Steve West - Authoritative, cartoon, others

Authoritative, cartoon, others

• Steve West is registered with Voice123 since Jul 10, 2007.
• Steve West started his/her voice over career in 2002.
• Currently Steve West is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

Steve West has a smooth, midrange voice, suitable for narrations, radio and television promotions, voiceovers, or the "voice of authority".

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• 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
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, informercials, 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
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Steve West

My Voice Experience

Steve got his radio start sometime after Marconi retired. Marconi said to Steve's first clients, "hire this guy, he can sell you the Golden Gate Bridge"...

Sometime later, Mr. West was found hunched over a production board, microphone in hand, which, at the time, was not much more than a couple of tin cans strung together with thin wire, voicing a commercial for the Ford Model T, then a brand new model. That sold millions of cars.

Nowadays, Steve West uses much better equipment, a Samson C01 professional mic and a EuroRack UB 1204 Professional mixer with an Alesis NanoVerb effects box into a computer with 2 gigs of memory and 300 gigs of hard drive space. A *little* better to do voiceover and commercials.

Actually, gang, Steve West is one of the main personalities now on internet station , his latest national radio spot was done in conjunction with national voiceover talent Jack Parnell for PowerPlus MPG, and his last gig was as a national news anchor on a major radio news/talk network.... The Information Radio Network, heard on over 500 news/talk stations in the U.S.

My Training

Back in the old days, many of us got into broadcasting by walking in and asking. I did that at 16 years old, at little 1,000 watt WCAT in Orange, MA. I was voice-trained by station owner Dick Partridge, who was once the national voice of Lucky Strikes cigarettes back in the 60s.

For the last 5 years I've been voice-coached by Jack Parnell. His advice has become invaluable in helping to mature my voice of over 25 years experience in this business.

My Studio Equipment

I use a Samson C01 Studio mic and a Behringer 6 channel board with effects plugged directly into my custom-built pc. Audio card is a Sound Blaster Fatality X-Fi, so the sound is very clean. I have a number of different programs available to record in, among them, Sony Sound Forge (lots of bells and whistles there), but I mainly use Adobe Audition due to familiarity and ease of use. I've been with the program virtually since the first version of Cool Edit.