My voice over experience actually begins in junior high school as one of those kids who hung around the local radio station in small town MI. Eventually I was give the task of recording tags on commercials, just so I could get my big break.
Later I was staff announcer at WUCM-TV19 in University Center, MI.
I have many years on air in various formats, mostly as an late night easy-listneing music host. This kept me from developing an "announcery" delivery, which was helpful when I decided to transition into Voiceover work in 1995.
For the most part, I have stuck with narration, be it for corporate or industrial videos. I now included corporate training & E-Learning among my voice delivery skills. I am also skilled in medical presentations.
My training consists of on the job training at radio staiton WHGR-WJGS in Houghton Lake, MI.
My more formal training took place at Delta College in University Center, MI. There I took the RTV curriculum and began working for the TV station as Staff Announcer.
Post college, I studied under Bob Magruder in Dallas, TX on 2 separate occasions. He was my first voice over coach.
Additional training has come under the guidance of Bettye Zoller, also from Dallas. With Bettye, I perfect my narration skills further.
I have taken two courses with James Alburger & Penny Abshire from San Diego, CA. My first course with them was in Chicago, IL where I not only worked with James & Penny, but with Harlan Hogan as well.
My studio consists of a soundproofed studio/booth.
I use 2 microphones.
The Neumann TLM-103 Microphone as well as the Electro-Voice RE27N/D
My microphones go into the dbx 286 Mic-processor, and then into the computer via the Edirol UA-5
The software I have chosen to record with is Adobe. I have recently upgraded to Adobe CS5 after years of recording with Adobe Auditon 3.0