Simon Way - Dry, wry,warm, educated lucid Americanized Brit

Dry, wry,warm, educated lucid Americanized Brit

• Simon Way is registered with Voice123 since Apr 11, 2009.
• Simon Way started his/her voice over career in 2007.
• Currently Simon Way is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

Hybrid British-American- a Brit who was raised speaking BBC English but came to America at age 21 and rapidly acquired an accent through linguistic tendency and a musical ear.

Dramatic narrative, compelling commercial persuasion, geeky off-beat characters. Educated technical and medical pronunciation.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - British
• English - North American

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
• 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 can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Spokane/Coeur d'Alene, Washington, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

"I really WAS born in London you know"',

The Liverpool/Beatle Sound.

Samuel Sidemouth Private Eye,

Technical/Medical pronouncer guy.

Dry PBS Narrator Sound of no commercial value!

Mister Buynow - Compulsive Car Salesman,

Maxx Overstate - King of overplayed pompously unnecessarily repetitive redundancy.

My Voice Experience

Radio Commercial for British American Music instruction Studio, Spokane Wa

Exuberant voice spots for the Dr Laurie Roth show, from Spokane on AM 1230, and carried nationwide by about 50 AM talk stations.

My Training

Graduate of Epsom College,Surrey, England.
Won Prosser-White French conversation prize at Epsom.
University of Birmingham Drama Society - actor.

Produced and recorded Songwriters demos on which I played acoustic and electric guitars and basses. Appeared on Bobby Jones Gospel TV show, Nashville. Also Whitney Studios Glendale, Sunset Sound and United Western studios in Hollywood.

Member of American Federation of Musicians.
Bass player for Tim Brummett and the Boomers 2006.
Stand-up bass player for "Six Foot Swing" 2007

Currently studying voice-over work with the very accomplished Spokane Voice Talent Kyrsten Weber, and writing and recording voice spots for the Laurie Roth show.

My Studio Equipment

Shure KSM 32 mic
Dual core iMac
ProTools LE 8.0
Digidesign 003 Rack
Yamaha HS50M studio monitors
Yamaha EMX-5016 mixing board
Private Mixing and Recording Engineer Certified in Pro Tools 201

Additional Skills

Excelled in French and German as a student and have maintained a good accent in these languages. Good ear for accurate pronunciation.

I'm from a British medical family and have good technical pronunciation skills.

I am a musician- play and teach several styles of guitar and bass. Have a team of accomplished musicians and singers available to help record jingles.

Able to mix and record jingles into Pro Tools with additional midi tracks and sounds added as needed.