Jim Beckwith

Voice over jobs for Lifestyle. Sports. Radio. Training videos. Dramatic character voices to friendly voicemail greetings. Jim has been the ad voice for a professional soccer team, tag voice for the Tampa Tribune and other commercials and various corporate video scripts. Jim also had a radio hit in Ghana singing his own tune, Human Nature. Many years spent working with other voices also, including editing James Earl Jones for the international award-winning documentary, Rosewood Reborn. An expert at mic technique with a selection of microphones available, Jim brings a wealth of studio experience to the job, with 20 years of media work starting as a producer in corporate presentation, moving to audio engineering and editing of many voice over sessions, commercial ads and scripts, to performing and recording his own award-winning spoken and sung parts, including original a-cappella harmonies. Mac G5 dual with a Digidesign 002R as digital capture device. Front end tube gear: ART Pro MPA preamp and ART PRO VLA compressor. Solid state preamp: ATI M100. Monitors include the Mackie HR824. Microphones include the AKG C414 and the Blue Baby Bottle. Tons of virtual instruments for music compostition also. Directable, versatile, technically savvy voiceover artist with a mind for what works in editing while performing a voiceover. Having studied and worked in advertising, spent five years as a multimedia producer, fifteen years with a commercial recording studio and many years as a performer, Jim Beckwith brings the sensibilities needed for a top-quality voice production. Also offering audio post production editing, mixing and mastering for broadcast, this can be your one-stop shop! Common Touch Music also specializes in custom music for picture - commercials, films, documentary or industrial - even sound design for animation. A new and popular service is available - Remote recording of interviews via telephone for podcasting. We can do this remotely with client and/or producer and interviewee on conference call. Our high-tech phone interface makes them sound pretty darn good! Let's make that podcast today :-)