Voice Description

No matter the medium, my voice-over sound can be warm and friendly, resonant and energetic, slower paced, serious, lighthearted, compassionate or completely off the wall. The one constant is the ability to keep it sounding natural.
I can offer a very youthful sounding delivery, a warm, mature delivery or a dramatic over the top delivery. I can also give you an institutional narrative for industrial narration and IVR/PBX phone systems.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male

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

• English - North American

Recording Categories I Offer

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

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• 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 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

Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Ft. Worth, KC Mo., Oklahoma, United States

Accents & Dialects

I am a native Oklahoman so I can give you the Oklahoma drawl, a southern drawl or I can give you a read without any accent. Over the years I learned how to turn off any provicial dialect.

My Voice Experience

I'm a veteran voice-over talent with over 36 years experience. I have both network radio and television commercial voice-over credits on the ABC & ESPN TV networks as well as commercial voice over credits on the ABC, USA and Premier Radio networks for a variety of clients. I have been the national IVR phone voice for CompUSA, Inc., the worldwide IVR phone voice for New Balance Shoes, Inc., the network radio voice for Loma Lux Skin Care Products and the network television voice for Oklahoma State University's School of Osteopathic Medicine. I have regional voice-over credits for Will Rogers State University, AL' Formal Wear, AC Delco and many more.
As a Voice Talent, I have also done well over 1,000 on hold messages for hundreds of clients all over the USA.
I love the voice-over business and it shows in my work. There's nothing half heartedly produced or provincial sounding in my product.

My Training

It was the summer of '72 in Midland, Michigan. I was 20 and full of wander lust. After taking a vow of poverty, I was introduced to radio at the Rockin' 1490 WMPX. I quickly learned there was more money in v/o than there was in radio. That's 36 years experience anyway you add it up.
I attended Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, where I majored in raising hell. I excelled in speech/drama and was the welterweight boxer on our school boxing team. I am told that I threw a pretty mean nose. An academic luminary, I left after three years. It is my only true regret.

My Studio Equipment

I operate a fully equipped audio-post facility featuring AT3525 Audio-Technica cardoid condenser microphones backed up with Mic Modeler software for pristine audio production, Avid's 124 track Pro Tools 6.1 DAE for digital recording and editing, a Denon cd/cassette recorder, a Sony timecode DAT recorder and a Mackie mixer board.

Additional Skills

I've had an interesting life. I have a broad horizon. I'm more of a street guy when compared to the more formally trained Julliard grads. But then again, so was Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Bruce Willis and Jerry Lewis. I can relate to just about any read and if your kids can hear it, I'll voice it. No, I do not sing. Not even in church.

Payment Methods Accepted

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

Contact Information

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