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Michael Collins 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 Hi there, I'm Dan Leonard in the West and I'm George Wittem in the East and this is voiceover body shop or VO Be Yes Wow We are coast-to-coast we George you are in West Palm Beach, Florida. I certainly am yep I'm down here visiting Jerry Pelletier who needed some studio tuning up And this was a prom opportunity to be able to interview him in person. Yeah, so well do tonight Yeah, well, you've you've had quite an odyssey. We'll talk about that in a second The the big tree in front of the voiceover body shop the huge star pine Gone. No what happened? Oh, well, it was good If it was gonna it with our gardener was like it look doesn't look like it's going to survive So maybe you cut it down And if it fell down, it would have taken out the front of our house So we figured maybe a good idea to take it down But we they saved us a big slice of the trunk and now we're gonna have this really nice coffee table Well, there you go So we'll put that we'll put it up up front where the tree was so it'll be a good reminder anyway You have been all over just like I did that mass odyssey last October after Uncle Roy's barbecue Well, it was my turn. It was your turn. So tell us about your trip Yeah, well the trip started off with a stint to Montreal where my girlfriend's parents Coordinated a trip so that we could all meet and I hadn't met them before and my girlfriend hadn't seen her parents in three years Mainly because well, they live in Iran and it ain't that easy to fly to come to to Pennsylvania, California, United States anywhere is not easy But they did make it to Montreal and we all converged there for a few days and that was a blast It was really fun getting to meet them. We got to see the city together. It was really cool then hopped on the train on Friday zipped across and down in diagonal Towards the Southwest I guess towards Toronto the VIA rail on the VIA rail, which was great, you know comfortable and Hopped off the train and there I was in Toronto and Graham Spicer was waiting for me and whisked me off and Vio North commenced and got to enjoy the Vio North conference All weekend. So we have a little package If you guys want to roll that there's a little bit of a taste of what that conference looked like from my perspective All right, so you want to give that a give that a look? You wouldn't want to eat it like every day that's for sure eat something that's real sinful But you don't want to feel like crab after you eat it She has me giving this Who's that on drums? I did, I was playing it Vio North is a wrap Time to say goodbye to all our friends and grab a little bit of dinner here at the Gladstone I wish I had more time to spend here, but I'm grateful. I got to be here. Thanks, Durvala for bringing me in Intanya and the team it was a really good experience this conference and If you want to do a little something different a little smaller conference a more intimate or the more Informal and fun, but still really well run. This is one for you to check out Vio North 2020 I hope I can be back Well, yes, I it was a great totally grabbed a handful of Golden's Mustard packets in the airport I spank rave good spicy brown mustard It was it was great. Yeah, Tanya and Durvala Ran it just ran a really good show and the venue is probably it was gonna be different next year this year's was a smallish What do you call boutique hotel? It was really cool and quirky But next year they want to go a little larger and we were out. We were bursting at the seams. That's so But a good event and it wasn't like there was five 15 tracks of things at the most at any one time there was maybe three things going on That's good. You didn't feel like you're missing out and the attendees were hungry for information I'm sure they really were when when when okoroi and I did our presentation We were trying to be humorous and be lighthearted about it But we were making jokes and they're staring at us like when are you actually gonna tell us stuff about microphones? This isn't funny. We want stuff about Mike. You know, it was it was kind of like that. Anyway, yeah I'm not about that. Yeah. Well, I can't imagine that you know that That whole thing without Pat Sweeney up in Toronto, that's right I mean, he was really the a driving force up there and we all miss him. He was yeah But but I'm glad everybody had a good time next year I'm sure did and Graham put me up with Aaron. They took care of me. I got to stay at their place It was I felt really well taken care of as many everybody that was presenting there did and we're We all want to do it again. So let's see what happens next year outstanding. All right Well, now you're in Florida and now we get to introduce our guest because you're visiting a Well-known voice actor his is this is a busy guy. I mean he's does commercials and lots of corporate stuff But he's also on the radio. Let's walk in voiceover body shop Jerry Pelleteer Well, welcome to South Florida during hurricane season. Yeah Sorry, I'm missing a little right We got lucky right we dodged we don't you've dodged one big fat bullet, right? Yeah, that was a bad one That was a bad one. So knock on wood. Yeah, did you get much rain from that or any any damage? We did we got some squalls that came through and there's a couple others brewing out there right now It's