William Lykens - Classicaly trained deep Radio Voice, Narrator

Classicaly trained deep Radio Voice, Narrator

• William Lykens is registered with Voice123 since Jan 22, 2007.
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Voice Description

I have been trained in the classic manner of anouncing. My Instructors at Midwestern Broadcasting School, Chicago Ill were some of the biggest names in broadcasting in the 60's.

My voice is very deep and reasonant, but I can inflect it high and punch up the excitement a lot.

My German and British accents are good if I have precise copy to practice with and use same copy in the narration or commercial.

I worked at three radio stations sandwiched between 2 years in the US Army Europe.

I can do several types of cartoon like characters.

I want off Camera and other voice-over work.

My voice still sounds young. I can easily pass for 30 years old and perhaps a little younger.

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
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

Unknown - Click here to ask William Lykens

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I have ISDN in my studio
• I have Phone Patch in my studio
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Mid Michigan, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask William Lykens

My Voice Experience

Last job first:

WLRC in Whithall MI (call letters changed in 70's). From 1968-1972. News and Program Director and AM drive time slot.

News and staff announcer at Petosky MI FM radio station 1967-1967.

Radio Station WCMY, Ottawa Ill 1963-1964.

Unpaid talent for Pittsburg Paints ad in 1963.

My Training

Midwestern Broadcasting School is probably not in business any longer. All I have is a Certificate. Our instructors were people like Al Richmond, John Doremus and Jerry Golden.
Well known in their time. I was 5th in my class I am fond of saying. However, we only had 5 students.

My Studio Equipment

Unknown - Click here to ask William Lykens

Additional Skills

I posess a good vocabulary and grammer skills.

I write well, have more than rudimentary computer skills and I type about 58 words a minute with few mistakes.

I have a videography business where I use a powerful computer to do digital in and out video editing with Adobe Premiere, Video Action 6.3 and even some with MS AIV's.
I do my own sound editing with software.
I built up my own computer using all SCSI drives and even boot to a SCSI drive. I did it all before there were any multi-media center computers and had to solve my own probs.