More demo updates

Hodee. I've updated the Toil commericial already, and fixed the broken EFL Specialties link as well. Hope you like them.

Demo Updates

Golly, what a time!
I spent some time the other day working on adding music and sound effects to some of my demo vocals that seemed to call for that. Please visit and check out the new version of the Jazz Club demo. The music is by Spike Jones and his City Slickers--their recording of a straight jazz tune, an original called "Lassus Trombone" which fitted my needs perfectly. I'm a big Spike Jones fan, by the way.
I have added a single sound effect to the ad for Toil Deodorant--a product I invented as part of one of my classes years ago. I'll upload the updated version soon.
Also, please check out the temporary version of the Nature Special--it's still missing some sound effects such as flapping, but the cricket ambient noise is there, spliced so as to suggest various shots taken at different places and times, and the bunny noise is in place too. Pore old Wilhelm--a life of strife and trouble! I was working on my MacBook and used nothing more or less than the Open Source software that I like to call Audacity.
Best to you all and thanks to whoever voted for the marvelous Paul Frees.

Assembling a new demo--"The Nature Special"

My father has recommended that I should include among my voice demo clips a session of straight narration, so during a relatively unoccupied period last Sunday I wrote up a swell little bit of voiceovering to accompany an imaginary nature video about the Snowy Owl, an old favorite avian. I recorded a raw vocal demo for it already, but I want to work a version of it up to sound like an authentic nature video a la National Geo. I am working on the ambient and other sound effects for the clip, and I have a variety of cricket sounds to cut around for different "shots" of the predator at work and at play. I have recently been fascinated by the Wilhelm Scream, and so I intend to use a version of it for the death scream of a hapless little bunny. I am sure I can pick up some feather ruffling and related sounds fairly easily. I'll post it when I have a full version ready.
I have recently been getting into various open source projects and I've been using Audacity for multitracking, though it's relatively hard to work with. I have more often used a free piece of software, the Freeware version of Quartz Audio Master (registration required), where you can slide the tracks around at will without specifying the lead-in duration. For general recording I've been using GoldWave for years and it's been just fine for me.
---Just in case you're interested. Got alternate suggestions? Love to hear them!
Chris O'Brien

Welcome to Voicecrafting!

I have just set up a new blog for my voice acting and voiceover work. Here is the first post. Now I've gotta get back to class.