Category: Voice Over

Reoccuring Nightmare

In the second part of our 4 part series on characters and their voices, I'll focus this week on the reoccurring character and how you need to maintain integrity when using this characters voice in advertising. The reoccurring character voice (for ...

Developing the characters

I'm going to start a 4 part series on developing voice over characters for imaging and general production. The first part of this series involves finding that voice that suits the production. Too many times I've heard commercials (especially in micro ...

Shut Up and Play the music

I had a conversation recently with a highly successful personality who was told to "have fun" but was admonished for doing so. What was the point?. This extremely talented show prep king was being told he "talks" too much. I ...

When “First In Wins” doesn’t apply

Ok, so I've been looking over the latest PPM results for my market for Holiday 09 ( I image an AC station and really want to program some day soon), The station that won did so with an unbelievable 7.something ...

Vacations are underated

I was taking a few days off to bond with my son, who is about to be 14 months old, and I can't tell you how much I enjoyed our time together, bonding with a 1 year old is harder ...

New blogss

Added new blog on kudl.com, you can visit it here.... http://blogs.kudl.com/taylor I've moved my smooth jazz show to sundays and rebranded it the Smooth Sunday Brunch, shortened by an hour and will focus on new music and the top 15 ...

I Lost Steely Dan

Somewhere between 1980 and 1993 I lost Steely Dan, but wait they were never really lost, they just took a break from each other. Fagen and Becker decided they had had enough of the touring, recording, touring, eating, touring, recording ...

Summer Fun!

Summer is by far my favorite imaging season, people are out and doing things, eager to help out with almost anything. Case in point, I had to have some dental work done in an emergency, I went to a dentist ...

Working with new talent

I am in the process of re-producing imaging for the Heritage AC station KUDL and have a new voice talent to break in again. My previous voice talents Jon Carter/Buffy O''Neil -Megahertz Studios were an awesome addition to our station ...

LiveLeak.com – Rap Chop Slap Chop Remix

LiveLeak.com - Rap Chop Slap Chop Remix. You'll enjoy this I'm sure PR: wait... I: wait... L: wait... LD: wait... I: wait... wait... Rank: wait... Traffic: wait... Price: wait... C: wait...

The extraction of embedded audio

Ok, so I am not the defacto expert on anything, but I do know a little about mixing. I often get asked by clients who are trying to do quite frankly the impossible, they are trying (themselves) to either pull ...

Internet Radio imaging

I just signed a new client rooradio.com for imaging and was amazed by the amount of feedback I got concerning how well the imaging sounds online. If you image internet radio, the first things you should be concerned with is ...