just it's that time of year. I got some hurricane panels up that Haven't taken down the bedroom that you're in tonight. I'll have hurricane panels up. So it's pitch dark in there Okay Yeah, that's the hurricane. It's amazing when a hurricane will go cross-floor. It's like someone takes a brillo pad and just Scrubs out sections of Florida, but they put it all back together and it's like, okay. Oh open up the senior dining again. So Anyway, Jerry welcome to the show great to see you again and Tell us a little bit about yourself. You're you're you're a voice actor. You're on the radio, huh? What brought you to this amazing career? Well, first of all, I got to say for all the Vio talent out there it what you guys do and I've got to see some of the Workings behind the scenes here We are so lucky to have both of you and what you guys do each and every week and I don't think that's said enough We're lucky to have you guys. We really are appreciate. Yeah. Thank you Retired radio guy, but I did radio in Chicago and Sacramento and Houston and and here and then retired probably about seven years ago And and then really get into voiceover and boy like most typical voiceovers. I made a ton of mistakes I mean bad ones and you know, the learning curve was tell us a few what You may as it prevail us with the stories I can't get into some of them are still airing and they just make me cringe But then I just noticed with the grindstone I'm not a big-time voice actor like most of you guys have out in LA out there I'm just nose the grindstone trying to work it out every day. I've been fortunate enough to sign with ACM I recently signed with William Morris and I just just recently signed with Stewart talent, man They're all fantastic and that's kind of helped help my my journey a little bit. So Yeah, I've been doing a lot of stuff for Broadway shows Rudy and Joan Rudy Gaskins and in Joan Baker know the scale Deborah Cox And she was in the bodyguard and I did the the voiceover for that Okay toward the country and and coming up maybe to a Show near you elf on the shelf. I did all over. Yeah, I did the promotions the voice for that too So jagermeister, I think I'm doing the there the NHL the national hockey league sponsor, but I do it like a play-by-play announcer Oh, really? Yeah for the character. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so that's right running again this year So it's just nose to the grindstone try to work it all out like most other videos out there Yeah, there's something it's different about Jerry when it comes to being most other videos He's sort of like the center of a little voiceover universe down here Explain how that came together like this this place that we're in is it's Jerry's home And it's where he works But it's not your typical home studio you use this is like a professional Almost commercial studio people come in. Yeah We're not like we're not la we don't have the amount of superstars that you guys do but we do have palm beach here, which Has brings a lot of people in. Yeah, there are a lot of people that live here So I've had that the people that I can't talk about Serena Williams has been in the studio recording a couple things Um, Joe sips been in here a couple times recording some things Who else? Talia who is the the wife of Tommy metola the guy used to own and run producer Sony records. Yeah, I mean she's a Grammy award-winning Tejano singer so she's been in here recording and Gino he works at second city out of chicago. He does the current windy's commercials that are on tv He's been in here So because your location you're near where people are coming in But how are they finding out about you? This is the thing that this is what's curious to me I mean, you know, you don't google these guys and send them an email like how do they find you? I still have the old school i sdn. So i'm on the digiphone website Listing as a i sdn studio. So uh when they're here Um, rather than drive all the way down to miami for studio. They've got me So that's how they find they actually go on digiphone and look for they probably google i sdn studios west palm or palm beach or something. Yeah on digiphone They have a list of all the i sdn studios by state. Yeah Hmm. There you go. All right Well, let me ask you something that since you came out of radio and a lot of a lot of people try to get into voice over Out of radio and I know there's a lot of radio people out there because I see them, you know, like morning show and so and so I want to be in voice over Uh, you know that sort of thing What is what was the hardest thing for you to make that transition from full time? You know doing radio to really doing voice over because it's really not the same thing No, I probably had a a week long radio exorcism performed on me Just a week Well, no, it still continues as you know, Dan I mean, I've spent a lot of money on gear but when it boils down to it it's It's you and what you do and uh, I've had a lot of different vo coaches and uh You just got to find the vo coach who's right for you There's a lot of great vo coaches on there, but who's right for you and mary linn wissner has just been Absolutely spectacular for me and she's been able to get through my thick skull And actually got me to do me, which is the scariest things for me to do being in radio You know, you don't really do you you do this form of you But to actually get down and just do you and