 Hey, it's time for voiceover body shop and tonight. We have a lovely guest a Woman who is just moving up in the voiceover ranks Novene Crumbie. Hi Novene. Hi guys We got lots of questions for and if you've got a question for Novene Throw it in the chat room Jeff Holman is in there and we're gonna ask her all those questions And we're gonna have the funnest hour. You could possibly have are you ready mr. Wittem? I am set. Let's do this It's time for voiceover body shop right now From the outer reaches they came Bearing the knowledge of what it takes to properly record your voice over audio and Together from the center of the VO universe. 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Jmc demos when quality matters and voiceover extra your daily resource for VO success and now Live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are the guys Well, hello there. I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Wittem and this is voice over body shop or VO Be as Alrighty another week another VO BS fresh content for you folks Every week. That's why we're here to make sure that you get the best information to help you with your voice over business And yes, it is a business kids It's a an entrepreneurial business. You're the one responsible for finding work You're the ones that have to get out there and make it happen And we want to show you how to get it done and one of the ways we do that is by Talking to some of the people that have done all the hard work that have paid their dues made it happen and So we have somebody like that tonight, let's introduce our guest Novene Crumby is a multi-faceted actor who has currently best known for bringing a range of characters to life through the power of her voice She's widely recognized as the voice of E network That's E with an exclamation point and has announced the people's choice awards the screen actors guild awards Stuff like that and the characters she creates can be heard across action video games like red fall and the BAFTA award-winning game red-debbed redemption to What about one an animated children's series including rainbow high and lol surprise house of surprises Her voiceover work also extends into documentaries books and commercials and she's appeared in TV film and theater productions Let's welcome to voiceover body shop Novene Crumby Hi there. Hi guys. Thank you for having me. Oh, it's a thrill to have you on you're You're a very busy lady. Yeah these days. You're doing an awful lot of stuff And we kept you busy to open up the show, too You're running and getting your mic Adjusting settings and on and on but thanks for being here. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, so, you know, as I said, you're very busy You know George is why you gotta get Novene Crumby on she's like really hot right now and she's doing everything So tell us a little bit about yourself. What was your path to voiceover? So originally when I was younger, you know how your parents kind of try you in different things or like Oh, let's try them in this sport or modeling or whatever they want to do and I ended up doing community theater And absolutely loving it went to school for musical theater for four years Never thought about voiceover didn't really know what voiceover was but throughout that time people are like, oh, you have a great voice You should really try voiceover and and Check that out. So after I graduated I got into voiceover classes took that for a year found out it was a talent that I didn't know I had and Got an agent the year after and just been working in the industry since and it's been about Seven years now, which is crazy. So now I love voiceover. I love voicing shows and animation and Award shows. It's it's been a surreal ride. It's been awesome. Yeah, so you got an agent after a year Yeah, yeah, I took classes with Jeff Howell shout out Jeff Howell amazing and he's the one who really noticed my talents and decided to share it with his friend He's the voice of Atlas talent agency and they loved me and I've been with them ever since It's great. Yeah, no Jeff said a great coach and certainly a prominent person out there in the promo world And if he noticed you were good, you're good Yeah, there are coaches that are good to work with because of who they know and and what they do Not only are they great coaches, but they connect you with great people Yeah, that's definitely one of them. Oh, yeah, absolutely awesome. Yeah. Now. I read you worked at Disney as a dancer. Is that true? Yes, yes, what was that like? Oh my gosh, it was amazing anyone who knows me knows I love Disney Disney everything so my whole dream was to just work at Disney before acting before voiceover all that kind of stuff and I auditioned for Disneyland a couple times finally got in and I had been a dancer in the parades for about two and a half years. So the summer parades the Christmas parades Fantasmic that's out now But unfortunately COVID happened and Disney kind of shut down for a year and then my life got busy with voiceover so I'm not mad about it, but Disneyland was so fun so surreal and I really want to go back. I just I want to retire there Really, I would not just go back there. What distance did you cover when you were marching and dancing? What was the distance that you had to go from the front of the park the entrance to literally the very back where it's a small world is Yeah, like the whole park. So working there. It's it's a workout. Honestly, you don't need to go work out on your own They will work you out for you and I was in shape then and then COVID happened, but yeah, I definitely want to go back Yeah, no, no I hear if you're if you work at Disney, you're not an employee. You're a Cast member. Yes. Did you ever run into Kiff? Kiff was always playing a cop in the I think the New Orleans area Oh, he was a cop there all the time. I didn't know that. I wasn't sure. It's it's not that small of a world Right, but yeah But it is a small world