Dan Wachs

Voice Description

First of all, THANK YOU to the 25 wonderful clients who chosen me over the past six months. Many of you have become regular clients and I deeply appreciate your support!

Former Philadelphia radio personality and spokesman (and current film actor) with 20+ years experience. I can bring you a wide range of styles. From the guy next door to corporate spokesperson, movie trailer, and much more, I can hit a home run for you.

My philosophy:
As a voice-over artist, my job is to make my client succeed. This is my goal the minute we "shake hands," Let's have fun and succeed together!

Voice and Interpretation Quality: I call it my "Perfect French Fries" voice. Crispy on the outside (high end) with a soft hot center (mids and lows). Please give my demos a listen.

Authoritative, resonant, confident, friendly, refined, experienced. A clear voice, with perfect, regionalism-free diction. Professional, smooth and fluid delivery. As a trained actor, I can deliver authentic, compelling, expressive, convincing, and motivating life to your script. The voice of hundreds of radio commercials. Wide age range. Young, mature, middle-age, senior. National ad campaign voice quality. TV, radio, Internet, narration, audio books, corporate and medical presentations, motivational, religious, childrens stories, video games, tag lines and all types of voice over. Businessman, business presentations with true corporate experience to back it up. Radio spots TV commercial voice over and narration Industrial films and narratives Audio books Film and movie trailers.

Latest success stories: May, 2011.

Thank you Hundai Elantra for selecting me as the voice of their new international TV campaign.

Thanks to Random 42 films for having me narrate their latest medical animation on cancer research.

Thanks to Quickworks video and multi-media for hiring me to voice their Cyclamen video.

And thanks to the Campus Crusade for Christ for three days of ADR work for their newest film series, "Year 64."

Classic adult voice-over voice. Deep, resonant, clear, with perfect trained diction. Regionalism free. Professional smooth and fluid delivery with a mellow tone. Various character, characters, including sexy, bossy, loud, and dramatic interpretation. Believable, honest, compelling, expressive, convincing, motivating. The voice of hundreds of radio commercials. Audio, video, training videos, motivational recording. Young, mature, middle-age, old, senior. Businessman, business presentations with true corporate experience to back it up. Sexy, warm, evil, disturbing, frightening, dramatic overtones. National ad campaign voice quality. Children stories, kids stories, video games, tag lines.

Radio spots
TV commercials
Websites and Internet
Podcasts
Political
Voiceover and narration
Anything and everything corporate
Industrial films and narratives
Audio books
Film and movie trailers
IVR and voicmail
Comedy and humor

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Adult content
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have Source Connect in my studio
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Lake Mary, Florida, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Southern, Cowboy, New England, hard sell, sophisticated, rich snob, wealth, snob, elitist, blue collar, executive, dramatic.

My Voice Experience

Without boasting, it's accurate to say that I have a great deal of experience in voice over and voice acting and I absolutely love being in this fascinating and creative business.

I'll start by telling you I was in radio for 32 years. I could tell you lots of stories.


I had the tremendous good fortune to find myself immersed in pools of creativity and that's where I cut my teeth in terms of audio production. Add to that my recent endeavors in acting - and that's brought me into that more advanced plateau of artistic interpretation. Acting helps me as it would any voice over talent to seek the true intention of the script and interpret in a way that moves the audience.

CURRENT EXPERIENCE: I keep myself very busy with voice over work and have booked 21 jobs in the past few months. My clients are in Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Jamaica, Trinidad, and all over the United States. I've had tremendous experiences with every client and I'm fortunate to have worked with them.

I am an active professional actor in independent film, television, and commercials.

I am entering my fourth consecutive acting class in the Orlando, FL area. This is a relative hotbed of entertainment and acting productions. My newest teacher recently played Kate Blanchett's husband opposite Brad Pitt in that "Benjamin Button" movie.

OOOOPS, someone's responding to an audition I sent this afternoon...so I better pick this up later on. It's been fun!

32 years radio experience. Hundreds of radio commercials. Blessed with pipes but still a student of acting and dramatic interpretation.

My Training

Trained in acting, voice, and oral interpretation (see "Education" below)
32 years radio broadcasting experience:
- Owner/Operator, WKLX-FM, Rochester, NY
- Owner/Operator, WOMP-AM/FM, Wheeling,WVA
- General Manager, WOCL-FM and WOMX-FM,
Orlando, FL
- On air talent and ad exec at WIOQ-FM,
WMMR-FM, and WDVR-FM, Phila, Pa.
Hundreds of radio commercials and other voice over projects for clients world-wide.
And as of late, I have been advising actors in FL on breathing and voice & articulation as they pertain to voice over and acting.

I am also an experienced actor and have appeared in numerous independent films, both shorts and full length features.

Television experience includes:
"Dr. G. Medical Examiner," Principal Role, Discovery Health Channel.
"Champion," Supporting Role for TV pilot, Joe Lucas Productions.
"The Glades," Featured, A&E Network

Education

Voice and articulation, oral interpretation, and other courses included in BS of Speech, Emerson College, Boston, MA.

Core Film, Scene Study, and Audition workout with Yvonne Suhor, Art Sake Studio.
Strassberg method and scene study with Russ Blackwell.
Numerous audition, casting, and teleprompter training seminars.

My Studio Equipment

My studio:

Sennheiser MKH-416 shotgun mic.
Studio Projects C1 condenser mic.
PreSonus Studio Channel tube amp with compressor and equalizer.
M-Audio Firewire Solo recording interface.
KRK Rokit 6 Studio Reference Monitors (have a spare pair of 5's - want to buy them?)
KRK S-10 Sub-Woofer
Dell Studio XPS 9000 with 8gigs RAM, 1 TB hard drive.
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium sound card.
Adobe Audition editing software.

Additional Skills

Film and Television Actor.
Emcee for live events.
Sports announcer and reporter.
Former Radio Station DJ.

I have owned and operated radio stations, currently own a small business and have experience with professional services such as attorneys, accountants, IT professionals, and other fields.

Very comfortable as an authority figure, but like CEO's in the real world, people skills must show through. So a warm but authoritative voiceover role would fit me well.

I also do well with dramatic voiceover roles, and that's supported by my acting endeavors.

And finally, I would like to say it's a pleasure and duty of a voiceover artist to work with the client to adjust the product until the client is 100% satisfied. In fact, the process of refining a performance is one of the best parts of the job!

Looking forward to speaking with you.

Thank you!

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Wire transfers

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