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The Most Important Ingredient For Success
The end of 2010 leads many to reflect on New Year’s resolutions. Yet, there is an ingredient for success that must exist before any New Year’s Resolution gets off the ground. This ingredient is important because a career in voice overs, or any form of entertainment, is a career where one seeks approval from complete […]
A Voice For Every Need: Voices For Commercials
December 29, 2010 by Steven Lowell
Announcing, hard-sell, real, conversational, and energetic voices will help your product stand out above the rest. The selection of the right voice over for your commercial is critical. Many times people remember the voice that is selling the product, as well as, the product itself! Voice123 allows voice seekers to listen to voice over demos […]
Voice123 Thanks The Voice Over Community For 2010!
December 28, 2010 by Steven Lowell
Voice123 wants to take a moment to thank the entire voice over community (we know voice talent work as voice seekers too) for helping set a record of over 1000 voice over jobs posted a month in 2010 with our SmartCast system; not to mention the private jobs posted! On the chart below, you will […]
Community: Living With a Voice Actor – Internet Blues
December 27, 2010 by Steven Lowell
The blog below is part IV of a series of blogs written by Dianne Russell, partner to Voice123 voice talent, Adam Behr; a successful voice talent with Voice123. The series gives insight into what it means to be ‘living with a voice actor’, based out of South Africa: “When I first started writing these posts […]
Trend: Skype And The Voice Over Industry
December 24, 2010 by Steven Lowell
Two days ago, Skype experienced world-wide outages, and for the next 24 hours, it was easy to witness just how important Skype is to the voice over industry, as people scrambled to find ways to communicate with peers, or just took it an excuse to take an early Holiday. Back in 2004, when online casting […]
Happy Holidays From Voice123!
December 23, 2010 by Steven Lowell
The Voice123 staff wants to quickly take this opportunity to wish all of the Voice123 Community a very Happy Holidays! In the past year, we averaged over 23,000 emails a month, and enjoyed every opportunity to help members of the voice over community with their voice over needs. We are grateful to be of service […]
Recording Booths: How Do You Do It?
Good day, and Happy Holidays! I am a staff member at Voice123, Leo DeLope, with the chance to write a blog this morning for voice talent. Some of you may already know me from Voice123 Live Chat and help desk emails. As an aspiring photojournalist, I can identify with running into economical obstacles, in the […]
Community: Change The Voice123 Motto!
December 20, 2010 by Steven Lowell
Since opening in 2003, Voice123 has always had the ‘title’, ‘The Voice Marketplace’. Simply put…it is time for voice talent to change to a ‘motto’ and we would like you, the voice over community, to give us your ideas! Please go to this survey to let us know in four words or less, what motto […]
Soundproofing and Recording Part II: Recording
December 17, 2010 by Steven Lowell
In our last blog from December 15th, 2010, we shared with you soundproofing advice from voice coach David Zema, as part I of this series. Today, we share part II: Recording! “There are many tutorials on line for using Audacity and other software for recording. Learn how to set levels for your voice and how […]
Soundproofing and Recording: Part I
December 15, 2010 by Steven Lowell
Last Friday, Voice123 held a Meetup at David Zema’s recording studio in New York City. We all discussed soundproofing and recording from home. David Zema wrote a blog on the topic. Today’s blog will be about ‘soundproofing’, and you will see the extreme limits one must go to when working in the ‘city that never […]
December 31, 2010 by Steven Lowell
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