Ed Hopkins

I can do high British as well as Cockney, several dialects of American Southern (Texas, Georgia and Alabama are similar but clearly and distinctly different). I have a stable of characters based around American Southern accents for humorous commercials.

I started in radio as a disc jockey while still in high school. Before graduating high school I knew that I wanted to do VO full time and began working toward that goal. I left my last radio job and left Chicago bound for LA, arriving on the West Coast on Halloween day, 1988 and have done VO exclusively since. I have been the voice of numerous radio and television stations around the country, as well as doing most all other forms of voiceover, including animation (Heavy Gear as the Grel soldier Sebastian)trailers, promos, in-show and long form narration and commercials. My clients have included NBC (LA, San Jose and Chicago), ABC LA, Fox Sports, IBM, IHOP, Bosch Power Tools,7-Eleven, Chrysler/Jeep, Liquid Plumr and countless others. I am a charter member of the Tuesday Night VO Pro Workout Group, the hottest peer driven VO workshop in existence. This is an ongoing activity involving a select group of top VO Professionals and is so desirable that at least two regular alternates fly in to LA from Sacramento and Vegas to attend. My studio is PC based. I use a Behringer mixer, Neumann TLM-49 and CAD Equitek e-300 and M-179 microphones (also an Audio Technica shotgun mic for location work), and a Symetrix 528e mic processor. I use Adobe Audition software with WAVES Native Power Pack and iZotope RX-2 plug-in suites. My audio interface is a Lynx L-22, which has balanced I/O and onboard Aurora converters. Unless otherwise requested, all original files are recorded at industry standard 48kHz/16 bit sample rate and bit depth, but the equipment is capable of up to 192kHz upon request. I can deliver almost any file format imaginable, including .wav and .aif along with many others. My studio is equipped with ISDN (classic Telos Zephyr) and I operate my own FTP site for file transfers following phone patch sessions. I can, of course, also deliver mp3's or most any other compressed format via email. Not that it's yet proven to further my VO offerings but I am a licensed Private Pilot with airplane, single and multi-engine land and sailplane ratings and over 1,100 hours logged as pilot in command.