After a lot of people there So obviously, I mean quarantine Affected you but how did I take it that you as you said your voiceover work really picked up during during during COVID? How did that go? Yeah, it actually went the complete opposite for me And I know how people, you know kind of lost their jobs and how to kind of find a different direction in life voiceover somehow Was fantastic for me I kept getting more bookings more auditions more jobs and was very grateful and thankful for all of that because that's definitely not How I expected it to be I was the voice of E So I was still doing E every single day that didn't stop because I recorded all of that at home And all of the bookings that I had normally you would go out and record it in a studio But that's when everyone wanted people to have their own Studio professional setup. So of course contacted George and I got a home professional studio set up And that was right before COVID had happened. So I was good to go throughout all of COVID So I got really lucky there. Yeah, you did it You know if you were ready before it happened. Yeah, we'd only been warning people for 10 years Probably should have one luck feathers are prepared exactly. Yeah. Yeah, but I when you were doing stuff all across the spectrum I mean documentaries and narration and yeah, I got contacted by Netflix and I did some Audio descriptions for them. So for people who might not know audio description is basically you're describing what's happening this scene for the hearing impaired and Did that for a few of their documentaries? one of them is called crack and talks about the crack in the US and all of that and Deaths of 2021 death of 2020 I have rum spring of that actually came out as well on Netflix. So I did a lot of audio descriptions there Got some video games which have finally come out now. Some are still under NDA So Those take years, right? Yeah, it's what yeah years sometimes years years they do Books my first McDonald's radio ad to and I've been wanting to get McDonald's and Ever since then they kind of just keep using me for stuff and I'm like, this is great. I love this I'm what is it about McDonald's is such an iconic commercial, right? It's just it seems like The get in terms of commercial. Yes, but it's just such an icon to get a commercial for McDonald's Like the name brand you want that like on your website you want that on your resume and I was like, all right bucket Let's check it off. Got that remember we had Roger Leo party on he was telling us all about how to do the McDonald's read You know, right, right? It's just such a thing. It's such a thing. It's like I got to do the bottom up up on I was like, all right. Yeah Yeah, Dennis Cox doing it. It's like It's like yeah, he does that kind of He sounds like a jazz man. Yeah, I do hear that doesn't sound Scottish at all Hey, you've been doing, you know, the award shows and we know a bunch of other voice talents that have done award shows I mean, we know you know Randy Thomas and a bunch of people like Disney. Yeah, how did you pursue and land those jobs? I Actually got my first one was the MTV video music awards the VMAs in 2017 And I got that from doing an audition with my agency and the thing is when I've done the auditions I never really Get hung up on them. I kind of just do them and send it off and kind of forget about them. Yeah And then I ended up I remember I was at the beach by myself just enjoying the day and I got the call For my agency and you booked the MTV VMAs. You're gonna be the live announcer for it. And that just like Was so amazing and when I actually did the show I was like, okay, so this is another side of voice over I'm learning. I really really liked this a lot and because I did that. I got the people's choice Awards after that and since that was with E at the time and I signed with E contractually I ended up doing the people's choice awards every year after that and Then it's from then I was able to get the SAG Awards in February MTV movie and TV Awards recently and I feel like my love in voiceover is award shows I really love live announcing. I love the thrill. I love the challenge. Some of my friends are like That's too nerve-wracking for me. I could never do it. I would I'd rather do other video games and stuff I'm like, I love the thrill. I love live stuff Yeah, no live is a lot more fun because you know, it's like what's gonna happen Yeah, just you just do it you get into it, you know, I mean, I've I've done sports broadcasting and stuff like that And you know, it's really tight, you know, that's like, okay, this is coming up and you've got you've got so many notes What did it involve doing these types of award shows? What sort of things did you have to learn? Definitely people's names Yes, some of them are difficult because of course, they're not always American so it's not easy for me to pronounce So I had to go on YouTube and do a lot of research They also gave me phonetics of how to pronounce it But the most important thing is you want to find them saying their own name because that's how it's correct I don't see someone else saying their name. So that was a lot of digging. So definitely had to look into that I also learned eating specific things and not eating specific things on the day of show So I stay away from like milk. I stay away from mac and cheese or ranch dressing with salad It's just like straight dry food and lots of water But yeah, just trying to stay healthy and knowing what I'm saying practicing it getting the timing right and Just letting it flow right off my tongue, right now Yeah, and of course you're working with a director and somebody who is probably directing Specifically what you're doing and then the show's director. Who were you working with so first different shows? It was different people lately It's been Amanda who's worked with me on the MTV movie and TV awards and we've worked on people's choice as well And so she's in the room with me And so