 Hey, it's Monday night indeed it is and tonight on voiceover body shop We have a great star guys been with us a few times, but the first time in our studio. I love it I know Anthony Mendez who's gonna tell us all about all the cool stuff that he's doing and You know maybe you've watched Jane the Virgin and you'll know him from there But once you realize his voice is in a lot of different places. Yeah that transition from the other coast Yes, it's always interesting to hear people's stories. So now he's here in LA and now he's here in the clubhouse So and we got lots of cool tech stuff to talk about. Yeah, there's we'll talk about a studio bricks thing soundproofing of a booth problem And I got a review video of the MXL CR 89 courtesy of Jack Daniel All right, we'll check that out too and lots of other fun stuff. So stay tuned voiceover body shop is coming right up two men twin sons from different mothers with a passion for voiceover recording technology and The desire to make recording easy for voice actors everywhere together in one place George Whidham the home studio engineer to the stars a Virginia Tech grad with an unmatched knowledge of all the latest gear and technology in voiceover today Dan Leonard the home studio master a voice actor with over 30 years experience in Broadcasting and recording and a no-holds-barred myth-busting attitude for teaching you how easy it is together to bring you all the latest technology today's voiceover superstars and Leading the discussion on how to make the most of your voiceover business This is voiceover body shop Voiceover body shop is brought to you by voiceover essentials calm home of Harlan Hogan signature products Source elements remote connections made even easier Vio to go go calm Everything you need to be a successful voiceover artist J. Michael Collins demos award-winning demo production voice actor websites calm where your voiceover website won't be a pain in the butt and voiceover extra your daily resource for Vio success and Now live from their super secret multimedia studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are George Whidham and Dan Leonard Hi there, I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whidham and this is voiceover body shop or Vio BS Alright, all right. We got a crowd in here tonight. Whoo-hoo, you know, you know that that closing shop You know when we're coming into the end of the clubhouse here. Yeah, the tomatoes have turned into a jungle Oh, we should do like a GoPro right through the middle of those So if anybody wants any tomatoes, I have many All sorts of variety how the grapefruit common grape. They won't be here till Christmas. Oh, okay They got a while right it's as they look like green baseballs right now, right? Yeah, it's but Lots of produce here at the voiceover body shop. Anyway tonight on our show Anthony Mendez is here in our studio We're gonna talk with him about all sorts of cool stuff. I mean, he's been on this show before but his career has You know morphed and he's gotten some great stuff going and Plus he just has a great voice He does and he's a bit of a geek. That's the part I like and we're gonna talk lots of tech with him Just the first time I met the guy was at a geeky trade show. We'll mention that later. That'll be fun. All right, and Let's see what else is going on. We've got some tech stuff. We're gonna talk about that and Some really cool things plus also if you're watching the show on Facebook Make sure if you want to go to the website, it's www.v obs dot TV and check out the new website. Yep, so Let us know. Let us know you think it is a brand new site. It's just been built over the last few weeks We're really kind of just testing. So yeah, if there's any ways we can make it better. Let us know. Absolutely. All right Well, we sort of have news tonight. So let's run the news intro voiceover body shop presents the VOVS voiceover extra news All the information you need for a successful voiceover career All righty, well here is the voiceover extra news sort of for June 25th New studio bricks booth for sale. It's a story. Yes The studio bricks home office in Spain is going to send Wovo either one of two brand new booths for WovoCon 5 in November in Las Vegas at the Trelf for brief use during the conference Only there's a catch and the catch is is that it must be sold Before it arrives Interesting catch either one of the two versions below that we're going to tell you about are being offered the studio bricks one Plus is being offered at 7,185 Would you slide the prompter towards the back away from us and that'll make me easier. Oh, there you go Fantastic and the booths are being sold at a 15% discount I didn't mention the other booth is at 6,383. So there's the one plus and there's the one which is a little bit smaller The 15% discount and the shipping and handling from Spain is also being offered at a 15% discount So you add that together and it could be a pretty good size savings, right? So you're being notified about this Exceptional price because as a California or Nevada resident, sorry, you East Coast guys You are best positioned to take advantage of this offer Even so you'll have to pay the 15% discounted shipping from Spain and shipping from the Tropicana Resort Las Vegas To your home in Nevada or California as well as the total 15% discounted price of the studio bricks unit you choose Mm-hmm. Our deadline to seal this deal is the end of August So please contact Brian to set at Brian D voice at gmail.com for further details Yeah, that's Ryan D voice and gmail.com. So this is a great deal because They're sending a studio bricks booth to Wovo con and we'll have the booth there, but somebody has to buy it Yeah, so really kind of in essence if you think about it You become the sponsor in a weird way of this booth Being at Wovo con right right so you can sort of tell all your friends that booths there because of me Yeah, you know, yes, it would help it now the best deal is this if it's somebody in Las Vegas Of course, and we know we have lots of guys watching local delivery Yeah, really easy. Yeah, well then you can just get your car and shove it in one piece at a time I'll tell you this that one thing fun about buying a booth from a conference Is when they were shipped to a VO Atlanta At least one booth was assembled. I'm trying to remember if we had two assembled I think we had one assembled The person that won the boot or bought the booths was it Annie aren't is that her name? Sorry and Andy aren't I'm sorry She had everybody that was there that her friends and the presenters signing the booth So her booth has all these signatures on the side. So that's a cool fun perk. Maybe you could everybody sign it Yeah, really if you like the studio bricks booths are generally white. Yeah, this one was like a saw on like a neutral gray Yeah, it looked perfect all signed that'll look really cool and they're great boots You know, we know Miguel and Guillermo at at studio bricks. They make a great product So if you're going to Ovo con which you should need you should need to register for right now anyway You'll have a chance to see a studio bricks booth And if you want one you can purchase one and be a hero to everybody at the conference That's right because that booth will very likely be used at the conference to help people get their sessions done I don't know if that's the intention, right? But I have a feeling that also have utilized some other stuff there, too So very nice. So aside from that bit of little technical sales stuff. What's up in tech this week? Well, actually I got a microphone that's been it was starting to collect a very fine layer of dust on the top And Jack Daniel had loaned me this MXL CR 89. He was like, hey man Would you bring that back to the studio today? And I was like I took that as a sign It's time to get a review done. So I did my first review and quite a while on my George the tech channel We'll roll this review. It's it's kind of long so relax and if it gets too long We might cut it and then continue it after the break, but here you go. Here's our little MXL CR 89 review Everybody this is George the tech with a one take review. What's one take review? That means I'm just gonna talk No edits flubs and all here you go This seems to be the only way I can get myself motivated to do reviews and things like leak lately I've just been well pretty darn busy here George the tech blessed but busy and when I'm given something to review I need to do it in a timely fashion. So I got a little kick in the pants this morning by an email From Jack and Jack Daniel who loaned me this microphone And he said hey, would you bring that back today when you when you come into the studio because he he helps us over at the VOBS dot TV studio and I was like you got it man. So Time to get this review in real quick. So this is this is the case. It comes in. This is the beautiful MXL This is the road case the MXL CR 89 comes in if you're familiar with MXL mics This is pretty typical. I'd say it's a little bit nicer than what's typically seen in their Product line in terms of cases, but it seems to be really nicely made kind of like a little mini Halliburton case or something Let's take a look inside And