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Anthony Williams · **Voice Talent** Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 663

Please listen to this and let me know what you think this is not a demo just testing my system

Scott Pollak · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006, 04:21 (GMT) Post subject:

Hey Anthony,

I'm going to offer what I hope - and intend - to be constructive criticism. Otherwise it won't do you any good.

You have great tonal quality in your voice, a warm, rich, silky deep voice that could hypnotize a kid with ADD. Your demo is not up to par with your voice, though. For starters, it's not really a demo because it's just one, long, very, very slooooooooooooow spot that seemed to go on way too long. A demo must showcase a variety of reads, abilities, energy levels, subject matters, etc. If it doesn't, you'll have to hope that someone, somewhere, is looking for EXACTLY that one, single style and delivery that's on your one single spot. So point #1 is you need to create a demo of NO LONGER than 1:00 that has perhaps 1/2 dozen various snippets on it. Leave the client WANTING to hear more, not wishing it would just end.

Next: audio quality: not good. Very muddy. Don't know if it's your mike, the mix or the bit rate that you saved it at, but it's just not crisp.

Finally, the actual delivery. I know you're going for sultry and sexy, but honestly, it comes across as druggy and sleepy. It's too slow and monotone. Even being a late night sultry sexy read, it still has to breathe and have SOME amount of life in it. There are natural spots in the script that will elicit emphasis. Different points should get a change of pace. The delivery matched the ticking of the clock behind you (which I found a bit distracting) and became too rhythmic.

I think you truly have a great voice. But if you haven't had any training then it would be a good investment. With your voice, if you had the ability to really bring a script to life, the rest of us here would have to hang up our mike cords.

Hope this helps!
Blessings.

Robert Jadah · **Voice Talent** Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 2627

Anthony:
The good: Nice, mellow voice...smooth delivery; good articulation
The bad: Absolutely too slow; almost comatose
The ugly: I had the selfsame problem I think I hear here; years of hearing compliments about your voice have brought you to where you figure you just lay it down and the world will beat a path to your mic.
It don't work like that. There are literally hundreds of smooth, rich, deep, smoke-silky pipes like yours on this site alone.....
You must love the words and the text a lot more; and the sound of your own (great) voice a little less.
Hang in. You'll be fine. Or more.
Robert Jadah