Sound Expert Talks to Tracy Pattin (Part 1) – With written transcript

For 16 years, Mark Holden has been immersed in the world of sound as a recording engineer for TV, radio and live radio plays for LA Theatre Works to producing for the music industry and now owns a recording studio in West Hollywood, The Invisible Studios. Mark is truly a sound expert. (So much so he can hear dogs barking in Eagle Rock when he’s at his studio in West Hollywood 10 miles away!) Written...

Live Stream Show with Voice Actors

Coin-Op TV Live – Voice-Over Actors Tara & Yuri Watch This Episode on www.theStream.tv In yesterday’s post, I wrote about live streaming (The Stream.TV), a new way to distribute content and its possibilities for voice actors. Turns out The Stream had two voice actors on one of their shows, Coin-OP TV. -Tracy Pattin var hs_portalid=78808; var hs_salog_version = "2.00"; var hs_ppa...

Sound Expert Mark Holden Talks to Tracy Pattin (Part 2) – with written transcript

For 16 years, Mark Holden has been immersed in the world of sound as a recording engineer for TV, radio and live radio plays for LA Theatre Works to producing for the music industry and now opening his own recording studio in West Hollywood, The Invisible Studios. Mark is truly a sound expert. (So much so he can hear dogs barking in Eagle Rock when he’s at his studio in West Hollywood 10 miles...

Sound Expert Mark Holden Talks to Tracy Pattin (Part 3) – with written transcript

For 16 years, Mark Holden has been immersed in the world of sound as a recording engineer for TV, radio and live radio plays for LA Theatre Works to producing for the music industry and now opening his own recording studio in West Hollywood, The Invisible Studios. Mark is truly a sound expert. (So much so he can hear dogs barking in Eagle Rock when he’s at his studio in West Hollywood 10 miles...

Live Streaming: New Opportunity for Voice Talent

It looks like a small broadcast TV studio. Lots of cameras, cable, wires and curtains. People running around with headsets on, a control room with those big windows. Only this is all internet. It’s TheStream.TV’s studio.  Live stream TV essentially is live internet TV. It airs in real time instead of recorded shows you see on sites like YouTube .  The Stream has a line-up of shows from...

Voicebank.net – the standard for digital audition delivery now offers VoiceOver Demo Critiques

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – February 23, 2010 Voicebank.net, the standard in voice over delivery, is working harder than ever to help voiceover actors no matter where they are in their voiceover career. Voiceover actors take classes, work hard, spend money and create a voiceover demo, but how does that demo sound to an agent? Is that demo going to get them work? With over 150 talent agencies...

Podcast- The Hispanic Voice Over Market (part 2)

Gustavo Rex began his acting in New York in 1980 in Classical Spanish Theatre. Soon he found himself doing “Sexy voices” for the  Late Night soft porn show “Electric Blue.”  But his full time voice over career began here in LA in 1989 and it’s been his bread and butter ever since.  Thanks to his agents at Cunningham (CESD) he quickly became one of the top Hispanic voice over talents in...

Hispanic Voice Over Market: How Does It Compare?

In tomorrow’s podcast (part 2) voice actor Gustavo Rex continues sharing his experiences and insights about the Hispanic Voice Over market. He talks about: •The Hispanic Voice Over Market and the audition process •Pay structure. How it’s different from the mainstream voice over market •Straddling the Hispanic and the Mainstream market. How he’s able to do it. •The Hispanic...

“Family Guy” Voice Actor Andrea Friedman Speaks Out

I was at Real Time with Bill Maher at CBS Studios last night for the first episode of season 8. Family Guy’s Seth McFarlane was a guest. Bill Maher asked him about the Sarah Palin controversy over Down’s Syndrome Voice Actor, Andrea McFarlane played a Down’s Syndrome person. Sarah Palin was outraged and felt that Family Guy and that character was making fun of her Down’s Syndrome...

Voice Over Seminar in New York next Tuesday February 23rd!

Joan Baker, and a panel of experts, will give you the inside scoop on how to launch and maintain a successful voice-over career. Becoming a successful voiceover actor isn’t just about having a standout voice, or inside connections, or even raw determination. At this Learning Annex seminar you will learn… - Training – What to avoid and where to train - The power of the demo – What to include...