see what's doing in here All right, there is the inside of the CR 89 case There's our microphone, which this is probably one of the heaviest microphones. I think I've ever held in my hand It is very heavy. I Don't know why I'm gonna show you a little bit information about it on their website here while I talk But I believe it's probably because of the the chassis or the case or them the tube That holds the electronics is probably made out of a very heavy brass or some kind of very high quality material And that's a material choice for making quality microphones because it doesn't resonate And so you don't want to color the sound of the mic. So Here you are. Look how beautiful it is. It's sort of like a dark chrome color chromed, but blacked out chrome kind of kind of dark and Evil-looking a little bit, isn't it totally devoid of any switches. There's no high-pass no pad nothing This is a pretty pure microphone and then a Nice beefy heavy-duty looking shock mount that they include with it a step above the average that I've seen It seems very well made on par with what you'd see with some of the much more expensive microphones from Germany You know what I'm talking about And yeah, so that's the shock mount very nicely made And they give you a few extra a few extra bits few extra nylon Elastics because these things do wear out after a few years depending on your climate And a couple keys to lock the mic case. All right, so let's put that aside Let's get into it just looking at the web page here You can see that they've obviously enjoyed a quote from a pro audio review magazine for this microphone where it was favored over the Sony 800 Or C800 G which is a very well known extremely expensive microphone And the thing is it's like microphone cost has nothing to do with how appropriate is for someone's voice or how good it sounds And I've learned that to be true for sure You know this microphone was obviously designed to aim at really high-end mics in the MXL line It's not nearly the cheapest. It's not the most expensive either It's in the probably the top third of their price range, but still it only comes in around 250 US dollars somewhere around there. So it's it's really quite impressive some of the specs that people like to see Gold sputtered eight six might gold sputtered six micron diaphragm It's a cardioid mic, of course condenser What else is useful here can handle a hundred and thirty eight DB so you can yell into this thing Signal to noise ratio is 80 DB. That's not bad the equivalent noise level Which is what a lot of people look at 14 DB sometimes also known as self-noise If you compare that's like a Neumann TLM 103 that one's more like I think six don't quote me on that But you can Google it. So this is obviously not as quiet as a TLM 103, but it's also a quarter of the price So a dynamic range of a hundred and twenty four DB is what you get And I think that is more than enough and plenty quiet enough for recording Voiceover work. So as you can see 1.85 pounds quite a heavy microphone, but it feels it and I'd say it sounds it. I Think I lied about that editing part. I had to edit that in I'm gonna put the mic up here on a tripod stand Let's take a listen to see how it sounds because that's at the end of the day really all it matters You guys can look at specs all day long on the internet, but we want to know how it sounds as you can hear I'm I'm also I'm using another MXL microphone. I have this is the one I've been using just for doing my webcasts for years now It's an MXL 1006 Way out of production a little bit of processing on it I won't be you know, there's some expander and things like that on this microphone So it's gonna sound a little artificially clean and bright than it normally would So actually if I bypass all that That's what this microphone sounds like. So this is just totally flat compression Expander off and guess what yes You can hear my computer fan, and I know what you're thinking really George the tech can hear your computer fan and recordings seriously, dude I know give me a break. It's an it's a seven-year-old Mac mini. It's This is not what I normally do in here. So we're gonna have to make that work today But anyway, here's my MXL 1006 no compression nothing and we'll go ahead and put the CR-89 up In its place. Well actually on this mic. Notice how I put the pop stand on I put my Processing back on there we go. I like that one more gain a little hotter Notice I put the the shock mount on the arm first always have the shock mount on Before you put the mic in the shock mount right pro tip And if you I don't if you noticed how quickly I did it because I've done it a thousand times I held the shock mount one hand while I tightened the thread I literally loosened the arm itself and tightened it into the shock mount instead of spinning it around Okay, it makes a lot easier then microphone Up and in Drop it down make sure it's in frame so you can see and now I'm gonna hold the microphone firmly So it does not fall and painstakingly twist a little knurled nut on the top Which frankly could stand to have a little bit of Lubrication added to it make it turn easier, but anyway Holding like firmly twisting the knurled nut, but not making it really tight It doesn't need to be tight. You want to be able to turn the mic around to make adjustments to the mic placement Okay So there it is we plug it in let's take a listen to it, right? Obviously I'm a little closer to this one a lot closer about With my the pinky to thumb distance away from the mic No processing totally flat as you hear it in my room This is a very cheaply or simply quickly treated room It's got a moving blanket on the floor I have a terry cloth towel packed tack to the ceiling above my head Directly above my head to get rid of some of those early reflections, but it's got a little bit of liveliness to it It's not too bad, but this is just give me an idea what this mic sounds like. This is just making sure it's totally flat Yes, it's going into my Roland. What's this thing called? This old Roland MMP to Mike preamp, which has a lot of processing on board I can use but right now It's totally flat Then it's going into my Mackie Onyx 820 I into a line input EQs totally flat and then that's passing into the computer via fire wire. So you're hearing it captured right off fire wire right now Theoretically actually I take that back. You're actually hearing me through An avid M box. That's the device that's here hearing me right now If we want to just be thorough we can record another track in twisted wave And record this microphone Let's do that. Let's record this microphone Simultaneously through another signal record another recording chain and we'll record through channel 2 of the Mackie Check check check. So now this is a channel 2 of the this is the fire wire port of the Mackie Channel 2 being recorded simultaneously as the avid which is being recorded in my Screen recording and video capturing software called screen flow. So all those things are running together here Simultaneously, we're getting a nice capture of what that will sound like Modulation getting about minus 12 minus to minus 6 I Friendly believe that you can record it at if you record a 24 bit You do not have to be peeking up to minus 6 at all You could be peeking below minus 6 below minus 12 even and still get fantastic quality But anyway, this is what the CR 89 on my voice, which is a little bit Yeah, a little my voice is a little deeper sounding right now than normal. It's not super warmed up yet, but There you have it. I think For its price, I think it competes very favorably with some of the other mics that are designed this way this minimalistic No bells and whistles design approach. No switches or anything It seems pretty I don't know I don't have any other mics that are of a much higher and price range to compare it with some of the usual suspects, but I Got to say I'm pretty impressed I saw this microphone at NAMM a couple years ago And it just randomly saw a picture of it up in Jack's studio and I thought Jack I've always wanted to try that mic and he's a no problem. I'll bring it in Thanks to you Jack. I really appreciate you letting me borrow the CR 89 getting you let me use it for a while And I have to say I do like it I think it has a little a little more upper mid-range presence than maybe I like for everything But that can be smoothed out with a little bit of EQ I checked the the frequency curve in fact if I go back and look at the web page The frequency curve shows that the microphone is Not ultra flat It's got a little bit of a rise slightly in the low low mid-range Which is not too bad And then it's got a little bit of a dip around 1k Which is actually generally a good thing and a little bit of a rise at the upper mid You know the upper frequencies around 8k and then rolls off It's not a flat mic, but it's also not an overly bumpy mic with like big presence peaks with tons of sibilants and treble and I Think this might could sound really good on on on women's voices You know, which is what my original and thought was was that this could be a nice Good on many voices, but maybe even for women because it does not artificially bump the treble up Which most women do not need this mic will not overly emphasize sibilants So anyway, that's the end of my rambling Quick mini one take review of the CR 89 microphone And if you want to see more stuff like this comment below tell me what you want me to talk about tell me what you want To see on this channel. This channel is very young. It's not got much going on on here yet I have a lot of work to do so if you're interested in seeing more content subscribe click the bell So you know when I release more videos and I'll try to keep more of a flow going now I have this little quote-unquote studio setup for doing this So anyway, thanks again, my name is George Whidham from George the tech comm and Appreciate it so much Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys around the YouTubes Bye And now we return to those thrilling days of yesteryear and we find our heroes sheriff dan and marshal george on a dusty Stakeout at voiceover gulch. 