she's listening to the director and the producer and everyone queuing everything and counting down and I'm listening to that too But it's also like I have another set of ears listening in case I happen to miss a cue or something happens And we have to change the script or something which has happened last minute but we have another set of ears with me and Yeah, it's just a double check and to make sure everything's Perfect the way it's supposed to be for the show. How do you train for that though? I mean, yeah, you the first show you do is I mean How do you how do you practice? How do you prepare to do something of that nature? There's is there classes for that? I never took classes for that Which is the crazy thing when I trained with Jeff Howell. It was just classes for a year We did promo we did some animation and stuff, but I never really learns live announcing So I feel like that's something that naturally comes to me and it's something that I enjoy doing so from the first Show that I did the MTV VMAs I kind of just picked it up and I would watch a word show so I would listen and hear how they do it and I kind of just picked it up and just really loved it. Yeah, that's it's fascinating You know, I've a lot of people if you came out of radio you understand, you know Doing the stuff live because it's like oh Mike's on you you're talking. Yeah But Interesting now that most of the people doing those types of things are women now And it used to be it was always guys and then Randy Thomas was like one of the first people to do the Academy Awards Yeah, but now it seems to be all women you guys are taking over. I Know it's crazy. It's amazing and I've met Randy and I've looked up to her and I'm just like man I want to do what she does. I want to announce these award shows. She's killing it She's doing everything and I was like, all right. This is what I want to do award shows is my favorite Yeah, you know, and I'm sure it pays pretty good too because you got to you got to be skilled at it Oh, yeah, yeah, if you're just joining us, where have you been? But we're talking with the novene crumbie who is a voice actor and she does everything. We're just talking about Doing live award shows and a little bit more about what what she does if you have a question for no Throw it in our chat room whether you're on Facebook live Or you're on YouTube or you're watching through smoke signals just throw it in there Jeff Jeff Holman is in there taking notes for us and we will get those questions to her in our next segment So if you got something about you know, something she says like I want to know a little bit more about that Throw it in the chat room. We'll talk about that. I had a quick you go about the live go for it Do you have a an understudy that also is there just in case Something happens to you. It's not how they do that never had one unless they just never told me But what they do actually is we pre-record everything. So the show is half pre-recorded and half live technically But we still record the live portion just in case Something happens to me. Oh, I get sick or whatever happens last minute, but they do pre-record the live stuff Just to be safe, but I'm still saying all of that live regardless Very good Um, now let's talk a little bit about gaming voices because this is something a lot of people want to do games Not easy work No, and nice work if you can get it, but then once you get it, there's a lot to it, isn't there? Hang on Yeah, I mean you know red red falls very popular red dead redemption was very very popular not that I play these I'm just too old for this stuff But I'm you know, I'm familiar with all these things How do you land gigs like that? I mean are your agents out there looking like You know specifically in different categories of stuff and they're like, oh, no mean be really good for for this And how did you land those particular gigs because those are really good ones? Thank you. Yeah, so in the beginning from what I've seen It's just they would send me auditions that they think that I would be right for that I fit and that'd be good for Over the years now I can kind of tell that they are picking specific auditions that they think I would definitely be good for Um, when it comes to those video games auditions, it's definitely The part that you fit what voice ranges can I do what ages can I do? Um The ethnicity that I can do as well. So it definitely comes down to that Also, what I've noticed is The funny thing is when I took classes and we um I learned stuff in those classes. I never learned how to scream or choke on blood like friday the 13th Which I have right here Never learned how to choke on blood never had learned how to like get my throat slit and just die So that's something I definitely learned while I was recording. I was like cool. Jeff never learned that but thank you And how do you do that? Well, what's your what's your method for that? I mean my method I kind of get you know, a little saliva in my throat kind of choke on it a little and scream and holler and Safely though because that it's definitely vocally stressful on your throat. So that I kind of kind of take easy and they would take the sessions easy, but um Yeah, I've just been very lucky to get these types of video games. Like I said, like you said red fall friday the 13th I have creed um over here Yeah, ozaria the sinking city a lot of video games. So I've been really lucky to get these things Yeah, I don't know these like multiple day jobs or do you go in and just You know kick it all out in an afternoon or They're multiple days, especially the vocally stressful ones red fall was multiple days friday the 13th was multiple days Uh red dead redemption two that was one day um Yeah, that one wasn't super vocally stressful But the ones where I am screaming and running for my dear life that one has to be spread out over a few days Yeah, are these all done at home though? um Now they are red fall has always been in