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Microphones

Microphones

Q: What microphone do you recommend for use with VO auditions at home? Depending upon how involved your at-home setup is, your microphone choices will change. Let’s take a look at various options, beginning with the least expensive, best quality USB microphone choice. 1. The Audio-Technica AT2020 USB Microphone The USB version of AudioTechnica’s amazing...

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Software

Software

Q: What software do you recommend for use with VO auditions at home? Depending upon how involved your at-home setup is, your software choices will change. Let’s take a look at various options, beginning with a free, high quality, open source software choice. 1. Audacity Audacity is remarkably easy to use, launches quickly, and is ready to record instantly. It works...

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Jan MacIntyre

Jan MacIntyre

Beautiful, elegant, flowing. Concentrating on VO after a career in broadcast news, Jan MacIntyre connects directly with your audience, with a presentation that ranges from mid 50s to 60, and with a precise and caring approach. Jan’s voice has a smooth, experienced tone, and Jan understands the branding goals of today’s retail and corporate advertiser. Jan has...

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Caesi Bevis

Lovable, believable, fresh. A public speaker for decades, Caesi Bevis also was a featured futurist on Canadian television, and her writing specialized in medicine and the law. That makes her perfect for your medical, legal and technical VO needs, as well any announcer-driven copy. Bevis also writes stunning, relatable copy, so you can hire her to provide pre- and...

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How to sign up for classes

How to sign up for classes

Here’s step-by-step instructions on how to sign up for all VO2GoGo classes and events. We use a shopping cart system, so think of reserving your seat and role as “buying your ticket” when you register for a class. Step 1: Visit the Classes page. The VO2GoGo SOVO Classes are listed on one page on the website, and are also available via the calendar in the...

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Karen Richter

Karen Richter

Gentle, smart, precise. Transitioning from a lifelong career as a teacher, Karen Richter performs copy with accuracy and pleasance of a caring instructor, ranging from middle age to senior in presentation, and with a calm, assured approach to her work. Her training includes voicing commercial copy, narration, specialty copy, digital info products, self-generated VO...

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Karen-Eileen Gordon

Karen-Eileen Gordon

Quirky, grounded, agile. An actor since the womb, Karen-Eileen Gordon draws on years of on-camera and stage experience, with a presentation that ranges from 25 to 44 and characters that range both younger and older, and with an oddball, new-age patina. Karen has an extraordinarily interesting voice. Her training includes voicing commercial copy, narration, specialty copy,...

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Amy Gardikas

Amy Gardikas

Professional, business-like, smart. A recent transplant from the corporate world, Amy Gardikas knows how to sell, with a presentation that ranges from 20 to 34, and with a highly polished approach. Amy’s voice has a sweet side to it as well, and worked in radio on-air and behind the scenes. Amy’s just at the start of her career, but her training includes...

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Loring Greene

Wise, experienced, smart. After spending a lifetime in sales and entrepreneurship, Loring Greene can relate directly with your client’s customers, with a presentation that ranges from mid 40s to 60, and with a wise and experienced demeanor. Loring’s voice has a charming, knowledgeable aspect, and understands the branding goals of today’s retail and...

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Classes

Classes

Here’s the latest schedule of VO2GoGO Secrets of VO classes, and workshops David teaches elsewhere, with links to get more info and to reserve your seat. Get location, cost and other information on the classes here, and here’s how to reserve your seat. Other workshops and appearances need to be booked via the organization sponsoring the event, and those...

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How We Produce Demos

How We Produce Demos

The process is simple, actually. Lots of thought and planning goes into making your experience as a VO2GoGo client a smooth and enjoyable one. Here’s how producing your demo with VO2GoGo works. Be well hydrated and relaxed. No thick juices or cream based products. Avoid caffeinated drinks. For most demos, you travel to our studio in Burbank, CA. IVR demos are...

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Commercial Demo

Commercial Demo

The most important VO demo in your portfolio. Don’t need an explanation? Schedule your commercial demo session now. When potential clients or VO casting people ask you if you have a demo, they usually mean a commercial VO demo: a collection of clips culled from your work on radio, television or Internet commercial spots. Listen to sample: Kara Revel | Tom...

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Class info

Class info

This is the place to get all the information you need about VO2GoGo.com’s award winning series of Secrets of VO voiceover training classes here in LA (and on the Internet via video). On this page, you’ll find out where the classes are held, what they’re all about, how much they cost, how to sign up for them and more. Just need to see the classes? If you...

