Posts by Abbe Holmes

You can’t wait to start doing voiceovers!!! Want to know why making a voice over demo before you’re really ready is doomed to fail?

If you’ve ever worried about what’s okay or not in a recording session, have a look at these, a list of what not to worry about in a session!

Is this you? You’ve decided you want to work as a voice over artist. You’ve had some studio coaching with a professional and you’ve recorded some tracks during coaching that you really like…and now you’re busting to get some work. You decide to launch into making a demo and getting it out there…but are you ‘really’ ready?

There are many reasons why a promising voice over career can stall or not take off. Sometimes you just need to revisit you demo and make a mental adjustment in the way you’re presenting yourself and your work.

You may have heard these terms before, but what are they and how can you get this kind of voiceover work. If you’re a natural story-teller, with great sight-reading skills then this could be right up your alley!

You may well have a good voice and a charismatic personality. You might be a great sight reader or a stunning actor but to be a successful voice over artist, you need to understand how to use your disembodied voice to create reads and characters that will have us all listening. That’s your ‘voice over persona’.

Many voice over artists love doing accents. It’s great fun and it’s a great skill, if you can do it really well…and there lies the rub. Can you do it really well? Read on. Help is at hand.

One thing you need to know about working as a voice over artist is that it is always a collaborative process…and the sound engineer is almost always your most reliable collaborator. Read on to find out how that relationship works.

Animation is exciting and great fun and every voice over artist loves working on it but there’s a lot more involved in creating great cartoon characters than doing a funny voice!

Breathing!
Yes, it’s true, you do have to breathe…or you’ll die. But in voice over the use of breath is either ‘extremely important’ or ‘completely dispensable’. Read on for the low down on breath technique for voice over.