studio because we also did facial motion capture for that So that was in studio. We did that a few times red dead was in studio Um friday the 13th was in studio as well Yeah, the sinking city was in studio now. I'm thinking a lot of these are in studio So I go out for them the ones at home is like McDonald's or a little promo or stuff like that are animation I do at home as well Um, but yeah video games now. I'm thinking about it. It's all go in studio Yeah, because you've got to work with the director there and yes, and they're real picky about all you Yeah, yeah, that's like yeah, and it's I have to be physical too So I kind of like that video games like that are in studio where I had the space to kind of expand Instead of just sitting in the booth So that would be a different right Once again, we're talking with no being crumby about gaming and you know gaming voices and doing live Award shows and all the other stuff she does we'll talk a little bit about that But again, if you've got a question throw it in the chat room and we'll get to that just a little bit Uh, you know, you talked a little bit about, you know choking on blood and getting your throat slit and stuff like that How do you how do you prepare for the characters in this and what type of outlines do they give you? So the outlines that they give me is of course what the character looks like who they are their age range their background Um, the scene that they're in so for example, Vanessa, uh, Vanessa Jones in Friday the 13th I'm uh, one of the camp counselors and she's basically terrified for her life the entire video games trying to get out Of crystal lake and so finding all these things and it's just like a lot of heavy breathing and it's If you've ever played the game it's dark and it's sometimes rainy and it's just spooky So of course you're trying to be quiet and there's a lot of heavy breathing It's just I kind of put myself in that space how they would feel And I would be terrified for my life. So I would be quiet too, but also like Oh my god, I gotta get out of here like just freaking internally freaking out pretty much And then getting slashed It's just like screaming just like running away then Yeah, and then she's sassy towards Jason too. So it's like, yeah, she's going through a lot Now you were saying you had to do mo cap for this. What what does that involve? I mean, some people have seen pictures of it and stuff Was that a whole new experience for you? And what'd you have to do for that? That definitely was I hadn't done mo cap before that. I believe I did it for I did it for red dead redemption too as well I don't think I did it for Friday, but I definitely did it for red fall and that was definitely interesting Basically, they get little dots and just put it all over your face and then you have this giant like Crane thing and a camera which is Really up in your face like that. So no personal space whatsoever It's a bright light and the guy who's putting it on has a little mini iPad So what he sees is literally this So it's just like There's it's all like high definition as well. So it's like you can't do anything about it You can't wear makeup. It's just like you see pimples and everything so great But it was definitely all up in your face and kind of interesting But after a while you kind of just I kind of forget that it's there because I'm so into the character and doing what I need to do Besides when I accidentally hit the camera like on the mic. I'm like, oh, right. Sorry Let's redo that take So the mo cap was always constrained to Being in front of a mic or you had were you more physical? Were you moving around the room ever or was it always always constrained to being like in front of one fixed position? In between that so I wasn't super constrained But I wasn't also moving around the room. It was kind of just in that space where I was I could move my hands and my arms and stuff but not move my Head too much where it's off mic and you can't really hear me while I still have the camera in front of me um But I was still able to move around and do what I need to do to kind of get in character If for example like for friday 13th if I'm running or even red fall when I'm running it's kind of like Running in place and kind of just looking around with your eyes, but not moving too much So I was still able to get in character and do what I needed to do Yeah Wow, that's fun stuff You know, I mean it's yeah, it's it's acting now and of course you've also done on-screen work Yes, I've done some on-screen Um, I've done some commercials when I was growing up as well and some here When I was younger I did the science center of kineticics. I'm originally from kinetic it So I did a lot of commercials there and I did a Ford commercial when I was here And then if some of you may or may not have known I was also on the Ellen DeGeneres show where She gave me some gifts and she gave me a car. So that was like an incredible amount of screen time I've ever had. Wow, which has been crazy. So I was in two episodes of the Ellen DeGeneres show And then on her game of games show as well. So I call her auntie Ellen Oh, so you like fell through the thing there and yeah, yeah, I did That was crazy Once again, we're talking with no being crumpy You got a question now It's a great time to ask it because we're gonna get to those in just a minute George you had something you wanted to ask her about Yeah, well, I mean, obviously no being we worked together. So I knew of you But the reason I really you got my attention Was your posts on linkedin And you are working linkedin in a way that most of the and I I'm connected with thousands and thousands of people on there You are working linkedin on a level that I haven't not really am seeing happening And I'm wondering and first of all good for you Because it just shows what dynamic work you're doing and it's exciting to watch. I love the thing you just posted I guess it was today Um where you were lip