If you wanted to be a attorney, physician or plumbing you would have a clear career course to follow, tests to take, useful experience to get, and professional bodies to join. The plan to your picked task would be well specified and structured. If you had actually not achieved your dream by a specific age, you would probably have to quit.

You essentially want a microphone that records voice well. There are numerous out there. I use an AKG 414 and it cost me $600 on eBay. If you go to your regional music store and let them know what you're doing, they ought to be able to guide you towards something right for your situation. Then inspect eBay for better costs!

You might wish to specialize. For CITY folks, you can find an animation class or a promos class. COUNTRY folk will need to do a bit of self-teaching here. Read Terri Apple's Generating income in voice overs.

COUNTRY folk, your greatest difficulty now is to get customers. Focus on getting your site seen (pay-per-click with google (additional reading) and Yahoo) and sending your link to all the local business in your town. They'll enjoy to understand they don't have to go far to get an expert voice over for their internal or industrial narration.

The apparent one is to just tape audio for a business. That's the normal thing people think about when I tell them I am a voice over artist. Nevertheless, that's not the only kind of audio I've tape-recorded. I have actually done everything from Telephone triggers and welcome messages for phone systems to podcast introductions, and a narrative for an audio tour guide. Practically ANYTHING that has a taped voice on it needs a voice over artist to put it there.

There are various representatives and firms that represent different types of skill. There are agencies/agents for extras/background entertainers, primary skill, commentary skill, theater actors, and so on. Many actors are special to one company or agent or to one discipline, specialty or type of work. Still, there are actors who do it all. They are 'signed across the board.' They do everything. And, there are likewise a great deal of stars who have one company for additional work and another for primary work, or commentary work, and so on.

You need to always be asking yourself these questions. They aren't almost "taping" voice overs. They are also the questions you ask yourself in order to make a fantastic discussion to a customer, representative or at an audition with people sitting right in front of you.