Voice of Simeon

Voicing "Tails" Again

I auditioned AGAIN for another casting that needed the SAME character of Tails! Also, in one of my previous posts, I wrote how I auditioned for the Tails character. Well, I got the part and another role! There were around 30 other auditions (big competition!). I'm still waiting for my script, but in the meantime, I sent a bunch of other auditions for other projects. and like I just said, I got cast AGAIN! This time it isn't paid though, but it's still good practice. I also have a few other pending auditions and have my eye on one right now. Casting Call Club has proven to be a great place to learn more about voice over and meet other people with the same talents and interests. I hope that by the time I'm 14 or 15, I'll be on more of a professional site (like maybe Fiverr soon??).

Actor Corey Burton

I decided to talk about one of my favorite actors: Corey Burton! He was born August 3, 1955, and started voice acting for movies and shows in 1980. Corey (his real name is Corey Gregg Weinberg, but he goes professionally by Corey Burton) does a lot of really cool voices, usually really deep ones (which is what I really like about him!)

I especially know him from Star Wars: The Clone Wars tv series, and played as two big roles in the series (not to mention a bunch of other side characters and extras): Count Dooku and Cad Bane. He does a lot of voices for Disney, and has also played in a lot of other movies, including The Transformers, Peter Pan: Return to Never Land, The Princess and the Frog, and much more!

Creating Music??

A few months ago I got a program called LMMS (idk what that stands for), a program where you can create custom music! I forgot how I found out about this, but just recently I started paying some attention to it. It's AWESOME! They have a bunch of digital instruments that you can use (like a piano, guitar, etc), then you can put them together to make something really cool! I've heard other people make music with it, and it sounds amazing! Here's some music that someone else made. I decided to have some fun with LMMS (be aware that I know barely anything about how to use this program), so I made this "Mario video game style" short music:

You can download LMMS for free here: https://lmms.io/download/#windows

Taking Out those *BLEEP* Words!

Yesterday one of my clients asked me if I knew how to bleep out bad words since one of the guests used one at one point. I didn't, so I looked up how in Audition. It was so easy! All I had to do was select what I wanted to bleep out, then select Effects>Generate>Tones, then set the frequency to 1000. It had just the right tone to sound like the traditional "beep":

I also learned another new thing today. I learned how to do this:
You've probably heard this in a lot in songs. It was pretty easy to do, too! I love exploring Audition and finding out new things that do effects or make editing faster. 
Speaking of which, I've been doing a lot of podcast editing lately, and feel like I'm getting a little bit faster. For one of my client's episodes (I edit one every week) it takes anything from 3 to 6 hours, mainly because each episode is over an hour long, and they're all interviews. 
What I've learned to do to make editing faster, is to edit the first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes, Then edit about 30 seconds of audio at each transition point (whenever the next person starts talking), which is usually about every 5 minutes.
But the time on how long the editing takes all depends on how long the episode is, and how good the speaker is. I'd like to start working on more episodes and make some more money off of that.