and and relax and do it Uh, it's almost like a caricature of you. It's still a work in progress, but she's come a long way But and I got to thank her for that. Yeah, so what sort of stuff you've been doing lately That you like I said, it was about it. Yeah, well, you know Automotive I've been doing that and like I done the the band's visit the elf on the shelf, which is coming to uh, Your neighborhood probably uh, james hardy siding I've done all their national stuff so And for me working my way up the ladder when you want to actually go up and and play with the big boys and Get these big contracts When you actually land it you have to understand that when you're doing the session These people are in a studio in new york la chicago And it's a it's it scares you when you look at the studio that they're going to it's a million dollar studio And the first thing that producer on the other end is thinking. Okay. I'm hooking up to a home studio which has them A little on alert right away. Yeah, and that's why I've got the studio bricks booth behind me because when they've rented that whole place and they've got Creative people in there and copyright people in there and the studio producers You can't have somebody coming by and a weed eater outside your door here or your window and and And they have to take a break Because this is a quiet place. I mean You probably did you record in in the open room for a while? No, did you go right to the studio? Yeah, I went to the studio bricks because I knew I had to have it. Yeah, um, and I call it quiet on demand Yes When you're doing live directed spots is dn That's quiet. That's when you need quiet on demand working here Yeah Anything down guys? Oh, it's back. Okay Do we have a big dropout? I don't know. We'll edit it out Okay, that's the fun of live broadcasting. What was the last thing you heard us say Uh, I heard it all Yeah, don't worry about it. It's recorded It's still rolling. Okay Still rolling No, I was saying like so, um, yeah, you need quiet on demand And uh, that's when you make that a kind of investment like jerry did for I mean you've done some other things to improve We're gonna we're gonna talk more about this on the next show about tech talk We're gonna get more into the tech side of what's going on here, but You've made a lot of investments to make it better for sure And I helped a lot of people that have studio bricks booths that are that are buying them and and I gave them some advice And the the latest thing that I installed is here in the room outside of the booth I just installed the endo Yeah, the endo window insert insert. Yeah, and it's an acoustical glass piece that actually goes In the window on the inside and so when the weed whackers go by or the lawnmowers go by It's just one more level of insulation because otherwise my house is it's a concrete block house Really? Yeah, but the the windows are the contractor windows, so they're very cheap You know, I mean so that really helped you probably didn't measure it But was it quite a noticeable drop in the noise? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah cool Yeah If you're just joining us our guest is jerry pelleteer joining us from west palm beach, florida And uh, if you've got a question for him about you know about his career or how he makes his transition from radio to Voiceover or how he deals with his business Throw it right now in the chat room and I think Mike Merlino is in there trying to take care of all this And we'll get to that question But right now we're gonna take a break and we'll be right back with george and jerry and me right after this I think I heard the voice of a body shop. I did I did hear the voice of a body shop Little body shop Well, hello there I bet you weren't expecting to hear some big voiced announcer guy on your new orientation training for snapchat. Were you? 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I did hear the voice of a body shop And we're back Sounds familiar doesn't it we still laugh when we hear bob bergen doing uh doing uh, what that that was important Yeah, yeah Yeah, I'm still doing that. Anyway, we're here on voice over body shopper guest is jerry pelleteer And uh, george is in west palm beach florida with him in his studio and uh In and all the time that you've been doing voice over. What's what's your favorite stuff to do? Uh, it's probably a character, you know, I just don't get to do character stuff very very often It's easier to do than just doing yourself Right, which I've been trying to do when somebody asks you just to do you you're like Nobody wants to hear me So if you can do a character stuff, you can actually live outside of what you are and it's easier to do And a lot more fun. Yeah Uh, again, if you've got a question for jerry or for george and me or you know, just general marital advice Get it in the chat room right now and uh, we'll uh, we'll get to that We got a question here from john duffin Who asks john in philadelphia. Yeah john He's a client. Yeah, he says was there a technique that you remember that resonated to you that helped you sound less Announcery and more you Hmm this comes from maryland and it's it's her it's her toolbox of secrets if if you will So I don't know if I met liberty to to you know say we've been plugging maryland all night Yeah, I think you can throw one throw out one good one Or just for an example, you know It's the distracted