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That's right where it came from That was in 2011 and now it's July 2018 So I guess people want to watch stuff about home voiceover studios And they want to learn about home voiceover studios and their home voiceover studios break Where they get buzzes and hums and all sorts of stuff Mm-hmm You know guys There's only two places on the face of the earth where you can go to get the expertise you need To get your home voiceover studio the way it's supposed to sound the way it's supposed to sound Whistle way it's supposed to sound Why am I not catching on to what you're throwing down there? I don't know I'm not on what it's what it's supposed to sound like is whistle. Oh, no, okay. Does that make sense? No, okay? It's my acronym take it for what it's oh, it's an acronym. Oh, like What it's supposed to sound like like Whistle anyway, okay now. I'll remember that you'll never have to do that again Whistle you would I've been saying that for weeks and you're like now you figured it out. Where have I been? Anyway What is it supposed to sound like but the thing is is there's only two guys that know how to do it this gentleman here and hopefully me You always need a backup so you got two people to choose from you find me over at George the tech comm and you find Dan over at home voiceover studio comm and It makes it easy because we can teach you how to do it right from soup to nuts from Alpha to Omega from USB to Thunderbolt 3 that's right and and we'll teach you the difference between those two and if things go wrong and We want to be able to hear what your sound is sounds like All you have to do is drop off a sample of your audio that's 25 bucks at home voiceover studio comm If you're not confident with what it sounds like Well, I'll tell you what happens when people send me the audio. It's like, you know, this was in there We'll talk about that in a second, but again go to George the check comm you leave me a sample or you get over to home voiceover studio comm Mm-hmm and click on the specimen collection cup That is literally there and that will take you right to the drop box your cup runneth over it does Anyway enough commercial stuff We'd like to talk about tonight About soundproofing now somebody sent me a sample as I was just mentioning of a booth that they had a custom built booth, you know and At the end she on your she sends me some silence all of a sudden I hear this sound at the end And I'm thinking uh-huh. It sounds like a dog's claws on a wooden floor, which is unmistakable Especially when you have a couple dogs So she sends me a picture of the booth and sure enough there is a There's a crate right there with a dog bed in it, and she's like you're right It was and I'm like I'm sorry if I'm wrong tell me But are there is there a dog walking up to the booth as you're finishing at least one dog and she's like yes There it was and I'm like yes I my hearing isn't gone at my at my late age and But it raises a problem. Yeah, she said she's in a soundproof booth. Why is there the sound of a dog's foot? During her audio It's a good question. Well, I have a microphone outside the no I should just the door open though. Is the door open? No doors not open. Okay. Is there a seal around the door? Hmm, and she's like well, I know there isn't the guy that built it Had a leave and he never put anything in there Or he put it in too loose and she's like well the door doesn't doesn't close all the way Well, if the door doesn't close on your soundproof booth what you basically have is Just a boo. It's a hole You have a soundproof booth with a hole. That's right But it's not so soundproof a small gap around your door or a gap in a window Whatever it is if you have a gap it can only be like a millimeter or so But if it goes like around the perimeter of the door or more More is that possible? Whatever If it goes around the door, it's it's more than a perimeter than it you're just totally out in another universe gone into another dimension Literally, um, then it's like it's like having a hole like this big right in the middle of the wall I mean, it's it's a big deal and the thing is small gaps like cracks in the door let through higher frequency sounds and that may sound So logical it's impossible, but that's kind of how it works like a an opening acts as like a noise filter a filter Right. So a door that's heavy will stop a lot of the lower sounds But a crack in the door will let through the higher sounds right and that's why you hear that Sound through the through the crack in the door and she was mighty embarrassed by it too But well the thing is is the door doesn't close all the way and there's not a proper seal on it That totally sure it circuits the idea of soundproof. She shouldn't be embarrassed because honestly I know what booth she has and we're not gonna say where it came from that wouldn't be fair But the booth that she has I've seen studios with the door that cost twice as much of as this entire booth I'm not kidding. No, there are studio doors that cost six to eight thousand dollars There was one installed at the voiceover lab here in Hollywood in West and uh, well The sag after midtown. Yeah, it's sag after will share at the tarp, right and these these studio doors went in Was it 2011 when that place was built now I'm starting to forget 2010 2011 and that studio the one door in their solo booth Never quite sealed right it and it it was a pain because yeah It was extremely heavy. It had like lead shot in it. It weighed like 300 pounds But the seal never had a perfect seal So it had somewhere along that along that seal it'll let some sound in and so it filtered out Everything except you could hear high-frequency sound you'd right you wouldn't hear voices you'd hear more like You'd hear that through the crack in the door It was really strange so anybody that was out in the classroom area the control room area They had to be quiet which made it very difficult to have someone in the solo booth Recording while there was anything else going on and eventually they had those doors replaced Well, the second half of that story is yes brand new doors went in right I get an email from the lab administrator Eric saying We got new doors in and we still hear Voices through the seam of the door of the new door. I was like, are you kidding me, right? And I went I was over there for something and the new doors have a magnetic seal right So they have like this strip of magnet that goes all the way around right you would think that's gonna be a perfect seal So I'm running my finger down the seal along the edge and all of a sudden I hit something sharp My finger and like what's that I pick it I pull it off and it sticks to my finger and it is a teeny weenie metal shaving Like when they were putting the screws a little chip that little chunk of metal stuck to the magnet creating a gap and created a Little gap on either side of the magnet that was probably you know a couple inches long I took the little chunk of metal out and I was like, how's that I Mean The detail devils in the basically the story that is the devil's in the details, right? I mean the littlest thing can let sound in right another time. I'll tell you about the sandwich in the wall story Oh, wow, that's not my story. It's somebody else. Somebody else told me that is the cat in the wall No, it doesn't smell like that one before but it's fascinating what that sandwich But when it comes to soundproofing a proper seal on a door is essential. Mm-hmm You know people don't realize that well just close the door Even if you're in a closet it helps to put a rubber seal on that and a proper seal at the bottom at the sweep Yes, we threshold on the sweep on the threshold You can actually buy a magnet or I'm sorry not magnetic automatic sweeps They're called automatic door bottles little thing in it when the door closes it closes up and lowers this Little those are available for any door. You can actually retrofit them onto your existing doors You don't have to replace them or it's it's not very hard to install If you have the opportunity to have a double door scenario, that's what we have in this studio There's an exterior door and an interior door. That's even better, right? That's to me better than a one single door because first