lanceblair, Author at American Voice Over Actor Lance Blair

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Lance Blair is an American voice over actor based in Atlanta, specializing in corporate video narration, commercial voice over, eLearning, explainer videos, medical narration, and video game characters. Known for a trustworthy, engaging delivery that connects with audiences, Lance brings both performance skill and technical expertise as a recording engineer, giving clients a true partner in storytelling. Lance also offers voiceover localization services, including phrase sync and dubbing from multiple languages into English, helping brands reach international audiences with authenticity. His studio operates in the EST time zone and is fully equipped for remote-directed sessions via Source-Connect 3.9 and 4.0. Clients include Philips, Abbott, PwC, Cartoon Network, Porsche, and Fisher Price. When he's not behind the mic, Lance writes about voice over production on his blog, covering everything from studio software to voiceover industry trends. Ready to change your narrative? Contact Lance to discuss your next project. More info at https://lanceblairvo.com

Ten Villain Types for Voice Acting

By lanceblair

Villain voice over archetypes can be combined, or nuanced with personal backstories, motivations, and character development, making villains complex and sometimes even sympathetic figures in contemporary storytelling. There are no hard rules for playing any of these Ten Villain Types for Voice Acting. However, keeping these in mind and how the types could be combined can develop richer characters, than is the case if one is just playing “the bad guy.”

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The New Source-Connect 4.0

By lanceblair

Source-Connect will be more secure, and more robust. Source-Elements is transitioning to a subscription model, and the word is that their Source-Connect 3.9 will be retired as soon as 4.0 is fully adopted as the new industry standard. So if you’re a studio, joining the new Beta testing program and purchasing it is highly recommended.

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Heavy Metal Voice Over: Compressors

By lanceblair

One of my favorite things about being a voice actor is the variety of voiceover projects out there. For example, I have been the voice on a few Heavy Metal songs over the years, in the style of Queensrÿche, etc. It takes some specific studio wizardry to mix with a Heavy Metal Voice Over: Compressors.

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Source-Connect Q Restore and Replace

By lanceblair

Source-Connect Q Restore and Replace are features designed to improve sporadic flawed audio quality in Source-Connect recording sessions to home or remote studios. They are particularly useful in rare cases of when network connectivity is less than ideal, which can sometimes lead to audio dropouts or artifacts. These features are unique to Source-Connect among all

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MOTU M2 Audio Interface: Review

By lanceblair

MOTU M2 Audio Interface The MOTU M2 and M4 Audio Interfaces are entry-level offerings from MOTU, but they have high quality preamps and the same ESS Sabre32 Ultra DAC converters as their top-of-line interfaces. Everything about these units is extremely well made in a way that cannot be said of similar products from SSL, Focusrite,

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LUFS Voiceover Levels

By lanceblair

What is LUFS? What is LUFS? And what should LUFS Voiceover Levels be? Well, LUFS (Loudness Units Referenced to Full Scale) is the standard for measuring Loudness. Loudness is the perceived level of heard sound. It is not the same as peak volume level, which is the maximum amplitude of a sound wave. 0 dBFS

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