Common wisdom holds that clearing your throat is the worst thing for your vocal cords…true or false?
Should You Clear Your Throat?
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Vocal Health
Vocal health tips and insights from the past decade of voice over work and multiple decades of experience on screen and on air.
Can You Escape Your Voice’s AGE?
Does your age define or limit the number of jobs you qualify for?
Clearing Out the Crud
When your speaking apparatus is gunked-up... you can't keep up your VO commitments so well. And Boy Howdy, this is the season for gunking! How many times have I seen anguished posts on social media groups begging anyone for quick-fix solutions that will allow the completion of a project in...
My Monday Night Visitor
What day of the week would you say comes with the highest concentration of VO audition requests? Uh-huh. Monday. Now, let me explain that my prime daypart for recording auditions is midnight to 3am. Lately I've also adding 11am - 1pm after I rise, for doing auditions. That's it. That's all the...
Can I Clear My Throat, or Not?
Every 6 months I see my ENT Physician. He clears the wax out of my ears, looks up my nose, mumbles something to his assistant, then sticks a camera scope down into my throat. It's mildly irritating, but THIS is why I mostly come every six months. He says: "Say E-E-E-E-E." I do, and he nods his...
Forget SEO, It’s All About The Reader
Google is re-writing the rules of SEO. As a journalist, I kept hearing that Google "Authorship" was the new thing. Then Steve Cunningham came along at FaffCon6 and blew the doors out. Cunningham is a professor at USC's Thornton School of Music. In his spare time, he's an audio...
Soldiering On
Luckily it happened AFTER my holiday vacation. The common cold. Like most of you, it began with that "uh-oh" feeling you get, when alla sudden it hurts to swallow. My wife -- the RN -- saw the white spots on my tonsils and diagnosed STREP! One of my daughters in the house had come down with it...
The Wet Stuff
This week, parts of the Las Vegas valley reached temperatures above 115°F. We're kinda used to it. Many parts of the country, though, are breaking heat records right and left, making this probably the hottest Summer on recent record in the USA. I pity the folks living through energy blackouts in...