of all, it's a lot less expensive to buy two Sound damp not I'm not gonna soundproof But to like exterior grade doors, they're gonna have seals thresholds and everything But you put two of them together you get much better performance than just one door And if one seal isn't perfect, you got another one to back up the first one So so if that doesn't prove that we know more about home voiceover studios than anybody on the planet You don't need proof to you. Well, maybe maybe you do. Maybe you think we're full. Yeah, maybe let us know Anyhow, let us know down in the in the comments. Yes, your YouTube comments. Let us know if well, yeah, all right Well, Anthony Mendez has been sitting by patiently While we've been yapping along here about soundproofing and various other things So stay tuned. We'll have him on in just a minute here. So we'll be right back on voiceover Bonnie show 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 This software is the best your audio must be broadcast quality Consult with someone who knows the truth someone who's been there in the trenches doing voiceover for over 30 years someone with unparalleled experience with voiceover studios who's worked with hundreds of voice actors and designed hundreds of personal studios He knows how to teach and cares about your success in one of the harshest environments known to voiceover your home Dan Leonard the home studio master Separate myth from fact and get a handle on your personal voiceover studio Contact the home studio master at home voiceover studio dot-com drop off a specimen of your dry audio for a free analysis and Now we return to those thrilling days of yesteryear and we find our heroes sheriff dan and marshal george on a dusty stakeout at voiceover gulch Let's see what drama is about to take place Already Anthony Mendez is a voice actor. We all knew that but he's got an impressive list of credits to his career including on-air promos movie trailers and TV commercials in both English and Espanyol Anthony has written and is currently working on a TV pilot inspired by his own life experiences of growing up in the Headstone business, but with a supernatural twist called Mike tomb He hopes to have adapted it to a serialized and motion comic book Well, what else his breakthrough role came as the Latin lover narrator on Jane the Virgin Which earned him two consecutive prime time Emmy nominations in 2015 and 2016 for outstanding Narrator and let's welcome once again to voiceover body shop Anthony Mendez We return to having years of yesteryear and we find our heroes sheriff dan and marshal George I think you were here Steakout voiceover Now you're a three-way, but it's the first time here in our clubhouse. Yes, it's pretty cool man. Yeah Yeah, well, we're having a great time here and we've been wanting to get you on because you've been working on all this cool stuff lately You know that that's that's really fascinating like But first off let's talk about some of the things that you've been doing that perhaps people Don't recognize Just talking about it. But if you tell them what it is, they're gonna go. Oh, it's him. You've been doing a bunch of trailers I take it. Yeah, I it seems like I've kind of have settled into the Hispanic portion of the trailers I'm doing right now ant-man and the wasp. We're doing a big campaign for that tons of spots for that skyscraper Doing that somewhere universal studios and universal pictures. Yeah Marvel and stuff So we're doing a lot of trailers in Spanish. It's running on TV Mostly a couple radio spots here and there. Yeah, and I do HBO sports minute That's in English the other the trailers are in Spanish And a bunch of promos for showtime MMA and boxing and stuff like that, too Yeah, so it's it's been kind of all over the place and I did a little bit of a Couple of animation episodes for Lenov Avalor Did one last season we're doing another one now Doing characters for that. Yeah, I play a King Juan Ramon. So he's like the Latin lover narrator just a little bit more regal Okay, this doesn't take much to make it more regal. I don't know I mean, I always consider the the Latin lover narrator more of a metro sexual bisexual narrator Okay Yeah, and it kind of gets me more into Into the suave of the character and also kind of his connection to the store because it is it is a Female centered right and it's from a you know So female showrunner a lot of most of them are women writers that are on there and the centers around Jane and the three generations of women Yeah, so it kind of connects me in the in that sense and also a lot of hints that have been giving about what the character of the narrator is Right, so that's how I kind of approach that But and then I just take the same accent, but I make it more of a you know puff out my chest for Lenov Avalor So it's it it's the same sound different intention and now we return to those throwing days of you It's it's continues to be a growing market I mean there's a lot of people in Latin America and a lot of Spanish-speaking people But the market continues to expand I mean you all you have to do is have a digital antenna here in Los Angeles and suddenly realize all the stations are in Spanish Yeah, the biggest the biggest growth. I think well, that's growing but the but the more rapid growth is is in the acculturated Latino market in the English or US born Latino market where they want to kind of not necessarily You know, it's not a send-up like a speedy Gonzales type of thing But as long as you kind of have you're a little bit informed about the culture is and and give it more of an American Part of the story from that perspective. So that I think is growing a little bit faster, too Yeah, yeah, but the one movie going public is a huge part of it is Latino So yeah, that I think has has allowed me to grow my Hispanic movie trailer part of the business I'm still trying to figure out with the show that Platino did not el macho or whatever. No, Jay the guy with the clown At the clown talk show. Oh, yeah This is this is some major cultural tourism. Yeah, it's it's it's it's I it's almost like What is this funny or die that that? It's funny or die, right? Yeah, it's like a funny or die that you ever seen that between two ferns with Galifian acus It's almost like that but except it's been running a lot longer Yeah, so it's almost everybody the guests that go there kind of expect, you know That he's kind of playing a character like Colbert was playing character when he was doing his talk show But so it's just like that's just that they make it seem and part of the charm is that it looks like a local cable insert kind of thing Yeah, so like sort of like this show on Anyway, all right. All right now you're working on this other cool thing. It's a PBS three-part documentary. Yeah I Wonders of Mexico wonders of Mexico. Yeah, tell us about it That's a weird one because I've always before I got Jane my dream was always to do entertainment or documentary narration I mean, I always thought that would be the first thing but once I got Jane Because the the Latin lover narrators such a character what that ended up doing was not necessarily opening the doors for more narration But for more animation So that was cool, but it wasn't kind of you know, I was still waiting for that narration So at PBS They said hey, why don't we get the Latin lover narrator Anthony Mendez to do a narration? They were like, oh, I don't know if that can the accent works. So they just let me speak with my natural accent So we're doing a three-part documentary series where we take you through Mexico to talk about the culture the people the landscape and little Secret parts of it that a lot of people weren't aware of that starts on August 1st And it runs I think every Wednesday. Is it like a travel log sort of thing or it is but it's a little bit more in depth It's almost it's almost like a nature documentary It starts off that way because of what so every episode has its own theme where you go from the the landscape The wildlife and the people right culture. Oh, and it's a big country. Yes. Yes. It's a really cool stuff Yeah, we did that we did all three episodes like in two days in New York and that was a lot of fun Yeah, so do you think that doing the narrator from Jane the Virgin not aside from getting you noticed from doing that Did it teach you anything more about narration that you were able to Blunted to doing this type of documentary work. No, I think it just allowed me to kind of come into my own with being myself You know, we were just talking before we got on about what kind of changed for me And it came to that point where I said, you know I'm gonna do this and read this the way that I think it should be read and right if they like it They like and if they don't they don't right I stopped worrying so much about what the specs were I realized because all my work comes through my agents I Realized that I don't really have to worry too much about the specs because the reason I got it is because I'm kind of there anyway Right, and then I just do what I feel that the copy needs so for Jane I didn't learn anything in terms of of a regular narration I just learned I think I kind of came into my own be more confident