read as a broadcaster, you know, dan You you know that we're usually on point you just did a live spot there and you're on point you read your stuff But now it seems like they don't want that they want this like distracted read Which goes against everything you and I were brought up to do Yeah So it's almost like you take like a rubik's cube and act like you just act like you're playing the rubik's cube While you're trying to read your copy. So you're reading it and you sound distracted right and that's what they want This sounds bizarre. Yeah, it is it's yeah, I mean it's it's it's not easy I mean I I've I've worked on it for years and it's like well, you know, I don't sound like an announcer I am an announcer You know and you get these specs it says and the client says no no no announcers. Why are you sending this to me? And the other thing is something simple like in a sentence you just repeat repeat a word twice So so if you're going to the store, you know, which is kind of like a distracted read Like if you're playing with the rubik's cube you go so So if you're going to the store, you know, just something simple like that But she gives you all these tools that help a guy like me that can use them mechanically Make you sound more Non-announcing right right. Yeah, I mean and occasionally the last for that for the most part though commercially They really are like no announcers Like why are people even sending that stuff in I it's kind of kind of interesting that that's what it's on The the the one thing I had to do a whole series In fact, it was like two and a half years worth of shows for oxygen network and it was all Uh these mass murderers You know the btk killer Um, all of them you just go down the list and and it was a you get the booth for two and a half three hours Talking about these mass murders by the time you got done with that session. Oh, you needed to needed to have a drink But people love those shows I don't understand but they love watching shows about Mass murderers. It's true. They sell really well. Yeah. Yeah, I don't get it either. Yeah, it's entertaining I mean, you know reality tv and a lot of this stuff Really has opened up the door for a lot of us in voiceover. There's a lot more documentary type work out there Have you been finding a lot of that? Well, even like hg tv, which is more on the lighter side of things, you know what I mean, um, uh, The discovery channel. Yeah, there's there's some some back old backwoods boys, you know brewing Alcohol and their steels out back you can do those too, you know So there's a wide variety of types of narrations that that are going on and I love it Yeah, I do some on the on the outdoor channel too with some hunting shows. Oh, oh, those are exciting But your job is to make it exciting There's actually another thing that you do apparently which is golf pride spots Yeah, and and I am I kill snakes for living when I go out on the golf course. Uh, uh, I don't golf But yes, I've been doing golf pride for like five years. Uh People tell me that commercials are on the golf channel, but I never see it. It's great. Well, rick Shockley, uh, he said jerry is my is my vo hero um, he said he helped me a lot and So he wanted to mention that you do those spots, but he thinks you're pure talents. Yeah Well, I tell you what there's there's some great talent down here in south florida. You got doug trichel Sean called well there There's some great females down here that are fantastic who we had here at the house when marieline came in So I am humbled to be even a part of that group And that's a cool thing about hosting an event like that is now you're connected to maybe a bunch of people you There's probably Well, how would you know that they're there unless you put it out there and said come over and let's do a class And now you maybe have a bigger network than you did before Yeah, that was that was a great day and and we Got some great relationships there and I think you know the vo community as you guys know Very helpful to one another, you know, people can pick up the phone. You can call somebody and they'll if they can help you They will That's the important thing. We got a question from fred north. Why don't you take that one george? Fred north. Um, jerry, do you have? a source connect or ip t t ip d tl and in addition To your is dn. Um, so I'll add there's a couple part question. So Are you using all of those technologies george knows what kind of a geek I am? But and I and you see these discussions time and time again on all the boards Which one should I get back to that one? It's not up to you. It's up to the producer At the studio that you're going to so if you want to Play in the world that That a lot of these guys are playing it. You got to have everything. I've got old school i s dn. I've got a telos phone thing here, but I can also use my my Is dn as a A phone patch, but I've got ip dtl. I've got source connect Standard I've got them all so it's like, you know, whatever they need I have and you're able to run with it Yeah, gotta have all the tools in your toolbox if they're all asking for it What do you find? What are you finding? Most producers are looking for right? That's what I was going to ask We're on the same page. Yeah, I would say you know the same page It was it was probably 95 i s dn and and a little bit a source connect But now those roles have kind of switched a little bit. It's