David Crews - Warm friendly baritone - Drama or Soft-sell

Warm friendly baritone - Drama or Soft-sell

• David Crews is registered with Voice123 since Mar 04, 2008.
• David Crews started his/her voice over career in 1973.
• Currently David Crews is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0
• David Crews was last active on Voice123 4 days ago

Voice Description

Warm and friendly mid to higher baritone voice. Perfect for commercials, program segments, long form programs, dramatic narration, or messages. Better at warm, comic, or formal parts than hard-sell.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• 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
• 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 will go to any designated studio in my area
• 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 offer copywriting services
• 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

Austin, Texas, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

I have also done some character voice work from Texas "country" to comic Japanese and even Peter Lorre!

My Voice Experience

Over 35 years broadcast television and radio experience. I've done countless commercials, promos, program segments, and dramatic reads, as well as phone messages, and some on camera work.
For the last several years, I have been the official broadcast voice for the Austin Symphony, in Austin, Texas.
I am currently a staff announcer for KMFA, one of the last purely classical format radio stations in the U.S.

My Training

I've been doing voice work since I was in college, waay back in the '70s. I won an Intercollegiate Press Assoc. award at age 20.
I have a BA in Mass Communications, and 35 years experience doing award-winning work in broadcast and cable television and radio.

My Studio Equipment

CrewsCreative – major Equipment & Software:

Equipment:
Audio: Mackie 1402-VL3Z Mixer; Shure SM7B microphone; dbx215 EQ; KRK near-field monitors

Sound/Music: LogicPro; EastWest Gold Symphony Library; Ethnoworld Library; Waveburner; Kontakt2; Soundbooth; SoundtrackPro; Compressor

Video: Sony BetaSP UVW-1800; Sony DSR-45A DVCam/DV

Computers:
Apple G5 Dual 3GHz Intel with 8GB RAM and over 2 Terabytes storage.
Apple G5 Dual 1.8GHz

Editing: Media100HD (my main editing protocol) - Standard & High Definition, 99 video tracks, can mix SD and HD codecs; FinalCutPro [Studio2]; Premiere Pro
Graphics/Animation: After Effects; Photoshop; Lightwave; Vue6Esprit; Poser7; Motion; Color; Illustrator;

Other software: DVD Studio Pro; Dreamweaver; InDesign; Fireworks; + numerous other applications

Additional Skills

I am a multi-award winning composer and recording artist. I can create custom music tracks or beds for any size production from commercials to features.
I also am a veteran video post-production editor and digital artist, offering full video services through my company, CrewsCreative ( www.CrewsCreative.com ).