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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

Voice over blog posts


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Aston Element microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

VO and redundancy – it’s not what you think!

 February 6, 2023
It’s good to have a spare! I recently read a blog post by a voice over artist which had some sensible advice for anyone who works in their own voice over home studio. It was originally posted by FVO Jenna Sharp (left) in December but I only came across the piece this week. In a nutshell her advice was about the importance of what some people call redundancy – this read more
David Hamilton Radio presenter

Radio presenters with long careers

 February 1, 2023
When should you hang up your headphones? I still tend to describe myself as a voice over artist with a radio background. After all I was a radio presenter for over 20 years. I gave it up because at that time in commercial radio it seemed like the only way to carry on in the business as you got older was to move into management and that never really appealed read more
CR3 Rover video grab

Voiceover narration update

 January 24, 2023
Trying to match new work to an older voice session A recent post on LinkedIn from another voiceover suggested that January is a good time to take stock and also to catch up on a things that may get overlooked at other times when you are more busy. So it’s a good time to track down and update examples of previous work that, for example, you might use on your read more
AT4033 microphone with pop shield. Photo by Louis Radley

Health curse of the voice over

 January 10, 2023
When your health lets down a voice performance The winter time curse of voice overs is to experience a cold or a sore throat. It is an occupational hazard at this time of year. Looking back I realise there have been a number of posts by me at this time of year along a similar theme. I ought to try and find a way of keeping more healthy. Many years read more
Record producer Butch Walker

An amazing home studio

 November 30, 2022
A studio I would love to work in Many voice overs have home studios as do many musicians. The voice over version can be quite simple with just some kind of booth, a mic and mic stand, somewhere to put the script and a laptop for recording. In the world of music a home studio can be rather more complex as I discovered watching a video of a visit to read more
Aston Element microphone and pop shield Photo by Louis Radley

Getting pronunciation right

 November 22, 2022
How you say things is important On a recent self directed medical equipment explainer voice over job for a client in Sweden I had sent him the VO recording only to find he thought my pronunciation of a word was incorrect. The word in question was “respiratory” and my client was adamant that I had got it wrong. The way I have always said this word is “ris-pira-tree” with the read more
Billy Bragg singing

A surprising voice

 November 7, 2022
Not the vocal delivery you might have expected For once this is a post that is not about voice overs but is still about a voice – and a surprising one at that. I’ve not really been a huge fan of singer Billy Bragg but I’m certainly aware of his music and it would seem somewhere along the way I must have started to follow him on social media. This read more
Tape editing block

The art of audio editing

 September 22, 2022
It started with a cutting block, razor blades and editing tape I just came across as blog post about one of the key skills in voiceover and audio production work and the content of it really resonated with me. It’s written by radio professional David Lloyd who writes about one of his bugbears when listening to radio broadcasts or podcasts: he asks “does no one learn how to edit anymore?” read more
Aston Element microphone close up Photo by Louis Radley

What voice overs really sound like

 August 5, 2022
Can you be a voice over and not like the sound of your own voice? 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 read more
Aston Element microphone and pop shield Photo by Louis Radley

Demise of the Voice of God?

 July 14, 2022
The end for documentary narration? 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 read more

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