I have a deep resonance coupled with a gravelly, smokey, nasally, husky base. How’s that for a description?
My voice is unique and recognizable, that's for sure. One time, I was at a highway stop on vacation somewhere in another state, when this truck driver stopped me in the parking lot and asked if I was the Delicious cookie voice. I was shocked. I was. He recognized my voice. After that, I lowered my voice on the rest of the trip. What? OK... so my kids were with me and perhaps I was being a bit loud. oops
I am lucky and blessed because, as a character actress, all kinds of voices just come out of me... all the time. My pets think I am nuts.
I do GREAT character voices for Dragons, Queens, Warriors, Witches, Rulers, Old Ladies, Kids, Animals-you get the idea.
I have a great ear for accents, too.
I work well with other performers and I love improv!
And I sing. I am a non-classical contralto
(I say baritone but then people laugh until I hit the low notes and then they are sad. hahaha)
My voice is unique and recognizable, that's for sure. One time, I was at a highway stop on vacation somewhere in another state, when this truck driver stopped me in the parking lot and asked if I was the Delicious cookie voice. I was shocked. I was. He recognized my voice. After that, I lowered my voice on the rest of the trip. What? OK... so my kids were with me and perhaps I was being a bit loud. oops
I am lucky and blessed because, as a character actress, all kinds of voices just come out of me... all the time. My pets think I am nuts.
I do GREAT character voices for Dragons, Queens, Warriors, Witches, Rulers, Old Ladies, Kids, Animals-you get the idea.
I have a great ear for accents, too.
I work well with other performers and I love improv!
And I sing. I am a non-classical contralto
(I say baritone but then people laugh until I hit the low notes and then they are sad. hahaha)
Jamie Newell's home studio
I have a state-of-the-art digital home studio. I record inside a WhisperRoom Booth and I use a XENYX 1202FX mixer. I adore my ElectroVoice RE20 microphone, as do most who know it. I use Adobe Audition software to record. Sadly, all I can do is basic editing...none of the high-end mixing with sound effects and all but I can provide you with a nice clean, professionally sounding Mp3 result. And I know fabulous sound engineers who can do what I can’t. Let me know and I would be happy to connect you to them.
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with a helpful search tool
Words that describe my abilities include the following. I read somewhere that if you add the words that describe your voice over skills, it helps win you top ranking for search engine purposes. I have used all of these words on my voiceover website where I have created a search tool that allows you to find associated sound clips.
So here goes:
abrasive, accessible, acidic, adenoidal, affected, airy, alien, alien spacecraft, all-American, Angry Bossman/lady, animated, announcer, anxious, appealing, approachable, articulate, arrogant, attitude, authoritative, authority, babbling, barbed, barking, believable, big, biting, bitter, bland, blasé, bleak, blunt, bombastic, booming, boorish, bored, boyish, brash, brassy, braying, breathy, breezy, bright, brisk, brittle, brusque, broken, bubbly, calculating, calm, cartoon, cartoon character, characters, charming, chastising, cheery/cheerful, child, childish, classic, classical, classy, clever, clipped, Cockney Street Urchin, comedic, comforting, compassionate, concerned, confident, condescending, contralto, concise, confident, constrained, contemporary, content, controlled, conversational, cold, cool, corporate, cosmopolitan, cracking, crisp, critical, croaky, cultural, cultured, curt, cynical, dangerous, dead, deep, defiant, Defiant Mature Female, dejected, dependable, derisive, devoid of emotion, director, disappointed, discovery, distrustful, direct, documentary, down to earth, dramatic, drawl, dreamy, dry, dynamic, ethereal , earnest, fretful, goofy, grandpa, grandpappy, gravelly, Impish Male, instructional, intelligent, leader, mature, refined, military, , edgy, educated, elderly, Elfin Defector, emotional, emotionless, earnest, energetic, engaging, entertaining, enthusiastic, enthusiast, ethereal, ethnic, excited, evil chuckle, evil laugh, Female Officer, firm, fierce, fiendish, flat, forceful, fresh, fretful, friendly, fresh, fruity, fun, funny, gentle, genuine, gloomy, glum, goofy, girl next door, grandma, grandpa, grandpappy, granny, grating, grating, grave, gravelly, grim, growling, gruff, gruffly, guttural, happy, harsh, hissing, hip, honest, honeyed, hoarse, hushed, husky, imaginative, Impish Male, indifferent, informative, innocent, insinuating, insulting, instructional, intelligent, intense, interested, ironic, kid, lazy, leader, lifeless, light, light-hearted, lively, loud, loving, low, low/low-pitched, low-pitched female, Mae Westian, matter-of-fact, mature, mean, Mean Ole Cowboy, mellow, melodramatic, Midwest/Midwestern, military, mocking, modern, moderated, modulated, mom, monotonous, monotonously, mother, Mother Earth, movie-trailer, muffled, mysterious, narration, narrator, narrate, nasal, nasally, natural, New York, non-announcery, nonchalant, non-salesy, not over the top, nurturing, obsequious, off mic, old, Old European Woman, old lady, old man, older lady, orotund, over-the-top, pappy, perky, playful, polished, pompous, powerful, professional, proud, pure, quavering, Queen, quiet, quietly, quirky, raggedy, raspy, Raspy, Old Codger, raucous, raucous, real, realistic, refined, refreshing, reliable, restrained, resonant, rich, rough, rumbling, saccharine, sarcastic, sardonic, sassy, scornful, scratchy, screeching, senior