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UPDATE

I still have the USB interface, if anyone wants it, contact me here.

I’m selling some of my old studio equipment and you can get a great deal on it!

Check out the auctions on Ebay:

Samson C01U USB microphone (the mic I recommend for voice over practice and simple demo recording)

M-Audio Fastrack USB Computer Interface (a great interface to connect your studio equipment to your computer)

Click on the links above for the Ebay listing. They end on October 24th so bid SOON! Happy bidding!

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Patience is a virtue, as it turns out, it’s also a key to success in the world of voice over. Some might say “this sounds an awful lot like your last post“… well… it’s really not.

Here’s the definition of patience:

“an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay:”

Many, many, many times over in this profession you will have to wait… and wait… and wait some more. Clients are sometimes in a hurry, but more often than not they have some time to “shop around”.

Clients are always shopping around for the voice that fits the voice they have in their head. It’s part of our job as voice actors to find out what that voice is supposed to sound like and how much (or little) they want to spend (more on the latter in another post). This means that the client may not like how your voice sounds, they may not like your interpretation of the copy, or they may not think you’re worth the price you quoted them. If they start thinking like that, they’ve already marked you off the list and are moving on. This happens all the time.

Here’s something else that tends to happen too frequently, you’re invited to submit an audition for a project, you submit your demo, you make the finals, the final demo is submitted and they select someone else to voice the project.

There’s something that ties all these situations together: waiting, which requires patience.

A boring way to write about patience would be to say “wait”.

I don’t do boring on this blog.

So, here’s a list of some of the things you shouldn’t do while waiting on a client.