syncing your own read to the spot. Yep, which was really cool. Thank you Yeah, and um, so it's all really impressive. But is that Worth it or is that you got to get in the roi from all that that you put into linkedin? Is it getting you clients? I wouldn't say Right now it's getting me clients. I'm definitely getting a lot of messages and interaction on the posts and comments Um, not clients necessarily. I did get um I forget what company it is, but it's another top voiceover agency that messaged me I don't think I should say who but um message me and was like, hey, I'm who are you repped by? If you ever want to come over to us, we'd love to have you and I'm like, thank you I love out atlas, but thank you for now um, but I'm I notice I'm at least people are getting out there and seeing me which is kind of good and seeing what I'm doing and I'm inspiring other people which is great and Definitely trying to go on their profiles and inspire them and see their work and kind of encourage them as well but um I kind of just know like anything that you have you want to put it out there You want to share it with people and um, you never know who could see it So yeah, that's true. You're not so like in radio. We said you never know who's listening Yeah, so be careful what you say I've known some people that said stuff that perhaps they shouldn't have said and then found themselves out of the job Yeah, that we like to talk about how how voiceover is an entrepreneurial business now You know clearly you have you have agents and you have people looking for work for you Do you do your own forward marketing? George is just talking about using linkedin Uh, how else do you do you get yourself out there? So besides linkedin, I do other social media websites So I do post the work that I do everything you see on linkedin is definitely posted on twitter It's definitely posted on facebook and instagram as well. So I do share it on all platforms Out there. Um, I recently signed with a publicist So that has been great and they have been helping me to get more out there and um to kind of get my name known in magazines and get on red carpets and getting more interviews So they've definitely helped when it comes to the next step of advancing your career But when do you when do you know it's time to do that step? When you knew how did you know it's time? Were you getting recommended recommended by those around you? It's time to do this. It was actually by a friend who recommended me to that publicist an agency And then my boyfriend he's actually in the music industry and he was like I see all the work you're doing you're killing it. You need to get out there You should be on the red carpet. You should be in this magazine. You should be interviewed everywhere So he actually was like this is the next step we need to do And he's the one who's really guided me and helped me into that because I never knew that was the next step I didn't know that was a thing. I knew people had publicists But I thought it was like, oh you need to get bigger in order to get that I didn't really know How to do that? So I really give him all the credit when it comes to guiding me and You know encouraging me and supporting me and getting me or more out there. So um I all it's all thanks to him. So I'm still learning when it comes to this business. So yeah Businesses are different, but the skill sets are similar. Exactly. Yeah, he's like you have you have the resume you have everything Now we just need to get you out there I was like, all right, let's let's do this. I'm ready. Yeah. Have you done any modeling too? I did modeling when I was younger. I did. Yeah, I did runway modeling when I was younger and I haven't done it since then Um, I did John Casablanca school of modeling and I got some uh print ads But I haven't done modeling since then The only modeling really is me wearing all my disney stuff down main street in disneyland. It's the only modeling I do Alrighty once again, we're talking with noven crumby and we're learning a lot about all the different stuff She does again if you got a question throw it in the chat room We're gonna get to it in just a couple of minutes But right now we're gonna take a break and we'll be right back with noven crumby here on voiceover body shop. Don't go away 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? This is virgin radio Well, okay, we're not that innocent. There's jeans for wearing and there's jeans for working Dickies because I ain't here to look pretty. 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What kind of setup or mike? I knew he always asked about the gear I never have to do it because jay does thanks jay What kind of setup or mike, uh, did jane did george set up for you? Well, there was one that I set up for you And then I think you may have evolved since then but tell us what what's been your tech journey a little bit Well, hi jay. Thank you for the question. Um, so of course george has helped me So I do have for my interface. It's a zi 10 for my microphone It is a sennheiser sennheiser mkh 416 So the shotgun mike and this one actually was specifically requested when I Um became the voice of the e-network. So this is the one that they wanted So this is the only one that I've always ever had took all it took all the guesswork out of it Yeah, it was just like yeah. Yeah, they're like we want this one. I was like, okay, cool. Sounds good So I've got that one. Uh, currently I am in a closet that I've turned into a voiceover booth. So george's Uh, helps me to get They're like little pads square pads that you can buy on amazon and I just have those All around me in um, my little studio. So that kind of helps the sound to kind of stay in but not too to I was a boxy sounding or super dead. Yeah, exactly. Yeah Um, so I that's basically what I have. Um, and then I use audacity as um, what I record on you keeping it simple Good for everything. Yeah. Yeah all the clients have been completely fine