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Michael Collins demos when quality matters and by voice actor websites.com Where your voice actor website shouldn't be a pain in the butt And now live from their super-secret multimedia studio in Sherman Oats, California Here are George Whidham and Dan Leonard Yeah All right, well, oh, yeah, baby feels good doesn't it feels good congratulations to the Eagles Eagles yeah, all apologies. Yes Jack Jack is a big fan All right, it's from Philly. Yes now all apologies to Sue right the thing is though had the Patriots one We still wouldn't have done anything about it. No, that's right. We hate the Patriots Yeah, well, you know the Buffalo Bills Eastern Division. We had to play the Patriots twice a year. I Unbelievable calls in those they were your cowboys. They that was us that was us having to play the Cowboys twice a year Exactly and watching the calls go to that. I know exactly. All right. Well, that's pretty much what that was all about But congratulations to them and Philly, I guess is still there sort of yeah some of the standing the Ritz Carlton Overhang above the sidewalk collapsed under the weight of 20 revelers last night People don't stand on a canvas covered aluminum frame They were insane. I mean we knew it was gonna happen. Yeah, people are People were literally crying They were talking about dead relatives and saying this was for you I mean Philly needed a win Philly needed a super bowl. Hey, that's no Boston won the World Series to people Absolutely. Well, by the way, I'm Dan Leonard. I'm George. What and this is voiceover body shot or vio BS We got a huge crowd here today. I mean literally a huge crowd. It's great. Yeah Because we've got Debbie Derryberry with us tonight Yeah, we're gonna talk about some of the cool stuff that she does and she's coaching now too So helping out people learn how to do character voices and stuff like me and you know from experience I do I do and we'll talk about some of the stuff with that, but she also brought her band Honey pig honey pig and we're gonna have a concert out on the V. OBS concert stage I'm a little bit later on the show. You do not want to miss that plus we have lots and lots of stuff from Nam Tons tons and whatever we don't get to tonight Next week go to the YouTube page later. It'll all be there and yeah, you'll see it's all there now, too Anyway, it's now time for All the information you need for a successful voiceover career Alrighty You know, we'll talk about online casting here. It's been nearly six months since voices calm one of the big two voiceover online casting services rocked the voiceover industry with the announcement that it was purchasing another online casting powerhouse Voice bank if you've been locked in your studio all this time and missed the ensuing uproar Here's the quick backstory Voices comm sends job auditions to voice talents who paid to join the service for several years It's been criticized by talent for holding on to huge fees for the jobs that are performed plus other non-transparent business Practices then last August voices revealed an impending purchase of voice bank an online service that sent auditions to talent from their agents The deal was seen as a greedy giant gobbling another giant with a business plan to combine the two operations and further a road voiceover pay Okay, what's happened since has the online casting world imploded into the voices voice banks fear? Well indeed voice bank is no more. It's part of the voices system But rather than implode the online casting scene is exploding Outward with more players and more competition for the agency business that hadn't been in voice banks domain and This explosion has plenty of fuel sustained by anger over the way voices conducts business and by optimism for new models of connecting voice seekers to voice talent in a new article on voiceover extra J. Michael Collins a top voice talent coach and demo producer Says voice talent are indeed now influencing the modes of online casting The world is waking up to the threat posed by certain pay-to-play discount casting sites and talent are moving the needle of site conduct Like never before he writes and he adds that supporting our agents sag after and other brick-and-mortar players is essential but we also Take the battle to the front lines and ensure that online casting is run for the profit and Benefit of everyone and not a greedy few we stormed the beaches today or tomorrow The enemy will be even more entrenched. It's our choice today all this is happening in various ways Mike detailed the existing and emergency emerging players and his experiences and impressions of them all in a recent voiceover extra webinar two startups are Cast voices launched by the founders of tag talent and a 360 and voice casting hub supported by the vo agent Alliance and meant to be a replacement for voice bank Meanwhile the Giants of course continue to be voices calm and voice one two three on the second tier in terms of quantity of auditions Available he places Bodalgo our good friend Armin and the voice realm next in what Collins dubs the minor leagues are Voice Bunny freelancer dot-com up work Craigslist Mandy's voices voice jockeys internet jocks speedy spots and on skid row Fiverr dot-com About which Colin says while it's occasionally possible to book market rate work through add-ons on fiverr The stigma attached to using the site is so extreme that you're likely to cost yourself more revenue in the long run Then you will earn by using the entire site Listing services where voice talent pay to display their demos and profiles and then receive direct inquiries from voice seekers include Commercial voices calm e-learning voices calm voice over biz a member benefit of voice world voices and Hold on there's more outliers with limited traffic include voice over professional calm voices us calm and Voivre calm waiver. Yeah, okay So whenever the dust settles from last August's explosion if it ever does we might actually be thanking voices calm For expanding the online casting universe look for more in J. Michael's article now at voiceover extra calm And if you're interested in details about specific online casting services Check out the online casting webinar recording Which you'll find on the voice over extra calm homepage in the training column on the left side of the page Really, all right boy. It's it's been a storm. There's no question about it Storm it is and the thing is is people need to tell their clients. What's going on the second they hear what's going on They can change their minds about who they want to use not mentioning any names Even though we just mentioned a pile of them in a news story I know we definitely called out a lot of names in that one We did what we called out all the names seems it seems that yeah on the online cat And I and I said from the beginning this is an opportunity Because you know once they took over voice bank it meant someone's gonna come in some smart entrepreneur And we have met Dubois in here a couple of years ago There one called voice casting bank voice casting hub There went live and now we're getting auditions from stuff We never had access to before for much better money and it's like fabulous really happening It actually is happening and it's breaking the log in. That's fantastic to hear. 