Carel has been an award-winning storyteller and professional voice-actor for 30+ years.
Carel Cronje specialises in character voices and has featured prominently in popular video games. While he prefers adding his own unique flavour to a character, he can emulate the likes of Richard Burton, Stephen Fry, David Attenborough, wizards like Gandalf or Albus Dumbledore, if that's what you're after as a client.
Carel Cronje has recorded national broadcast television commercials for BMW, Jaguar, Mini, Porsche, Shell, Cat, Diners Club, Azamara Club Cruises, Investec, Barclaycard, Arrive Alive, Cadbury's, First National Bank, Rothmans as well as Benson & Hedges cigarettes, South African Airways, SABRIC, AdaptIT, and countless other local and international brands.
Carel Cronje is a qualified audio engineer, an accomplished editor, and has a professional home studio recording environment. He works on a full-spec 2020 MacBook Pro running Adobe's Audition 2023 edition. He owns some top-class studio microphones for voice-over work: a Neumann U87, a Microtech Gefell UM900, M940, and M930Ts so he can capture sweeping variations in timbre and tonality depending on your needs and every project he works on. He also has a range of preamps and interfaces including a classic Focusrite Red 6, a Manley VoxBox, a Sound Devices USB Pre2, and a Centrance Mixerface R4R when he's out and about.
If you require additional services, Carel is a seasoned professional commercial copywriter, so he can help fine-tune a script for maximum impact. (As an aside, he's an author of several published biographies of South African celebrities in both English and Afrikaans, as well as a novel in Afrikaans).
Carel Cronje is also co-owner of a music production company - see www.carnellcollective.com - so if you require original music, let him know!
Most importantly, however, Carel loves rising to meet challenges, deadlines, and doggedly maintains his hard-earned reputation for being a dependable professional who’s in touch, in tune, good fun, and easy to work with. Carel takes pride in producing work of the very highest quality.