David Wandelt

Faux British, French, German, New Yawk, cartoony

My voice work started in high school, when I’d read some of the morning announcements. The clubs would come to me with scripts to be read in-character, in real-time! They knew me from various plays put on by the drama club, in which I played many lead roles. It was great fun. Then, at my college radio station I had a weekly music show that I DJ’ed, and also filled in a lot for hosts that couldn’t make their shifts. At 25, I took a part-time job at a local FM radio station. The station manager hired me on the spot when we talked about it over the phone. While I haven't worked there for awhile now, when I visit, he still puts me behind the mike for some SPAs, commercial spots, imaging, and the like. Since then I have voiced for many different media (TV, non-commercial and commercial radio, corporate, eLearning, drama). My background as a technical writer and engineer uniquely equips me to understand and deliver highly technical material naturally and effectively. My formal training is actually in technical disciplines related to engineering at NJIT. I'm naturally very interested in medicine, and read medical studies for personal information and enjoyment. * Very capable at using all kinds of computer software, both on PCs and Macs. * My in-house studio consists of Adobe Audition on a Mac, with a Neumann TLM103 & Sennheiser MKH416, connected to a Universal Audio Apollo Twin preamp/ADC/interface. I can deliver in WAV PCM, AIFF, MP3, M4a and the many other formats supported by Adobe Audition. * I've developed my own debreathing fade effect, which leaves just enough breath to avoid sounding "robotic," but not so much as to be intrusive. I also use iZotope RX7 for final clean-up of undesired artifacts like mouth noise. * My writing background enables me to work with you to customize your voiceover scripts to make them more natural-sounding and conversational. * If the script material is of a highly-technical nature, my engineering background helps me to understand your technology, and voice your script more effectively.