with that. They've never really asked about that Yeah, audacity gets better and better The only time I have trouble with audacity is if there's any trouble with it like if there's anything Buggy which doesn't happen that often But you know, you can't really email the developer because it's all volunteers. Yeah, it's harder, but it generally Generally, it's very it's very reliable. Um, and so you're in you're in the closet Still you were in a closet before you're in a new closet now. It's a little bit more spacious You're a little bit more room to move the other one was pretty small Yeah, this one's a little it's a lot better and the other one I kind of shared with my actual clothes in the closet So it's kind of like a half studio half closet But this one is just a closet all on its own. It feels a lot more like a studio Excellent, and then his second part is about your sag award work Um, Jay says do you uh, did you do live announced from home or on set for that? Uh, thank you again, Jay. So for all award shows, they're all done on Set, I guess you could say so the MTV VMAs was at the forum. The sag awards was at the barker hangar I'm always there on set and they have a Booth basically like a room that they've turned into a booth uh for me to do all the live announcing So like I had mentioned earlier the half of it is pre-recorded. So like the packages like, um Best hip-hop video Justin Bieber and mo like that kind of stuff is all pre-recorded But the coming up next and after the break and please welcome That's all live and that's all there. So I'm seeing all the celebrities come in I'm seeing the craziness happening setting up the show. I'm there for all the rehearsals. So Yeah, we're definitely there for that. So not at home. Yeah, do you get to dress really nice for that? I do. Yeah, I get to walk the red carpet I got to walk the red carpet for the MTV movie and tv awards Which I did last month. So I got to walk the red carpet do some interviews. I had pictures taking of me I was like, wow, okay. Thanks guys. And then I showed up in us magazine e-news Uh us weekly like all of that and I was like, all right This is cool. Thank you So that was really awesome. Yeah and post that everywhere. Oh, yeah Yeah, that is literally everywhere. I was like guys look All right, Marco Palaeus asks well, you sort of asked this already since you're working from home Could you quickly tell us about your home studio setup? Well, George and you just talked about that Uh, so glad you're a guest. Your energy is intoxicating. Oh, thank you Thank you, Marco for the question. Yes, um interfaces zi 10 microphone is sennheiser mkh 416 We just call it a 416. Yeah, okay, perfect. No one even knows what an mkh really stands for anyway I'm just learned what they are I don't actually know what mkh stands for no, but if anybody in this business 416 or if you're as we joke around on my other show we say we call it the 416 Just because we want to be weird Because half the closer from australia, so we like to do that But uh, yeah, it's the it's the 416. It's it's an it's it's it's the forces For people that don't know what the zi 10 is that's a An audio face slash mixer That has usb that plugs into the computer. So it's got a little bit more capability The loopback functionality and it's made by alan and heath for those who are going. What the heck is z i 10 It's z i 10. Of course. It's a cute play on words Of jedi That's why they call it z i 10 So that's the z in in case you were wondering I just learned something too That's good to know Uh, you get the one from expry expry says hi newvine Uh, what advice do you have for the upcoming voiceover artist looking for Their big break and how do you manage your work life balance? We always want to know that question. So yeah, let's start with it What did you have a little nugget of advice for the someone who wants to be the next you? I mean I'm only gonna be me. You are just gonna be the best version of yourself So The way it works for me It's it sounds like I should give you like this magical answer But honestly it really is just classes Take classes and there you learn the foundations of voiceover you learn the terminology you learn the different aspects of voiceover How video games is different from a war show which is different from promos and different from documentaries It's all different. So voiceover classes really really do help And like we were talking about before um be On social media be in those those rooms in those classes and Talk to people who are in those classes like um clubhouse There's a lot of classes on clubhouse where people are just doing podcasts and interviews you can always learn from people So kind of just absorbing yourself with Everything that has to do with voiceover. Um, and you kind of just learn along the way as well too I didn't really have any Way that I kind of like snuck in there. Um, but it's kind of like the saying where preparation meets opportunity And it kind of just works out like that but you have to you have to want it And you have to be dedicated to it. It can't just be kind of like, oh, I guess I'll kind of try it You have to really want it and it'll it'll show up for you. Yeah As I like to say it's got to be in your gallbladder. Yeah to want to do it Um Have you had the chance to work with any of your any of your idols or favorites You know favor people that you've listened to over the years and you've actually been in the studio with them and Um, not really actually I kind of met friends through Um doing all these different projects Where I kind of been fans of them as well. Uh, one of my good friends zeno robinson He's actually one of the voices on friday the 13th as well We've done other projects together too, which has been crazy because we didn't know that until we got into studio And he is just booking his last booking was dragon ball z So he's booking things here in there and that's like a dream of his. Um, my friend gabe kunda We