with I'm Anthony Mendez And they hired me because my name was Anthony Mendez and I was on TV show, right? They didn't necessarily hire me because they wanted to let a lover narrator to do the PBS special, right? So they wanted Anthony Mendez and that once you get in front of a mic and you can be yourself a hundred and fifty percent And you're not trying to To give them a voice or a character that you think that they want it's just so much more freeing So it's basically me Anthony Mendez taking you on a tour of Mexico. Yeah, sounds like what and that's that's August 1st August 1st IMDB credit that says himself. Yes. I know that nobody really goes down to I was like damn it It's all the way at the bottom. Yeah. Yeah, I do actually says himself on it. Yeah, it's just kind of cool like that Yeah, now you're you've got a comic book coming up tell us about this. Are you an artist? I have always been a comic book fan Yeah, but more of the art initially like I grew up with Todd McFarland as one of my favorite artists Rob Liefeld and and those guys before they went over to image and I recently started writing But I thought because I was in TV. I said maybe I'll do a TV pilot But I realized that my love was really in comic books. So what started as a TV pilot I adapted it into a comic book series called my tomb unrest in peace And we have a couple of actors that I know that are interested in doing An animatic for it basically a motion comic part of it But in the meantime because that one has taken so long it took about three to four years I did another one called Pedro and Miso which is about a homeless kid who's a genius who has a street cat sage Miso who's by the book and kind of gives him advice. So that's coming out. They're both coming out on comicsology Pedro Miso is coming out first. Hopefully within anywhere from three to four weeks And then Mike tomb will probably be another maybe three to four months. No, very cool. Wow, man. It's great. Yeah And and where can people you've got the stuff on Instagram or yeah, if you follow on Instagram strip dot stories STRI PDOT stories I have I post everything there or just my regular IG Anthony Mendez view. Yeah, I always post everything there It's just a lot of fun. It's it's it's basically You know, I realize in Hollywood to get anything done on TV or film. It's it's like, you know, one million shot You have to pitch several things you have to go into meetings and things like that and I said, you know With a comic book I can write it I can hire the artists that I want for and luckily I've gotten some great artists both pencil or inkers and colorists on board and Basically tell a story from a American Latino point of view That are inspired by different aspects of my life without me having to cast it and wait to somebody gives me a budget for it Right now that I can afford to kind of Fund these individual comic books. I'm just gonna go at it and put these stories out there and help people like I can just publish them and yeah people where they are That's the great thing about the internet. Yeah, so these sorts of things now So this is the fifth and final season of Jane the virgin Yeah, and we've been talking to you since you started doing I know yeah before then as a matter of yeah Yeah, and yeah, my wife loves that show, you know, I mean and when she loves it I want you to love to But it's a brilliant cast and it's but what's it gonna be like if you have you done the whole Fifth season yet or no we haven't started yet I think because it's done on on you know on a sound stage, right? They're a little bit closer to where it when it airs they start kind of shooting it Right now the writers room has been up for about a month. I want to say We haven't done the first table read I expect sometime in the fall Because for this season what they did instead of chopping it up into two parts. We're starting mid-season. We're still gonna get a full season order Hopefully that's what I expect I ain't gonna cancel you in your fifth. Well, I mean it's the final season So I think Jenny kind of wants she has a great relationship with CBS and the network Where they're gonna allow her to kind of finish the story the way that she had planned it She had plotted out five years and it's great that somebody even gets a chance because think about it You write a pilot, right? It's a big hurdle to get anybody to read it anybody of influence Then it's a big hurdle to get anybody to give it a thumbs up to go produce the pilot That's almost never happens. You know, we look at the odds and then it's a big hurdle to get an order For a series or half a series and they get the back nine all that stuff to go five seasons and be able to say Okay, we plotted out five seasons and we're getting those five seasons. That's me is amazing So this season I think they're just working really hard and making sure they kind of get back to What the show was originally in terms of what Jane has gone through You know all the heartache all the break all the heartbreak all the challenges he's gone through So you're gonna see a lot of crazy kind of funnier stuff and hopefully I Don't want to get away to people that are binge watching on Netflix Hopefully because of the reintroduction or introduction of certain characters There's gonna be a lot of dynamics that are gonna happen here that people are gonna be Really excited but with less of a break because we're starting in mid-season now We won't have those long breaks. We're just gonna go right through storytelling. We mentioned Table read. Yes. Have you been doing table reads all along and where they were you doing them virtually before? Yeah, I was doing them via Skype except I used to like coming here I used to fly out here for the first and the last one of the season only because they take a cast picture at the end Oh, yeah, and Jaime Camilo. He says you only show up when there's a camera around Yeah, I'll be the picture so I but now I kind of drive down to Manhattan Beach when I can't Because with the trailers and stuff as you know, it's always last-minute promos to actually from where? Are you northridge northridge? Yeah, man beach. That's about the same as New York to LA. That's yeah pretty much That's where he feels especially coming back man, especially coming back. It's just it's it's a lot to be in the car And I like it thinking about I could have done 20 spots in this time Yeah, but it's a lot of fun because One of the things that that we go through as voice actors with our own studios is you do get homes You do get the cabin fever and you know just to be able to see people and oh, that's what humans look like That's what adults look like. I only get to see my wife and the kids and so it's kind of cool to see that and also it's just There's a certain there's a different energy when you get to that table read oddly enough I don't know if I ever told you guys But when I got the audition when I booked the pilot and we're gonna do this cuz I didn't do the table read for the pilot We just kind of jumped into where they cut me in they said oh, you got a table read I was and I don't know where a table read was yeah, so I had to look it up on the internet And I saw the office You know the NBC show their last table read. I was like I can do that. That's basically a cold read Yeah, yeah, so I do it in person now when I can It's a lot of fun But I try not to be out of the studio for too many hours Yeah, if you're just joining us our guest is Anthony Mendez We recognize from Jane the Virgin but doing all sorts of cool stuff that we've been talking about if you've got a question for him And we're gonna talk some tech a little bit. Yes Toss it in the chat room Jack Daniels sitting there right on the couch You can actually get the audience cam up there So and we can show them that we actually do have an audience in here of of two There they are And He'll get those questions to us and we'll ask Anthony of those questions when we get the chance to do that So you're now out here as you were saying you're living in Northridge now. We've been talking to you from Right off the turnpike in Jersey all these years, but now what's it like? You know, I came out here three years. What three years ago. What's it like the transition been like for you It's like an entire life. It's been a year now Yeah, you go through like an entire lifetime in one year because at first you're excited about being here, right? Then you realize That you just left an entire world behind right then it's just like a different country almost You know, it's a different feel a different vibe Everything's as crazy as LA can get is still slower compared to New York or the East Coast even the Jersey part that I lived in But you go through through being homesick and you start to question because you know Coming out here on your own and trying to make it is tough enough Dragging your entire family my wife left her job of 20 years to come out here. Wow that kind of support is is, you know, it's something that that I Appreciate it, but also it also kind of weighed on me a little bit You know that I do the right thing so you go through your doubts and then you start to question it But then I think I think a year time you start to come out