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Well, we were at NAM Two weeks ago it almost seems like I know and boy, there was it's an assault on the senses But we saw so many great products and we're gonna talk about it a little bit later in our wrap-up feature that we did from there But you know, we want people to see all the stuff that's available out there and again Of course all of its design for making music, which is what NAM is for and this is not the voice over Music or voice over merchants a show. Yeah, there is no voice over merchant show. This is the closest we got Yeah So it was fun to see this stuff and then talk to people and say well, I could a voice actor use this I know it was fun throwing a curveball some some vendor reps really were good with it And that's just we're running their script to their head Yeah, well, let's run some of these and let's see all the fun We had and you can come along with us Yeah, we got one from Neumann you six about the Neumann U67 that was re-released this year Yeah, the Apigee Mike Apigee Mike and we also talked with personas or you did rather about their mixers and their new little Cute little baby affordable monitors that came out. All right. Let's take a look We're at NAM 2018 here in the Sennheiser Neumann booth. Yeah, and we're talking with Brian Walker Nice to see you. Thank you now You might be familiar with a TLM 103 or a U87 with a Neumann But you guys are reintroducing another classic the U67 tell us about it. Well, this is a reproduction not a reproduction It is the original From the U67 that was originally built from 1960 to 1971 And we're bringing it back it starts shipping in the middle of February the Capsule is the original the tube is the original the output transformer is the original So everything inside this microphone is original to the microphone when it was built the original specs when yes It was built and designed and yeah, because if it if it wasn't truly a U67 We couldn't call it a U67 our customers would just Have all sorts of interesting pieces of vocabulary for us, right? You didn't like ship this out to some someplace where they built the stuff cheap and no try to reduce cost and increase profit Yeah, stay true to your It is built in our factory in Germany. Yeah. Yeah, what makes this mic so special This microphone has an amazing sound to it. It's a very It really was the microphone of the 60s Not as much of a high-end bump not as big of a EQ curve as the 87 has the 87 can be a little bit of a bright microphone. This one's not quite so bright But it still has that brightness to help your voice cut through the mix And then that tube and that big fat transformer in it has a big warm low-end sound Right tell me a little bit more about what it you know a lot of people like the idea of having a tube and a microphone What does it do specifically for a Neumann mic as opposed to some of the fake kind of tube stuff that we see out there with Red LEDs in them and stuff very little Seriously that the tube exists inside this microphone as an impedance match between a very very extremely high impedance Capsule and a very low impedance output and the tube is that impedance match and a lot of people Put a lot of weight on the tube in the microphone But it's actually the output transformer that colors the sound the most right, but if a tube goes on one of these things You're gonna know it. You're gonna know about it. What are some of the other features? It's multi pattern. It's multi pattern it has Omni figure 8 and cardioid patterns it has a 10 DB pad switch you can add in always very nice Has a low frequency roll off roll off So if you've got a lot of low frequency hum from your air conditioner in your studio trucks roll Yeah, sort of thing you can roll it out. So this is really a full-featured microphone Yes, that does everything you would need to her for voiceover. Yes. Okay. What's a price point on one of these? Hi, okay Seven thousand seven thousand is street price. Okay, but that's a full kit, right? That's the microphone the suspension kit the power supply Everything very good and all of the parts in the new kit are interchangeable with all the old parts So if you have an old microphone, you can plug it into the new power supply into the old the you know The microphone junkyard pick them up and it'll all still work. Yes. That's very nice Is Neumann gonna be coming up with anything else that they're ready to announce or something coming up in the next couple of years? Not that I know of okay Well, although knowing Wolfgang Fresne I'm sure that there are a number of things cooking in the back of his head right now and but he hasn't told me Well, this is a legendary mic and yeah, and certainly if you have a budget for that This is a great one to have Brian. Thank you so much for talking. Thank you. Enjoy the show. Alrighty Hey, it's George from voiceover body shop here at NAMM 2018 again with another innovative and awesome vendor This time we're over at the Apigee booth where they're Re-releasing a mic that a lot of you guys already know about But it's got some important new features and here to tell us about is Brad. How you doing Brad? I'm good Good. Thanks for joining us today. So the Apigee mic. It's back. It's now called the pluses out. It's called Yeah, we have Mike plus so we've actually had three generations of Mike There was Apigee Mike the original Apigee Mike 96k and now we have Apigee Mike plus so with Mike You got a very high quality product that you can connect straight to your iPhone or straight to your Mac No setup or fuss required and you had truly a professional quality channel Now I think a lot of USB mics get a bad rep because a lot of them are you know built for convenience built for Affordability and that's an important part of it But for us we never want to sacrifice quality end of the day if we build something at Apigee And no matter what price point is that you can get Professional quality what takes this one to the next level So the mic has a lot of the features that people loved about the original mic So but Mike plus kind of takes a new level so you have the same shape You still have iOS connectivity so Mac connectivity. We now have PC connectivity windows Yeah, all the windows users out there can finally use Apigee products But we fixed a big thing that was a challenge for a lot of a lot of Mike Users before which was on the new iOS devices as many people know you don't