people I think the way that I've used it as a voice talent is to keep track of jobs and my clients whether it's You know managing a booking keeping all the the details like Which mic I use which accent I use any any particular technical notes on on file formats you know keeping details like that under my control and checking in on on existing clients and agents and just nurturing those relationships and then for growing business where you have a lead database and Just make the initial contact and then the all-important follow-up after that initial contact is made and a lot of people that I work a kind of new to the CRM game and I just work with one in particular Zoho CRM Because I found that I was able to Turn it into the exact CRM that I wanted after using a bunch in the early days. I Just figured out the features that I wanted in a CRM and Using Zoho just allowed me to go in and customize what I wanted and then it also integrates with other products like the bookkeeping software and file management similar to Dropbox and Social media management and they all integrate in together in in one one network similar to Office 365 or sales force those sorts of things. So Zoho actually has a good even remote desktop tool I've actually stumbled on it. It's free and it works really really well. There's a lot of really good tools in that sweet Yeah, yeah, I use the the remote desktop You know the assist you're talking about Zoho assist. That's it. Yeah, it's assist. Yeah Yeah, yeah, I use that for doing the the screen Screen sharing and strict screen controlling when we're setting up people's Zoho setups, it's it's really handy that way. I find that the the meeting Software is not as as solid as zoom Not much is Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think like that's that's what a lot of What Zoho does is they take an existing product that is is really solid in the market and they they Iterate their own version of it and some are not quite as strong, but some are really really quite good Once again, we're talking with Matt Col rec and we're talking about his career and some of the cool stuff that he does You're doing stuff all over the place. How do you find work? I Mean, are you represented? Are you are is most of it from your own outward marketing or what do you think? Yeah, I think a lot of the Foundation of my business is built from doing my own direct marketing over the years mostly email and calling in the early days and Getting on rosters, you know, that was certainly a big part of of what I did early on and you know, many of those clients are still still there as a piece of the the business pie and Over time I've developed relationships with with agents and they've become a bigger part of my business and then I also have management representation now and that that's pretty new to me, but Already really liking that So for me, it's it's definitely a pie of lots of different sources, but they all they all have their part to play and I don't think I would now want to rely on just one single slice I like the diversification of having, you know, multiple sources coming in at all times Oh, a lot of people you know hear about, you know management because it's different from an agent How do you work with it with the manager? What do they do for you? Well, as I said, I'm I'm pretty new and new to having a manager and a lot of managers tend to have different models, but A manager's role is really elevating and already established career and that that may be Generating new direct opportunities so auditions for for spots and for promos and trailers and cartoons and video games and managers also Can broker new relationships with with agents and They're very well connected most managers. Yeah, that's that that's why they become managers They have a lot of skin in the game, too, right? Yeah, I mean they have a lot to gain by building the career of that Talent, you know, that's really vested in you and it and another level beyond an agent who might just represent you for like just this one Market or this one city, right? Exactly, they're they're taking your career and just always working with you to Maintain forward momentum. Is there is any strategy that they bring to the table as well? Do you feel like? I'm really just a month month or so in with my manager. We'll wait and see. We'll wait and see. Yeah Yeah, no, I've already I've already got a few bookings through them and The strategy I think is just you know a large increase in opportunities For me particularly on the West Coast I have really great Representation on the East Coast and then in Vancouver as well and I just really wanted to Spread my wings and and you know Increase the number of my at bats every day Yeah, how many auditions do you think you're doing today? It depends on you, but yeah, it's um, it's it's pretty I don't mind saying it's pretty hectic at the moment When also juggling, you know daily Booked sessions and unsupervised sessions and just trying to work them all in together but I mean some days it's as much as 20 and I'd say most days now. I'm at least 10 auditions and That can be partly because of the number of as we talked before about the accents the number of The amount of ground that I cover with with accents and different styles If I was just focusing on one particular genre, it would be less, but I like to play so There's yeah, there's a lot of stuff that comes through my inbox every day, and I don't do it all