Darren Bernard

A lot of the accents I can perform involve southern types, California surfers, Italian food workers, mysterious detectives, British spies, spooky scientists, Bostonian cops, and many more. Depending on the script, my voice can inflect high, medium, or low, add a foreign piece, or fill in an emotion or two. Whatever the case may be, I can perform anyway you tell me to be. I enjoy doing impersonations like Pee-Wee Herman, Cookie Monster, Yoda, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jimmy Stewart, Beavis & Butt-head, Hank Hill (King of the Hill), Robert DeNiro, and so much more.

The only voice over experiences I have actually performed was when I was a little kid and came into a Federated Group store (remember Fred Rated played by Shadoe Stevens?) telling a brief introduction about myself on the video screen with a microphone. I wish I had that tape to relieve but it's no where to be found. Years later in 1995, I attended a sportscaster's camp in St. Louis where along with meeting some of the greatest in the business like Bob Costas, Kevin Harlan, and Joe Buck doing play-by-play simulations for basketball, two Cardinal baseball games, and a football game on a giant screen, I went into a studio to do some voice over highlights for sports. That is what really drew me into doing sports broadcasting at the time only to find out I had several obstacles in the way preventing that. When that was all out of the way, I became interested in doing voice over acting thanks to a client I talked to over the phone at my job informing me he had the flu and was unable to do his voice over work. I asked how does one get into the business after we discussed it. He told me to do my research and now here I am ready to take it on. I have been infatuated with voice over acting for several years but got my feet wet by attending some voice over classes in Burbank at Aliso Creek Productions this past spring. It is ranked one of the top ten voice over classes in the country. My instructor, William Williams, provided me the vast knowledge involved in voice over acting and utilized that to my skills. Frequent practice was conducted in doing many scripts of all kinds in the studio. It began with an introductory class displaying the origin of voice overs, followed by a commercial course learning countless methods of doing voice over spots, and finally letting our wacky voices spill out in doing animation scripts. I learned so much involving the emotions, inflections, origins, communicative skills, timing, breathing exercises, and patience involved with this field. I fell in love with the whole concept and want to make others out there feel like they are part of the package in hearing what I have to give from the product described. I have a professional Rode Broadcaster microphone that many networks and radio DJ's use during their work as well. The PSA1 Podcaster studio arm attached to it allows me to swivel it 360 degrees so I can angle it any way I want to based on my sitting arrangement. Included is a MicPort Pro preamp that helps me to adjust the gain based on the sensitivity of the microphone and to add an extra boost to the sound making it sound clearer along with adjusting the volume for the headphones involved. The windscreen on the microphone prevents those "popping" sounds from happening (a pop filter also works best) and the sound quality is simply amazing! I am very courteous and reliable when it comes to performing work. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again has been one of my favorite quotes pertaining to life. I love to make people laugh any way that I can but more importantly to use my gifts and talents that I've been blessed with and help others out the same way. I am a people person and that's what it's all about. We present the product in an amicable, convincing way to entice the viewers/listeners in becoming interested as what to purchase or sign up for. If you don't have the success and confidence to persist, you won't go anywhere in this world without it.