have a headphone output So they would look at the mic They would connect it to their iPad or iPhone and said okay. Well, how do I hear it now? How do I listen to it or if I'm you know overdubbing? How do I hear my other tracks while I'm recording? So what we did was we included a headphone jack at the bottom here So now you can connect your headphone straight to it And so you can monitor straight out of that both your recorded signal and your input signal So the other weakness on the iPhones and iPads is latency You know the processors are getting better and better But there's still a little bit of latency that could be distracting especially for singers and voiceover artists Yes, if you're monitoring yourself, you'd hear yourself, but it's slightly delayed a little bit weird So we now have this great direct monitoring feature and specifically what we call our blend feature Meaning you could blend both your recorded signal with your With the input signal from the microphone thanks to this control here So you'll see now we have the input metering which is kind of nice on there We didn't have the input metering on the original mic But now we have this great little blend feature which allows you to control again How much of your input signal is blended with your recording signal you have a gain wheel on it similar but a little bit different from the original mic which was on the side But this headphone out again just gives you that option for zero latency monitoring price-wise The mic plus is 249 the mic 96k was 229, so you know $20 difference you have a variety of new features I think that's pretty worth it whenever we do a new product. We never take the same formulas Over again, so we always look for ways to make it better new and improved my capsule We have better dynamic range on this you can really capture a wider sort of range of instruments for music recording, but voices also You don't have to worry about it distorting you can handle quite a bit more on on that front The other nice thing is we include now a USB C cable So for all the people out there with devices with the USB C input who are tired of dealing with adapters We have that cable in the box for you Hey, there you go Android compatibility yet. No, unfortunately not and frankly we watch the Android market and look We're not opposed to it and many people think that we're we're sort of you know Tied to the iPhone and we're not we just We we love iOS because there's some real Stabilities and real benefits there that make it such a seamless experience you connect it it works You open any app it continues to work guarantee exactly if we can get that with Android believe me We will absolutely support that platform the moment. We just don't have it yet. So got you got you very nice Well, it's great seeing you here in the flesh and we look forward to testing one on our show That's what we do. Thank you so much. Check it out on our website as well great. Thanks so much Brad See you guys later Well, we're here at the personas booth with Wesley Smith who's gonna show us some really cool stuff that you might find interesting Especially for voiceover if you like having a mixer. How you doing? I'm doing very well now This is the studio live AR 8 series. Tell us about it a studio live area is a USB Equipped analog mixer sets a pure path analog front-end got a little three-band EQ on each of the channels To mono channels you also have to stereo channels if you need to come back there What's really great is when we say studio live it is a live mixer, but it works great in the studio You have a full 10 channel audio interface built into it So you can record all all it's gonna be a channel You can record all of the channels plus the main mix You do have the option to record the main mix on inputs one and two of your USB stream if you prefer that You can return To stereo streams back into the channels which makes it great for playback or if you're doing a live call You have bluetooth pairing if you want to stream in some music You also have an on-board stereo SD recorder, so if you're in a situation we need to do some mobile recording You can do that as well. So it would you could you could record send a stream and Have a backup recording that's a great feature to have even if the Bluetooth it goes all the way up to 96k So you have a very high-end recording have a little reverb built into it If you ever need that sort of thing it does come with a studio one artist So it is a complete mix a recording solution right out of the box and it's available now They're they're 299 299 great now. There's also some these monitors over here I want to take a look at these because these are really special Now studio monitors are really important in your home voiceover studio a lot of people say hey Those are really expensive But for a home voiceover studio personas has this particular model, which is at a great price point Well when we started out with the air series speakers a few years ago We wanted to make affordable speakers that were still flat that weren't scooped out of the mix I gave you a really true listening experience. So this is the latest version of those. These are the e 3.5s Have a little three and a half inch Kevlar woofer to make some great for small listening environment You still have a one-inch silk thumb tweeter. So you're going to get a lot of that high-end and breath that Connection features in these are great. You have a front-facing Headphone amplifier that actually bypasses the speakers so you can switch between listening live mixing and listening to your headphones You have your unbalanced RCA inputs your stereo balanced inputs plus a little High and low-shell filters if you need to balance it out for some reason and they're very affordable They're $99 and like most expensive studio monitors. These aren't tuned to be gaming speakers You're not going to hype up the bass or the high-end. They're actually very flat But yeah, but and then this is just a satellite to this one the amplifier for both speakers is built into How much power do they have it's 45 watts? All right, which is which is pretty much all you need Wesley, thank you so much. It was very nice to meet you already Are you confused about how to set up and maintain a professional quality voiceover studio? No wonder the information out there is mostly Mythology this is the best microphone to use you'll have to have a preamp You need a soundproof booth. 