Now Hear This! - 2009, July - Don't July to me...

[JoeActor]

Wow! Here we are in the second half of 2009 - unbelievable!

This is the place to post your auditions and short audio for others to listen and comment.

Always a good time!

Enjoy,
Joe J Thomas
Joe J. Thomas Acting Portfolio
SoundsGoodToYou.com - Joe J Thomas - Voice Actor

p.s. The prior thread is here:
Now Hear This! - 2009, June - it's what's happening...

[PierceVoice]

In case your not Twitting my tweets, here's a funny lil song I made last night. "The Modern DJ Song".
Have you seen this person??

[Jodi Krangle]

Wow, Chadd. :) That was awesome. You have that "cheesy announcer" thing down REALLY well.

I'm guessing you needed to blow off some steam?

[PierceVoice]

You're guessing right! It's just good clean fun... we kid because we love.

And... BON "LE JOUR DE LA CONFEDERATION!"

[Jodi Krangle]

Thanks, Chadd. Enjoy your 4th of July when it comes around!

[Snowfender]

hey all. i am so new to attempting professional voice acting. all i have ever done is amateur work on the internet and i haven't had any training =x i know it sounds bad, but i have the opportunity to start auditioning for professional stuff so i thought i would audition, at least familiarize myself somewhat to it. anyway, enough of me writing a novel. i appreciate any comments or criticism- the harsher the better so that i can improve. =) thank you so much!

[JoeActor]

Hey Snowfender,

Long time no hear ;-)

I like your tone and enthusiasm in the recording. Is this Kinetix like the toy company? If so, then your playful approach is good.

On to suggestions: Overall, it sounds a bit "forced friendly" to me, and I'd also skip the background music (unless they requested it specifically). I submit 99% of my auditions dry-voice (ie, no music or effects).

Hope this helps a bit, and we get to hear more from you...

Welcome back,
Joe

[Snowfender]

Originally Posted by JoeActor

Hey Snowfender,

Long time no hear ;-)

I like your tone and enthusiasm in the recording. Is this Kinetix like the toy company? If so, then your playful approach is good.

On to suggestions: Overall, it sounds a bit "forced friendly" to me, and I'd also skip the background music (unless they requested it specifically). I submit 99% of my auditions dry-voice (ie, no music or effects).

Hope this helps a bit, and we get to hear more from you...

Welcome back,
Joe

thank you! i didn't think people would remember me. ahhh i see. i thought people would want background music, so thank you for bringing that to my attention before i did it to more of them. no, it wasn't a toy company... whoops! it's actually for a media/web design company, but they said "smooth and friendly" so i tried to go for that... but i think i overshot it.

thank you so much for your feedback! i really appreciate it =)

[alexrain]

Hope everyone has a great weekend! Here's an audition I did this afternoon for a project on Voices..

[Scott Pollak]

Chadd, you are truly astounding! I'm absolutely serious when I say you need to be thinking about being the next Weird Al. You are simply amazing! LOVE the ending! Just loved it!! ("The dj bloat"! Love it!)

Snowfender: You have a delightful voice, just delightful. Since I'm utterly clueless as to your age, it's a little difficult to critique this. I DO agree that it may be a little TOO giddy-friendly sounding, and I didn't like the nursery-rhyme music in the background, but overall you sounded quite nice. Very friendly, young, conversational. Nicely done!

Alex: Nicely done, as well. Your voice is a good fit for this. I seemed to hear a few plosives popping here and there, so be careful about that. Darn, this would have been a good lead for me! Too bad I'm not on voices.com anymore! :-)