John Clark

fairly authentic British accent, but prefer straight reading as opposed to accents. Can do voice-acting, can inflect lines correctly and can sell a line.

I started doing voice-overs in 1977, when I was hired as the main male voice for commercials for The Bay for western Canada. This lasted for seven years. I've also been the voice heard during the elevator for the ride to the top of the Calgary tower, and the voice of the Kinsmen's Car award on the grounds of the Calgary Stampede. I've done many industrial voice-overs for companies such as McMahon Communications and the Beach studios in Calgary. I've done tons of commercials for radio and television, for local, provincial, and national advertisers. I was the in-store voice for Canadian Tire nationally for a company called Audio Image Builders, an in-store point-of-purchase sales company. All in all, through thirty years of radio and beyond, I've enjoyed great success in voice-over work. I have a decent talent, and I want to put it to work even more! All my training and education came through the school of hard knocks. I spent 30+ years in radio, and through that industry, was introduced to the voice-over industry. I discovered that I had a talent and a knack for being able to express how a client wanted to be presented, be it in a commercial, a video narration, or audiobooks. I was also a production manager at a major market radio station, and some of the commercials I wrote actually won awards! I can write, I can voice, and I can produce: a triple threat! I have extremely easy access to THEE best recording studio in Calgary, The Beach. The most important things to me at the studio are the microphones: plenty of AKG's, Neumann U87 and U88's, Sennheisers, Rodes, and the like. They also have a 36-channel Ward-Beck console with plenty of outboard gear, and have a full library of commercial music and sound effects.