George Manley - Bari-Bass2, voice of God, Vader, characters

Bari-Bass2, voice of God, Vader, characters

• George Manley is registered with Voice123 since Nov 26, 2005.
• George Manley started his/her voice over career in 2002.
• Currently George Manley is a Standard subscriber.
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Voice Description

Dry baritone to double bass with the ability to add textures and warmth as needed for your various voice uses. Experience includes dubbing animation, live action film dubbing, looping, vocal foley, video games, commercials, audiobooks and live reading for the blind radio programs. Education includes original animation, in depth exposure to the international phonetic alphabet, masking the "sell," advanced techniques in reading the through lines in commercial copy, narrative style.

Celebrity impressions include, but aren't limited to, Sean Connery, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys-Davies, James Earl Jones and George Takei. Character impressions include Ed from Ed, Edd and Eddy, Ren and Stimpy, just about any character ever voiced by Don Messick or Daws Butler, including that crime-sleuthing dog and the smarter than the average bear, Darth Vader (who I've actually been twice in a parody spot and a fan film), Gimli from Lord of the Rings.

Currently recording on an AKG CS414, Digidesign MBox 2 with factory plugins on a top end hand-built Pentium IV 630 PC with Creative's XFI Platinum system as a backup input system and Sony's Sound Forge Studio 8 as the backup acquisition and editing system. I am broadband enabled on Comcast via Earthlink (or is it the other way around) and I am always willing to try a new technology that doesn't involve me picking up the long distance bills involved with ISDN. Sorry. Been there, done that.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American
• English - South African
• English - Other

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

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 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

My Home Base

Houston, Texas, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

English, south of the Thames, British received pronunciation, stereotypical "American doing Cockney"; stereotypical "American doing French,"; Amerasian delivery (Takei style); Australian/New Zealander, German (hard comedic and conversational), Texan, Surfer Dude, Alabaman (think Van Chancellor), Scotsman (James Doohan style), Darth Vader impressionist (delivery style and depth), manic reads, Ben Stein style deliveries, conversational deliveries, narrative deliveries.

My Voice Experience

Professional voiceover and live performer in the Houston area. My current steady recurring gigs include dubbing Japanese animation titles at ADV Films, FUNimation Productions in Fort Worth/Dallas and operating a live action virtual reality theatre near the Johnson Space Center. This follows years of performing on stage in community theatre productions and an second to none education in the school of life. I have been villains, heroes, narrators, the salesman (and the salesman who doesn't let you know I'm selling you something), the guy in the background who's supposed to be in the background and the guy who dies like nobody's business. If you want some of the deepest pipes in the industry that has more emotional range than a paint ball gun, you've found your man.

More importantly, you've found a man who has followed the sage advice that tells an actor to participate in life, rather than be stuck in "actorworld." Life is a great place, and I want to tell your listeners about it with a voice that will remind you of the Don LaFontaines and Nick Tates of the business, but with a voiceover rate that will remind you that you can do this on a budget.

My Training

Braintracks Audio private voiceover coaching - Nancy Wolfson, Los Angeles

Voiceover Intensive Workshop - John Swasey, Houston

Articulatory Flexibility, Dialects and the phonetic alphabet - Doug Honorof, San Francisco

Introduction to Voiceover - Elaine A. Clark, San Francisco

Creating Characters - Terry McGovern, San Francisco

Improvisation for Voiceover - John Pirruccello, San Francisco

Beginning and Intermediate On-Camera Acting - Eleese Lester, Houston

Beginning and Intermediate Stage Acting - Dusty Reeds, San Jose State University

Voice and Diction for Stage - Henry Hoffman, San Jose State University

My Studio Equipment

AKG CS 414 multi-pattern 5-position bass limiting microphone.

Digidesign MBox2 with ProTools LE v7

AKG C1000S condensor microphone.

Creative XFI Platinum livedrive interface.

Sound Forge Audio Studio version 8.

Additional Skills

In addition to the acting education and experience I've brought to the table, I've also branched out into the areas of scriptwriting and production. With a proper translation in my hand, I can write an adaption of the dialogue in English that will avoid that lovely "Godzilla dubbing" look, in either animation or live action features. I have written frameworks of video game stories that emphasize integration with the elements of game play. And why not? On top of my professional life, I'm also a gamer. My life's experience in the fields of security, emergency medical response, law enforcement and service in the United States military means that you will never have to bring in additional subject matter experts for projects involving the pronunciation of medical terms, military and police training terms and that saves you money. My experience in reading live for the blind on the radio and in prerecorded segments gives me the edge in completing your audiobook projects in a timely manner and my range of deliveries gives you all the characters you need.

Additionally, my home recording studio is available to me 24/7. I have redundant connectivity using cable modem at home, and I'm ready on the road with a powerful Logitech USB microphone/headset that can get you audition reads on the go.

Also, if you've read this far, I should let you know that I will perform PSAs for charitable organizations and health awareness entities free of charge as long as no political sniping or hate-mongering is involved. Otherwise, look me up for your no-cost PSA talent.