
Meet your instructor, Shawn.
Voice Over work comes in many flavors and areas of focus. Learn about areas you can specialize in.
Get familiar with what the terms ADR, looping, and dubbing mean.
Why do they call it "voice over"?
Learn how to create a home vocal booth recording isolation to do voice-overs from home.
Learn how to understand the common language in a recording session in order to know what to do when the director uses specific terms.
Learn how to make a word-filled script not sound rushed and satisfy the desired read times by mastering how your delivery.
Learn how to master one of the most requested skills in voice over work – tag lines and varied reads.
Learn how to read your parts effectively and realistically even when the other voices have not recorded yet.
Learn microphone techniques like proximity to ensure clean quality recordings that compete with the world's best talent.
Learn the steps to recording yourself properly.
Learn how to use audio editing software to remove unnecessary breaths from your recordings.
Learn how to remove unpleasant and plosives.
Learn about what normalizing truly is and how to use it.
Learn how to use time compression in voice-over work.
Learn how to use Pro Tools to Strip Silence.
Learn how to output sound files of your voice-over recordings.
Find resources for scripts to practice with.
Learn how to find sound effects to use with your voice-over recordings.
Learn whether or not you may need a voice-over coach.
Where do you go from here?
Learn how to become a voice-over talent doing voice-over work for radio commercials, television commercials and shows, films and trailers, documentaries, language translations, message prompts, and much more. Great for potential extra or full-time income with many options to work remotely or from home.
Your voice-over course instructor Shawn Conrad has worked as a voice-over talent for national brands, commercials, and television shows. He has also worked as a post-production sound engineer for decades. In that role, Shawn has recorded and directed Will Ferrell, Bill Bellemy, J .K. Simmons, James Earl Jones, Rosie Perez, Will Arnett, and many other voice-over artists.