Voiceover / ADR

Voiceover / ADR

Our professional relationships deliver all levels of talent, both celebrity and well known voice talent. Complete auditioning processes in place to ensure that each role is considered properly. We negotiate for you! We deal with all the legal docs, talent unions, labor laws, rates and guidelines for you. We are a registered union signatory. (SAG, AFTRA) Our staff of prolific engineers and talent coaches will absolutely make your ears happy.

Auditioning

• Contact and organize all talent/agent appointments.
• Contact and organize delivery of vocal auditions.

Casting Direction

• Review auditions with creative team and oversee the casting of voice talent.
• Commiunicate and represent studio interests with contract discussions and other signatory related duties.

Production Planning

• Macro management of project/budget, payment processing, milestone monitoring.
• Scheduling of all studio facilities, engineers, assistants, and voice talent.

Script Coaching

• Work closely with localization and project management team for correct adaptation.

Voice Over Recording

• Model and mic all voice characteristics using state of the art HD Protools combined with various Class-A mic pre’s and vintage microphones.

Voice Over Directing / Management

• Performance
  • Articulation and speech clarity appropriate to the copy
    • sounds of words are present and clearly communicated
    • no unnatural or distracting over-enunciation
    • end of words neither dropped nor punched
  • Vocal dynamics
    • good use of the four voice variables (pitch, rate, volume and quality) in varying degrees to add interest to speech without creating discernible or distracting speech patterns
  • Dramatic interpretation
    • hitting the copy points
    • effectively communicating key concepts of the copy
    • exhibiting energy appropriate to the copy
    • evoking emotion and mood appropriate to the copy
  • Vocal style
    • natural read, which is more common; or
    • stylized read appropriate to the copy, e.g., when voicing an Anime character
• Technique
  • Good breath support
  • Absence of vocal tension
  • Absence of mouth noise
  • Delivery within natural vocal range (not straining to be higher or lower than the voice talentÕs natural register)
  • Controlled sibilance
  • Controlled plosives
  • Consonants not over-aspirated
  • Consistent distance between mouth and mic
  • Natural flow without awkward breaks

Editing / Mastering

• Oversee editing, processing, mastering of all dialog.
• Creating dialog specifications, scripting dialogue events using internal tools.
• Organization of in-game dialogue groups.
• Creating and Implementation notes for programmers and design teams.

File Management

• Create and manage all naming conventions used in game.

Quality Control

• Oversee dialogue accuracy in deliveries to/from all territories.