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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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Aston Element microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

What voice overs really sound like

 August 5, 2022
I came across a recent article by female voice artist Katie Flamman that resonanted with me. It’s about an often overlooked aspect of voice over work – or a thing that you get so used to while doing it that you don’t really think about it. Katie says that although providing a voice over is part of a collaborative creative process the reality is that many times the voice artist read more

Aston Element microphone and pop shield Photo by Louis Radley

Demise of the Voice of God?

 July 14, 2022
A writer of an article on the Guardian website claimed to have discovered a trend in documentary making whereby voice overs are apparently no longer used to provide narration. Recently I wrote about voiceover in corporate and explainer videos being replaced by animated titles and sub titles so I was interested to read what the writer -Barbara Speed – had discovered. Speed uses the term “Voice of God” to describe read more

Aston Spirit 5th Anniversary

Microphone milestone

 June 15, 2022
I’ve blogged before about UK mic manufacturer Aston Microphones. I don’t have any relationship with them but I do like the microphones made by them that I have in my studio – currently the Stealth and the Element. When Aston brought out their first microphone – the Origin it was eye catching to look at and garnered great reviews for its sonic performance too – especially at the price point read more

Hammer Audio HA-69 microphone

New microphone from Hammer Audio

 May 31, 2022
I’m always interested in microphones – and I have more then most voiceovers would need – but this is because I also do work as a recording engineer and audio producer. I’ve written previously about some of the mics I own but here I want to talk about one that I currently don’t. I have recently had my attention drawn to a new UK made entrant in the large diaphragm read more

Lewis Hamilton

New commercial voice over on-line

 April 12, 2022
I recorded the voice over for an on-line commercial and also an information video towards the end of last year. The information video has recently surfaced on-line.  As the voice over I’m in the illustrious company of Lewis Hamilton no less.  My bit starts at around 18 secs in.  The video is promoting the qualities of Petronas Syntium Cool Tech Technology and how it can improve safety and power in read more

Voice Coach Nancy Wolfson

Advice for voice overs – relax!

 April 4, 2022
There is a huge amount of information and advice on line on how to be a voice over artist. One of my favourite sources of information and entertainment for all things voice related are the various free training videos posted by voice coach Nancy Wolfson. I rediscovered one this week that I had first seen a couple of years ago.  Despite being a few years old I think the content read more

Her Day Opera detail

Recording and studio project

 March 18, 2022
Over the last week I’ve been involved with a recording project that has nothing to do with voiceovers! With my audio producer’s hat on I’ve been working on an interesting project that was partly funded by Coventry City of Culture. I’ll probably post about it in more technical detail on my studio blog but in brief I was asked to record a live performance of a newly composed opera. The read more

AT4033 microphone with pop shield. Photo by Louis Radley

Studio art?

 February 25, 2022
I was checking Linked In while I was waiting for a delayed voice over script to arrive and this image was posted by someone on my news feed. It appealed to me as, in addition to voice work, I also do audio production and engineer recording and mixing sessions.  When mixing a large music project you invariably find yourself staring at a page of multi-track wave forms.  Often your eyes read more

Aston Element microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

Voiceover in a directed session

 February 8, 2022
As I’ve said before – Often when people start out in voice over they think all they need is a good or “nice” voice. Actually these days where clients want “authentic” voices almost anyone could be a voice artist – but that’s a subject for another blogpost.  In addition to the voice you have you also need a range of other skills: you need to be able to work for read more

AT4033 microphone with pop shield. Photo by Louis Radley

Covid isolation over – back to the booth

 January 24, 2022
I posted last week that I was isolating due to testing positive for Covid.  I detailed the delights of the symptoms in that post so don’t need to go over that here. Suffice it to say that isolation took longer than I had hoped to get to the two days of consecutive negative tests.  I had hoped to be free on Sunday but in actual fact it wasn’t until today read more


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