haven't been able to work together yet, but I definitely want to give him a shout out. He is just killing the game He's one of those deep voice Deep voice over trailer guys that you hear he does all the disney plus stuff He's killing it as well. But um, I'm still waiting for the date that I can actually work with See the thing is with voiceover. It's like You kind of do work with some other voice over people You kind of don't randy thomas would be so cool to work with if we announce something together But usually it's like one or the other or if it's both you're like not in the studio together if it's an award show but um animation Tara strong if I said that right Tara strong I would love to work with her that would be amazing Um, I'm still learning all the big people in the voiceover industry But I would love to just be graced by their presence in this. I'll put in a good word for you. Oh, thank you Of course, I I have the the the Tara strong memorial chair You have your you have original booth chair. Yeah, it's right sitting and sitting in my booth. It's like It's magic. It's been blessed. It has Once again, we're talking with no being crumpy and if you again if you've got a question for you can still Got some time to throw it in the chat room. We'll get it to her Play the voice real kids vo family Uh, oh, I know who that is and now I understand the question She asks if you had a magic wand to improve the voiceover industry What would you change? Oh boy Hmm Be careful what you say and don't mention any names, but oh, yeah To improve the voiceover industry one thing or okay I kind of have to pick an industry because we know that the voiceover industry is really many different industries Oh my goodness Okay, so something that I would change. Oh gosh, there's I have like three things. Okay one thing. I would definitely Yes, the number one I would say is Trying to find out how to word this Without really okay, I'll go with this instead. Okay one thing that I would change is Be easy on the last minute turn around voice or auditions like the ASAP ones Sometimes I'll be out running errands or I'll be out at the beach and we're like, hey, we need this in two hours Go quick now and I'm like rushing home or if I can't make it home in time I have to do it in the car, but it's like If you ever do voiceover auditions in the car, you hear you know that you hear every single sound on the road in the garage Everything, but you don't do it while you're moving You're definitely parked somewhere or you just go in a garage find the quietest spot But the ASAP turn around one hour two hours turn around auditions are just Oh my gosh, your day just goes from relax into like stressful because I'm like, oh my gosh I have to get this in and especially if it's a project that you've been wanting to do like McDonald's Or if it's like Barbie or some audition that you've always wanted to do And it's like a turn around audition like hey, they didn't find what they wanted Then they really want to just like have you audition real quick. Let's do it and I'm like, oh, okay Okay, I can be home in like two hours. Like I'm just telling the hold on I'm gonna get this and it's just like That's really stressful So I wish they were more kind of cognizant of the timing when they kind of just throw that stuff out there and Kind of give us a break a little bit We do the best we can honestly. Yeah, it's like it's like I don't know if they forgot that Life happens too. Yeah, well, they know life happens, but I think five ten years ago It wasn't all that the sound quality audition didn't matter that much Like it really didn't matter that much not for those big commercials. They know you're doing it in a studio Yeah, right But that's changed a lot since the pandemic And a lot of this stuff is being recorded in your home studio. Yeah, so You you're not handcuffed to the home studio You can't you have life how you do actually have a life And like you when those commercial auditions come up like The expectation is that they're gonna sound like pretty close to the real thing And so yeah, you can't necessarily do that in a car You mean even if you have an Apogee mic in the glove box Or another 416 in the back with a and then you pull over the side of the road and yeah You can pull off like a promo real fast That's going to be on the air and gone in 10 seconds and no one's going to hear it again with mixed with music You can't do that with commercials. So yeah, I I hear you, uh, you know The agent in question I know a lot of your fellow compadres, uh that are Blessed as being atlas talented. I hear I hear that one a lot So let's just put it leave it at that. Is there something else that you feel is there was two and three. It was two and three We want to hear them. Uh, well The other one was Let me I'm trying to pick one Okay, so the other one really was It this has kind of happened a little bit more Since COVID had happened and the whole black lives matter thing had happened just more inclusion of The ethnicities for certain characters when it comes to animation Um, because after all of that had happened, that's when I kind of found out Which I didn't know that there are animation characters out there who are black or of color And that are not voiced by people who are black or of color So that's something that I've noticed that's Kind of been turning around and they are hiring and there are sometimes requesting people who are of color for these certain characters Which I really do appreciate that now and it just makes us feel more included. It's more authentic and more real um And I think that should be how it is like across the board when it comes to uh characters who are Different cultures other than Caucasian Do they ask for it in a certain way they say we're looking for actors who who Whose own culture how do they carefully ask it like it? Do they say that whose own cultural background reflects that of the character? What how do they go about