citizen, senior female, senior citizen, senior female, serene, serious, severe, sex, sexy, shaky, sharp, sibilant, silly, sincere, singer, sinister, singsong, sing-songy, slick, sluggish, sly, small, smarmy, smart, smoky, smooth, snarky, snarling, sneering, snide, soft, soft, soft-spoken, solid, somber, soothing, sotto, sophisticated, sour, storyteller, straight-forward, strained, strangled, strident, strong, strong woman, stylish, sugary, suggestive, sultry, sweet, sympathetic, talented, taut, teacher, teasing, tell of tales, tense, texture, thick, thickly, thought provoking, throaty, tight, toneless, tonelessly, tough, trembling, tremulous, trendy, trustworthy, uncontrolled, unconventional, unruffled, upbeat, uncertain, unhappy, upscale, velvety, velvet/velvety, versatile, video games, vivacious, warm, wacky, weak, weary, wheezy, whiny, wild, wistful, witty, wobbly, young, youthful, youth
So here goes:
abrasive, accessible, acidic, adenoidal, affected, airy, alien, alien spacecraft, all-American, Angry Bossman/lady, animated, announcer, anxious, appealing, approachable, articulate, arrogant, attitude, authoritative, authority, babbling, barbed, barking, believable, big, biting, bitter, bland, blasé, bleak, blunt, bombastic, booming, boorish, bored, boyish, brash, brassy, braying, breathy, breezy, bright, brisk, brittle, brusque, broken, bubbly, calculating, calm, cartoon, cartoon character, characters, charming, chastising, cheery/cheerful, child, childish, classic, classical, classy, clever, clipped, Cockney Street Urchin, comedic, comforting, compassionate, concerned, confident, condescending, contralto, concise, confident, constrained, contemporary, content, controlled, conversational, cold, cool, corporate, cosmopolitan, cracking, crisp, critical, croaky, cultural, cultured, curt, cynical, dangerous, dead, deep, defiant, Defiant Mature Female, dejected, dependable, derisive, devoid of emotion, director, disappointed, discovery, distrustful, direct, documentary, down to earth, dramatic, drawl, dreamy, dry, dynamic, ethereal , earnest, fretful, goofy, grandpa, grandpappy, gravelly, Impish Male, instructional, intelligent, leader, mature, refined, military, , edgy, educated, elderly, Elfin Defector, emotional, emotionless, earnest, energetic, engaging, entertaining, enthusiastic, enthusiast, ethereal, ethnic, excited, evil chuckle, evil laugh, Female Officer, firm, fierce, fiendish, flat, forceful, fresh, fretful, friendly, fresh, fruity, fun, funny, gentle, genuine, gloomy, glum, goofy, girl next door, grandma, grandpa, grandpappy, granny, grating, grating, grave, gravelly, grim, growling, gruff, gruffly, guttural, happy, harsh, hissing, hip, honest, honeyed, hoarse, hushed, husky, imaginative, Impish Male, indifferent, informative, innocent, insinuating, insulting, instructional, intelligent, intense, interested, ironic, kid, lazy, leader, lifeless, light, light-hearted, lively, loud, loving, low, low/low-pitched, low-pitched female, Mae Westian, matter-of-fact, mature, mean, Mean Ole Cowboy, mellow, melodramatic, Midwest/Midwestern, military, mocking, modern, moderated, modulated, mom, monotonous, monotonously, mother, Mother Earth, movie-trailer, muffled, mysterious, narration, narrator, narrate, nasal, nasally, natural, New York, non-announcery, nonchalant, non-salesy, not over the top, nurturing, obsequious, off mic, old, Old European Woman, old lady, old man, older lady, orotund, over-the-top, pappy, perky, playful, polished, pompous, powerful, professional, proud, pure, quavering, Queen, quiet, quietly, quirky, raggedy, raspy, Raspy, Old Codger, raucous, raucous, real, realistic, refined, refreshing, reliable, restrained, resonant, rich, rough, rumbling, saccharine, sarcastic, sardonic, sassy, scornful, scratchy, screeching, senior citizen, senior female, senior citizen, senior female, serene, serious, severe, sex, sexy, shaky, sharp, sibilant, silly, sincere, singer, sinister, singsong, sing-songy, slick, sluggish, sly, small, smarmy, smart, smoky, smooth, snarky, snarling, sneering, snide, soft, soft, soft-spoken, solid, somber, soothing, sotto, sophisticated, sour, storyteller, straight-forward, strained, strangled, strident, strong, strong woman, stylish, sugary, suggestive, sultry, sweet, sympathetic, talented, taut, teacher, teasing, tell of tales, tense, texture, thick, thickly, thought provoking, throaty, tight, toneless, tonelessly, tough, trembling, tremulous, trendy, trustworthy, uncontrolled, unconventional, unruffled, upbeat, uncertain, unhappy, upscale, velvety, velvet/velvety, versatile, video games, vivacious, warm, wacky, weak, weary, wheezy, whiny, wild, wistful, witty, wobbly, young, youthful, youth
The definition of voice-over, according to our wonderful free internet reference guide, Wikipedia states, “Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts, and video games) and radio and audio dramas and comedy, doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. Voice artists are also used to record the individual sample fragments played back by a computer in an automated announcement system.”
In addition, Madame Wikipedia declares, “An individual who performs such voice-only roles is known as a voice actor or actress or as a voice artist.” Other nicknames include voice-over artist, voice talent, narrator, and commentator, to name a few.
In addition, Madame Wikipedia declares, “An individual who performs such voice-only roles is known as a voice actor or actress or as a voice artist.” Other nicknames include voice-over artist, voice talent, narrator, and commentator, to name a few.