A voice over coach once opened a class with the dream. Roll out of bed at 9am. Make some coffee. Slowly start your day. That, she said, was the VO life.
I signed up. I worked at it. I built that career.
I’m still up at 5:45.
That’s not a complaint. I like the work. I like what happens in the booth when a script clicks, when the read goes from technically correct to actually right. You don’t get that from a class. You get it from reps. Thousands of them. Years of being in front of a microphone before you understood what being in front of a microphone actually meant.
My job is finding the piece of a script that’s still human and putting that back into the read. By the time copy gets to the talent, it’s been through a dozen hands. Legal, marketing, compliance. What was alive at the writer’s desk has usually been edited into something precise and dead. My job is to find it and put it back.
The Studio
The booth is a Whisper Room isolation booth I found on Craigslist. Near Nashville. Thousands below retail. My buddy Matt drove down first to check it out. I rented a U-Haul. We had a great weekend and a very long drive home.
That booth is now in my basement in Fulton, Illinois. Neumann TLM 103 mic. Aphex processor. Source Connect for live remote sessions when your team needs to be in the room without physically being in the room.
Broadcast-ready audio. Fast turnaround. No drama.
Real Life. Well-Crafted.
That slogan means something specific. The clients I work with need a voice their audience actually connects with. Not a voice that sounds impressive. A voice that sounds like someone the listener would hang out with.
I live on just under six acres in rural Illinois. I brew beer when I have time and drink it carefully when I don’t. I play guitar by ear. I own things that are used and work and were bought with patience, not impulse.
Me and your customer can hang out. That’s what it is.