John Drew

Please have a listen to my Character Voices demo and my Cowboy Storyteller demo. I perform a number of Southern and Western dialects as well as British (I attended school in England), and ethnic voices. I've impersonated the following personalities: Arnold Schwarzenegger Morgan Freeman James Earl Jones Liam Neeson Geoffrey Holder Ross Perot James Mason Forrest Gump Sylvester Stallone Walter Cronkite

A PARTIAL LIST OF CLIENTS AIRLINES / TRAVEL American Airlines Delta Airlines Lufthansa United Airlines AUTOMOTIVE Acura of Serramonte (San Francisco) Hella TechTeam (Germany) Mercedes Benz (Germany) Nimnicht Chevrolet (Florida) Renault (France) BANKING / FINANCIAL SERVICES Betterment Investing City Bank, West Texas Federal Reserve Bank Prudential Financial Raymond James Financial TSYS CABLE NETWORK PROMOTION Bone Collector (Outdoor Channel) C News (Trinidad and Tobago) Discovery Channel Dish Network Home & Garden Television Major League Baseball on Fox Outdoor Channel COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Emory University University of Alabama University of North Florida University of Oregon ENERGY Conoco Phillips Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Tri-State Electric (Colorado) MEDICAL / HOSPITALS Gila Regional Medical Center Hughston Clinic (Georgia) Marshfield Clinic (Wisconsin) Mayo Clinic The Med (Memphis) NATURE / ENVIRONMENT / NON-PROFIT Defenders of Wildlife Florida Department of Natural Resources Georgia Forestry Commission Grand Canyon Trust Honor Flight Golden Isles Honor Flight St. Louis Texas A&M Forest Service Tompkins Conservation Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve MANUFACTURE / COMMUNICATIONS AT&T BCM Illuminazione (Italy) Bradstock (Italy) CSX Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits Edgewise Eight Brewing General Electric Honeywell Kennecott Copper Knauf Insulation Kurz (Germany) Milliken & Company Minolta Monsanto Quentic (Germany) Sunbeam Union Carbide Westinghouse Whirlpool William Carter Company ZirkonZahn (South Tyrol, Italy) GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) Huntsville Police Department (Alabama) NASA NOAA US Army US Coast Guard US Fish & Wildlife Service US Forest Service US National Park Service US Treasury Department OUTDOOR SPORTS / HUNTING Bad Boy Buggies Bear/Jennings Archery Benelli Shotguns Blazer High-Performance Boats Hard Core Brands Horton Crossbows Hunter Marine Hunter Safety Systems Johnson/Evinrude Realtree Thompson/Center Arms Traditions Firearms RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT Apple Music NASCAR PGA Tour Six Flags – Georgia, Texas, Mid-America TPA (Tennis Professionals Association) Walt Disney World WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) RETAIL Home Depot Home Shopping Network RESTAURANT AND HOSPITALITY Olive Garden Restaurants Smashin’ Crab Seafood, San Antonio ON-CAMERA SPOKESPERSON (Partial Listing) Georgia Forestry Commission Home Shopping Network OfficeMax CSX (numerous) Olive Garden Restaurants Kimberly-Clark Publix Supermarkets Sunbeam Walt Disney World U.S. Treasury Department MOTION PICTURES AND TELEVISION Jekyll Island - Werner Mueller - Q Media From the Earth to the Moon - Frank, LM Engineer - HBO/Imagine All In Good Taste - Co-Host - HGTV Michael Waddell's Bone Collector - Signature Voice - Outdoor Channel I have extensive experience as an on-camera spokesman and am acutely proficient with a wireless ear prompter. While I am SAG/AFTRA eligible, with multiple Taft-Hartley exemptions, I've elected to remain non-union to provide maximum flexibility to producers and to avail myself of a wider array of opportunities. TRAINING Motion Picture Acting Technique — Shay Griffin — Chez Studio, Atlanta Motion Picture Acting Technique — Mel Johnson — Universal Studios, Orlando Motion Picture Acting Technique — Greg Fincannon — Acting Studio, Orlando Acting in Film — Ken Grant — KVG Studios, Orlando Drama — Florida State College, Jacksonville Creative Workshop — Tampa With more than 40 years of experience performing professional voice talent, I began my career as a radio announcer at age 17. I spent two years in school in England where I studied and began to imitate British accents. I adapted them so well that I was frequently asked what part of England I was from. I studied public speaking and drama in high school and continued to study drama in college. After four years in the Navy, I traveled throughout Europe, eventually living in Paris, where I performed English-language voice talent and ADR (automated dialog replacement) for the French automaker Renault. After returning to the U.S., I worked in radio and television as a voice and on-camera talent for ten years. Later, as a film actor, corporate spokesman