Dan Prowse

Voice Description

Bass in the morning, Bari in the day, Tenor or Bass at night. Putting on an accent in the morning, I probably sound anywhere from close to Chicago Icon "Purvis Spann, the Blues Man.", through S. Stallone, through a bit of Arnold S. (when I relax and think "Austrian", not "Australian"), to George Takai. As a Bari/Tenor, without much trouble I can sound like Seth McFarland's Brian or Peter, but not so much Peter's Father-in-law or family doctor, for some reason, and bit of Stewie - but who doesn't sound like a grown up baby after 6 beers in the morning, I ask you?

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Female
• Senior Male

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

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• 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

• 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 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
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

I have dialect abilities from at least 9 languages:
German
Japanese
Georgian (as in near Russia)
Spanish (as in from Spain)
Scotch-Irish
British
Australian
NZ
South African
/
US,
Southern
Jersey
Chicago (with a youthful "Wigger" accent, if needed)
Rockford, IL
NY Gay (Culture/Fashion Crowd)
Cali Gay (Rodeo Drive Crowd)
A Dandy Fopp, as well

I can read-pronounce (I would need translations in order to interpret beats):
Spanish
Italien
German
Japanese (American phenomic)

of course all spoken based from my straight Midwestern non-accent; I also am a member of the Hippo Language Society (once a month we meet up with others from the society to attempt to speak in other languages and to learn the inflections of others trying to speak either English or other than their native language; like a Japanese trying to pronounce and speak German, but with a French accent. Seriously.)

I do comic, serious, dramatic, Shakespeare, character, cartoon-ish and a few "famous" impressions.

My Voice Experience

I own and operate a Sound Design company, creating sound effects/Foley/voices either with my voice and found/known objects or computer generated or a combination. I have designed sound for plays, from Greek Tragedies to Shakespeare to American ionic to modern, both in tradition and anachronism. I do a lot of SFX, SD, Mixing of Audio-for-Video plus narrations/V.O. for industrials, technicals.

My Training

I Started as a student DJ at Lunch-time Radio in my Grade School cafetorium (basically learning how to use and abuse the DuKane Paging Systems). This progressed to singing - while drumming - in small bands during High School. LEarned 3 years of German there, as well as repaired the DuKane language lab (my punishment for 'abusing' the P.A. systems). Was forced - by my love-in girlfriend of the time - into Swing Choir Servitude (that was the actual name of the group), and still work for the C.I.A. when called upon to scare our enemies through the use of Jazz "Scatting". Learned audio production techniques for Live from High School on. Learned Recording Studio techniques ad hoc and from College on. AA 1983 from College of Lake County (GRayslake, IL) and BM-percussion 1986 from Northern Illinois University. GM and CE local college radio station for 6 years to date.

My Studio Equipment

RE20, RE27, LS932, Shure FP410, and access to a Nagra on a 5-day lead time. In my possession one Sony 2-track, 1/2-track 10" R-R, Sony Dual Cassette Record/Play Deck, Many CD Players. Own 2 complete DAWs one with CASIO and Kurtweil keyboards, over 400 virtual synths on call over 3 networked computers; Sony Vegas Pro, SONAR, BB2008 with Finale, Cool Edit Pro/Audition 1.5, FL Studio Producer, the latest versions and at least one pre-latest installed and ready. Effects are SFXPro and SFX from Stage Research, Inc. (The latter more mainly for programming audio desgins for play operation but used for tricky overdubs and on-the-fly overlays in live-reads). Gentner one-line phone patch hooked to a 4-line office phone with conferencing. Computers hooked to main network based on GB-Ethernet over OC-12 merged pipe (provided very cheaply by telemarketing firm upstairs in office building). Other useful crap laying about.

Additional Skills

I have held roles in at least 20 plays, alas, no Musicals (however, I would "give up the pit" for a chance to audition for a part in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying!). Learning World of WarCraft, because I have only a good short game in golf (WOW has become the new 'golf' for a lot of company executives)! And I tried stand-up comedy for a year - until I realized that it is an actual profession. I will scat, but only for comic effect - or the preservation of the great USA. Arrange old 70s/80s Jazz Fusion music for Drum Corps/Corps Style Marching Band.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Wire transfers

Contact Information

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