Recent Work & Going Tubular

I've had some nice work recently for some excellent people. I just finished up a piece about Cellular Biology for Genzyme with Blue Wave and also a website voiceover for Nortel with Mars Productions. Both production companies are Boston-based: I suppose you can take the lad out of Boston but you can't take the Boston out of the lad. I do quite a bit of work with Boston clients still, which is one of the joys of phone patch voiceover sessions.

The Nortel piece was interesting because I did it with my transatlantic pan-British accent which was my main speaking voice for a long time. I developed it while living in Scotland for five years and didn't let it go for ages; only in the past four years have I made a concerted effort to re-Americanize my voice. Being a voice talent, i can pretty much turn it on and off like a spigot (or spicket...see?). The fine folks at Mars and Nortel didn't realiz(s)e that they were choosing a Yank. I'm rather pleased about this because they were trying to find a voice to match spots done with born and bred English talent.

The Genzyme voiceover "Cell and Organelle" was a hoot because of the oral acrobatics which the copy required. "MPS, glycoproteinoses, glycogen storage lysosomal diseases (i.e Pompe), and other LSD's" was my favourite list in the copy.

Today I ordered a twin-channel tube mic preamp with sweepable input impedance and HPF. I also made sure to order two nice tubes to go with the unit: one for the Violet Designs condenser channel, and one for the Heil PR40 channel. Yet another weapon in the arsenal.