Let us hear your best LaFontaine!

Al Connors · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007, 00:09 (GMT) Post subject: At the movies

Alright Scott, more embarrassment for you
Al Connors

Dan Powell · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007, 21:14 (GMT) Post subject:

Woohoo, been dying to try this, please take into consideration this is my backup mic and I'm English ok and it's really at the bottom of my range Very Happy

Robert Jadah · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007, 22:36 (GMT) Post subject: Laugh-ontaine

Not fair, Dan. You just drenched that puppy with production tricks, didn't you?
Made it sound a trifle forced, just a tad artificial.
And Baghdad is a mite troubled.
Nice stab, though. Fun stuff.

Dan Powell · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007, 22:41 (GMT) Post subject:

Hey no fair, I'm not allowed to use tricks yet, not been here long enough hehe. Um, don't get the bagdad bit? Thanks though for the giggle, was fun and know it was a little forced but hey, it's all about pushing yourself a bit and trying new stuff.

Robert Jadah · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007, 22:59 (GMT) Post subject: Laugh-ontaine redux

Dan:
Re: Baghdad. I was trying to demonstrate that my previous adjectives were somewhat understated, ie. it was a lot forced, and notably artificial, since that torn Iraqi city is more than a mite troubled and.....hey, I'm a voicer, not William Safire.

Phyllis K. Day

Really now guys, how silly. Only a woman could do this movie trailer. Rolling Eyes

Dan Powell · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007, 23:06 (GMT) Post subject:

Oh wow, honestly I really now want to go visit that theatre where I can hear DLF's voice...NOW!!! Now you have some mighty fine vocal chords there hon!!!

Nick Ellsworth · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007, 08:59 (GMT) Post subject: LaFontaine

Hi Folks,

Thought I'd throw my hat into the ring.

Scott Pollak · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007, 15:37 (GMT) Post subject:

Phyllis.... I really liked your read on that, but it sounded really muffled, as if there was NO high end at all going on. Dunno if that was a low bitrate save on the file or what, but it wasn't crisp. But your read was delicious.

Nick and Dan... sounded like the Mafia was doing a movie trailer.

I think what some of us are missing here, just like over in the Orson Welles thread, is that it's not just the timbre and pitch of the read, it's the emphasis. Even though Phyllis emphasized it differently, she interpreted it in a way that sounded real. Many of the rest of us are missing the mark by focusing so much on the voice-of-God sound that we're discarding the feeling that needs to go into this.

Todd Ellis · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007, 17:19 (GMT) Post subject:

RUN - RUN EVERYONE - THERE IS A LaFONTAINE - LIKE AUDITION UP NOW - NOW I TELLS YA!!!

Nick Ellsworth · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007, 17:51 (GMT) Post subject:

Hi Scott,

Liked your Mafia comment...Dan and I obviously did the wrong 'Don'.

Colin Campbell · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007, 20:03 (GMT) Post subject:

I hate to be blasphemous here, but LaFontaine himself sounds "forced." Really good, but forced for sure.

Joe J Thomas · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007, 20:29 (GMT) Post subject:

Phyllis K. Day

Scott Pollak · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007, 02:16 (GMT) Post subject:

Phyllis,

Just listened to your two demos back to back, and while the second one isn't quite as muffled, it still IS muffled to the point that I'm aching to hear a bit of highs and crispness there.

Better watch it; your upper horizontal bars are smoky right now!
Wink