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IVR Demo

IVR Demo

The most profitable VO demo you can make. Don’t need an explanation? Schedule your IVR/Phone Prompt demo session now. IVR (Interactive Voice Response), or phone prompts (“For sales, press one. For service, press two…”) make more money for you, for the amount of work required, than any category of voicework, (and there’s more IVR voicework on...

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Installation and Training

Installation and Training

We’ll come to you. Don’t need an explanation? Schedule your installation appointment now. If you’d rather have a helping hand with getting the right equipment installed, and the right software loaded onto your computer, plus training and follow up, this is the package for you. The package formerly known as Studio2GoGo. Have David Lawrence come to your...

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Video Classes

Video Classes

Can’t make it to this Sunday’s live class in LA? Incredibly impatient and want to take the class NOW? Missed last week’s class? No problem. David has put all of his classes on video, and features two each week for you to preview and download below. These aren’t just streams, these are hundreds of megabytes of video that you can collect and watch...

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Narration Demo

Narration Demo

The stuff of heroes and history. Don’t need an explanation? Schedule your Documentary Narration demo session now. Narration demos, or more accurately, documentary narration demos, show a client how you handle the voice that supports the picture in biographies, historical reviews, political accounts and more. The producers of shows that appear on PBS, The History...

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Pro and ProPlus

Pro and ProPlus

Go Pro, or go ProPlus? Two choices for two types of students and clients: So many of my students have really dedicated themselves to persistent and thoughtful work on their VO practice with me. Those people, who want to attend every class they can, create a strong and deep demo portfolio, work on auditions, plan out marketing and form career management strategies with me...

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Demos

Demos

VO2GoGo – award winning demos for less. Professional voiceover talent knows that to be successful, the very first tool you need is a commercial demo: a short (one minute or so) reel of examples of what your voice sounds like. Some demos are made from work you’ve already done, perhaps from spots airing on radio, TV or the Internet. Other demos, including the...

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Equipment

Equipment

The right VO equipment for the right price. The way VO talent acquires work has changed drastically and rapidly over the last few years, due in no small measure to the advent of online casting sites like Voice123.com and Voices.com. What used to be a drive to a studio or the agent’s office, is now a saunter over to the talent’s computer, and the use of a...

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VO Workouts

VO Workouts

Instead of working abs and glutes, work your vocal cords. Don’t need an explanation? Schedule your private 30 minute VO workout or 60 minute VO workout now. Spend 30 or 60 minutes (your choice) with David, working on whatever you like: practicing cold reads tackling difficult copy learning self-direction by being directed working on your marketing recording a big...

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Clients

Clients

Here are many of the clients for whom David has produced or updated demos, in alphabetical order by gender, ladies first. The demos below are for your review if you’re casting for work and you want to audition or hire any of his clients. And if you’re a VO artist and you’d like to join this list, or if you want more information on any of his clients,...

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Praise

Praise

These words, from my students and clients, make all the work I do on the classes, the video classes, the demos, the services and especially serving my Pro members worthwhile. Without a doubt, I have the best students and clients in the world. – David H. Lawrence XVII Natalia Fedner David…I love telling people...

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Newsletter

Newsletter

We call it the SOVO Daily. Three times a week (M/W/F) via email, you can get a new, easy-to-digest-and-understand Secrets of Voiceover tip, nugget, trick, strategy and more to make your auditions better, your marketing more on-target, your use of software and equipment for VO more fluid and your life as a VO artist better than ever before. It’s short, it’s...

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Audition Studios

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Audition Studios

There are a number of studios that offer what are called “talent rates” for stopping by, doing an audition and sending it off. These rates are for VO talent that either have yet to install home/portable equipment, or are at the wrong end of town, or can’t get to your agency when a last minute audition comes in.

What is LAME?

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LAME, the MP3-exporting plugin for Audacity, enables software that doesn’t have built-in MP3 export capability (like Audacity) to spit out MP3 files. What does the acronym LAME stand for?

Slating

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When recording an audition, the very first thing you want to lay down is a clear, precise and brief slate. Your slate is there to not only let the casting person know who’s speaking, but also to set the stage for your audition.

Normalization

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When auditioning, giving a loud, clean sound to your submissions is essential. The level at which you safely record those auditions, being careful not to overdrive the microphone or recorded signal, can leave you with a properly recorded, but weak sounding final product. Here’s how to fix that.

6 Steps to a Perfect VO Demo

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6 Steps to a Perfect VO Demo

Making a demo with VO2GoGo is a breeze. It’s fun, it’s fast and it’s inexpensive. And you can start working right away. Our goal with VO2GoGo is to demystify and simplify the process of making a commercial voice demo, and to make the whole experience a satisfying investment of your time and money.