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| CommercialVoices
introduces "CV's Kids" By.....Rick Gordon |
| Do
I invest in ISDN or an Internet Audio Program?........By.....Harlan
Hogan |
| Sound
Ideas - Newsletter sponsor.....Free
monthly prize draw for readers. |
| Connie
Terwilliger's Traveling Studio.........By
Connie Terwilliger |
| Throw your rates out the
window....By CV Member Dave Mann |
| The Funnies........From
various sources's |
| Producer's
Corner .....
MIC PREAMPS...By Bruce Valeriani |
| Web site
Tips...Landing Page Quick Reference Guide...........from
Glen McInnis |
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CommercialVoices
introduces "CV's Kids"
We think it's about time the Kids had an opportunity to shine in
the VO industry and so CV is going to give them a portal in the
New Year. We will be inviting all Platinum Members to send us demos
from their children aged 3-16 along with nieces and nephews for
free exposure on CV. Nice idea? ......More
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Road
Warriors Part 2 - Do I invest in ISDN or an Internet Audio Program?
.....By Harlan Hogan
I'll
try to keep this short.......
If you are doing actual sessions from a home studio ISDN or an Internet
equivalent (Source Connect, Audio TX) is an invaluable tool along
with a traditional phone patch. To do Radio/TV imaging, ISDN capability
is expected and necessary.
However ISDN is becoming hard to get from the Telco's in many places
and it is expensive. Installation runs around a hundred and fifty
dollars for the two lines necessary, plus a monthly charge of forty
to well over a hundred dollars a month, depending on location. It's
customary for the talent to not initiate a call, but if you do you'll
also be hit with line charges per minute -- times two! A Chicago
production house spends over a thousand dollars per month on ISDN
line charges for audio book narrations. And there's the gear - you'll
need an ISDN Codec (coder/decoder) essentially an expensive computer
based modem - three to four thousand dollars new........More
| Harlan
Hogan is a Founding Member of CommercialVoices.com and is co-author
of Harlan "Voice Actor's Guide
to Home Recording" along with
his new DVD "Voice-Over Success"
which is now available at Harlan
Hogan.com |
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Welcome
to Sound Ideas
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I have been dealing with Glen at Sound-Ideas for
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Connie's
Traveling Studio.........By Connie
Terwilliger
I carry a simple portable studio set up around with me when
I travel. A Compaq Presario with a 40Gig hard drive. More than adequate
for audio recording. It is loaded with Office (the usual suspects
– Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), Windows Explorer, Adobe Audition,
Vox Studio and ftp software.....More
| Connie
Terwilliger is a Founding Member of CommercialVoices.com and
is President of Media Communications Association-International
www.mca-i.org
She is a major Voice Over Talent
and Spokesperson, and is a working professional with Global,
National, Regional and Local On and Off-camera credits. You've
heard her over and over again across the country and around
the world. Drop by for a visit at Connie
Terwilliger.com |
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Harlan
Hogan's latest book "Voice Actor's Guide to
Home Recording" along with his new DVD "Voice-Over
Success" is now available at Harlan
Hogan.com |
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Broadcast
Services Throw your rates out the window....By CV Member
Dave Mann
Throw
all rates out the window!
I have built one of the most successful voiceover businesses in
America by doing one thing. Give a great read at a rate they can
afford. If it is something that is not national or regional and
it is all they can afford, do it! Take your ego, fold it up neatly,
and toss it in the fire on a winter day! Working on volume has created
a wide range of clients for me numbering near 200. The big work
will still come in. If it's a national read, they know what you
will need. VO tags for tv at 25 bucks? Send me all ten! Thirty second
car spots for Vincennes and they only have 50 bucks? I will have
it to them in fifteen minutes! The film director bio for 1000 dollars
on a major network? Not a problem!
The single greatest reason for any major company being successful
wasn't them having five big customers. But rather five hundred small
ones along with the five.
Good luck friends! Maybe I will see you in the mountains when you
buy a vacation home near mine.
Dave Mann
Dave Mann Inc.
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Mann is a Platinum Member of CommercialVoices.com
and is billed as the "Voice of Tampa Bay", Dave voices
over 100 commercials weekly for well over 200 clients nationwide.
He is also the on-camera host of numerous products and services
and often appears on The Home Shopping Network. |
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The
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Producer's
Corner.
MIC PREAMPS
Microphones
are the tools we use to capture recorded sound - they do a good
job, but due to the nature of their design, they don't output a
very high signal. The output signal of an electric guitar is much
higher, for example........More
Happy Recording!
Bruce Valeriani
Blue Bear Sound
Bruce
Valeriani
owns and operates Blue
Bear Sound in Ottawa, Canada, accommodating all your recording
needs - whether it's audio, video, and/or multimedia. For
more information on recording, check out the Articles
page on the studio web site.. or for professional production
of your demo at extremely reasonable Canadian prices,
contact Bruce at 613-822-0726 or by email at info@bluebearsound.com.
Blue Bear Sound Recording Studios "Putting
the sound back into recording!"
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Web
site Tips
Landing Page Quick
Reference Guide
A landing page is a website
page that is created for one purpose - to persuade the site visitor
to convert into a customer by making a sale, completing a form (thereby
becoming a qualified lead), signing up for a newsletter, etc......More
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