Voice Over Insider – Q&A with Beau Weaver

 Welcome to the Voice Over Insider Interview Series.

In these interviews we’ll attempt to go beyond the typical questions and get to the real performer behind the microphone, and bring you their insights from an educational point of view.

This week:

Beau Weaver Interview
Media – Web/Internet
www.minewurx.com – A voice over training website.
Interviewer: Michael Minetree

Beau Weaver and his Manley Microphone

Beau Weaver in the Voice Over Studio

 

So here we are, an interview that I have wanted to do since before I knew how to type, and the jury is still out on that ability. Seriously though, one of the first voice over related web pages I stumbled across back in the good old days before every TD&H had a web page about voice over training and techniques, this man was up on the net before the rest of us.

I recall coming across his site and when digging for more information, discovered, not only was he a good VO, he was a really good VO, and has since become one of the people I most highly recommend when it comes to how new voice talent might want to set the bar for themselves if they are looking to achieve what I feel to be the most well-rounded type of success in this business; The kind where one doesnt chase constant celebrity and simply exists amidst their success while remaining grounded enough to still offer guidance and a helping hand to those who wish to some day nip at his ankles in this occupation.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the most versatile voice over talent in the business, hands down, Beau Weaver.

You will not find another talent who spans as much media. You will not find another talent with more wide ranging credits to their name, and you simply wont find a talent with more creative delivery ability than this man here

1) Does that about sum it up Beau?

You make me sound like a FEDEX guy with a bad FICA Score.

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Audio Proficiency: You better be ready to fly little donkey…

Yeah, yeah.. I know.. Flying donkeys.. Sure, that’s something you see everyday… I just wanted to get your attention so that you would sit up straight in class. Audio proficiency is what’s at hand here and the use of the phrase “ready to fly” means ready to move your can in the event you have to. As usual, I would like to share some of my real world voice over experience in hopes that it may help someone survive a potentially embarrassing situation – or best of all – avoid one all together. You never know when a client will call just as you’ve hopped into the car to take the little lady shoe shopping, asking for something you might not be able to deliver.
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Sample or Sampling Rate – The rate at which the audio is sampled by the recording device.

Some of you are going to have to excuse my methods of explaining some things in this article because it was meant to help newbies understand some of the basic principals of digital audio recording and effects processing. In an effort to foster this understanding I have used references and terms or words that don’t directly apply to digital audio in general and there are some areas where I declined to fully embellish all of the details. This article wasn’t meant for audiophiles or scientists, so if you are one, please look beyond some of my gorilla tactics when it comes to explaining some of this stuff.
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