Mike Cooper

Voice Description

Warm, enthusiastic, a great "cold" reader – and very easy to work with!

My voice is characterised as believable, authoritative and friendly, with an “everyman” quality that’s easy to listen to, and this is reflected in a broad range of projects to date. You can hear a sample montage clip by clicking the media player on the right.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male

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

• English - British

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
• 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

• SaVoa

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have ISDN in my studio
• 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

My Home Base

London, United Kingdom

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Neutral British English, Black Country, Generic Northern English

My Voice Experience

I’m currently heard on radio all over the planet as part of the BBC World Service English Presentation team, delivering news bulletins and station continuity to the largest audience (183 million at the last count) and the widest demographic on Earth. I also work as a Continuity Announcer for both the History Channel in the UK, and Film24 (on Sky Digital channel 157).

My other recent clients include The History Channel, where I narrated the entire “Dinosaur Secrets” series recently, along with several other specials; The National Geographic Channel, where I’ve voiced documentary programmes including “Megastructures”, the Easter special “Jesus - the man from Nazareth”, “Tut’s Treasure Tour”, and “Fishzilla”. I’ve also the translated voice of many a European eco-warrior for their “Guardians of Nature” series and am well-suited to natural-sounding translations of foreign voice track. I’m can also be heard as the voice of programmes on Biography and the Crime & Investigation Network.

An ISDN line to my home studio means I’m available on the commercial radio production circuit, and as a result you may hear me on a radio station near you (wherever that is in the UK!) Likewise, the advent of VOIP technology such as Source-Connect means it’s now as easy for me to work live with a producer on the other side of the world as it is to work on my own. One session recently saw me in London, my client in Atlanta, GA – and their client in Los Angeles – all working live together with no long distance charges at all!

Previous clients include:

Air France
B&Q
BBC Radio 7
BBC World Service
Bio (The Biography Channel)
BP Solar
Brit Insurance
British Gas
Capgemini
Cisco Systems
Crime & Investigation Network
Crown Prosecution Service
Discovery Channel
Foster+Partners
Fujitsu
Global Radio Group
Hard Rock Park
Heart Radio
Illy
JCB
LBC 97.3 FM
Marks & Spencer
Monster Worldwide
National Geographic Channel
National Skills Academy
Nissan
Nokia
PONS GmbH
QVC
Renault
Rolls Royce
Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Mail
Shell plc
Siemens
Siemens
Sky Sports
The History Channel
Total S.A.
Which?
World Health Organisation
Xerox
…and many more!

My Training

Using my voice and working in the media fascinated me from a very early age. By the age of eight or nine I was already using my ears and training my voice. By my seventeenth birthday I was already writing and recording promotions for my local BBC Radio station, and was presenting programmes by the age of 18.

Everything since has been learned on the job. I've been fortunate to have great feedback from various bosses over the years as well as the luxury of some voice coaching at the BBC, but you never stop learning.

My Studio Equipment

Neumann TLM 103 microphone
Focusrite Platinum Voicemaster Pro (with onboard ADC)
ISDN and VOIP connections (via AudioTX Communicator)
Source-Connect Pro (accredited)
Pro Tools

Your finished voice track can be supplied over the internet as an MP3, a WAV – or virtually any other digital format – with the professional-quality, finished files sent via email or FTP to a site of your choice.

I can also connect instantly to other studios worldwide, using industry-standard ISDN, or the newer AudioTX and Source-Connect VOIP codecs.

I'm twenty minutes from Soho and can travel easily throughout London and South-East England, or further "If, the price is right!"

Additional Skills

As well as using my voice I've been a Transmission Controller/Network Director in television - and more recently a live studio director for BBC World television and Sky News here in London. All of this has helped me to hone my communications skills. Being used to directing talent myself, I appreciate and anticipate what the director or producer wants.

More recently I've become interested in hypnosis and am fascinated to be learning how various voice techniques can be used to help induce trance states. I've also trained as an ILM-accredited Life/Business/Personal Coach and have worked with clients in London and beyond, helping individuals and those in business clear the blockages in their lives which prevented them from reaching their true potential.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• 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

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