I've had a deep interest in animation my entire life and have always wanted to work in the field in some manner, but I could never really decide on where. While volunteering for the convention Everfree NorthWest here in Seattle in 2012, I had a conversation the charity auctioneer who happens to do voiceover work himself. This really opened my eyes to just how challenging and entertaining doing voice work really is. After that, I started going across the internet on various voice acting forums (most notably the Voice Acting Alliance), looking for any project I could to try my hand at. Over the years since, I've been in a number of amateur voice over productions (many sadly plagued by the production issues of any online project, never being completed) and honed and molded my skill as a result. I'm definitely not the best, by I know I'm getting closer every day that I do the thing I love.
The majority of my formal acting education was in high school, where I took four semesters of drama class at two separate schools. One school's class focused on learning drama, with improv exercises and study, while the other focused completely on putting on a production (one of which I appeared in, Deadly Ernest as the part of Mr. Bumpus). I feel the two separate styles gave me a varied and well-rounded education on acting. Otherwise, I have been mostly self taught in speaking, acting and singing.
I currently use:
An MXL 990 condenser microphone with a shock mount(very powerful gain, great for voiceover),
An Alesis MultiMix 4USB 4 Channel USB Mixer (Basic, but effective),
An Onstage DS7100 B microphone stand,
A prefabricated isolation box (done by a small crafts company, very effective noise treatment),
A Nady MPF-6 Pop filter,
and for software, Adobe Audition.
I am a hip hop performer and producer (under the name DapperJack on youtube), definitely helps my sense of timing and enunciation.
Singing-wise, I'm a tenor.