of the fog and you realize that you are an autopilot the entire time Where you start to feel like home It starts to it'll never be back home, of course But it's just it takes a minute to kind of get adjusted But I always knew that I wanted to come out here once I had something kind of going Instead of me having to start off especially because of the family. Yeah, when you're when you're flying West and you're approaching lax It's like I'm almost home. Yeah, and that's that's what you know that you know It's like you left it the other place. It's just a place. I love it here, too because it's it's the people are you know, it's it's It's an odd combination of people being a lot more Genuinely nice and especially in retail and food service where in New York There are a lot of nice people but the service because I guess it moves so fast as it can tend to be a little bit indifferent So I kind of like it and of course for Thanksgiving. I mean, I wasn't a t-shirt in my backyard Oh, yeah, I forgot six. I mean you can't you can't beat that January's even nicer. Oh, man Yeah, that's this nose not this deep and it's oh my god in your wearing sandals. Yeah Or have don't have to dig out your car that actually well Yeah, yeah, you do sometimes you have to wash off some of the soot, but oh, yeah Yeah, it's not like car wash business huge business out here. Oh, yeah Big employer. Is there anybody in this room is not an import from elsewhere anybody you're everybody everybody's room Everybody came from a lot of us from the east coast and you know yeah pretty much Yeah, especially in our business in the entertainment business. It's just it's where it is Yeah, that whole thing if you can make it there you make anywhere about New York. Yeah, I feel that way about LA Yeah, that's I mean this is a Just to subsist here and it's all it's also. Yeah, it's very easy to you can get a big break You can get a big break here, but you can all you have that break and just yes Oh, yeah, you can like have a show for a year. Yeah, and then yeah go on and you're like, oh crap I've gotten a lot of people teachers that know what I do or neighbors or or friends of my wife So then what is anything you're gonna do now that the show is over, you know cuz they don't know So this is you know, they don't really know and understand that you're still working that you're still doing stuff You're still surviving but it's the thing about LA is that it's very easy To feel like the town owes you something. Hmm and this place doesn't know damn thing to anybody Yeah, really because it's a machine that's gonna keep running and the reality is you can build a level of power You can lose it you come back and forth, but the reality is they don't know you anything So you try to play the game as much as you can you try to be Genuinely as easy to work with as you can because the minute you start to think that you're like this big hot shot Don't get me wrong. That doesn't mean that you don't have to be selective about the auditions you get or the jobs that you take on I've always kind of been very selective about that, but You're not higher than anybody else. I just happened to have a spotlight on me right now that a lot of my friends may not have That's the only difference the minute you start getting into your head like you're this big star Or like I can't believe they ain't hiring me for something It's a it's a slippery slope and it's very easily you can just end up resenting the place and at that point What the hell is the point? That's right. Yeah, you gotta be careful. Absolutely now You've got a a special thing going on here a charity auction for cancer gets lost Yes, you're auctioning off your first Mike. Tell us all about that. I Went to WonderCon being in the comic book business now I went to WonderCon in Anaheim back in March and Joe Garfun was Talking on a panel about what they do for her fan Fandom charity, which is cancer gets lost lost because it's basically started as a lost fandom from the TV show To benefit cancer, but she's expanded it now and I said, you know what? I think I've been saving my first microphone my 416 for a special purpose I wanted to donate it somewhere somewhere somehow I wanted it to benefit somebody right and I met her and it was perfect I said, hey, I would you be interested in me auctioning this off. She loves the show and we're gonna auction off the the microphone to benefit Her charity and and of course fighting cancer and I'm excited about not only my microphone, but everything that's on there and and Especially in LA. I think it's a good opportunity to have people kind of have a piece of memorabilia Maybe collectors maybe somebody who just wants to support So there's so many different reasons to kind of get it I signed my first microphone the microphone that I got was the first microphone that I really first real one It cost me a thousand dollars and when I first started I mean a thousand dollars is still a lot of money But when I first started I didn't have it so I had to put it on lay away It was the one that got me my my first major promo campaign My first major movie trailer and of course the show and I did the first season of Jane the Virgin on that particular mic And it's up for auction If you follow me on Instagram, I put the link in the bio, but I also created a short one, which is Antony ANT NY dot US Gcl for no, it's a CGL cancer gets lost So you go to that you can you can just bid on it Anything I can want to yeah, and you know because they have so many items I wouldn't be surprised the microphone doesn't go for its full retail price We also gives you an opportunity to get in 416 16. Yeah, but yeah one that's been the one that's been It's got karma to it. It really does man. Yeah, the right juju That you know everybody wants the 416 the 416 the juju edition. Yeah, like yeah, I like that We should talk to Sennheiser about that say that domain again cuz I'm trying to bid on it right. It's a It's any that's a nt ny dot us Slash forward slash Um Cancer gets lost in initials CGL got it. Yep. All right All right, Anthony Mendez is our guest and again if you got a question for him And I'm sure the questions are piling up in the chat room for Anthony as we talked about all this cool stuff But you're yeah, I mean we're just talking about microphones there with the 416 you're a tech guy Yeah, I mean you've got what if you got as much as George, but I'm tech enough to figure things out I don't have a lot. It's become smaller and smaller right I started with a 733 megahertz g4 that they used to call the the silver quick silver. Yep I'm sure you remember those pretty noisy, right? Yeah, pretty noisy and it was but it was cool because it was the first ones right after the blue boxes Well, you can just open the latch and open up drop the side. Right. Um, so I started with that Yeah, it was really well the guts and you can yes You can update the cards and everything that died on me when I got my first major promo campaign for CNN So they called me they say can you go in 15 minutes? I was like, oh Just died yeah, so I ran out and bought a $400 ASUS laptop. Yeah, and it worked and I was used it for I don't need to do anything else. So I've been using laptops ever since 2010 2009 Yeah, yeah, so but basically what I have in my studio is is a Dell laptop now Uh-huh But I my daughter wants to use it so I give it to her sometimes and I and I have also a Mac mini So I kind of jump back and forth But for the interface I use and this is because of George because my Avalon 737 Need to be recapped basically the capacitors after a while they kind of dry up and they create this horrible hum And I didn't want to deal with tubes anymore so I spoke to George and He recommended the Grace m103 because it has a similar layout in terms of you know the EQ the compression similar features Yeah similar features Almost the same because you know even though the 737 is a tube when when it's new when it's in the conditions supposed to be It doesn't really color so, you know class a circuitry and all that other stuff, but The m103 allowed me to kind of transition without changing my sound too much And it gave me a cleaner sound and also if in the middle of the night or something I have to flip it on I don't have to wait the half hour or so till it warms up, right? So I have the Audient ID for which is George also recommended as the interface into my laptop The m103 is powering My MKH the microphone the MKH 8040 which I replaced The 46 team with yeah, yeah, and you have a booth or no, I don't like you're okay You like just in your office. I try to treat rooms with its natural environment, so I like to have shelves with different size books and DVD cases as my diffusers. Yeah, I like to have heavy sound blankets around So I wanted to still feel like a house like a home So I use that as as I do have Baffle baffle bafflers or baffle walls. I have two of those that I can move around partitions. Yeah Yeah, yeah, so I basically put two of those not to close myself in but kind of control So they're like layered like this almost right so as I don't have a closed-in booth and it works fine I'm actually in a walk-in closet that's surrounded by three different rooms So I have like