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Hey, you know Debbie Dairyberry is an American voice actress who has provided the voices of a number of animated television series Anime games her voice roles include the title character from Jimmy Neutron boy genius the adventures of Jimmy Neutron boy genius Wednesday in the Adams family cartoon and Jackie in Bobby's world in English language dubs of anime Dairyberry has provided the voice of Rio Oki in the ten chi meal series She received a best actress in comedy award at the American anime awards for her work as zatch in zatch Bell She's currently doing F is for family on Netflix and coaching voice talent on the skills needed in character voice work and Welcome to our show once again, Debbie Dairy Berry. Yeah, so nice to see you Thank you for having me. Oh, it's great having you here every time. Yeah, we've got your band here tonight, too Yeah, we do we're gonna hear that that's gonna be lots of fun Anyway, you've had a fascinating career and I know more about it than I think most people do probably more than you Probably more than I want. Yeah, but but you know people remember you from Jimmy Neutron and stuff But you're a busy lady and you know you've you got your groove and you're you're doing busy That's good. And you know like one of the things you're working on is F is for family. Oh, yeah, you know what? It is probably one of the Best written shows I've ever worked on it Mike Price and Bill Burr Who's this really funny comedian and Bill Burr is a writer on the Simpsons and the scripts are so funny but I get to be a lot of characters Laura Dern's my mom, you know from Star Wars the Laura Dern the Laura Dern and Bill Burr is my dad and I get to Sam Rockwell's in the cast and Allison Janney's in the cast and Haley Reinhart It's a very wonderful cast. I'm glad to be a part of it. Mo Collins who is so funny We pretty much just laugh our butts off all the time and it's really well written There's episode season one on Netflix and that has six episodes and then season two has ten episodes And we just finished season three and that'll be out later this year I can't say yeah, cuz once you finish binge-watching. It's like I gotta wait a year Yeah So hopefully they'll be a there will be a season four. There's too many great fans and it's so good and yeah So you're having a great time doing it. It sounds like it's I mean a great cast and So different experience for you Yeah, mostly because I play so many characters. I do like Bill Burr's has Bill Burr has a son named Bill. I Played big sons sister girlfriend best friend friend down the street nurse Do you get paid for each one of those roles or? Okay, okay It's a really good Netflix show and I have a couple other shows on Netflix a buddy Thunderstruck which was up for a bunch of Annie's last night Saturday night and Glitter Force, which is so fun if you like anime that is a very high energy Okay, your turn, okay There's there's also another one. It's called It's called Tigtone. Oh You forgot about it. There is a YouTube Video of Tigtone that I just think is funny. I'm just bringing it up so you guys can watch Tigtone and We'll see what happens with Tigtone, but I'm on some other shows. I can't talk about Yeah, okay In case you're wondering yeah, oh, and there's another show on Cartoon Network called what's it called? Victor Valentino Sounds familiar something like that and yeah, I got a couple of Doc Mcstuffins last seasons and Vampirina's this season and I'm a Guild Wars That's a great video game. If there's any Guild Wars fans. I play timey and this season I don't know why the writers did this. I think they just wanted to see her go down They made me cry hard. They're like Locking me in the booth and turn the lights off and making me cry like it on camera actor It was tough, but so fun. Oh, at least they weren't filling it with water while you're in there Isn't that a scared you to have nightmares like that my nightmare is being on stage really what the heck play all right And you forget you go up on your lines. Yeah, and you don't know what play on me and you don't know your lines Yeah, actors nightmares. Do you guys ever have this night? We have like a whole crew in here It's everybody's like there's like 10 people and it's about 400 400 degrees in here Yeah, maybe 400 actors nightmares like a waiting I waited tables if you're an actor you have to have waited tables Did you wait tables and made pizza you made pizza and so there's this my my famous waiting table nightmare is I There's this one room and I got all the orders and I go to my manager I'm like I got all the orders and he said great Deb What about the other room? Think fast. Yeah, this is a this is a wonderful book. Thank you A close-up look at that it's voiceover 101 which is going right through the green screen Purple I'm in a purple mode this year. Yeah, tell us about this Okay, I started teaching voiceover Dan as as you know, I don't know how it happened but people started coming to me wanting me to talk to their kids about it or do a little workshop about it and Started about seven years ago and I started coaching and I started having a beginning Animation voiceover class and then more people wanted it So I kind of have this regular beginning animation class and then they wanted more so I do an advanced animation class they usually have a guest from the industry there and So many questions to answer at conventions. How do I become a voice artist? And it's not an easy answer. So I wrote voiceover 101 voiceover 101 how to succeed as a voice actress Hopefully it'll help some people know the ins and outs of it And the best thing I like about it is that I put some videos in there and they has these QR codes I don't know if you could see it, but there's a little password of the QR code Yeah, and um, it's hard to teach someone how to bark like a dog. You can't do it with words You know, right? Well, you take the tongue and you put it on your upper left palate and you're like you're gonna fart Yeah, either you know how to do it or it's just comes natural, but you know, but um, you can get it on Amazon it's you can get it Kendall or a hard copy if you want me to sign it Just send it to the address on my website I'll be happy to send it sign it and send it back just you know, send me one of those self-addressed down Great book I read through it and it and it's fascinating For people that are thinking about getting an animation because It's big. I mean especially with video games and stuff now. Yeah There's always that question. Do you have to be here in LA because a really good question. Yeah, because it's to me It seems like well, there's the circle of people amongst whom you travel that we know There's it's a small cadre of people that are doing in the majority of the work How can someone break into that? Okay with a hammer. I would imagine yes more like a I don't know fork left the truck of it Within animation, I think everybody Assumes there is an open door. I would like to be a Disney princess Yes, so would I but I'm not an a-list on camera celebrity So we settle for what us working-class voice actors settle for which is the supporting roles or you know starring roles in a maybe a smaller show or I Don't know. We're just like rank-and-file actors So for West Coast like animation, you know what you see on Nick