hello and welcome to the r and b show up close and personal on your hosting us and i'm here to take you through this musical dance we call life and to do that you know i bring on fantastic people in industry to help us make it through the days this you know i always have to take out my glasses when i have to read a long list of credits so let me do this he is an emmy award winning audio director with over forty years in the voiceover and music business he's worked on staff and as a freelancer from major radio stations v stations in new york producing automation dialogue will have to ask him what that is directing audiobooks radio productions t v soundtrack productions documentaries award winning films he is the owner and c e o of atlanta productions who provides voice over support services and home studio solutions which i need here and a whole lot more if i can talk and will never get to the interview let us get up close and personal with uncle roy jocose and welcome to the army  it safe and say one of my sisters had kids then but i but probably not but i was uncle roy many years before that as part of my company name and land production the character named uncle and out of that and then that was actually my when i was in college radio it was the uncle and the extravaganza and then that part mostly want to a couple of people still call me that but that's a little silly and then i like it and then everybody i mean if my bosses are audio engineering and do you create extends and when i was two that i had a record player and i used to play perry como sparkle of mambo over and over and over and over and over like you do and it drove my father crazy and  friends said well put in a headphone jack and i'll show off the speaker so it too had headphones but kids today at two they have had phones they have everything right and then my father gave me a tape recorder when i was five and i was brooklyn yeah ok how do you get the jersey proud of it brooklyn long island washing jamaica states there's jersey bloomfield ok ok all right we'll talk about something was up bloomfield late because i'm trying to get in north runs to be closer to me ok anyway so now i know you did all those different things this stop for a minute and talk about the animation dialogue what is that i was when m g m animation was still a thing whoever was in new york i was the i was the guy to get you were the go to guy joan rivers yeah rivers how was she always going to need her joan rivers was the most professional almost overly accommodating personally impolite become almost the complete opposite of her persona and my opening line to her which i stole from my father is what part of brooklyn did you grow up in and that started  friendship there right right she was she was absolutely great you have a diva can we talk to no no really no i mean a funny thing happened during the studio they were doing a photo shoot and we had these panels these acoustic but the people doing the photo shoot they flatten them out so they could have more room in the booth to shoot her and then i was about to start the session and i hear cursing because the panels fell on her and how long she went everywhere take that's there starts with joan rivers yelling about the coffee so now i don't know if you know but this show this is the anniversary show they were shooting so i'm pleased that if the anniversary shows and i started in voiceover and that's how i got to radio so i thought people always ask me how to get invoice over all these different things and i keep telling them there's a whole lot more to just speaking and a whole lot more than i think a good voice not just reading you know what i'm saying so anyway so i try to bring back some shows that will go back to that to help people out there who want to do that so let's talk about that for a minute you did the voice of the community press t v plus radio but film so what do you like better you know i wear so many different hats and even in the early part of my career you you had advertising going on you had a record album going because auto record album you had a film score you had a documentary so even if it was slow in advertising something else w i love music recording especially music of the twenty minutes and twenty one years ago the twenty's and thirty's yeah i favorite yes so i know the thing is from back then right yeah yeah so when i worked on woody allen's radio voiceovers because it's really about people old school you know the the voice of would come to the studio and they'd be uncle royce coffee and bagels and danish and fruit and everything and it was about people getting together  and now everything is studios guys home studio you know email and so it's taken a lot of the personal thing out of it you know that's why i like to go to your house and set up your home studio because we get to hang out or all of the seminars and women i was in training classes with everybody from all across the country in voiceover everywhere and we get together and we train and we meet uncle roy like i did last last year  i used to read a lot of books when i was younger babes in twilight well yeah that was christopher plummer yeah i have my christopher plummer story we'll see if we get into that alright director like the told his son that i almost killed christopher plummer on the on the day of the recording because he did something that was that well he had to show that he was the boss or he was christopher plummer so it was a small booth not terrible right through two or three times the size of my room and stop as you mentioned we have to tell them what's a whisper whisper room is when you have a home studio you can buy a prefab voice booth where you can go inside and it's mostly soundproof and you make it inside the booth the make it sound good with sound treatment you don't need that but if you've got if you've got the means of government funds for that right whisper room or studio breaks or there are different brands of  film shoots they so we got into the big room really and at one point he was supposed to yell he was born to be in babes in toyland the mean guy and so he was going to yell and he turned to the back of the room and he yell so i said well now i know that now that i'm ready for you can just yell you can yell right into the microphone because otherwise it sounds off mike was the michael off you know you know it sounds like you're yelling to the back of the room well my dear boy when we did live radio you well my job is to make whoever it is as comfortable as possible so that they can give the best delivery whether it's a musician and you go out and just a microphone even if it's a really ok musician will think that you really cared about them getting the right sound and they'll play better and then the hear back wow you made me sound great and it's like no use you know so there's there really is a thing of making something sound really good through to what you and ending while that no by making the talent feel very at ease so they can give the best performance whether it's a voiceover or musician right anybody and it's not it's not a fake you know it's genuine i genuinely want them to absolutely you know and that's a little bit of what makes me the uncle roy or whatever to me i'm all about the p i really care i mean i think you know i don't care about you yes i care about you and i care about you and that's true and that's why he's here because he cares about all of us and we this show is about giving you what you need so you can make it dreams come true doing and then there's a lot of teachers out there who teach technology don't feel like you really care about them or that you're genuine they're not going to grasp it they're going to be thinking oh my god this person really doesn't care about me just going to the motion or she's just going through the motions and i will know soon enough how much you can handle right i don't want to overload you  take a really slow and if i feel well she just got this part let's move on let's go into more detail and i'll usually