Chuck Contreras - Baratone, Warm and Friendly

Baratone, Warm and Friendly

• Chuck Contreras is registered with Voice123 since Mar 17, 2006.
• Chuck Contreras started his/her voice over career in 1979.
• Currently Chuck Contreras is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 7
• Chuck Contreras was last active on Voice123 5 days ago

Voice Description

Warm and friendly low voice for commercial's, narrations, phone messages, podcasts and radio/television station ID's.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age 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
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, informercials, 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 have ISDN in my studio
• 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 can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services

My Home Base

Los Angeles, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Chuck Contreras

My Voice Experience

Over 28 years in radio/television broadcasting in Houston and Los Angeles.
Network and local announce talent.

Host of the successful nationally syndicated radio show” Music of Your Life" in 1989.

Commercials: The Houston Post, The Houston Chronicle, Nissan, Double Tree Hotels, Montgomery Wards, GMC, Motel 6, GM, Ford, national and local car dealerships, eating establishments,PSA's and political ads.

Training films: Tenneco Oil, The Houston Post, Metromedia Corp.

Station ID packages: Over 150 station packages nationwide including Houston's KPRC-TV, KRIV-TV, KYST, KTUN, Astros Radio Network and Boston's WXKS.

Voice mail grettings, IVR, On-Hold Messages, Podcasts, and Commmercials/Promos. Writing and producing commercials.

My Training

Trained with Marc Cashman of Cashman Commercials and the Famous Radio Ranch in Los Angeles.

Program Director, On-Air radio voice, booth announcer for TV and Production Director for several radio stations.

My Studio Equipment

Consoles: Auditronics 210 Series 6 Channel Broadcast board, Pacific Recorders NewsMaker 6 Channel Console and M-Audio

Microphones: Shure SM-5B, Sennheiser MKH-416, Rode NT-2, MXL USB-006, and MXL-909

Processing: Behringer Ultraflex 2, Aphex 320 Compellor, Aphex 107 Microphone Preamp, Symetrix 528 Microphone processor, Orban Stereo Synthesizer, CRL Systems MDF-100, CRL Systems SMP-800, DAP 310, Inovonics and Harris

Software: Adobe Audition 3.0, Audacity 1.3, Station Playlist Studio, Sony Sound Forge 9.0, GoldWave 5.23, SAW Studio 4.1, Sony Cinscore 1.0

Hardware: 2 PC’s, Audio Science 4502 and 4503 audio cards, Digital Audio Labs Card Deluxe.

Hybrids: Genter TI-7200, ISDN

Studio Hardware: BGW-75, 3-ITC cart machines, ATI Match-Makers, 3 ADC Patch bays, B&B Systems Phase Scope, American Audio DB meter, Velleman Spectrum Analyzer, Utah Scientific ADA-8 X 10 Audio Distribution Tray, Leitch audio DA's

Video: Sony monitors, Gray Engineering Labs DT-104F SMPTE Code Transmitter, Gray Engineering Labs DR-107B SMPTE Code Reader, Video DA’s and Patch bay, Sony BVW-75.