Blog Entries - December 2008

The Importance of Having a Home Recording Studio

cammie — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

It used to be, back in the old days (like 5 years ago), that all voiceover work was done in a professional recording studio. The client, producer, engineer and voice talent would all drive to a local recording studio and produce audio.

Nowadays a very high percentage of voiceover work is produced in home studios. In my case a good 80% of all the voice work I do is done in my home studio. Clients love voiceover talents that have home studios as it as it saves them money and time. [...]

Ready to produce your first voice demo? Here's how to start!

cammie — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Lately we've been getting calls at the office from aspiring voiceover artists asking us:

"Am I ready to get my voice demo produced?"

And though we know many of you very well and have been working with you in workshops and individual coaching for a while now, we cannot tell you when you are ready to take the big step of getting your first professional voice demo produced. Sorry.

What we do know is that you do need to feel ready. The c [...]

Holiday Open House Recap

cammie — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy holiday schedules to stop by our studio last Saturday for our Holiday Open House. We had an impressive turnout of more than 80 people! We even had a couple people drive up from Oakland to join in the festivities. It was a fun group!

Jim and I were happy to take the time to spend a few hours of the holiday season with all the great people we've met and worked with this past year including students, clients and fellow voiceove [...]

My favorite Christmas Present

cammie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The year was 1991 and I had just started dating a very nice guy about six weeks before Christmas. I knew that this relationship had real potential but neither one of us had articulated that fact OUTLOUD just yet.

I had been married for seven years prior and was a bit gun shy about getting into another relationship. Dating after my divorce wasn't much fun. One man who asked me out had been married six times. Another man admitted that he had a foot fetish and consequently reque [...]