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John Drew
Personable, Convincing, Extraordinarily Flexible
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Last active12 hours ago
John Drew
Personable, Convincing, Extraordinarily Flexible
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Last active12 hours ago
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Playlists (6)
Commercials
Duration: 5:22 - Total samples: 4
Cowboy/Western/Southern
Duration: 3:55 - Total samples: 2
Narration
Duration: 3:18 - Total samples: 2
Character Voices/Animation
Duration: 10:37 - Total samples: 8
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About John
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Member sinceJul 5, 2006
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LocationAtlanta, GA, USA (GMT -4)
As a voice actor, whether narrating documentaries and corporate presentations or performing commercial voice-overs, my work is a simple, two-step process—finding the beating heart of a script and then inhabiting the words.
Wherever there have been stories to tell, I've worked there, whether in person or from my voice booth,
From my first serendipitous session on a soundstage in Paris, performing ADR for race car drivers in a documentary for Renault, to my more recent work in LA, New York, Florence, Rome, Stockholm, Tokyo, Zürich, Barcelona, and Berlin, I've become adept at my craft. Moreover, I've become adept at working with producer-directors to support their vision.
There's little I haven't done as an on-camera and voice actor. I've voiced projects in virtually every medium including principal motion picture roles, radio and television commercials, documentaries, corporate identity presentations, training, eLearning, medical narratives, explainer videos, live events, movie trailers, electronic games, cartoon animation, telephone answering systems, and automated dialogue replacement. But that's not all I've done.
For seventeen years, I was an award-winning copywriter-producer-director in a small but exceptionally talented ad agency... and I still take on the occasional writing, producing, and directing assignment.
I've also appeared in principal motion picture roles, including the Tom Hanks/Imagine Entertainment/HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon," which won eighteen Emmy Awards.
I co-hosted the groundbreaking Home and Garden Television (HGTV) cooking show "All In Good Taste," and I've acted in professional theatre.
In short, my career in advertising, marketing, production, and as a voice and on-camera actor means that I almost invariably "get it" when it comes to the creative process and the needs of producer-directors and their clients. That means I also know how to take direction.
As a voting member of the World-Voices Organization, I've been meticulously vetted as a voice actor who exemplifies the best practices, ethical standards, and professional expertise in the voice recording industry.
I hold a standard subscription to SourceConnect—johndrew2—for directed voice sessions and, with full video capability in my voice booth, I can also connect to you via Skype, Zoom, Google Voice, and FaceTime.
My primary agent says, "John is a truly believable voice talent capable of extraordinarily flexible delivery styles."
For me, delivering an exceptional voice-over, narrative, or character voice is a commitment, the foundation for mutually beneficial, long-term relationships, the basis for becoming a trusted resource.
If you have a story to tell—doesn't everyone?—I'd be grateful for the opportunity to make a case for hiring me as your storyteller.
Here are a few more descriptions of my voice from my agents:
Authoritative, Strong, Confident
Conversational Announcer
Conversational Real Person
Storyteller
Cool, Hip, Attitude
Folksy, Rough, Raspy
Gravitas
Friendly, Pleasant, Likable
Honest, Direct, Sincere
Humorous, Funny
Smooth, Sophisticated
Thoughtful, Introspective
Warm, Sincere
Detached, Matter-of-Fact
Cowboy, Western, Southern
Unique
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Skills and services offered
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Language
English - Other
English - USA and Canada
English - British
English - Caribbean
English - Latin American
English - Irish
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Gender and age
Male senior
Male adult
Recording and delivery options
Digital delivery
Source Connect
On-site recording
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
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Additional vocal abilities
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
Experience, training, and equipment
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.
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Reviews (1)
Client 3051434
2 years ago
John Drew was a delight to work with! He was easy to communicate with, gave fast responses, and his performance as "Judge Richter" in the Someguy Remaster project was simply amazing. Most importantly, he was very understanding. I hope to work with him again in the future.
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