I WORK IN THE VOICE OVER INDUSTRY AS A(N)
Voice Actor
HERE'S A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY VOICE OVER EXPERIENCE
As many others, my background is in radio. Been doing that since I was 13, so this year will be my 25th anniversary - whoa...
Around 1997, I had the chance to audition for a small-market local tv-station, who did their own commercial production. Actually I nailed it, but due to my cluelessness (is that even a word??) about the VO-business, I made all the classic mistakes: I sounded the exact same way on every recording, as I did on the radio. So if I remember correctly, I did three jobs for them, and they never called me again.
A couple of years later, there was an opening for the male danish VO-job for a tv-homeshopping network. For the next four years, I did TONS of informercials and learned quite a bit, besides making a fair amount of money. I even got my first experience with true voice acting, when I did ALL the voices of baby animals on the Danish version of "Marty Stoufer's Wacky Babies". I also did narration for other films in that series. This was truly my real break in VO.
In 2003, I bought some second-hand gear and began to voice commercials from my home for numerous local radiostations in Denmark. Nothing fancy, they all did their own production and I only provided a raw voice recording. Somewhere along the line bigger projects turned up, and I slowly began to invest in better equipment.
Then... in 2007 and by sheer coincidence, I discovered Voice123 and the Voiceoversavvy-forum. From there, things literally took off like an Saturn V-rocket. Through the forums I learned so much, and a whole new world evolved. When I joined Voices.com, it was my "Neil Armstrong-moment" in VO: gigs and inquiries from seekers all around the world began to come in on a regular basis, and I landed quite a few. Now I'm with several international agencies and databases in countries like the US, UK, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Sweden, France, Czech Republic, Spain...
I'm also the first (and so far the only) Scandinavian-based voice artist accredited by SaVoa.
DIALECTS, Character voices and vocal impressions
All sorts of Danish ones
VOICES I AM ABLE TO PERFORM
Middle Age Male, Young Adult Male, Teenage Boy
EQUIPMENT
Microphones: Groove Tubes GT67, Rode NTK, CAD E-300 (the original)
Preamps: Danfield MX10, Joemeek VC1Q
Console: Behringer MX2804A
Interface: Echo MIA
Monitors: Genelec 1019A, Sennheiser HD25
Editor: Steinberg Wavelab or Sony Vegas, depending on project.
Misc: dbx "Project One" 266 compressor/gate, D&R phone patch
Source Connect
Comments
Hi Jacob,
Wishing you the very best, Happy Birthday!!! Enjoy.
Best Regards,
Happy Birthday Jacob,
Or as you say in Denmark, Tillykke med fødselsdagen.
Now, that's just about all the Danish I know.
Cheers,
Rod
Be well,
Bob Souer
Wishing you the very best, Happy Birthday!!! Enjoy.
Best Regards,
Rodney
song. Here are the lyrics . . . .”This is your Birthday Song,
It isn’t very long . . . “
And many more . . . !
Bob . . . at . . .Noblevoices.com
I know you’ve been a member of Voiceover Universe for some time, but I wanted to introduce one of our groups to you.
I hope you'll check out and join a group called MARKETING FOR FUN AND PROFIT. It's a group dedicated to discussing ways we can market ourselves - what works; what doesn't. You’ll find some very interesting ideas and concepts there! And we would appreciate your input. Click here for the link: MARKETING FOR FUN AND PROFIT!
Thanks for your time! I trust our paths will cross soon!
Best to ya!
dan (daniel eduardo) hurst
www.DanHurst.com
I hope you are having a very Happy Birthday!
Be well,
Bob