it's more source connect Then i s dn. I mainly use ip dtl when i'm on the road and I need a phone patch Oh, you're using it as the phone patch. Yeah, you're not using it as a bridge all that much. Oh, okay So if you're on the road and you get Do you just not do i s dn sessions when you're on the road you book out or do you go to a studio? Or how do you yeah, because you know as well as I do if you're using the hotel's wi-fi Or your phone is a hotspot You can get dropouts there and and Even with the apollo and the gear that that george has shown me which really helps In an environment that is not your studio You still can run into some issues that if you're connected to a pretty sophisticated studio And you they've got talent there and they book time there. You don't want to waste their time So if it's a session like that, I'll I'll find a studio close by and work it out Yeah, well another thing is you're you know one thing about having an exceptionally good home studio Which you do now at this point. I mean you've you've put a tremendous amount of effort into getting it sounding good and quiet so Now you have a bar that if you have to travel Is even harder to obviously match when you're on the road So I would imagine you're probably trying to avoid having to do that very often Like you're not going to pick up something for example I I have we were I can tell you sir We were at faff con last year and a good friend of mine steve kett. Who's who's here tonight as well Um, I had a session to do we went up in the room and they had construction going on at faff con nine if any of you went Uh, so there was jackhammers going off and we were like on the third floor and uh, I did the session and and fortunately the jackhammers kind of Cut back quite a bit but With some of the gear that we have that that you know of that that's available with the apollo We were still able to do the session and they were none the wiser That's amazing you pulled that off. Yeah once again We're talking with jerry pellet here and george down in west palm beach florida tonight on voiceover body shop Again, if you've got a question form based on uh, what we're talking about or whatever you want to talk about Throw it in the chat room. We'll get that to him in a second So we're talking a little bit about geekiness on george. You say that jerry's a real geek And you know, I you know i'm i'm one of those people. It's like i'm not a geek just use the right stuff Do you find having all that technology? Really helps you or is it just that you like the technology? As far i mean you were talking about how you have Certain filters and stuff that can help you in a pinch or in a situation But how much do you actually do to your audio before you send it out? No, I the less is more Less is more but and I have to say again, you know having you two as a resource in the vo community is just Is priceless and and I know that if either dan or george comes out to your place did george you were out here We're like five years ago. I think jeez. I can't believe it's that long, but yeah, yeah And the work that he did uh being here in the studio Has lasted to this day. It's been the gold standard for me and and really what he did was Less is more. I mean we really all we did was it's no added extra eq or processing or anything like that It's just eqing to the room each room has a certain sound to it And if you can eq maybe some of the imperfection or standing waves out of it to make it sound better That's that's all you use the eq for you don't you don't do it for anything more than just correcting what the room Sounds like or how it affects the uh The microphone and and to make it nominal it's kind of like makeup Some people wear enough wear so much that it draws attention to itself It it just they're like whoa look at that makeup And others wear like an incredibly subtle Makeup, you know, they have it's very they're like are they even wearing makeup, but they are you know And that's kind of I just thought of this because I was traveling and you see All these different, you know cultures, you know But it's like that it's like uh, yeah, we're all putting on a little bit of makeup But it's it's the right amount. It's tastefully done. It's done in light amounts. It's a very nuanced thing So whatever processing is going on. It's all it's all really really subtle stuff But not made to make him sound better in some weird way, right? But for me as a geek if if the sound quality isn't there it affects my re so I have a problem. I have an issue But uh, he's gotten it to the point where it's just I don't have to worry about that And then Dan I can do exactly what you've been preaching. It's all about the read and and to work on that And that's what I've been doing. Yeah, I mean you want to be able to hit record and do what you do And not worry about it and you know a lot of people and I and you you probably get these questions from people George and I get them all the time. What's the you know, essentially, what's the secret sauce that you throw in there? It's like You learn how to read copy And sound like you're not reading it essentially What's again and go ahead the auditions that you send in have to be clean and they they have to be Good so that when you know because they're going to listen to everybody else and some of these These voiceover talents that are have good setups, you know, I mean, I think that makes