Doug de Nance

Voice Description

Making voice work easy, effective and efficient for you keeps my clients coming back again again. How? Through an award winning history in two distinct voice work disciplines. I regularly record voice over projects for clients worldwide while also performing consistently as a live event announcer - most notably (or notoriously) as the voice of monster truck shows. As a result, I’m able to provide my clients with a skill set not typically found in voice over alone – a thoroughly experienced, well trained voice over professional combined with a live announcer’s abilities to quickly adapt and dramatize.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• 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
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Adult content
• 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

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have Phone Patch in my studio
• I have Source Connect 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

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Characterizations include: Monster Truck Guy, The Mayor, Skull Commander, Nick, AA, Bad Robot, Boris, Prime Minister, Colonel, Deadpan, Director, Emotional Wreck, Gnome Lord, Nasal, Old Woman, Schlep, Substitute Teacher, Constriction and many more.

My Voice Experience

Working from professionally equipped private and portable studios, my voice versatility has served hundreds of projects. With voice work ranging from commercials to promo and imaging to narration to animation, some recent clients include Fed-Ex, Wal-Mart, Standard Life, United Safety, Taco Time and Much Music along with cartoons like Viper’s Creed and Deltora Quest.

My Training

Relevant Education includes:
UCLA voice over program, 2010
Columbia School of Broadcasting
Mount Royal College, Public Relations
Certified Advertising Agency Practioner, Institute of Canadian Advertising
Certified Sales Professional, Canadian Profession Sales Association
Contest winner - VoiceLympics
Consistently schedule time for voice workshops, teleseminars, podcasts, books and courses
Retain professional private voice coaches (NY, LA)

My Studio Equipment

Pro Tools (custom tuned for my studio and voice by pro sound engineer using SSL 4000 plug-in by Waves)
Avalon M5 mic pre amp
Sennheiser MKH 416 shotgun mic
Behringer professional studio monitors
AKG K 340 headphones
Custom built quad core computer dedicated exclusively to voice work recording
6’ X 4’ customized DawBox voice booth
Portable studio

Additional Skills

As child actor, I developed my vocal abilities early through singing and learning to project from the stage. In my early teens, I was awarded a select audio-visual internship in an exclusive three year program. Beginning as a radio disc jockey in 1979 and going full time into production in 1981, commercial “act-vertising” and voice work versatility soon became and continues to be the foundation of my voice work success.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Credit cards
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in any currency
• Wire transfers

Online Payments Via PayPal

Contact Information

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