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‎"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein

I love this.

Back to it!

Well, I am back to the proverbial grindstone. Knocked out several auditions today, as well as a couple of paying gigs. Feels good to get the vocal cords limbered up!

A little perspective.

Three weeks have gone by since my wife passed, I'm not doing much in the VO business. In fact I'm not doing much of anything. I feel like everything I liked to do, I'm no longer interested in. Even the things I enjoyed before I met Sue give me no joy at all. The release of 'Pirates' is coming up, we really enjoyed going to the midnight screenings.

In spite of the fact that I had some advance notice, there is really no way to prepare for the loss of a spouse. I'm getting lot of advice, of course. Reading some books on grief. The only thing they all seem to agree on is, everyone goes through it differently.

I miss her so much.

Here's a shot at one of my live announcing gigs, this is the Assistance League of Glendale's annual Christmas Tree Brunch.

Super Bowl Weekend

I plan on watching the game, and listening for my friends and colleagues who booked the most watched commercials of the year! Packers 38, Steelers 24

Membership has it's privilages

I am now a member of SaVoa, the Society of Accredited Voice Over Artists. If you see this symbol in conjunction with a Voice actor, you can be sure that they are pretty good at what they do.

(I knew this was going to be a good year!)

Good Reads,

TJ

Studio Update

If you saw the article about my studio on Voice Over Xtra, you know I had a few other plans in mind for it. Well, some have come to fruition, some have been changed, and some have been scrapped altogether.

First, I took out the M-Box, streamlining my signal chain. With the Aphex 230 into my Mac, via an optical cable, the M-Box is unnecessary. So now it's mic to Aphex to mac. Pretty clean! Next, I added two monitors to my computer, rotated to a vertical format. They are mirrored; that is to say, they both have the same thing displayed on them. One is on the desk, by the main monitor, the other in the booth. This gives me a much greener studio, as I am not printing out every single audition. Less paper, less ink. I also went back to the AT4033a mic, I loved the Neumann TLM 103, but it was TOO sensitive, if a mouse passed gas in the next room, it picked it up. When my soundproofing is better, I may go back, but for now, the Audio Technica is perfect. I added a dbx 286a pre-amp, to give me options, but I realized I just didn't need the redundancy, so it's gone.

And of course, I added a few more Lava Lamps! (30 on display in and around the studio, plus another eight, seasonal and in the rest of the house.)

I still have a lot of mods I intend to do, (hey, I'm a guy, I love to tinker with stuff), but it's pretty good for now!

Good reads,

TJ