a difference If you if your read is good and the sound quality is kind of bad If the read is good and the and the audio quality is good, then it's a win-win Yeah, because they're going to judge I've heard or I've found that they might make a judgment of your sound quality Even before they judge your acting Because they can they hear that thing that they don't like right away And then maybe a few seconds later they start to hear the acting, you know So I have a tough enough time alone with just the talent. So I better make sure the audio is pristine Yeah, what we like to say is is the idea is not to sound great. It's to not sound bad Yeah You want to you want to sound like you and the way you sound in a conversation And like you're in the same room with somebody because they're not looking for All that, you know, like make it sound fantastic, you know, it you'll know when it sounds bad when it sounds good You don't notice you don't notice. Well, let me ask you this Are there things that you do where there is an expectation that you send out audio that's really Juiced up gassed up blasting, you know, uh, math, you know, whatever I would send out audio that is polished if you will a finished audio to a lot of these And I think a lot of vo people do it where you send it to Uh a person who's just a I don't want to talk bad about them But they're video editors and they're not going to do a thing with your audio They just drop it in and then when you hear it, you're like, oh my god, you just drop that in you didn't do anything You know, you didn't you didn't polish it up Audio and just left it there. So I will specifically ask, you know, if they want me I'll send them both sometimes, you know, just raw audio and then here's the polished audio, right? And, you know, use use what you want But there are some people that I know that I will only send them the polished audio because I know how they Yeah, let's talk a little bit about how you run your business now You say you've got a number of agents and stuff, but how do you usually pursue business? I mean, you obviously you have existing clients, but always got to be on the hunt for new ones, right? Well, I did, you know, seven years ago. I did the same thing I did the pay-to-play stuff, you know, like everybody else did and I've just really Have fallen away from that like a lot of people have and now it just comes down to, you know what, you know, find out what you I used to ski competitively, you know When I was about 40 pounds later, but you know, so for me, that's what I like I like Alpine skiing so go after the ski companies vocal and just, you know Contact people that you have an interest in and and market to those people, you know And there's a lot of things you some people like bowling some people like hockey some people like football, you know But just market to all the companies who make footballs or do that stuff and and Those are things that you're passionate about and if you have a Good audio quality studio then then market to them and work for them Yeah, because if you're passionate about it, then that's going to come over in the read And just your inherent knowledge about the whatever it is. You're talking about that will also come across too, right? I mean, it's just just natural a lot of it's just, you know, self marketing anymore as opposed to relying on the pay-to-play cattle call So Yeah, yeah, and then the other thing is is Dan I'm sure, you know, it's just I mean the number one thing I think you can do is relationships Is the clients you do have build a relationship with them What I love is some of my clients feel like I'm actually on their payroll like I'm a part of their staff, which is great And uh, well just recently I had a through William Morris I had a political come through last week And they scheduled it for thursday then they scheduled it for early friday then friday afternoon And then it was supposed to be today and they they apologized so much They said we'll pay for any studio time. We realized that we booked time with you for me I take that as an opportunity to actually Go to them and say listen, I realize this happens and it happens more often than you think I'm fine with it. And so I've taken an opportunity that was bad mostly on their part But wanted to be part of their staff and help them out and say don't worry about it. I've got your back And I think you that whole team player mentality Yeah, you're emboldening yourself to them, you know a little bit more and that to take it as an opportunity to do that so sometimes Bad things like that if you turn them around can actually work for you Yeah, we got a question here from Dwayne de selvo one of our fans out there and he says He asked Jerry, do you use headphones when recording? Ah, yes and no that question. Yes and no. Good answer. And I'll tell you Usually when they were they're looking for more of like an announcer type thing, you know They never say that but they're you can tell that that's what they're kind of looking for and that's what the copy kind of dictates I'll wear my headphones But if they're going back to we just want a real person read well Then I get my mariolyn wister toolbox out take the headphones off and and play with a rubik's cube That distracts yourself right, right? Yeah Yeah, I mean most people don't understand that the headphones are not to hear yourself Although it's a philosophical thing. The