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When part of your work is recording corporate and explainer video voiceovers you can discover quite a range of things  you previously had no idea existed.

For example non slip tennis courts; a special plastic used in photovoltaic cells; an iphone app that controls wood burning stoves; how to decommission wind turbines; a machine that measures human body resonant frequencies; how to turn a conservatory into an extra room; a water distribution and sewerage company in the desert in the UAE and finding out how to drive fancy VW cars over rocky terrain – you name it I’ve done the voice over!.

I hope these blog posts give a flavour of the more interesting voiceover stuff that sometimes comes my way – plus some of the other things I like that I’ve come across in those moments when I’m waiting for the next script to arrive!

Chris Radley – Voice Over

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Matthew Sweet - broadcaster

Matthew Sweet’s surreal radio programme

 November 17, 2024
Every so often I come across some radio output that brings me up short and make me listen to the end. Actually these days I should probably refer to “audio” or “sounds” rather than radio as the latter is perhaps increasingly considered rather 20th Century. However I refer to radio as that was where I heard it. I have previously posted about Radio 4’s the Archive Hour. Having said that read more

MD421 Kompakt studio microphone

Is new MD421 Kompakt mic any good for Voice Over?

 October 24, 2024
Whenever a new microphone comes along I like to check it out and see if it might be any good for voiceover or spoken word recording work. So I was interested in a new microphone recently released by Sennheiser.  Actually it is not really a new microphone – more of a re-packaging of an old faithful as Sennheiser have re thought the classic MD421 microphone to produce a new much read more

Image of a Studer reel to reel tape recorder

September thoughts…again

 September 9, 2024
It’s that time of year again – the kids go back to school after the long summer break and the weather suddenly seems to have a hint of autumn about it. The first leaves are falling from the trees and with the change of weather you can feel it’s the end of one cycle and the beginning of another.  I wrote a post about September a few years ago and read more

Aston Element microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

Is there any point in blogging in 2024?

 September 2, 2024
A recent conversation with a client about my voice over artist website got me thinking. He asked me whether there was any point in writing blog posts in 2024. I’ve been writing blog posts for a long time now and have long assumed that they help with SEO (search engine optimisation) on a website. There is certainly evidence that they have done in the past – my Google analytics shows read more

AT4033 microphone with pop shield. Photo by Louis Radley

Voice over – summer availability

 August 5, 2024
This post is updating my summer availability for voice over work. I have taken my summer holiday earlier than usual this year which means that I am now just back in my studio and unusually for me I have availability in August. So if the male voice over artist you wanted to use is not around because they are on holiday – fear not as I can step in to read more

Aston Stealth microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

Updating my voice over showreels

 May 30, 2024
I decided it was time to update my website voice over showreels and so I have just uploaded the latest versions of my commercial, corporate, explainer and documentary voice over reels plus a new general VO showreel. The last mentioned is on the home page of my website while the other 4 are on the voice demo page. I used to have a number of other genre reels on my read more

Aston Element microphone and pop shield Photo by Louis Radley

Contrasting voice overs

 May 13, 2024
It’s been a busy time in my voiceover booth. There seems to be a bit more activity around than there was at the beginning of the year. I have posted previously about my client base and how grateful I am for the clients that come back time after time. Over the last few years I have been voicing for a wide-ranging e-learning project designed for people involved in bringing new read more

Aston Element voice over microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

Broadcast quality home studio

 April 18, 2024
I had been just updating my voice over website when I came across a posting by Voice Actor Clay St Thomas on Linked in. It caught my attention because it was about a form of wording used by many voice artists on their websites and LI profiles – including myself – which referred to “broadcast quality home studio”. Clay took the view that we should stop using this wording because read more

AT8449 Shockmount for a voice over microphone

AT4033 mic shockmount elastic repair

 March 13, 2024
I recently mentioned that I had updated my Google analytics tag on my voiceover website.  As a result I discovered a blog post about the Aston Stealth microphone from a few years ago was performing well. Now I have updated my dvoicebox.com studio website analytics and discovered that a blog post from an even longer time ago is still getting a lot of hits. Back then I wrote about the read more

Aston Stealth side mount

Back to the Aston Stealth…

 February 26, 2024
A couple of weeks ago I installed the code tag for the latest version of Google analytics on my voiceover website and it’s been interesting to look at the data since I did it. I was intrigued by the analytics data on landing pages. Several blog posts come up ahead of the main web pages and in particular 2 really stand out in terms of number of hits and time read more


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