Steve Walizer - reassuring, sincere, youthful, and yet emphatic

reassuring, sincere, youthful, and yet emphatic

• Steve Walizer is registered with Voice123 since Mar 05, 2009.
• Steve Walizer started his/her voice over career in 1973.
• Currently Steve Walizer is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

The best descriptions of my voice are Honest and Real. My voice comes in layers, it draws the listener into the commercial or narration. My voice works great when telling stories, and reassuring someone. My voice can be deep with dulcid tones, and then again when I meet listeners and chat, they always say, you sound just like you do on the radio, which means there is nothing fake or put on. I have the ablity to say things in the right manner with the emphasis where it belongs. Getting into character with the right script is very satisfying, and sometimes very challenging. Many times for special clients I produce spots first person, and my voice is very good for this because it is so real and natural, and it sells.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior 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
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites

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

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• 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

Fishersville, Virginia, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Irish Brogue, and Rebersburg PA Dutch

My Voice Experience

I did part time sales at two stations and wrote and produced commercials for my clients, so I know how hard it is to please some. Some of the finest commercials I've done have been lost in different production files at stations. I won a silver ADDY award in South Carolina for a campaign on drinking and driving over the Labor day weekend. This was written by a copy writer, and produced and voiced by me. I did one as a snow plow for Maple Mountain Equipment, that was fun getting into that character of looking forward to a foot of snow. I also did a great narrative spot for Black Timber Outfitters about a great hunt in a whispered tone describing a first morning hunt in the cold with snow, and describing my attire and equipment throughout, right up until I was about to make the shot on a trophy white tail buck, and the spot ended with the alarm clock going off and it being just a dream. I must confess, doing production today is much easier because of Adobe Audition, and the ease of changing and re-cutting portions of spots and mixing in sound, music and special effects. I did half of a narration for Rockingham County Virginia, it was a tourism project which was done by me as the male and a female from an agency as a descriptive drive through the county with historical perspective.

My Training

Associate Degree in Broadcast Journalism, Production director at WILQ in Williamsport Pa. At my first radio station I did the majority of the production. This was small market radio in Lock Haven PA and would not happen today, but there were times during the Noon News Block with a dozen commercials spread out during the half hour, that I was the only voice on the commercials. When in Columbia South Carolina I did on screen Tv spots for an agency, a car wash and an outdoor furniture manufacturer. I also did voice over work on radio for an agency there, which was a very slow pay as I recall and in Johnstown PA, I did spots at WJAC TV and was the station voice for the Fox and ABC affiliate. I also produced and voiced all the TV spots both voice over and on screen for the radio Station WMTZ 96.5 the Mountain where I did mornings for 11 years with 19 out of 22 books # 1. I participated in a Harris poll on line seminar about ideas for radio and tv clients, and got paid.. very cool.

My Studio Equipment

I work with Adobe Audition in a 12 channel radio studio. I work with and RE 20 Electravoice mic and processor.

Additional Skills

I've found that reliablilty is probably the most important part of meeting deadlines and having projects done when you need them. If I am chosen for a project, it will be done on time and to your satisfaction. I haven't missed a days work in over a decade. My production director assigns me spots and is consistantly surprised at how promptly they are completed. He wrote to me last week,
RE: Metro Marketing spots
Cville Traffic
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:13 AM
To:
Steven Walker
Attachments:
Sometimes you scare me!
Here's an e-mail from a production director that I do spots for near Atlanta.

Hey Steve,

In a word... Awesome.