Yeah, so even with that even with the 10 on the 20 a day it can be I can already have Separated out the ones that that went fully in my wheelhouse I'm gonna run you through this want you to do an Austrian accent an Australian accent You can do you can do an Australian accent too, but an Australian accent British American and Canadian just do what one after another and let's see how see if you can shift But Dan I'm useless without a script dance boy dance. Yeah, so what it was it was Australian That's your normal voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Australian British American Canadian Okay so because I Feel often feel like the hardest thing to do is to have chit-chat in the Different accents although that's a part of what I do like if I'm on a on a source connect session, right, you know From the moment I get on I am The guy they hired me to be So I'm at corrick I'm at corrick here on VOBS Episode 233 230 230 yeah, believe it. I'm Matt. I'm Matt Colerick. I'm here on VOBS episode 230 here with Dan Leonard George the tech So that's that's one of the British accents. That's a light British. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I mean some of the time I'll do like, you know, I'm Matt Colerick here on VOBS episode 230 with Dan Leonard and George the tech That's the sound that I often get hired for. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you're good at that. Yeah, and then Yeah, and then American so to 230 VOBS Matt corrick here with Dan Leonard and George the tech and We're just We're just having a great great time having a few laughs. Yeah now some Kenick some Okay. All right So, I mean a lot of what I'll Preface this but a lot of what they want in Canada is a more neutral sound, but if I was to play it up Yeah, I'm here on VOBS episode 230 with with Dan Leonard and George the tech and My name is Matt Colerick It's just every all the O's are like the vowels are a little bit longer But yeah, I have to get that the the R sound and and then if you got me to say something like process or you know And I like I like I like H's with my with my herbs. Yeah, say a say S O R R Y Oh, sorry. Yeah, but that's that's kind of overdoing it. Yeah, sorry Yeah, you nailed it. You nailed the American Canadian accent the one that I had an interesting audition where I had to They wanted like three varying degrees of Canadian and So it's like yeah the the broadcast broadcast voice for Canada where it's just a little more round But you still you still feel like it's a little neutral North American And then it went from there to add in the the marathons, which is like, oh, yeah, I'm here There everything is like well, it barely makes sense. You know, you just got a like dial in the it's almost like Canadian Cowboys, right? Is that Nova Scotia? Yeah, no. Yeah, Nova Scotia Like me that whole part of the country Maine, New England has the best accents So like from the main of North to the Nova Scotia. That is the best For sure. I once had a audition and they said they want Burley and Canadian I'm like, so you want me to be like more Canadian like this. I got the job and they said don't do the Canadian Just be Burley. 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Let's see Go for it george First one up is from terry brisco and the question is hey matt What was your first vio gig and how long did it take for you to book it if you can remember that is? Hard to hone in on the exact timeline but I think from being out of high school. Um, I was starting to to I got my first home studio recording setup and was playing around with amateur voice acting forums those sorts of things and um Practicing at home doing some coaching So I think it was probably about a year and Yeah, a year or a year and a half. Um when I got my first booking and um It was through through networking working the uh, the people, you know, and I I got a commercial in in one of the uh, the pro studios in brisbane for a university and uh because I'd come from amateur stuff and just doing it doing it for uh, the love of Animation and video games. It was a real game changer for me to go in and really enjoy a commercial job as well Well, there's a second part to that too Sorry, I stepped on you matt. I mean, that's okay Sorry about that. Oh, I was just gonna say that um I was a poor music student at the time So uh, getting paid 700 bucks for an hour of work was like it blew my mind miraculous No ramen for me tonight Another second part to that um matt how often do you work with dialect coaches? says terry dialect coaches not so much um When I first started doing uh, us accent work um, I was pretty close like a lot of australians grew up with american tv. Um, and uh I was watching from the sidelines wanting to do some of the the really cool us work that I was that I was seeing I I just knew that I had a couple of Gaps to close to to really get to 100 with the accent in order to compete um, and so I worked with one dialect coach then um linda brennan, this would have been back in 2012 and um, It was a really useful consultation for affirmation where she said, yeah, you're really close Here's what you need to work on and she gave me exercises and phonetic guides to uh to work with to To fine-tune the the areas where I was lacking and um, I think dialect coaches could be really good for Getting practice to be confident on a live session because that's one of the things with accent work It doesn't matter if you can