Dean L. Rogan II

I'm really pretty straight-forward with mine, for a 43-year old black man raised in the South 'Burbs of Chicago. I can shift gears very easily, from "'round tha hood" to "uppity and bourgeoisie". I don't pay much attention to certain elements that are indigenous to each accent or dialect, to be honest with you, so I can't really give a qualified list of what accents and dialects I can actually pull off. I've just been myself in most of my work to this point. As for anything age-related, it is difficult to sound like a 5 yr-old child for an extended amount of time, but anything else is quite possible.

I haven't really done much at all right now. This is my first official foray into this business. The closest I have ever come to voiceover work is doing my own outgoing messages on my cell or home phone, but I have also (co-)hosted a radio show on Rejoice-102.3 FM, a local Christian station, between May of 2003 and July of 2004, in which I also created, produced and performed my own 60-second spot for what would have been my own CD duplication/audio conversion business. I fully expect to add more experiences to my dossier in due time. I have only received training during my high school years, taking classes in Speech and Radio Production, and performing in school plays. I also write and perform music and poetry, as well as record my own tracks. I have been pursuing some semblance of a music career off and on basically since 4th grade (around 1979), and I recently began my pursuit of an AAS in Music Production at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights (expected: May 2012). I own a Boss BR-8, a stand-alone digital hard disk recorder with a zip drive to store my projects on, and several inexpensive but dependable unidirectional microphones at my disposal. Most, if not all, of my voice effects are controlled through the BR-8, and an Alesis Wedge desktop unit handles the rest. I can also edit my recordings after recording them on my computer using SoundForge 7.0, tack on any additional effects through the available plug-ins, then burn them onto CD using CD Architect 5.0. I'm not completely knowledgeable in importing the files directly between the two programs, which do work together, but I am working on that. I'm "kinda old school" in that regard. I also utilize a VERY old Akai MPC-2000 with full memory onboard, as well as an E-MU MK-6 keyboard, and an even older Roland XP-50 keyboard for my tracks. Again, the BR-8 handles the effects for those tracks before recording them on the PC. In addition, as part of my degree program, I have learned how to operate Sonar 8 for the PC, and a friend of mine in the recording industry is teaching me the Mac-based equivalent(s). In the past, I have done computer-based sequencing from DOS-based programs (Voyetra's Sequencer Plus) to early Windows-based programs (Master Tracks Pro 6), more or less for my own musical compositions. To make my work a little more portable, I picked up an Akai MPC-500 for everything from voiceover work to full-fledged music tracks with vocals, but I am still learning how to operate it to its maximum capacity. Everything that has been listed above is the extent of what I know/do or have known/done, but I am ever learning and implementing new ways, methods and techniques to excel in this business.