two or three doors and right interior closet. Yeah fabulous when you were shopping for the house Obviously, this is a major piece of the criteria when you were looking for home Yeah, every single home that I went to I wanted to make sure that there was a room within a room Some of them had garages, but they weren't had no power and no AC and he in the valley in the summer In a garage it gets warm here. It's a little bit hot Yes, a little bit. I know people are like I got a whisper room or you can put it. I was thinking of the garage I'm like, holy smokes. Yeah, it is it is tough. Yeah, so yeah So that's part of the criteria my it's basically a walk-in closet There's a bathroom on this side the bedroom a closet here and another bedroom here And then the alleyway between me and the next home is is is empty and you can't hear them or anything So it's just perfect. Yeah, so that's the thing about the houses here in Southern, California What the ones that are like, you know mid-century 1950s sort of if you go to a party and someone says where's the bathroom? It's like where it always is because the bathroom is in the same place in every house slightly different Unless they bad it on or something along those lines Yeah, that mO that went m103 was a It was a kind of lucky fine because I'm the company grace for a long time But one of my clients I think I believe it was Jim Tasker had what 737 avalon that was getting flaky And I was like I needed to get him something to throw in there real quick get him back up online And I looked and that was the one that had similar features I had just started looking for the 80 for the MKH 8040 when I met you in person for the first time at AES and And you know the guys from grace were there and I was listening to it I really liked it the quality looked good and I said this is the this is the preamp I'm gonna I'm gonna go with and it worked out. Yeah. Yeah, the pizza wasn't that great Preamp, but it was freak They mean well There's a pizzeria just opened in west and in Santa Monica Marvista called Wall Street Pizza. Is it Wall Street Pizza though? No, it's good One of the things I always been complaining about you know as a sidebar things pizza We're coming from the East Coast coming from in California is not what I would come to what I know as pizza There are some great pizza here. There's not that's not the problem problem is I wanted You know the shiny grease on the top floating in puddles But I was in Santa Monica the other day and they're not giving me any money for this Perry's Beach Cafe and rentals You're kidding me. You found good pizza at Perry's. Their pizza, their pizza Tastes almost like a New York Sicilian slice. Really? Yeah, Sicilian style. Yeah, Sicilian style I mean they still haven't found the round New York style, but that one I really enjoyed so I might just drive down there Just we don't we don't have a lot of Sicilians here If anything, they're hiding under another name in some condo in Santa Monica. I mean Jersey. I mean Jersey New York you can't you can't find a bad pizza Well, but at least all the others but you've got so many choices of food here. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you know It's great thing about it Anthony Mendez is our guest and We'll be taking your questions for him and maybe talk a little bit more tech right after this important message So don't go away. We'll be right back a voice over body shop Style power You're watching the home of the NFL The all-new iPhone reserve your Disney World season past now through all the runny noses Three in the morning coughs and all new American crime story tonight on FX this week only it's pasta-fest at all garden heart rate prime blood pressure Perfect. 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It's written down somewhere before we get to the questions You mentioned everything all your gear, but not your software. Ah, yes What are you recording? Uh, I record every year I change it. Whatever. I'm gonna move forward and right now. I'm using adobe audition. Oh, okay Good man. Yeah cs or whatever the update. I don't know. It's just whatever is there cc 2018 Yeah, whatever the transition from mac to windows back and forth And because I'm doing the comic book stuff. I use a lot of illustrator photo shops So I'm just do the perfect thing. It's already and yeah, that's great. Yeah All right Well, we have a few questions from our amazing audience all over the fruited plane and all over the earth Uh, but we're gonna stay right here in Sherman oaks jack daniel gets the first question That's the beauty of being the guy in charge of the question. He doesn't know Oh, by the way, anthony here's something we got to try tomato pie and silver lake Apparently they bring in chemicals from new york I'm being serious j.v martin actually said this so we gotta try that All right, so here's the my question is what is it called again? Uh tomato pie and silver lake I got a couple places. Okay So anyway, another friend of mine. I don't know if you know a mario gongore. He's from florida He does a lot of promo both spanish and english He talks about the differences in tone And I'm wondering do you have different sets of characters you go to for different shows different promos different types of promo Or different voices whatever you want to call it and do those Characters under our voices transcend the language or do you have different sets of them perhaps for each language? It depends. I kind of Now with the ongoing things for example the hbo stuff. I do it's almost um Not exactly pillow talk. I would call it but it's basically this low end kind of character Just calmly telling you on the drive because those are heard mostly in the car. So I don't really I don't really pay too much attention to whether or not that's a character I already kind of know that every single thing requires a different character. Um in terms of transcending language um When it comes to voiceover When it comes to branding that's something different obviously Um because your personality can transcend anything But when it comes to the voices and the characters that you it's very difficult to kind of transcend language and voice over Because it's so specific to what the message is and if you're connected to what that message is Um, so people might be able to pick up on the energy of what you're trying to tell I'm gonna say but it doesn't really transcend it per se as a person You can kind of transcend cultures and things like that if you're you know, if you're nice and and easy to work with with everybody Um, but i'm not too sure that that my character is necessarily Transcend language a Latin lover narrator his accent is is Kind of enhances the thing and in that case I guess it kind of transcends because the general market show But it's basically has to do with the writing more than anything else. I think Awesome, thank you. Yeah, but abuela makes up for the rest of that. Yeah, she does. Yeah, she speaks just and mostly in Spanish But you can actually follow her after you could. Yeah. Just was just cool. Who's the actress that plays her? Yvonne Cole Yeah, she's been around she knows every single She's she had her own a variety show in Puerto Rico. She was a miss Puerto Rico She's been she's been in the entertainment business for quite a while. She was gonna retire right before she Got the audition time for jane. Now she can now she can Our next question comes from another studio member Wendy Shapiro Hey, hi So you are saying that you did the table read And so when you do table reads for jane and whatnot, do you find different things that if you were just sitting in your booth You wouldn't yeah Can uh, can you expound on that the energy of the actors are picked up better than than skype could Before I moved out here. I was only able to attend either the first table read for the season or the last one where they took the cast picture and There's pros and cons to both when you're in skype as a voice actor. You're so used to being In front of a mic you're freer when you're in the booth So I do a lot more ad-libbing when i'm on the mic and skype at a table read and a couple of occasions Those lines have made it in one surprise I don't do as much when i'm doing the table read because it seems a little bit more disruptive doing it there But I can pick up on more of what the different characters intentions are and then sometimes I make mental notes When I go ahead and do the the pre-limb because the way it works is I get the the The script right and then table read the next day or when they start shooting I do the pre-limb which is basically front to back of the show They cut it in when they get their dailies For people who don't know um the dailies are workshop for that day and then they go send them over to the editor So they start cutting in my voice as they're cutting in the dailies for for the show um And then jenny goes and sees if there's any tone changes or any notes from the studio or whatever she wants to change And then we do pickups for that But the energy in the room is just it's invaluable What you can pick up in terms of and these actors are just so good at what they do especially jena who can just walk in and just Give her all In