do a really good, um, american, british australian accent When you're self taping in your home studio and you can screw it up and try it again You know, if you're really nervous about it, it's it's not such an issue when it's unsupervised But if you go on a live session on source connect when they want you to be able to read through a 30 second script without stumbling screwing up, um, that's where the challenge comes in So I think it would be useful to to work with a a dialect coach to either Pick up the areas where um You're not sufficient or just say like no you're doing fine. You're doing great go go forth and and make money That's the best way to do it. That's and that's why we're here Uh, lydia meadows asks matt. What language accent do you work in? most Uh, yeah now it's it's uh american neutral north american Neutral north american They can cover any place. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, the the national deal. That's what we're all down for You got the question from yeah, go ahead grace newton. I'll go ahead and close second close second would be um, uh, the transatlantic You know mid-atlantic the mid-atlantic accent guy who's man of the world. Yes quite erudite from the 1930s film Grace newton asks hey matt has there ever been a time in your career where you got knocked down and if so How did you regain positive perspective and keep pushing forward? Hmm Yeah, it's a good one. Um I I feel like maybe Have had a pretty good and uh gentle run of things and in voiceover like there's never Being something where I really felt distraught Um about my my business and in my career There there have been roles where Um, you know, I felt like I I really wanted them But I I learned pretty early on in voiceover just to not get attached to auditions and you know, put your all into them and let them go uh, because I was Initially trying to think of oh like what's a role that I really wanted and got really sad when it didn't happen Um, I think it's all just like when life stuff goes on and because we as performers are uh Our product is us and um It felt like whenever I had like a significant uh life life struggle Medical stuff those sorts of things when that goes on it feels it feels like your business is also suffering in addition to your personal life And you know your your physical health those sorts of things Uh, yeah for a for a career where you are the product. It's it it's very stressful And I think in those times, um You know, I've I've worked with life coaches before in the in the past and uh Have some tools that have really helped um Me to continue on doing work myself, but I guess like in times where I was really Uh, yeah having having a struggle Um, life coaching was was a really useful useful thing I picked up I got a question for you though What kind of other help have you found has helped your productivity recording in your studio? Any human resources any other people give you assistance from time to time? Uh, you mean as far as like, uh Trouble shooting or just like in uh the day to day the day to day of operating your business Yeah, where's some other tools in your toolbox in terms of Things that you use services people whatever that you but really is major just improve your productivity Uh very early on in my career like particularly when I was full-time. Um, I always embrace the help of of hiring editors for longer form work and then uh About three years ago. It's it's it's actually over three years ago I ended up hiring someone local in victoria To be my sound engineer and he's he's been working with me full time for three years now. Um, and John he Runs live sessions like instead of me connecting directly to a phone patch. I'll connect to him on source connect and He'll be conducting the session. He's working virtually with you Well, he did come here to my studio and then kovat happened and um, we had actually already tested a remote setup when I was traveling to australia one time Um, and john was doing john was kind of like driving all the studio operations So I could have my holiday and he would just give me a list of everything that I had to record for the day And I just you know bash it out in one session and he'd he'd chop it off and send everything to agents to clients um And uh, so we developed a really I think a really slick remote work process between both our um, using pro tools and also just you know coordinating mp3s and email and file names um, and Yeah, that that has been a huge huge, um, addition to my career both in terms of saving me time um, it's really wonderful to Like have someone to work with every day Especially when it's all just you know self tape stuff and um, sending off auditions as mp3s Uh, it's it's really nice You know kind of having a workplace, uh, even at the moment. It's a little more virtual Um, that's that's just added a lot to to my life and and I think to my work as a result of that Does he give you subtle feedback? Like I know in engineering an engineer in a studio in a traditional sense They have been known to Speak up if there's something that's just not working or whatever Does he is he at liberty to do that three years into you know, this relationship? Does that does that happen? Yeah, I mean over three years. I've really shown him what a bad right bad read is. Um, yeah Um, yeah, just constantly hearing me go Uh, no, I've I've encouraged that over time and I'm just really lucky that um, he comes from a A film