My background is in radio, and television news presentation - I was with the BBC in Manchester for ten years.
Most of my work is from the corporate world - narration, e-learning, on-hold/IVR etc., but I enjoy voicing radio and tv commercials, too. I set up my first studio twelve years ago, having travelled extensively to other UK locations, which I'm still happy to do.
Railway stations across Britain use automated announcer systems, and most of those feature my voice. Our studio now specialises in producing the audio (not just voicing it) and we have developed a respected system for gapping the audio to make it flow as naturally as possible.
During a decade with the BBC, I learned a great deal about spoken word audio, including the technical side of recording and broadcasting. That has helped build the SayerHamilton studio's reputation for technical excellence, as well as delivering the right read for your script.
Our kit includes:
Three Neumann microphones: U87AI, TLM 193 and TLM 103.
Yamaha 01V mixer.
CDQ Prima LT ISDN codec.
Audio TX (voice over IP)
Sony Sound Forge 10.
Marian Marc 2 sound cards.
We can provide any audio file type. Ask us for "CCITT A-Law," or "Dialogic Vox ADPCM" and we will know what you mean, and be able to provide it.
We have the fastest broadband available in the UK, (120Mbps) so uploading large, high quality audio files isn't a problem.
I'm comfortable with most subject matter, but I'm especially familiar with medical reads, engineering, the motor industry, and banking & finance.
Elinor Hamilton, who has her own V123 listing, and I share our studio and our lives, (not to mention a marriage, complete with twin boys) and we work on voice projects both separately and together.
So if your script calls for a shared delivery by MVO and FVO, you'll find us particularly handy. Our costs are often lower, because we'll be recording both voices as one job, and the studio sound will be the same - no more audio mis-matches that take hours of tweaking to try to correct!