David Washington - Narration, Bass to Baritone, Character Specialist

Narration, Bass to Baritone, Character Specialist

• David Washington is registered with Voice123 since Sep 30, 2008.
• David Washington started his/her voice over career in 1996.
• Currently David Washington is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

P.R.E.Z.'a voice has a baritone timbre to it. He uses this to it's best effect with a bit of an edge for movie trailers.

For promo and educational material, he changes the meter to even, measured, and professional.

For children related material, like audiobooks, he uses a fatherly, comforting approach.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Girl
• 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
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, 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 British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) 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 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 offer copywriting services
• I offer translation 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

Toledo, Ohio, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

"Audiobooks are a love of mine since I read constantly," he says. "Always was a fan of the old radio shows. So I'm always listening in my head as to what that character looks and sounds like."

With that in mind, he uses a variety of different character voices suitable for fictional material: quirky, mannerly, dramatic, and dark.

"On the dark end, it's reminiscent of a villain. Being a comic book fan, I have half the work done for me as far as how the character looks. I'm always practicing the voice I think that character would have. I always fit in rather easily into the villain or more of an intense hero."

He can perform a few different dialects ranging from street, to southern, to Jamaican.

"I'm currently working on my British and Australian accents. For anyone who really listens to others that speak it, they're really not the same."

My Voice Experience

P.R.E.Z.'s background and experience in the music industry spans over ten years. Seven of those years was as a radio DJ on a radio station in Toledo, OH called (YES FM/WYSZ). He produced and hosted a music program called Zero Gravity. It was a two hour program showcasing the best hip hop and techno music from music artists all around the globe. He produced all radio spots, intro and outros for the show. In addition, he created radio ads, PSAs, and commercials during his tenure with the station.

My Training

Unknown - Click here to ask David Washington

My Studio Equipment

P.R.E.Z. works with a variety of equipment including Windows based DAW Cubase, one of the big four of audio sequencers in the professional audio industry. In addition, he uses Studio Projects and MXL mics and has access to Blue products.All of this is run through a Presonus Eureka preamp.

For music production, he uses a variety of tools, his workhorses being his Roland XV-5080, EMU Mo Phatt, and Xtreme Lead 1 sound modules. In addition, he uses the Roland SRV-3030 Digital Reverb and the software synth Imposcar.

"Many people like to say you need high end gear to top notch music and voice overs," says P.R.E.Z.

"The fact is, you can make top notch music with some rather inexpensive hardware and software these days."

P.R.E.Z. has spent the last eight years building and refining his studio along with his skills so that the environment is conducive to creating the best results possible.

"Knowing what to do with what you have is a totally different story and speaks volumes to the individual running the equipment. I've heard terrible projects that were recorded on high end gear and fantastic projects on what's considered low end. It's not just about the equipment. It's the skill of the person using it. It's all about the end result. If it sounds like junk, who cares that you used high end gear? It's still junk."

Additional Skills

P.R.E.Z. is owner and operator of 4Six3 Sound, a music/audio production company. 4Six3 specializes in creating songs for established artists, composing music for film and television (including commercials), creating voice overs, and are looking to develop one or two up and coming unknown artists/singers.

Our musical styles consists of a gamut of genres: pop, R&B, hip hop, soul, AC, drum n' bass, and house. They are also branching out into tribal/world music ala film style along the lines of Indiana Jones.