Frank Baum - baritone articulate capable informed casual busine

baritone articulate capable informed casual busine

• Frank Baum is registered with Voice123 since Jul 30, 2010.
• Frank Baum started his/her voice over career in 1969.
• Currently Frank Baum is a Premium subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 79
• Frank Baum has been active on Voice123 during the past 48 hours

Voice Description

It's a baritone voice, trained.

Articulate, intelligent

You think "the serious one" instead of goofy neighbor.

Some script styles- easily upbeat, conversational, warm.

In a lineup of commercials on air a memorable sound

"textbook" - easy to understand
from big speakers to the tiny -

Can lean into the working man's boots,
the tuxedo edge of life,
the business expert,
the teacher
the doctor/nurse

Warm works, instant "been there" feel
distance, aloof
and boardroom cool, the "I know and you don't"

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
• 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

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 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 can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services

My Home Base

West Lebanon 47991, Indiana, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Midwestern "accent-less" USA universal English.

educated but working man background Russian

idealist southern US in style of louisiana/mississippi
admittedly a stereotype of 1880's
Beverly Hillbilly neighbor before the oil strike
Southern Kentucky

"adapted" English as second language Spanish accent

"adapted: English as second language French accent

1930's movie script styles, gentleman, rough

My Voice Experience

character creation,
Franchise Spokesperson
on air newsperson for 2 years
small town, 4 hour of news mornings + talk show

later: Bigtown
Societal Artist in music and media
On air in radio
scoring close to a 20 share 18-54 several times.

weekdays more than competitive with network tv
weekends outscored Saturday Night Live regularly

Debuted #3 in Miami within 60 days, evenings
Arizona - Phx - #1 overall 18-54 for over a year
Midwest - #1 overall 18-54 Cols Ohio/Indianapolis

Bigtown numbers discuss audiences attracted for long term listening numbering from 2.5 to 6.0 million at any one given moment. From one source. Why it's Bigtown. My departure from these venues showed up to 70% drop in listeners after. Not flash in the pan performance.

I bring that to voice over

My Training

buy the voice and read, please.
What you hear is what you get

graduated from 3 schools at college level, none theater

onstage theater work 1 yr
singing training 2 yrs

broadcast communications industry:
near 20 yrs on the job work/train to flexibility
2 yrs news and advertising journalism
2 yrs news and society interest program delivery
1 season TV movie host
talk show host
on air music program creation/journalism/performance

Voice Over - Voice Actor outside R/TV
Fraley audiobook Million dollar read
2 yrs of everything online I could pay or listen to for free

Hogan/Oday business of the business
BraintracksAudio print/MP3 lecture series
J Cerny's
Could have been a taxi driver, became an actor instead
J Baker's Secrets of Voice Over Success
Allburger's Art of Voice Acting
Cameron's The Artist's Way

My Studio Equipment

High quality DAW Korg D888 redundant record
Active record 3.2Ghz dual core PC
Adobe Audition CS5.5

Latest RME mic pre
newest ADDA pairings lower latency
portable use or
voice only highest quality dry voice only

Neumann U87 Sennheiser 416 AT20xlr mics

Tascam 320B analog mixing desk

Telos Zephyr ISDN layer II and Layer III

Source Elements Source-Live
needing no special equip at client end
record 44.1k at client end AND BETTER at studio

Hybrid phone patch
Skype phone patch
other option for patch function possible

Satellite high bandwidth hookup = latency issue

-64 db noise floor in FrankBaumVoice studio

Additional Skills

WYHIWYG

What you hear is what you get

A product of some theater,
stage singing,
public speaking,
radio communication with the audience

4-H Key Club award winner in Leadership as youth