Shiou-Jen Shiue

I speak a very clean Taiwan-Mandarin. I can also speak in a Beijing accent (China-Mandarin) if you desire. In addition, I can speak and record in Taiwanese. I can read both Traditional and Simplified Chinese scripts without problem.

I began my career as an on-air DJ for Kaohsiung, Taiwan's "Touch Radio". I performed voice over commercials and jingles for the station. Over the following 10 years I recorded at all major and many minor studios throughout Kaohsiung. I have experience recording almost every type of recording case: Radio/TV commercial, business presentations, video games, audio books, etc. Averaging 20 cases per month over 10+ years puts me well over 2000 cases in my career. I'm trying to create a list of all my past major customers, so please excuse me for not listing them here now. I will add them soon. In addition I have experience as an on-stage announcer for cases ranging from concerts and sporting events to product launches and award ceremonies. At age 18, I passed a training course offered by Taiwan's KISS Radio and was allowed to enter their 'seed' program for further training. Later I was privately taught how to DJ and Voice Over by one of Taiwan's top voice over talents. When I turned 20, I had my own show on Taiwan's Touch Radio, where I was allowed to polish my vocal skills. Beyond that, my training stems from my experience; constant instruction from studio owners and sound engineers have helped hone my talent. I can record at one of several local studios. They all utilize the latest version of Pro Tools and are well set up to provide pristine quality recordings. Each recording studio provides a quality recording room and control room in line with today's low noise floor requirements. Again, they use all the best equipment, from Neumann, Manley, Rode, EV, AKG microphones to Tube-Tech, Fairchild, Pultec, Neve, SSL and API, preamps, compressors, etc. I can also record at my home studio - which is preferred. I have a professionally built vocal booth for dry vocals. Equipment Listing: DAW: Steinberg Nuendo 5.5 Converter: Lynx Aurora Preamp: John Hardy M-1, Summit Audio 2ba-221 Compressor: Summit Audio TLA-50 Primary Microphone: Gefell M930 Secondary Microphone: Sennheiser MKH 416, Shure SM7B, Rode NT1-A, Neumann TLM102 Outboard EQ: SSL XR625 (housed in SSL Mynx), SPL Model 9629 De-esser Everything ultimately runs through a Dangerous Source Monitor Controller and off to my Yamaha HS5 monitors. If needed I Compress and Limit using various VST plugins to suit the voice over. Some names used: Sony Oxford, Waves, Softube, SPL, SSL, Brainworx, Fabfilter, etc... I use high-end Canare and Mogami cables with Nuetrik connectors. I can speak and record in English. It's not my native language, so expect an accent and slight uneasiness when spoken - perhaps that's what you want? I have a library of royalty free music and sound fx (all bought and paid for!) that can be used in your production. *TRANSLATION* is available at extremely competitive rates; in most cases, less than typical rates due to my location. Other than that, I'd just like for my voice to speak for itself. Send me the project and I'll get it done.