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The Sound Advice Voice-Over Podcast voiceoverinfo.com
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4.4 • 28 Ratings
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Kate McClanaghan and Jeff Finney discuss current trends and helpful techniques regarding the voice over industry, and also host interesting interviews with guests.
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What Does a Casting Director Do?
It may come as a surprise to most people as to what a casting director actually does, even if you’ve considered yourself a professional talent for a number of years. Casting agencies select talent they feel are most suitable for the specific job at hand from talent agencies based on the individual talent’s professional promotional […]
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Voiceover: The Basics Defined
“Ambition is the first step to success. The second is action.” There are a few key basics voice talent should know about this industry from the onset that’s either required of you or you can expect as industry standards. Hopefully, understanding them from the start will improve your ability to create, secure work and navigate […]
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Branding, Rebranding and Art Direction for Voice Actors
You might be relieved to discover the best advertising… isn’t advertising at all. By that I mean the adage, “less is more” applies when it comes to art directing your graphics that will allow you to make your name known and associated with being a professional voice talent with taste and an elevated aesthetic. Here […]
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The Standards That Define Competitive Voiceover Demos
Listen to SOUND ADVICE founder & author of The SOUND ADVICE Encyclopedia of Voiceover, Kate McClanaghan, defines:
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The Unexpected Benefits of Mastering Commercial Work
For decades now, legions of actors have emerged from assorted acting schools across the country harboring a deep aversion to pursuing and accepting commercial work. Yet, if you scratch the surface a bit, you’ll probably find this unfounded antagonism typically stems from the misguided notion you’d become “a sellout” if you perused commercial opportunities. It’s […]
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The Two Prominent Approaches to Voiceover in the States
If you’ve been pursuing voiceover work on your own in America for the past decade or more, chances are you’ve been following a business model that concentrates almost strictly on securing work all by yourself, or DIY, by procuring jobs primarily through excessively low-paying sites like Fiverr, Upwork and a few Pay-to-Play (P2P) platforms. Nevertheless, […]
Customer Reviews
Great, great instruction, I wish more actual examples...
These are some of the most helpful podcasts for Voice Over I've found... so many of the podcasts introduce great topics, but they don't usually demonstrate the problem or demonstrate the improvement. So, give an example of muscle memory recordings followed by a more agile audition. Just my 2 cents.
Disappointed
The latest episode really has me disappointed. It was supposed to be about how the voice over industry has changed since COVID, but it turned out to just be a very thinly-veiled sales pitch for their company’s services. While I understand using a podcast as a way to promote your business, the goal is to provide true value to your listeners and then associate the good will from providing that value with your business… Not writing a list of how the biz has changed, in which 95% of the changes are all about how people should buy your services. If you’re going to do that, just make it an episode about your services, rather than trying to disguise it as an episode about what’s changed since the pandemic
The title's not just a pun
This is a superb source for all-too-rare common sense from a real pro in the voiceover business. McClanaghan applies the wisdom gained from her many successes, AND some painful lessons learned, from a truly epic voiceover career. Jeff Finney, whose background seems to include more of the technical end, also throws his expertise into the mix. This podcast ranges from quick tips on making a performance come alive, to the complex and rapidly-changing business of being a voice performer. My only quibble- it'd be awesome for this to be a 30 minute weekly cast, but it's pretty clear that these two are too busy doing voiceover to spend that much time in a podcast. Whether you've got concerns about your marketing, or are just trying to determine how to ready yourself for an audition, this is the only podcast you need.