http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Melanie+Haynes Advice Melanie Haynes Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=522645&ca=Advice Even if it's a very busy day and you're running in and out of the studio, it's best to try to remember to ask ALL the questions before quoting on a voice over job. Maybe a cheat sheet of questions to ask clients would be useful, especially on those frantic days. If you ask all the other questions, b... Jobs Melanie Haynes Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=500136&ca=Jobs It's so hard for some of us not to pursue every avenue for work that is open to us from one day to the next, and for the most part, that's a good thing. But sometimes, even when potential clients contact us via phone or email after visiting our web site, and our first inclination is to cement the jo... Internet Melanie Haynes Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=386994&ca=Internet So, you’d like as broad a marketplace as possible? The internet is obviously the place to be. But you need a web site, right? Not necessarily. Many of the larger voice over web sites you may list with will create a web page for you on their site as part of your listing fee. You can post demos, list... Advice Melanie Haynes Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=383528&ca=Advice Numerous prospective professional voice talent have contacted me asking for advice on how to get into the business. They ask, “What do I need to do?” Wow, talk about your loaded question! And to seriously address it, requires a long winded answer! I’ve been a working professional voice talent and ac... Career Melanie Haynes Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=383529&ca=Career Numerous prospective professional voice talent have contacted me asking for advice on how to get into the business. They ask, “What do I need to do?” Wow, talk about your loaded question! And to seriously address it, requires a long winded answer! I’ve been a working professional voice talent and ac... Advice Melanie Haynes Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=357777&ca=Advice As voice talent with our own home studios we engineer our own sessions; however, many of us do not consider ourselves to be true audio engineers. We have learned enough and purchased the right equipment to produce a high quality sounding recording, and some of us can even mix in a little music, but... Business Melanie Haynes Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=352555&ca=Business In the voice-over business, it's often feast or famine. You can be incredibly busy with everyone wanting their projects voiced at the same time and/or studio booking requests for same day, same time, different studios - even different cities! Then, during a lull - nada. Is there a way to deal with t... Advice Melanie Haynes Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=351442&ca=Advice We've all had to go back days, weeks, or months later to make revisions to previous voice-over work to accommodate client changes or tweaks. What does it take to make those revisions blend seamlessly with the previous read style and recording quality? Well, technically, it's best to be in the same s...