requesting that because it's such a sensitive topic? Yeah, they say we're specifically looking for they're also African-American voiceover actors or actors or Um, they'll try to phrase it in that way So you kind of just know that this is all they want or they say only seeking African-American voiceover actors for This role or if it's like female or male types, of course Yeah, but they'll I mean obviously i'm black. So that's the only auditions I get I want to get like indian or asian or anything like that but um They'll just kind of voice it just one line straight like that. This is all we're looking for Are you getting any roles that are auditions that are? uh non-binary Do you actually hear that as a casting? I've gotten two auditions like that and they were both for animation and um Sometimes when it comes to that I'm just like I don't I'm like what kind of voice should I do then or right? I know I was just throwing it out there Yeah, so I kind of just like all right. I'll just do what I think the character would sound like But I guess that's when it's the one they're not specifically looking for a male or female. So I'm like, well I'm just because that's huge on like on camera. That is huge like I'm seeing commercials left and right they're casting People who are like, you know, non sort of gender fluid non-binary not really like they're like that's I saw I was wondering just about that was a spitball in there to see if that was anything showing up on a script because Right, what does it sound like? To be non-binary. Yeah, I what does that mean? Yeah, that's a tough one So I try to sound because I've had auditions where I have to sound like a little boy or a teenage male and I'm like I can try to make my voice go deep but also try not to sound like a female So there's that fine line of trying to figure it out. So that's kind of another challenge for voiceover people to How how does it sound to not sound male or female but like a person? Absolutely Got one last question here from jim mcnicholas on youtube. He says What tool do you use to post? To all social social media at once Oh, that's a tough. That's a tough one. Yeah for me I know there are tools that people use in apps, but I don't do them I don't do it. I post through each one individually. Yeah, I have to because I'm a very specific person and I have to have everything neat and perfect in the way it's formatted but It's just when I do that for instagram Then it posts the facebook and it doesn't look the same. It's like weird and the font things off So I just usually what I do is when I post something I draft it from the night before so you can draft an instagram You can draft in twitter. You can draft in linkedin And facebook so I draft all them the night before the way I want it to look and then The very next day when I want to post it. I just go through double check it post double check post Yeah, that's that's the way I found it gets done the fastest that way otherwise, you know, you're shocked. I'm blasting it out there um Yeah, and they do all of unique formatting and they do have Character count things and you can't put a link in a facebook post because it won't show up I mean it won't show up in an instagram post because you can't have a link in an instagram post But you can have a link in an instagram story And they're all different. It's there's just no shortcut For doing it. You have to do it. It's the same thing. It's a little weird. So You have to I yeah figure out a way to Twitter and linkedin are the closest to being similar. I think Sort of oh, maybe maybe facebook pages and linkedin. I don't know. They're all different Yeah, everyone's on everything. Let's all just be on one platform then Everyone's on everything. Let's all I tried so hard to pry myself off facebook, but That's where the conversation is happening. Yeah, you know the groups the groups are where it's at You know, well no veen it has been a super duper pleasure having you with us tonight Thank you so much But looking forward to this you're you're a delightfully young lady and uh, we wish you all the uh the best by the way we got Somebody wrote in mkh stands for manfred hibbing who is the designer for sennheiser In case you were wondering There you go because there's an mk8 mk8 mk8 so h must the h must mean some other German term that determines that kind of a microphone There you go. Thanks. Now that we know whoever found that. Thank you. We appreciate it. Yeah, thank you Yeah, you got anything that's that we should be looking forward to right now that you can tell us about real quickly Yeah, uh, so definitely red falls coming out early Um 2023, uh, so keep an eye out for that. I'm also doing another video game with bifesda Probably kind of sort of get that away. Maybe um, but that's gonna be coming out soon So keep an eye out for that can't say the name of the show Of the video game, but that um, I have rainbow high, which is a big animation show on youtube and netflake So they have new episodes every other week. That's a very popular show And I will also be moderating a panel at comic con This year, so this will be my first time. I'm excited to be there. I'll be moderating The third annual hollywood game changers a conversation with the women behind popular film and tv projects So, uh, women from hair and makeup departments or producers or directors or vfx artists Like it'll be that so i'm really excited to do that. So, um, that'll be on july 21st at comic con Well, there's your chance to bump into tariff strong. Yes, I know, right? And she'll know who you are about them, which is always kind of cool. That would be cool That would be cool. Uh, no v thanks so much for being with us and good luck with all the other stuff And we look forward to meeting you in person one of these days when we can all get back in our studio That'd be awesome. Thank you guys so much for having me. This was a lot of fun. All righty. 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