or Disney or The things that are recorded here, which is pretty much everything You have to be here that being said there are Anime shows dubbing video games Mocap that is done elsewhere, but I wouldn't expect anyone to ever really be able to make a living at it Because in the places where it's big Atlanta Austin these are free right to work states which mean you're not gonna get these those big residuals that you think Oh actors make so much money. Well, we don't it is I will tell you It's a lot of hard work and it's great fun and it's hard work I mean, I work all day every day, but I still pick up my dog's poo and take my kid to school and Make my old bed It is hard work, and I love it so much, but you do have to live in LA for The Doc Mcstuffins for the Vampirinas for the big video games To say I'm gonna come to LA and try it for a couple weeks Doesn't really work that way because there is something called the business of acting like any Career whether you're a realtor a lawyer a Anything that requires that you you farm your services out that people know who you are It requires time to establish who you are to meet the right people to meet the Dan Lenders and the George Whitton's and the Jack Daniels and the big agents and the Andrew Russell's and the Brenna, you know Larson these kind of people you gotta meet them Yeah, wow, we're we're a good company, right? So you you do need to be here and you do need to know that it's not a I went to LA and got famous in a week Kind of thing doesn't really work that way. No, it happens Occasionally, you know, someone just happens to come right and they luck out and and here's that the key thing It's it's this little part that says how to succeed is a voice actor Actor it's an acting job. It's not. Oh, hi, dad. I People say I can sound like Jimmy Neutron. I think I'll try voiceover Well, I'm not dead yet And either is Bart Simpson Either is Tommy Pickles. So we're kind of still here. So go find your own voice And you have to be able to create a carrier character. There is a market for impersonators But that is not what I do But there are people who do it and make a great living at it But it's it's something that I I have no knowledge of that industry, but it exists So don't confuse the two because those characters exist already somebody made those up and You can mimic them great, but to create your own character stay in that character Go through different emotions in that character. That's an acting job. Yeah, where do well, where do you find a character? I mean, I take it's like you draw from what you know That's a really great way. I mean, I call that channeling. So that's one way of finding a character is channeling, you know Maybe there's that lady who works at Starbucks. Oh, I met that lady at the library or my grandma How does she sound? How does my second grade teacher sound? You know, you find these people that you can just do I everybody, you know If you if your parent lives in a foreign country and you pick up the phone and you talk with them I know people whose moms live in, you know, the deep south and they sound like me when they start the conversation But by the time they finish the conversation, they're okay mama. I'll talk to you later. All right. I love you, too Okay, bye and all of a sudden they are their mom, right, you know people that haven't you doesn't it? Oh, every time I would go into a Jewish old folks. I might at least come out talking like this It's just the way it would work. That's your go-to old Jewish person's Right character and that can work for man or woman, right? Because by the time you're ancient They sound like my Bobby That's Bobby sound like grandpa's age isn't that age, right? They say oh, yeah, yeah, no, they say oi oi oi Exactly so that is one way of channeling another way. I find characters is technically so say where does it live? Does it live here? Uh, uh, or here? Uh, uh, or does it live here? Uh, uh, or here? Where's it live and So then you can add an accent to it. It's one of these little exercises that I have in my book And um So for instance, let me get a drink of beverage here. Okay. He's been going at it for a little bit here We're talking with Debbie Dairyberry in case you're wondering we're gonna be taught We're gonna be hearing honey pig her band just a little bit as well I was gonna tell him one other thing go for it. You're on okay now that you've hydrated So one example I like to use is if I'm if I'm doing my teenage voice this pretty much is where teenagers live and Say this teenager the picture I get has bracy So there's a teenager with braces or maybe this teenager with braces is from the south So here's my teenager with braces from the south. I might be she is ugly mean, you know nasty So here she is braces in from the south and she's kind of mean so you can layer all those things on any placement and age and accent and you get these characters and Then you name them and when you name them, they become someone you ought to see my Dan Leonard Now you also have a new studio Tell us about it. All right. I will and if after I'm done telling you you want to see about it You can go to my YouTube station. Is that a night? How you say YouTube channel on the playlist right here? You can watch me making it because I Enlisted all the best people in the world George with him came over and he told me what I needed to do Then Dan Leonard came over and he did his like ear thing and this needs to go there sniff around Yeah, he sniffed and he found the errant corners and he shot them with foam and then I had Willem Willem right field came over the door guy the door guy He hung my door and put up these wall things with the corners and fabric and then I Had Carson back he came to and he taught me how to use Adobe Audition so I could multitrack There's so many steps. They made it look so easy on those other darn YouTube channels. Yeah, and George made it look so easy Yeah, I could have bought a car Beautiful and it's purple as I recall was like how much you're willing to do yourself on this That's what you said. You're like how much lately. This sounds like a self-flavor of love. I mean the plan. I'm alone Yeah, that was that was so fun. There's there's still there's still a hole in my hand Yeah, I heard Dan screaming outside and I'm like Dan Did you play with a power tool again? No, never let Dan Leonard play with a power tool Yeah, it's it's it. There's an old joke. How do you kill a Jewish guy? Just give him power tool Not not one of my what not one of my better things, but you're happy with it then it's sounding great and And I go in there. I turn off the lights sometimes and take a little nap It smells new and it's purple and it's pretty and it's small But you know, I realized you don't really need a big studio and now I have a monitor in there And I can just lock myself in and do everything in there and I'm learning stuff. So if