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About Jim
Member sinceJul 16, 2008
My voice is pleasant, professionally trained, warm and mellow, conversational, and with bass overtones. It can also be gentle and grandfatherly, and it has no regional accent.
COMMERCIAL-PROMO VOICE
This middle-age male voice has a quality that also imparts an “executive” or “scientific” tone giving it an overall effect of communicating competency, authority, trust, and professional vocal image without sounding stuffy. These qualities make my voice well suited for scientific, educational, and documentary narrations, as well as commercials in health care, customer service, along with products or services that require a voice that ranges from authoritative to intimate.
BUSINESS VOICE
This authoritative/conversational quality is also appropriate for use in business training videos, web-based instruction, and narrations of high-level PowerPoint presentations for national sales meetings, boards of directors meetings, and key marketing/sales presentations.
TV/BROADCAST VOICE
For anyone seeking to present a professional image this voice is also suitable for network and affiliate broadcast work. This category could include logos for TV, radio, podcasts, educational documentaries, promos, intros, outros, as well as recorded “on hold” telephone messages for businesses.
TRAILER VOICE
The “dark” edge of my voice can range from forceful-male to menacing, which makes it appropriate for some military promos to dramatic work in mystery, action, and horror genres in both TV and film as well as their respective trailers.
Skills and services offered
Language
English - USA and Canada
Voice gender & age
Male senior
Male adult
Additional services offered
Script writing
Audio editing and clean up
Mixing and mastering
Music production
Special effects
Recording and delivery options
Digital delivery
On-site recording
Phone patch
Location
N/A
Additional vocal abilities
U.S. English with neutral accent (midwest). This is a natural conversational voice and not a forced announcer type.
Experience, training, and equipment
I started in the training industry in the mid-1980s as an instructional designer and a video script and copy writer. Most of the focus at that time was in the production of interactive video discs, and what was then called computer assisted instruction. This was the very early days of what was to become web-based delivery of training or eLearning.
Eventually, I advanced in my career to producing training video for the health-care and pharmaceutical industries from Boston to Berlin. Next, I became an executive (VP of product development) of a large training operation in Chicago—focused on video and web-based training in the information technology space. Our facility was one of the largest video production houses in the Chicago area. We eventually shifted our delivery method from stand-alone video tape to streaming video over the web.
During all of this time I did voice communications to our field and clients, along with narrating a number of promotional DVDs and CD ROMs. In effect, I became the voice for the company and was marketed as such. Because of this high profile my company refined my voice by sending me to a special voice school in Los Angeles.
Private voice training in Los Angeles
Private VO coaching sessions with Michael Minetree of Minewurx Studio
Ph.D. in Instructional Design, University of Minnesota
BA in English, emphasis in creative and expository writing
Booth with noise floor of -40dB.
Mogami Neglex 2534 cables used throughout recording chain
Microphone: Neumann U87, Sennheiser 416, and RE 20.
Avalon M3 pre and Avalon 737 channel strip.
Digital Hybrid for voice directing via telephone, licensed music library
Dell Desktop (Intel i5 64 bit) with ECHO AudioFire 12 and Adobe Audition 6.0
1TB HP MediaVault for sound files
Big Red DAW controller in recording booth
Gentner DH22 Hybrid for voice directing via telephone
Can also use Skype for voice directing
FTP delivery over T1 or DropBox.
My entire career has been devoted to the delivery of training through various media: film, video, live instruction, and computer. As a result, I have a high degree of familiarity of the production process in each and understand their business aspects (sales, marketing, and management).
I have a working knowledge of almost all aspects of the information technology industry, and have built and maintain my own network server. My audio studio is integrated into this environment. I also have a passion for photography and the creative processing of the digital image—which is also integrated into my network server.