say i'm giving you more detail now because i i sense that you can handle it right so that i ask you what animation that you felt just didn't have it the talent wasn't there and then i say that well let me tell you have you ever worked with someone like that and then can you get a killer you know they mention any names we don't want to be sued can you get a killer demo out of them out of who out of the person you felt you mean because i got to have the cat palate to do it i can came to you to produce a demo i can produce a killer demo but if you can't deliver what's on your demo the killer demo only will show that i'm a great demo producer and not that you're a great talent and i don't want my craft to overshadow your talent  the process is usually that i interview you so that he gets i write scripts that are about your life and about things products that you use and things you believe in so it's very personal and then i usually coach with those scripts to make sure that you're ready and once i didn't do that because the person told me oh i'm ready i take the rection grade i've been coaching forever and then he got to my house  you know after an hour of trying to get through the first fifteen seconds of recording i said you know you can't do this what's going to happen if i finish your demo and you send it out and you get hired you can't produce it and that's good because you could've been the type of person that just let him go on and do it take the money and then send him out and i'm so glad that you're not that kind of person again another reason doesn't know it yet but he's getting his money but another reason why i do this shows because in these this industry this so many people really don't care about you and they just they're not going to give you any information and so i wanted to be able to give people information where there was none or where people won't share with everybody it helps them and so this is this is a community based show to help people so when would you say that person was ready and then you talked about the script and i had questions about that on the double back to that so when did you feel that they were ready and why do you feel it's important to you to write t because you pick products for you that you use or or maybe he can't cookie cutter formulate oh we need a sexy spy we need a compassionate we need girl next door we need my i mean yes you  ready you'll know it and the particular person wasn't ready and we both knew it after having worked with them for you know what i wish i had coached him more and if he's up for it all that's what i'll do i'll take that money  apply towards coaching there were other there were other issues you need to be an actor this is voice acting exactly and people forget that you're not about you have a good voice it's not a it's that's the smallest part of the equation is that you have a good boy and the second part is the acting you have acting and if you can do improv exactly that really goes conversationalist and i'm sure prattled people walk up to you they walk up to me all the time and they go oh they tell me i have a great voice i want to get in a voice sing voiceover how do you do that it's because of that and i go if it's not about your voice you have ever heard a lady or a man who has a real squeaky high voice and they like the cartoons but they're not putting on that's really the voice right and they're doing voice over is doesn't matter it's about taking direction it may i give him a dig it may dictate what your genre is and what your range is so that if you've got a big deep voice you might think about gaming or i mean animation there's a whole other thing and most people have to move to california and the and the competition is tremendous and are you as good as if not better than the people out there and  thing is now if it was easier years ago it's so much talent oh my already saturated yeah yeah because everybody and the other thing is the reason you get into voiceovers and this  hobby well it's ok everything is room for everybody but i've got this one guy that produces car videos about been to cars but he doesn't charge an awful i don't it's not i don't need the money you know this is just a hobby i'm having fun let me be your age will get the money you get you'll still get the money you need and i'll take the it's ok ok so there you feel that someone should come to you as a coach and audio or just go to someone else a coaching and and the you know the throw money away but do you feel that you're equally if it's a pence on the on the genre you know i'm very good at looking for but i don't yeah i mean i wouldn't necessarily coach my my strength is not coaching in animation and gaming i would send them to record and do you know at least your course that are being you know get it get it roughly in in there and the home studio has to sound like broadcast quality otherwise when people are listening to an audition they're listening for two things obviously  that's voiceovers nov fourth i was kind of thing you're going to be there i'm i'm the host yes i'd only i'm the host of the speed dating when your demo which you know different casting people and producers will critique your demo right  it didn't you had you know you walked in and you just had to perform right and there was an engineer there was a producer a director the music producer was there and his girlfriend was there and it was all about a lot of people and now you i mean you'd be lucky if it's a phone and somebody is the right thing even on the phone or skype or whatever do you ever tell people to teach people how to direct themselves i don't like directing myself it takes time well part one way to start doing that is you record yourself and you listen back and most people can tell oh why am i going too fast why aren't i smiling i'm slurring i'm overly articulate so if you can hear if you can hear the issues that's not mine so depending on what the product is and i like to start with a pretty read whether it's a mom or a dad you know what i saw the other day and then go into the read because it's conversational or sometimes just whatever supposedly talking to a friend and likely to like a lead in and sometimes a lead in could just be read the tag line and then go back to the top right now you're warmed up and you're hit the ground running there's so much we could talk about in the subject we never have enough time then productions do you have a team are you doing everything it's pretty much me sometimes i hire ghost writers but friend lamar came he was coming for his dental i don't the scripts are ready five in the morning i sat down and i wrote a scripts and we love them and it's and i don't know how many still be more than that yeah you know like forty states are getting like that awesome and then next may come into march but i'm not sure i'm going to make that one so now give me two tips two to three tips that you feel would be good for someone who wants to be  sound engineer it so they can run out tomorrow so they heard you and just started really passionate about sound and then there are different aspects you know radio is not one hundred percent dead but when you know schools like the connecticut school of broadcasting and there are places that teach radio production  not exactly skirting the issue but the question but there's films that around there's all the all the reality shows need you know where you put a wireless love like on people and project runway and they've got twenty four microphones going if you go to the school they do there's live theater why didn't go to school for anything you learn on the job this was a pad this was my childhood passion just sound just making two i'm going to get away with only two because you're running out of the clock is ticking just yet to find out everything every kind of aspect every kind of job that would involve sound there are all kinds of in house production companies the ad agencies have in house audio departments the pharma companies have their own in house production companies so now