you're um, not 21 I just want you know, it's possible. You can do it. I did All right. Well again, we're talking with Debbie Dairy Berry and Can they follow me on my things? Go for it. Okay. So um, they're gonna put this little link under here That's gonna say the spelling of my name Debbie Dairy Berry, which is D E B. I D E R R Y B E R R Y So follow me on Instagram and Twitter and you know my YouTube channel and snapchat and my Facebook voiceover page and stuff And I love you all you're busy. I am busy. That's good This is good. Is it? It is. It's better than sitting on your talk is it that sounds so attractive though Like just sitting and resting and doing nothing like I talked to someone. I'm like, what did you do today? What is the store? Yeah, I did that between this and that and this and that and this and that right mean there's so much to do There is and this is a great city to do it into and there's just it's great doing the auditions Yeah, getting out there and working and it takes a long time to get to studios when you book stuff So that's why I live where I live and you live we live in this North Hollywood Van Nuys Burbank area Which means you don't really have to get on the freeway Which is what you want in the surface roads Yeah, and if you date somebody really seven miles is as far as you want to go it takes an hour to go Anywhere eight miles an hour 12 miles hour and a half. So just you know our little town is our little town Yeah, a little town isn't a song something like that like that. I wasn't about LA though Million people living here Anyway, tell you tell us about your band and then we're gonna take a break and then we're gonna hear your band Okay. Well, it's a um kind of a revival of a band. I had a long time ago called honey pig and It's three of us girls Debbie and Nina and Brenna, but Nina is she's in Cabo Just happened to taking a break right now So Brenna's husband who is an amazing singer Stands in for one of the girls when they're not here because both Brenna and Nina are all like peppa pig in all over the World and you know singing and doing fancy concerts because they're amazing singers But tonight we have Brenna and Andrew and we're gonna sing you a couple originals and maybe a non-original It's kind of like country Andrew sisters, and you'll be like Before because they used to be really popular Yeah, you're gonna hear us back in the day Anyway, so stay tuned we're gonna show you more stuff from Nam We've got more to show you and when we come back you're gonna get a live concert here on voice over bodies Hey, let me do you think I can do source connect from my new studio booth George George? Absolutely, what kind of like connection do I need cuz I have an HDMI is that we call it and a USB and an electricity Electricity that I do it. Yeah, I like to see all you got a headphone and a microphone in your booth I know what you need gas, okay? Okay Yeah, it's no it's not if you got a computer. It's no problem It's it's something like that. Just like it. You don't need the box. You don't need that You just press you know when you click something and suddenly you're talking to the other guy Like George was just talking about a few minutes ago. That is darn exciting It is we'll show you how to do it and we'll show you all sorts of other cool stuff in just a minute She has fought for those who don't have a voice the national zoo Because sometimes you just need to stroke a llama Instagram Download it and start embarrassing your teenagers today resolve spot and stay Because the dog's gonna drag his butt on the carpet. 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Hi, it's j michael collins and these are just a few examples of the first class demos My team and I are producing if you'd like to have something similar visit jmc voiceover.com and click on the demo production tab to find out more Alrighty, well harlan holgan wrote to me today and he said one of my all-time favorite voice persons is on tonight And that's debbie dairyberry Very talented but smart and pragmatic for example She really understands the business of the business as we were just talking debbie uses a Porta booth plus on the road the fact that the plus is in its travel case Qualifies it as real carry on with every major airline Today the airlines don't allow a length and girth calculation is as to what you're allowed to carry on Your carry-on bag either fits the bag size or at the airport or it doesn't To paraphrase johnny cochran if it doesn't fit you must check it Now our ripoff pals carry on vocal booth is totally not carry on qualified And yet he had the gall to demand we not use the term carry on Total nonsense and a total lie. Maybe this is why he's renamed the knockoff VOMO And i'm laughing that he's added an audio hood and that's what harlan told me today Okay, so if you want one of these what you got to do is you got to go over to voiceover essentials.com That's the place voiceover essentials.com because harlan holgan has everything you could possibly need For doing voiceover in your home studio or not in your home studio if you have your port-a-booth plus You know what my favorite thing about this is what is that well one of the things is the video where that shows you how to set it up The jazz music It's like the best music I could just play the video just so I could dance to the music But the other great thing about this is if you're my height get it off your neck and your 410 You know your feet don't reach the ground Okay, this you put on the ground like this and you put your feet on it Because then they don't dangle like you know a little kid and then the other thing is it has these pockets right here Right see it and over you put your iPad there and your microphone here And then I travel with it like this you zip it up and It's all contain and then it has places for your cords to go in and you're totally self-contained with your studio And it's really easy to set up. Can I just show them? Yeah. Good luck with that. Okay. I just have good at just pull Okay, watch two people. It gets done much faster. You guys You would like it has a little clippy thing and then you open it and then I'll just show them quickly Okay, hold that I'll hold that. Okay, so it has velcro and you just attach the velcro I'm doing it down below the camera, but then it becomes the square, right? And then this has a zipper on it and you zip it on the back like this And then the zipper unzips and you stick your boom through it like this And then your microphone sits on it and it's like a dead box like when you're in it you're going And it's so dead. I love traveling with this thing And sometimes when my microphone isn't working or my booth is out of order, I just want to go To my friend's house and record. It's a great thing and your feet sit on it there. How's that harlan? All right Pay up buddy. Yeah So if you want to if you need a portabouth