this there are moments where she has to break down and cheer him She can she just shifts from one to the other right there in the table reading that kind of blows me away So I kind of have to it kind of motivates me to get that energy and take it back And yeah, so it is it is invaluable to actually be physically there. Yeah, and when I can I do it? You ever think about doing onscreen yourself? No, I think about I mean I'm open to everything right? You never can be closed to anything when it comes to entertainment and I'm not above or below anything right um, but The reality is that it kind of has to work with my schedule at this point because it takes me away from the studio And when they need promos or trailers like for example the ant-man stuff that we're working on now That's that was for a while until we until the release where they might have like, you know post release reviews It was every day They had a spot or an editor pick up and I can't afford to be away from the studio So if they allow me if so it works with my schedule and they allow me to have a mobile setup in the studio in the trailer Yeah, baby fat trailer. Yeah Then uh, I'm open to do anything. Yeah, plus I did study acting in new york because I kind of felt that I always needed it To be able to be a part of this actor So I did see study at it improv in new york and a bunch of other stuff. Yeah, we are actors We are actors. Yeah, just his voice in the first part I just feel that I'm much better At being in a vocal booth and I would be on set obviously like if you were to take somebody That was on set put him in a vocal booth It's a new environment for them. So be the flip but by the 200th take I should be fine Next question from fred north mr. Woodham. Uh, he says will you self publish the comics? Um, are you gonna use like an amazon kind of printing? Yeah, what what is up happening is that printing is expensive It's costly and there are some printers here in california that do it competitively Um, but the printing that you want is offset printing as old as it is. It still gives you the best quality Um, but laser printers have Come a long way and they look amazing now. So you could get away with it with laser Um printing and it looks rich looks great, but it's not the same thing So I just don't feel that I'm gonna get returned for for an indie comic or a self to actually self publish it The first one I will run a print a limited print for promotional purposes Um, and maybe do a couple of signings in new york and here and stuff like that at comic shops Um, but it's gonna be mostly digital On comicsology got you. Yeah, and then of course whatever stories I want to pitch to like image and things like that and do proposals if somebody wants to pick it up That's fine. But in the meantime, there's just no need for me to kind of Print it. I don't think yeah Save on paper. Yeah, save a few trees All right, jv martin who's been on this very show asks Listening to you perform on jane the virgin and then hearing you speak in this interview raises this question on jane Is anthony mendez the series narrator or is the narrator actually a character played by anthony mendez? That's a great question because It's unique, right because in if you're hiring A regular person to to to narrate in their own voice like the pbs stuff I'm credited as myself right, but this is a it's called a latin lover narrator for a reason and they'll reveal it as it goes on It is a character. It is a character that is narrating The show and telling the story So and we'll reveal in the fifth season who the narrator is or what his relationship is to the other characters Oh in the fifth and final season. So it's a great question So it is a character that I kind of have to put on for it, but that's not either Bad or good. It's just you have to kind of approach and I approach everything as a character anyway Like we were talking before It's just not something as I don't have to make as many acting choices in like promos and trailers as I would for the show For example, that's the biggest difference. Okay. I think that was the question No, that was I mean you were talking a little bit about before but that and something about pizza or something Yeah Well, we have to talk about the importance Tremaine Kendrick Mosley has a question Yeah, no other than also known as trey. That's an awesome name The trey man That's right. Do you make personal appearances being the narrator on the show? And what impact has your character and the cast has a hole made within the latin community? So two different questions, but yeah, but the first one making appearances I just I got into voiceovers specifically so I don't have to make appearances But I I do them for certain events for example I did a couple of red carpets for I get invited to premieres or shows and things like that Um, I had to hire a publicist because I don't have the time to kind of fetch when the show first started and started getting attention And after the Emmy nominations, um, so you do operate as a regular on-camera actor And I had to use the word celebrity because the reality is You really aren't marisa bias had always told me and this is something I always look back on You don't have the career your voice does So people may be familiar with my voice But they still refer to me in some articles as the narrator while they mention all the other actors's name And my publicist will come in and she would kind of let them know Put your place, but in terms of appearance, I don't have to kind of attend I do it because it's it's good to have these relationships everything in this business is relationships Yeah, um, and I don't do it necessarily because I want something out of anybody It's just it's good to interact with other people that are doing something similar or different from voiceover It's another world. So I try to get out as much as I can to like How about cons? Not yet. I will be attending once the the comic book drop. I do have a schedule of all the cons There's a ton of them here in california, which is awesome everywhere from ontario to anaheim to long beach San diego is just you can spend the whole year going to freaking cons out here, which is awesome So yeah, so next year. I am going to be doing the rounds with with the uh Uh and the company. Um, what was the other question? Oh the other part was pizza, right? Jack give me that In fact, the Latin community has has has been fantastic because For two reasons, you know, the the latin community is not this homogenized culture Right, there's a bunch of different cultures in the culture and then on top of that You have two different layers because you have the native spanish speakers and the american acculturated Uh, uh, latinos So I think the biggest impact has been has been to be able to see somebody reflected That kind of looks like them sounds like them and talks like them On tv a predominantly latino cast with a with a lot of latino writers. It's just an amazing thing to have so I think Twofold people as a viewer it it it's nice to see Um, and it's and also for actors and people that want to be writers It's it's also great to see that as well So I think it's been a positive thing and the critics have loved the show which has been, you know Real blessing that doesn't always go that way. Yeah. Yeah, that's great Anthony, thank you so much for joining us here live in our studio after talking to you like Over these yes distances for years. So it's great to have you. Can we slip one more in? There's more from our very own Catherine curtain. Yes. Oh Catherine I did not see that just slipped in all right or any of your children And interested in following your footsteps in any way. Yes on camera off camera. Alicia Uh, who's my uh tenure has has done, uh A wrapping animation thing for a pbs kids and she already so she already has worked And then Maya wants to actually do the whole audition thing and that I'm kind of A little bit hesitant because you know, he's just it's a tough business But is your wife have the time to do that's the other thing not just my wife me because we're both both Yeah, we both have to have time to do it. So I think what I'm going to do with Maya is kind of train her myself at home Um, and then maybe I'll charge her a discount Or something. I don't know Yeah, so they are interested It's just that they I have to kind of find the time to make sure that they have to allow them to be kids, man They have to be really motivated. Yes Because we started off Ella at a very young age on camera, you know, and then as soon as she pushed back We immediately you have to yeah. Well, we were like, okay And every year I just say you want you want to try that again You want to have a little fun for college or something? It's a balance because as kids, you know, they don't they want to They're on to the next thing So you have to find a way to continue to teach them committed to be committed to something But at the same time don't make it a drag because then what's the point? Yeah, absolutely Yeah, it's got to be fun or I do it. Yeah. Anyway, thanks for being with us. Thanks again, man It's great to see you man. It's great to have you on here. 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