Matt Williams - enthusiastic, friendly, animated, believable

enthusiastic, friendly, animated, believable

• Matt Williams is registered with Voice123 since Jun 08, 2007.
• Matt Williams started his/her voice over career in 1977.
• Currently Matt Williams is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

enthusiasm without hype, believable, upbeat, whimsical, friendly, the guy next door

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age 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
• Videogames
• 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 can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks

My Home Base

San Luis Obispo, California, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

southern (American, hick, soft drawl)

My Voice Experience

Clients have included Columbia Sportswear, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Hewlett Packard, Sizzler, Columbia Pictures, Red Lion Hotels, U.S. Forest Service, Wah Chang, Dairy Queen, Napa Auto Parts, La-Z-Boy Furniture, Zen Oriental Foods, Weyerhauser, and Shari’s Restaurants.

Matt Williams' voice talent has been awarded an Emmy and several Tellys. He has literally voiced over a thousand local/regional/national commercials for TV and radio-air play.

His character voices are heard around the nation from the 'old prospector' in the welcome kiosk at the Grand Coulee Dam to the 'racoon' that encourages kids not to talk to strangers in a regional public school safety campaign video.

His comprehensive on-camera work includes on-camera spokesman roles for Chrysler, Safeway, Intel, Hewlett Packard and other national, regional and local companies. He has also had roles in two major motion pictures, two made-for-television feature films and a television series.

For four years Matt was the "promo voice" for the Fox affiliate in Portland, OR (KPTV)

My Training

Matt's professional career began in 1975 as an actor performing in the local theaters in the Los Angeles area.

He graduated from the KISS-FM Radio Broadcasting School in 1978.

He studied with Walt Disney's Dallas McKennon on character voices.

Matt's experience encompasses over 8 years in television including live-TV in Vancouver, Washington where he co-anchored a daily news program, and hosted television talk shows dealing with local issues.

For 4 years Matt was the Audio Production Director and Video Commercial Producer for the FOX affiliate in Portland, OR, KPTV.

As a producer he has extensive experience on multi-track audio and video production equipment including non-linear video and audio digital work stations.

My Studio Equipment

Studio Microphone-ElectroVoice RE27ND

Voice Processor-Symetrix 528E

Control Board-Mackie 1202-VLZ3 (12 channel)

Audio Software-Adobe Audition 2.0

Additional Skills

Matt holds a vocational teaching certificate in radio broadcasting in the state of Oregon. He was an instructor with the National Broadcasting School from 1986-88.

Matt has guest lecturer in the broadcast department at Cal Poly Tech in San Luis Obispo, California.