If you need a portabouth plus or any one of those fine products of voiceover essentials Just go go on over there go right down to the bottom of our page And there's a picture of harlan talking into one of his portabouths It'll take you right there and you'll see all the other great stuff and hear the fun music All right, thanks harlan. You've been a real pro at this and we really appreciate it It's a massive humanity here at nam 2018 here in anaheim We had a really good time this year. Oh, we sure did. We had a great crew a great team You know, it's just we've covered so much in so little time We got to spell each other and we just saw a ton of great stuff in a short amount of time Yeah, lots of unique stuff too things that you might not normally see and you'll you'll get a chance to see all those videos But we met some interesting people saw some stuff that Perhaps nobody would have thought about before or even knew about so it was great to To meet some of these people and see products that perhaps were not familiar to the american market Some acoustic stuff some some studio monitors and interfaces things like that so A lot of interesting stuff. What was the big surprise of of what we've seen that stood out to you? Well, there was the thing we started off with today the The spire spire spire you the you know a little multi-channel interface not that would have a whole lot of Utility for voice actors, but but we did get to see the mixer face finally and see the functionality on it That was the big surprise for me because we've seen prototypes of it over the last few years and it looked totally different So seeing it today, they had a different form factor different control. It was totally different I mean he completely went back to the drawing board revamped it and he's ramping it up for production now Stuffed an awful lot of do a thing smaller than the pack of cigarettes Maybe you remember what that looked like if he releases it for anything close to what he says he may charge for it We can't say yet because it's not official It's gonna be a pretty darn good deal. Yeah, and also the acoustic panels that we saw with run night I'd never heard of them before but the stuff was very Aesthetically pleasing which a lot of our clients are really appreciative. There's aesthetically pleasing and it had Functions and design that were kind of unique to us and again at a price point that was surprising as well Yeah, and and yesterday we saw a lot of great stuff as well Yeah, we I finally got to be inside of studio bricks right you're seeing video of it and hearing lots of people talk about it And it is indeed as good as they say it is. Absolutely. Yeah, what about you? What was your highlight? Well that universal audio booth was pretty darn cool You got to go into a western scene and it looks like you're inside a saloon And you got to do a classic shootout of analog to versus Digital processing it's not as easy as it seemed. How did you do universal audio? It was pretty good at duplicating analog gear. Yeah, I got three out of the four actually Um, one of them. I was a total total guess Yeah, the base on the l2 was a hard one total guess the others had subtle things, but how did you do? They said I got one out of four, but I know I got two out of four because I was with me got two out of four And you put down the same things So Yeah, that's pretty fascinating. Yeah, again all of the stuff that we we use in voiceover Primarily is designed for creating music, which is what nam is really all about this musicals instrument and and and electronic Manufacturers that make this stuff Well smash mouse for example when he first came up with the idea We saw him here a year ago the smash mouse founder and his product was squarely for musicians Obviously, it's what he was thinking right when we came to him and I I saw him last year and said Hey, this would be great for voice actors in a booth that want to control their software with their foot Right be hands-free. He was like, oh, that's interesting. Well, here he is this year with a prototype And he's saying he's getting all this interest from the voiceover community didn't expect Yeah, so it was great to see that thing coming along and We'll see how it goes We'll definitely get one of those to try out and in a voiceover booth and see how utilitarian how helpful it is Yeah, really, I mean because I'm always in my booth and I'm far away from the computer I usually have a mouse or something but yeah to have a bluetooth mouse on the floor that you can just operate Roll back punch in whatever it is pretty sweet. Yeah, that would be nice Yeah, um, you know and there were a couple of microphones that were sort of voiceover specific Like the the the bock 195 you know 195. Oh, yeah, beautiful microphone And a lot of stuff at really good price points, which we know is important to you Yeah, so I'd say all in all this was a very successful venture heading out here to anaheim for two days It was totally worth the effort a lot of driving a lot of waiting in traffic a lot of crowds Waiting for you know, everything here is a wait But I think it was worth it. I hope you guys found it to be worth it too All right, well look for all the videos we'll be having them posted online on facebook and on our website and stuff So thanks for joining us here at nam 2018. I'm dan lennard and i'm george wittem and we're from voiceover Body shop or vo bs Thank you All right It's never been done before a live concert on vo bs Hopefully the first of many here is debbie derri berry and honey pig honey pig Thank you so much for having us gonna do a few originals for you. This is uh, so my man You know when um, you break up with someone and they don't know and they're clueless and that's kind of sad and mean But this song is called clueless you Gotta think about what others glow clue. I know I gotta I know I gotta I know Intuition says this decision could complicate my delicate condition I know I got a hesitation to invitations headway show has to know But a spark never lit from Let's go it's gonna be a slower one. Sorry As we are hey, you know, we have a little bit of time here Care to answer a couple of questions for our voluminous audience. Ah, sure guys. All right. Okay. Fred north asks This is how do you not go nuts keeping all of those characters straight while recording an episode Well, first of all, let me say we are all crazy to start with so that makes it easier I name them I name them and um Often if it's too hard to get to that character I'll just run one character from start to finish and then pop to the other But sometimes I just for fun. Let me fight with myself It you know, I screw up a lot It's fun though. I I'm sure well, that's it's recorded like try it again Good question. Fred. Thank you. Yes, paul stafano asks are casting directors looking for more real kids for animation these days I I hope you're