background and and music background. So he has a very good ear and like a very good artistic sense So I've I've always welcomed the feedback and in the same sense When we're recording say like a a three minute video um, we can do a a source connect session and Maybe do a read through or two and then do a bunch of pickups and I can trust him to um Cobble it all together as I would and um, you know be sending the the client A polished product that I'm happy with so I'd kind of step away from that Well, I I I remember that you were doing that But I wasn't sure so that's why I led you into the let led you into the answer Because I really wanted to know and and I think honestly, I'll be straight. I think it's brilliant I know it's cost money. It's a it's a chunk out of your bottom line, but I think it's really smart. I've I've in years I always thought a business model was to train Virtual engineer assistants to do this exact job for for voice actors. So they could They could side load, you know a big portion of their even if they have the time technically to do it To then redirect that energy to to growing the business or making new service Whatever it is and offloading some of that, you know, that's that thinking like a ceo mentality and Again, a huge kudos to you for doing that. I think it's I really think it's uh, it's brilliant Thank you. Yeah, yeah, it's it's been it's been wonderful and um, You know the Watching the evolution of of my engineer has been really cool, too You know, he's had the chance to grow in areas from Just basic editing and now he can you know, he can drive a Um, a pro tools session like a boss, uh, you know In line with a lot of people that I work remotely with on on source connect like he's acquired that skill set The mixing element is, uh, you know, still something that he's working on but um, you know, when we are required to do the mix we're often outsourcing that to An audio producer, but he he knows how to Line everything up. So it's been really cool to see someone evolve in that Absolutely in that role and and yeah, I think it would be a great thing for other voice talent to use Where they think it is Something that could fit into their into their business. It certainly frees up lots of time. It Changes the way that you perform when you're not having to engineer And uh, yeah It's given me back so much. Yeah It's it's sort of the same thing a lot of people we talk to who are Now have home studios. They were so used to working in a studio with somebody and the engineer would always do the work So it's sort of you're you're bringing it back to the way it was only you get to sit at home while you're doing it Which is kind of nice I think my my, uh longer term goal with with my engineer was to create a system where it was almost like I was driving to You know 50 studios in a day and just being the talent um and we can do that with source connect like we just I just dial he's got his own source connect account. Um that I that I purchased Uh like it works well using the two And uh, we just you know jump on pound something out do some auditions do some jobs and it's uh It feels like yeah just going studio to studio and not having to worry about scripts not having to worry about recording anything It's it's really useful Yeah, and now george doesn't have to do the source connect commercial because you just did it He exactly thanks. I don't think make up another source connect commercial Jay Horace black asks uh on youtube speaking of technology What is your setup or mic chain and what are you using your mostly your 416 your 103 or And do you use any plugins or straight into an interface and what is it that your engineer is doing or How do you know what you're working on in your chain there? Yeah, um, so I mostly record on the 416. I have the u87 ai which I which I do use a fair amount as well Uh, and it's it's all going I was running the um I was running everything into the universal audio 61 76 And now that is sitting in a box and I'm just using the the apollo twin I was using the um the x6, but that one's Gone to to john my engineer. So he uses that I use the the twin x and um At the moment. I'm talking to you guys just on the the twin The apollos preamp I like to use the Voxbox unison plugin And the the avalon they're both nice to play around with but largely Because of the nature of what I do connecting to other studios. It's just Setting either the the preamp the unison preamp with no compression or eq and I'm in a room that george wittem helped me to dial in ever so nicely Um, so there's not there's not a lot that we need to do. Um, it's it's pretty pretty bare bones All right, we got time for one more question here from terry brisco It says matt What do you feel challenges you most in voice over? Hmm 30 second spots with 35 seconds of copy. Yeah, that one's a fun no uh Honestly, I think These days there's so many Directions that you can pursue. Uh, you know, if you do like to keep a pretty diverse pie And it's that that focus of You know knowing in a given day where to just apply my efforts to and and I think As far as the the auditions and the things coming in it's a it's a nice problem to have But sometimes I probably do need to be more selective about where I turn my attention to on On a given day, um, I think it's very easy with a voice over career Whether you're doing marketing or administration Bookkeeping recording auditions recording jobs to quickly reach