Bob Kirby - Authoritative, instructional, warm, versatile

Authoritative, instructional, warm, versatile

• Bob Kirby is registered with Voice123 since Jul 22, 2011.
• Bob Kirby started his/her voice over career in 1979.
• Currently Bob Kirby is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0
• Bob Kirby has been active on Voice123 during the past 48 hours

Voice Description

I focus on VNRs, industrial training and corporate communications VO.

Authoritative or warm and laid-back for telephone auto-attendant recordings.

Warm, casual but informative for instructional, training or other long-form industrial videos.

Conventional middle-age warm, friendly male voice for television or video narration.

Fast-paced authoritative delivery for high-energy radio spots.

Newscaster or authoritative delivery for video news releases.

Versatile. I am easily coached.

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
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have Phone Patch 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 offer copywriting services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I offer radio ad production services
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Cadence and dialect of the late film director John Huston. (Oh, I know. Huge demand...)

My Voice Experience

1980s: training video voice-over for American Red Cross projects produced by Centron Films, Lawrence, Ks., including "Water Safety" and "Heimlich Maneuver."

Various video news releases (VNRs) for University Relations at The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks.

Radio spot production while employed in commercial radio in Lawrence/Kansas City.

Long-form public radio newsfeatures while employed as a news-magazine host, newswriter and news anchor.

1990s: reported, wrote, voiced and edited public radio newsfeatures.
Narrated DoD projects produced by Mind & Media, Inc., Alexandria, Va. Narrated a public television episodic "Health and Medical News" series.

2000s: VNRs and instructional narration for training or instructional videos created by Mind & Media, Inc., Alexandria, Va.

My Training

Began working professionally as a radio announcer in 1970. Tasks included on-air hosting; copywriting, voicing and audio editing radio commercials.

Radio news reporting, writing, anchoring in: Shreveport, Dallas, Lawrence, Ks., Kansas City and Washington, DC.

Radio news-magazine hosting and long-form newsfeature creation for small- and large-market public radio.

Along the way I have acted in community theater and sought freelance VO projects, primarily corporate communications and training videos, with some VNRs and television documentaries.

Acting coach: Frank Revitte

B.S. Journalism, U. of Kansas School of Journalism

My Studio Equipment

Dell Optiplex 960 workstation running WinXP Pro.

Adobe Audition with various VST plugins (mic and audio compressor emulations).

Shure SM-5B and SM-58 announce mics, ElectroVoice RE-50 interview mic, Audio Technica BP-4025 X-Y stereo mic.

Symetrix 528E voice processor (de-esser, parametric EQ & compressor).

Tascam US-122 USB mic preamp (often testing other analog -> digital interfaces).

Marantz PMD-660 digital audio recorder for nat sound, fine arts, and newsgathering field recordings to CF card.

Additional Skills

Decades of experience field-recording/location-recording music, and recording voice and nat sound for radio newsgathering. I am an audiophile and understand most audio deficiencies really _can't_ be "fixed in post," therefore it's vital to gather sound that's noise and distortion free from the get-go.

I will produce audio that's as dense as the client wishes, but my preference is lightly applied audio compression with no EQ unless necessary to pull the voice forward.