thinking I hope not versus adults playing kids. I will say this. Um There are series where they really want the little kids to do them And then after a few seasons when they have to keep recasting Then they'll finally come around other senses and cast us grown-ups who don't get puberty Um, what I hope is that um, they'll just keep casting grown-ups like me for kids. Um But there are shows where they only let kids audition so it's both Okay, it's both. Yes. And now we get to experience something totally los angeles Absolutely All right, hopefully you can all hear this shelly avilino the lovely shea Shelly avilino says do you think this genre is opening up to remote talent more? Do you think it's just a a trend that will pass? Do I think it's opening up to remote talent? No I'm not animation anyways get down get down. I think definitely um commercial possibly promo Uh possibly narration. Yes narration, but animation. They kind of want you here I mean unless you're just in long who's also on f is for family I forgot to mention him You know if it's someone that you can't get in the booth and you have to have them They'll record you remotely, but don't count on it Great if you're a rank and filer. Yeah Dad, thanks so much for being here. It was great having you. It's great fun. Oh, we have a concert. All right Thanks you guys. We'll be right back to say goodbye. We're right after this. 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That's voice over x t r a dot com And we're back that was different. Wow, that was different We can do that. I guess first time ever right and it worked almost flawlessly Technology is amazing that we can do this kind of stuff and you only see it here on voiceover body shop Anyway, uh Coming up next week on this very show. We'll have tim tippets Tim tippets is another home studio guy. There's more out there. There's This is a hand thought maybe just a couple of guys So we're we want to get the other guys that we know in here talking about it. So he'll be here next week uh, february 19th Mom tracy linley will be here. She's got a lot of kids My mom now. Well, I call her that because she's got like five kids or something like that So they call her mom, right? So she's home and she has a great course on how to use linkedin for proper marketing for voiceover Very good. Don't want to miss that my buddy and client roger rose That was my get thank you very much. Good job. Yeah. No, he's gonna be in here and uh, he's Getting him to stop talking will be the hardest thing. Okay. Well, he has so many incredibly great stories And they daisy chain onto the next. Okay. Well, we'll just go a long time go roger is fantastic. I love that Uh, then march 5th We're both be back from v. O atlanta, which should be amazing because everybody's going to be there I mean everybody's gonna be there including us Uh, but we have carlos alas rocky is coming. Did I say that right nicely? Thank you for practicing for two weeks Get that name right now. Are we still gonna have are we still gonna have voices at purview atlanta anything? Probably not and then uh march 26th Dr. Gupta the rhino otolaryngologist to the stars very nice. Uh, so we're great That's a great lineup coming up over the next couple of months. 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You wouldn't think that we would do that but we did it that was one of that's the first time ever It wasn't perfect The next time it's gonna be better. Okay, and it sounded great though. I was really awesome. I built that microphone by the way Yeah, that's right. That was the mic you built. It is parts dot com parts dot com. Nice. Uh, let's see here Uh, we also have to tell everybody about what we do because We help you with your home studios if you want to talk to george. What do you do? I'm over at george the tech dot com We can order you can hire me by the half hour of the hour You can do flat rate services like stacks and racks You can have me design an entire studio Do studio maintenance, whatever you need. That's where you go and find me on the web All right And if you need to get a hold of me because I seem to be the plumber in the valley here It's somebody's somebody's got a problem with their studio or you really want to start from your starting from scratch You really don't know How do I start right to me dan at danlennard.com or go over to homevoiceoverstudio.com and click on the contact me button And you'll find me and I will respond very rapidly because that's what we do All righty, uh, we have a podcast of the show too That's right If you like listening instead of watching if this show is just too long or you're commuting You could you could be listening to this as a podcast instead You can find it on stitcher iTunes just type in v obs into your pod catcher And if you are listening on podcast and you sometime want to see actually what goes on around here Tonight was a very good one to pay us but you should come back and watch this show particularly We are on youtube and we're on video We're on v obs.tv youtube and facebook so find us over there facebook. 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That's where you send your request to be here So guys like pat and all these other people that just suddenly showed up I don't know who they are out of the woodwork They just came out and wanted to watch the show because they knew it was going to be a great show Uh, we need to thank our amazing sponsors Harlan Hogan's voiceover essentials voiceover extra Source elements v. Ode to go go voice actor websites.com and j. Michael Collins demos for providing an uninterrupted live stream and bandwidth All right, and we need to thank marcie even though she's in florida I have to go for 48 hours to florida to set up my mother-in-law stuff Holy smokes flying out thursday morning coming back Saturday afternoon It's a long stay healthy my friend. I will I'm sick all week. Now. I feel great. Where am I? Okay, yes, we need to thank our producer katharine curden for getting us this huge list of people She is working overtime. She is got to appreciate that. Thanks, uh, katharine Jack daniel on chat room duty and florida duty today. He was really hustling tonight And our technical director su merlino who's doing just a bang-up job Getting it done and jack golly for the show notes and of course lee penny simply for being lee penny Hey kids, you know, it's a it's a tough business and deb was telling us about it tonight You got to work hard. It's hard work And you got to know what you're doing So we're here to help you with all the information that's going to make it easier for you So tune in here every monday night and You'll have a great time like we do. It's like our monday night poker game It's great having you here. Anyway, i'm dan lennard and i'm george wittem and this is voiceover body shop or vo BS have a great week everybody. We'll see you next monday night. Bye