Bryan Hammond

English Neutral voice that additionally provides video game characters, animation characters, numerous audiobook characters, and General Western and Southern accents

Bryan is a full time voice actor that brings a voice of contemporary authority and a cool confidence that draws a listener in. Believable, knowledgeable and comforting ... all at the same time. Owning an enviable personal professional studio with a clean, clear sound and Source-Connect standard. Commercials, corporate, broadcast and medical narrations, promos, video game characters and more all sound even a bit better than the way you hoped to hear them in your head. You Found Your Voice ® Bryan was an on-camera actor for 10 years in Hollywood acting in TV, film, industrial videos, and a soap opera earning his membership in SAG-AFTRA in 1993 (available for union and non-union work). Having a true passion for storytelling, he then devoted his acting career to voice acting with years of voice acting specific training and experience. Bryan has and continues to study the art and sciences of voice acting with his personal coach Joyce Castellanos along with continuously taking advanced classes throughout the ever-expanding world of voiceover professionals including the wonderful classes at The Voice Actors Studio in Las Vegas. Bryan Hammond possesses a lifelong accumulation of numerous skills and experiences in business, sports and academia at either a professional or very high level. With this global foundation of world-knowledge, there’s certainly a high probability that Bryan has a good understanding of YOUR product or service too. He can therefore speak confidently and directly about your project. Confidence sells. Confidence draws a listener in. Bryan Hammond has the skill set you’re looking for to successfully perform your voiceover. EXPERIENCE and TRAINING: Bryan was a nationally certified Reliability Coordinator, the US power grid’s highest authority concerning real-time operations and reliability. For years he supervised the electric power grid for more than 84 million customers. Because of this experience and training, Bryan is a renewable energy expert, and in fact, is an expert on nearly all things energy related. Bryan spent 4 years at UC Irvine studying biology and environmental ecology. Due to his high level of education, he is truly comfortable in the world of science. Here Bryan can take any medical and/or pharmaceutical language and create an easy-listening experience for an educated audience. Health, longevity, climate, oceanography and indeed nearly all science subjects are spoken by Bryan with true authority. He has also spent years in the real estate world, and global project and engineering management. In the world of music, Bryan has been a musician and professional drummer since the age 13. Because of this background you'll notice that his performance of your script will have a rhythm and pacing that are a joy to listen to and can take your project to a much higher level. Bryan is an accomplished ocean sailing instructor having taught on racing yachts up to 65 feet in length. And supplemented his professional teaching by becoming a certified scuba diving Divemaster. Do you like the outdoors? Bryan does too and is an excellent downhill snow skier having successfully accomplished many of the black diamond and (his favorite) mogul runs at Mammoth Mountain, Lake Tahoe, Heavenly Valley, Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, June Mountain, Park City, China Peak and Bald Mountain - Sun Valley. When there wasn't any snow around, Bryan was a tennis tournament player at the 4.5 level. Not bad considering 5.0 is an Open Tournament player. Earlier in Bryan's life he studied martial arts under his Shotokan Karate sensei. He has extensive street experience on motorcycles and was a locally sponsored motocross racer at one point in his riding career. He also spent time as a driver and mechanic in car racing with experience in GTO, GTU and Formula Ford racing. And just to be well rounded, today you can find Bryan in his recreational kayak and studying firearms with the highest-level trainers in general and tactical firearms. STUDIO: Bryan Hammond achieves true professional “broadcast quality” audio in his custom personal professional studio. He utilized the internationally regarded professional services of GIK Audio Engineering consultants and used their superior acoustic treatment products to create his studio. The studio noise floor is reduced down to an enviable level and provides a serious professional sound quality. Your engineers will be impressed, and relieved when they hear it. As a matter of fact, Bryan encourages you to send him a spec script and see how it sounds! To confirm his sound quality, know that all of his audio demo voiceovers were produced right in his own studio. George Whittam, the renown "Audio Engineer to the Voice Over Stars" was consulted and impressed, granting Bryan’s studio his personal “GTT” stamp of approval. The studio is equipped with Source-Connect Standard allowing professional quality remote recordings directly to tens of thousands of working studios worldwide. Bryan has multiple methods for phone patches to perform your directed sessions including: Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, iPhone, etc. Bryan Hammond only uses professional quality equipment in his recording chain to obtain the “broadcast” quality audio that you and your engineers are looking for. The studio’s equipment includes Sennheiser MKH416 for his go-to mic, CAD Audio E100S mic, SSL2 and Audient digital interfaces, all feeding into his Apple iMac Pro computer with Mogami Cables, Yamaha professional monitors and Sennheiser headphones. Note that ALL of his equipment is backed-up with equal quality standby hardware just in case that "once in a career" equipment failure occurs. Experience teaches you that life happens, right? Bryan is prepared. He provides recordings via Twisted Wave or Reaper DAW software and delivers voiceover projects per the customer’s specs via multiple large file transfer services such as DropBox and WeTransfer. Bryan easily makes high quality recordings happen remotely for your Source-Connect sessions using Source-Connect Standard and a stable, true Gig-Speed hard-wired internet ethernet connection. Reliability is important. Bryan is committed to making your project the best it can be and to accomplish that in the easiest possible manner. In fact, he is so dedicated to this ideal, that he owns the US Trademark of his professional voice acting statement... it's an all-in effort by Bryan to bring your voiceover project across the finish line just that little bit easier. So relax ... 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