only reason you would ever wear headphones is to listen to somebody else like The director or yeah, if you such stuff that that sort of thing Well, I'll tell you another thing dan too and that's why with the studio bricks booth Um, if you've ever been to a david letterman show when he was on his his studio there in new york was ice cold Yeah, ice cold. That's what I remember hearing about that and that's because it keeps him attentive and and his guests attentive Yeah, everybody kind of on it when you're in these booths And in fact, I've got a five by five, but the the smaller studio bricks booth You know your body kicks out btu's and I'm preaching to the choir here because a lot of people will be shaking their head that You know, it doesn't take long for those booths to heat up to an uncomfortable level And I would say that that really affects your read to be in there sweating and having to do that I have my booth nice and george can attest I have it nice and cold in there because I have Sometimes two or three hour sessions the marathon sessions and if you're not comfortable boy I think you listen to your recording by the end of that that session your read has Degregated as well. Yeah 30 an energy level. Yeah, if you can maintain your energy Sometimes the heat actually makes your loosens up your voice a little bit too Which is you know, I've done session long sessions like that. I'm like, I'm in I'm all sweaty, but I sound really good Earn, you know, it makes it look like it worked really hard at that. You can hear the sweat. That's right Well, jerry, it's been great having yawn and uh, we're gonna we're gonna take a break and say goodbye But then we're gonna record next week's tech talk and we're gonna talk more about your studio Which I think is going to be lots of fun. So excellent. Thanks for coming to florida Well, thank george. I'm happy to be here. I'm still sitting here We've got swag for you. Okay, great Great Jerry, thanks for being with us. You got it. All right, George, and I'll be right back after these important messages This is anthony mendez. 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I don't drink enough But it doesn't affect me everybody else is like I gotta drink lots of water Whatever Anyhow, uh, well that was interesting to talk to jerry and see how things are going with him down there in florida um yeah Next week on this very show Which we're about to record uh is uh tech talk number 18 Rolling right along. Yeah, we're gonna have some great stuff to talk about. I got a lot of people thanking me for tech talks At the upper up in the great white north up there and vio north people were very Complementary of it. So um, it's what we love to do and everybody stick around and ask questions Yeah, do you have a chance to go to tim hortons? I went to a tim hortons actually one morning It was the one place that was open in montreal when I was walking around and the line was like 50 people long at that place Actually, they gave tim hortons bags of coffee to every of 10 d at the event So we all came home with the coffee timmy hoes. All right. 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I have no idea where I come up with this stuff I mean, I I should go back to the ones where we had all the photographs And we would just plaster our face and in famous movies and paintings and stuff like that Keep doing what you're doing already. Uh, hey and show us your booths Yes, like, uh, we've got where am I jack the goalie is new booth Oh, it is it is he's not in his closet anymore. You'll notice there's no clothes hanging there. Yeah So he's got a full frame. I didn't get a good look at it yet Oh, yeah, all right. Let's see see the whole shot here. You can get rid of george for a second and just show me There there it is Look at that. Yeah He was using like a converted closet forever. So I think it wasn't a converted I think it was his closet. Yeah, like it was like a super it was a well-treated closet But he said he needed a lower he needed he was fighting the noise from the neighborhood So you need to go to the next level We'll talk a little bit about that in our in tech talk next week We're gonna talk about booths and studio bricks and booths in general, which should be a lot very interesting Uh, let's see here, uh, you know, if you want help with your home voiceover studio You can work with george and you'll find him over at George the dot tech that's my home on the web for all things voiceover studio tech support and you can book me for live consoles remote or on site in la or wherever I happen to be Or you can book me Uh for just on uh, basically self-service stuff where you send the files and I send them back including things like sound checks And dan, I know you do sound checks too. Oh do I specimen cup? Yeah at home voiceover studio dot com right here and uh You know, it's it's great getting the audio from people and in hearing, you know How people are trying to you know get their audio right listening to the suggestions that you and I give them And uh, usually little tweaks here and there, but if you really don't know what it's supposed to sound like you can send me a A sample of your audio for 25 bucks. Uh, just click on the specimen collection cup And uh, I'll get right back to you and we'll uh, we'll make sure that you get your audio straight So check that out as well. 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