the end of the day and just have no time left and That that can kind of lead to burnout. So I'm I feel like I'm always battling burnout Good. All right. Well, I doubt you'll ever burn out because you love what you do Yeah, it's true. It's true. Well matt. It's been great seeing you. It's been a long time and hopefully We'll get to run into each other at a conference towards the end of the year if they ever let us out of our houses Um, if anyone wants to get in touch with you, where can they find you? Uh, yeah, you can uh go to my website matt colrick.com. Um, and then uh for the CRM consulting side of things, uh matt at timbersound.ca will do the trick. Uh, that'll That'll help you connect with me on that channel. Excellent. Well matt, great seeing you. Thanks so much for joining us this week We really appreciate it. It's a pleasure. Thanks for having me guys. Good to see you again Yeah, really good to see you guys. Thanks so much. Take care. 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Go with the pros voice actor websites dot com Where your via website shouldn't be a pain in the you know what Well, I'm going to keep this short because we just had the best source connect endorsement you could ever have from matt just a minute ago He uses it. It's just a daily part of his workflow. He's not only using source connect connect to Studios when studios request it which is going to happen quite a bit when you're doing commercial work And those kind of bigger ticket kind of work He's actually made it part of his daily workflow He's actually got a virtual engineer Who worked with him for a while in studio? But now is remote and he remotes to that engineer on source connect Every day and records and has him record everything for him I mean I know some of you are aspiring or maybe you had five years in you're thinking I can't imagine what that would cost But boy you get to a certain level in your career And if you're where you're at what where matt is you can't not do it because it will improve Your life you're going to have so much more Free time and you're going to feel connected because you really are you're connected every day to another human being It's pretty amazing So what a cool use of source connect and if you want to do it too Just go over to source dash elements dot com And get a free trial And you know the rest you watch the show All right, let's go back to the studio Right after a little Funny bumper or banner or something. I'm going to press a button and we're going to see what happens. Here we go Yeah, hi, this is Carlos. I was rocking the voice of brocco and you're watching voice of a body shop Hey, it works Well, no, we we're always on the wrong side from each other. Yeah We wanted we wanted to show this bumper I love that one, man Where did he find that sound effect? Actually, I think I did that one for him. Anyway, uh Boy, it's great having matt on him. We haven't seen him in a long time and he's just a super duper guy Yeah, really talented. Yeah Uh next week on this very show which we're going to record right now So if you got tech questions throw them in the chat room right now, I think we have a few already uh tech talk number 80 will be here so, uh That's going to be interesting because we've got a lot of cool stuff to talk about there Who are our donors of the week starting off with jonathan grant crest christ crest of Take it from the top, will you? 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That is true 20 off I know that and then includes the webinars. So uh, next webinar coming up is for twisted wave It's i'm calling my advanced twisted wave webinar because i haven't done one of those yet Um, and it's going to be june 25th. Uh, by the time you guys see this I know I don't have it up on the website yet, but it'll be up soon I just wanted to let you know that we're doing that soon and dan Tell us about where they can find you on the web. Uh, they can find me over at home voiceover studio dot com Which i'm supposedly the new one is up. It's been finished. It's supposed to be up We'll see you've been rather busy probably not too too Too excited about all the things going on the travel. So I yeah, I I just spent all the week Just sitting staring out the window like my wife did, you know, it's like can't go anywhere and you know, but At least i'm feeling better. I'm gonna test myself tonight to see if i'm if i'm negative now Uh, we need to thank our sponsors like harlan hogan's voiceover essentials voiceover extra sore salamance voheroes dot com voice actor websites dot com and jmc demos uh, thanks to jeff holman in the chat room tonight on uh, facebook and in uh And youtube and uh, george was directing this particular session, although I would intercede every now and again I was td'ing you were d'ing Okay, i'm gonna go to this shit. No, no you do that one fight over all this all the time All right, we're gonna set it up for tech talk and uh, we'd love your questions there So, uh, join us don't go away if you're if you're watching this live Uh, you know, this isn't an easy business voiceover requires a lot of different skills So we bring you the people that can show you how they do what they do And we're about to show you how you can do what you need to do technologically So stay tuned for that in the meantime, but we're gonna just click it off for now I'm dan lehnerd and i'm george widham and this is voiceover body shop or vo bs See you in a bit. Bye everybody