and television host, I studied voice and on-camera performance techniques with several nationally recognized teachers and at KVG Studios in Florida. For those interested in the technical... First, I am a regular subscriber to SourceConnect for real-time, two-way voice recording capability. My SourceConnect handle is johndrew2. STUDIO SETUP Microphone: Neumann U 47 My principal microphone is a Neumann U 47—serial number 485, manufactured in 1951—the granddaddy of large diaphragm condenser microphones featuring a legendary sound that has captured the voices of the most famous voices of the modern era. This U 47 retains its original M7 capsule, which has been "re-skinned" by Siegfried Thiersch in Germany. The original BV-08 output transformer is also present. In April 2019, the U 47 was meticulously reconditioned by James Brian at Bill Bradley’s Mic Shop in Franklin, Tennessee. An Andreas Grosser VF14EF tube—the definitive replacement for the original VF14 tube—was installed and, along with customary component replacements and new cabling and connectors, the power supply was also rebuilt. In the spring of 2021, the M7 capsule was re-skinned by renowned Neumann microphone technician Siegfried Thiersh in Germany. The U 47 is ready for another 70 years of service. Backup Microphone: AKG C 12 Clone This C 12 is a meticulously handcrafted, exact replica of a mid-1950s AKG C-12. The microphone was built for me by an extraordinarily talented electronics and audio engineer, Lee Dyess, using the original AKG schematic with the finest components available, including 1% resistors, modern electrolytic capacitors, a new-old-stock 6072 tube, an American-made, gold-sputtered, dual-diaphragm capsule, and an original AMI T14 transformer. This beautifully crafted C 12 clone provides that old-school tube condenser sound in the tradition of legendary Neumanns and Telefunkens. It’s a big, warm sound but nevertheless precise and virtually flat with a clear and solid bottom end and a distinct high-end sparkle without being sibilant. 2nd Backup Microphone: Sennheiser MKH-416 My second backup microphone is a vintage Sennheiser MKH-416. While originally intended for use by the motion picture industry in recording voice audio on location, the MKH-416 is an extraordinary mic for up close, deep, gravely movie trailer deliveries. PrismSound Lyra II AD/DA Converter and Microphone Preamplifier The Lyra II uses the same converters as the legendary PrismSound Orpheus, Titan, and Atlas models, which can be found in the world’s finest recording facilities. With near-identical bench-test measurements to the Orpheus, Titan, and Atlas, the Lyra II is likely the absolute best two-channel recording interface on the market, capable of artifact-free resolutions as high as 24-bit/192 kHz. With a preamp section that has been compared to the legendary John Hardy, Grace, and the BAE microphone preamps, the sound is totally free of coloration. In short, it’s simply perfect. Mac Mini Server Computer and Reaper Tracking and Editing Software My primary computer is a Mac Mini Server with two one-TB solid-state hard drives and 16 GB of outboard storage. I’m running Reaper64 tracking and editing software with plugins by Softube, Waves, and other audio software designers, including iZotope RX7, which is used in the motion picture industry to achieve pristine voice tracks. Remote control of the recording software from my voice booth is accomplished with a PreSonus Fader Port. Beautifully Custom-Crafted Isolation Booth It doesn’t matter that a voice talent has a $19,000 microphone and a $2,500 AD/DA converter. If the acoustical environment isn’t dead silent and almost anechoic, the resulting audio recording will have coloration, room resonance, and ambient sounds that degrade the audio track. My double-walled voice booth was modeled after several commercially available isolation structures with a number of significant improvements. The walls, floor, and ceiling of my voice booth are over seven inches thick! They consist of five layers of sound reflection and absorption materials, each with differing properties. No component was left to chance — half-inch layers of tempered window glass, Roxul Safe & Sound inner wall insulation, solid core wood door with acoustic seals, sonically-isolated power and signal connections, isolated ventilation system, noiseless LED lighting, wall and ceiling-mounted microphone boom, computer monitor and video camera. No expense was spared in constructing the booth. Located outside aviation flight paths and away from most commercial and emergency traffic in a residential neighborhood, and at nearly 1,000 pounds standalone weight, the booth is, as they say, “dead as a doornail.” When I record, all you hear is my voice.