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If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

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Try out for the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. The roster, has details if you want to join. And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

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If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

[This cut-n-paste message has been brought to you by the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club, with help from sponsors like Salt: When All The Other Ice Cream Flavours are Taken. And posters like you.]

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

[This cut-n-paste message has been brought to you by the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club, with help from sponsors like Salt: When All The Other Ice Cream Flavours are Taken. And posters like you.]

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

[This cut-n-paste message has been brought to you by the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club, with help from sponsors like Salt: When All The Other Ice Cream Flavours are Taken. And posters like you.]

1) Get yourself a microphone
2) Download Audacity to record your voice
3) Toss those out and get voiceover help from the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people.

And now some profile reviews and replies to various people who wanted to join.

SexPistolFiend
All Who Wish To Join The VAC: Click right here.
When joining, remember: NEVER post your profile when joining UNLESS you have a demo of your voice ready and you've uploaded it on a website for easy access! Yes! THAT MEANS YOU! Ignore this requirement when joining and you will be beaten severely with a banana. And it will hurt. A lot.

SuperMarioFan2004 (160)
PROS: Nothing
CONS: Everything
VERDICT: If you want to join the club, check out the How to Join? section of the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster. It'll provide the details for how to join, as well as help on how to fill the requirements. PLEASE DO NOT POST A PROFILE WITHOUT A SAMPLER UPLOADED SOMEWHERE FOR DOWNLOAD. DO NOT SAY "I'LL MAKE ONE LATER" OR "I'll GET A MICROPHONE IN THREE MONTHS" OR "EMAIL ME FOR SAMPLES PLZ, K?". GET A SAMPLER, HAVE IT UPLOADED AND LINK IT BEFORE POSTING YOUR PROFILE. THIS IS NOT A NEGOTIABLE POINT. THIS MESSAGE IS IN ALL-CAPS AND BOLDED FOR A REASON. SORRY IF IT SEEMS REPETITIVE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS POINT WAS CONVEYED PROPERLY. Finally, this is a VOICE ACTING club. It is not a I CAN DO ALL THESE VOICES THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE I CAN DO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A MIC club. Don't try and join if you don't have a working microphone. That's just plain stupid.

MetalAngel (160)
PROS: You've got a nice variety of voices in that clip you got there.
CONS: You're being dragged down by less-than-average sound quality.
VERDICT: Try recording and saving in something more than 22KHz 8-Bit resolution. 44KHz 16-bit would be best. Stay away from Sound Recorder and try Audacity on for size.

bigdsloan (162)
PROS: Nothing
CONS: Everything
VERDICT: If you want to join the club, check out the How to Join? section of the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster. It'll provide the details for how to join, as well as help on how to fill the requirements. PLEASE DO NOT POST A PROFILE WITHOUT A SAMPLER UPLOADED SOMEWHERE FOR DOWNLOAD. DO NOT SAY "I'LL MAKE ONE LATER" OR "I'll GET A MICROPHONE IN THREE MONTHS" OR "EMAIL ME FOR SAMPLES PLZ, K?". GET A SAMPLER, HAVE IT UPLOADED AND LINK IT BEFORE POSTING YOUR PROFILE. THIS IS NOT A NEGOTIABLE POINT. THIS MESSAGE IS IN ALL-CAPS AND BOLDED FOR A REASON. SORRY IF IT SEEMS REPETITIVE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS POINT WAS CONVEYED PROPERLY. Finally, this is a VOICE ACTING club. It is not a I CAN DO ALL THESE VOICES THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE I CAN DO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A MIC club. Don't try and join if you don't have a working microphone. That's just plain stupid.

-GP (163)
PROS: You actually have an example. You have mastered the first step.
CONS: You have your example in .wav format. You have stumbled and broken both your knees on the second step. Like, ow.
VERDICT: Get an mp3 encoder. Make sure you're recording in 44-KHz, 16-bit mono quality at LEAST. Check yourself in for some tender Audacity love and care.

KakiharaTheKiller (164)
PROS: You actually have an example. You have mastered the first step.
CONS: You have your example in .wav format. You have stumbled and broken both your knees on the second step. Like, ow.
VERDICT: Get an mp3 encoder. Make sure you're recording in 44-KHz, 16-bit mono quality at LEAST. Check yourself in for some tender Audacity love and care.

Man, the process of accepting applicants has become a lot easier since I've lined everybody up into a production-line like format. I'm not sure if this is a good thing. The NGVAC becoming more corporate-like? Definitely not cool.

And now to return to my rant on the GOOD and the BAD of voice acting! Actually, this following example might be considered UGLY voice acting.

And bad voice acting? Dragonball Z. But wait! Not the North American dub. Oh nosiree. That's practical GOD-LIKE compared to.... THE MALAYSIAN ENGRISH DUB! I bought a tape of one of the DBZ OAVs in Malaysia a long time ago, not knowing what to expect. When I first popped it in the VCR, I thought they were speaking Japanese. And then I realised that I could understand a word or two in there. And then I realised that they were actually speaking some horrible rendition of ENGLISH. Y'see, what happened was there was a Malaysian dubbed version of DBZ at the time, and it was decided the best way to expand to the English-speaking market of Malaysia (admittedly tiny as a tiny acorn thingma) was to have those Malaysian actors do an English version as well. And the results.... Well, you've just read them. So the next time you people whine and complain about your so-called "crappy, talentless, no-good hacks" in the US voiceover industry.... Spare a thought.... To that Malaysian Engrish dubbed version of Dragonball Z. And shudder with relief that you dodged that particular bullet.

And that was a long reply to a single person's post. Let us move on.

Hobbes_The_Prince: I wish your son a belated happy birthday. May he live long and prosper. And have the Force with him. And may the water he drinks not shine back at him in the dark. Yup. ANd I'd be happy to get into the hole of talent you mentioned for Newgrounds' Survivor, as long as everybody's showered first and doesn't smell too bad. And hey, if we're comparing the fall in memberage of NGVAC with the fall of Jedi in ROTS, all I gotta say is: Screw that, I'm becoming a clone trooper and surviving the goddamn carnage! KILL ALL JEDI!

Jerma: You seem a bit bitter about the whole voice imitation thing. You need a cookie and lots of love. I'm not going to get into the whole imitations versus THE REAL DEAL VOICE ACTING RAAAWWWWAAAAARRRZZZZSS1211211!@@#####!!!!!! battle or whatnot.... So I won't. Next post!

KagomeHigurashi: Try being owned by people with one day's experience when you have been kicking around for FIVE YEARS. It's not pretty. But in the end, if you stay and they disappear after one or two roles, what difference does their talent make? And even if they stick around, you've got experience under your belt and you've got advantages in certain areas of vocal control they probably haven't even heard of yet. And anyway, you have to realise that there will always be someone who's better than you at something, so you gotta keep your head screwed on right and realise you have your own unique abilities. And one other thing: talent is one thing, but longetivity and reliability should be equally considered, as well.

In the end however, it's up to you what you want to do. Sticking with something you're good at usually ends up being heartbreaking. When you reach a certain level, you realise you're not as good at it as you thought you were and now that you're knee-deep in the hard stuff you don't have enough of an interest in it to keep going. That's what happened to me and Computer Systems Engineering. I took that course in University, thinking that since I was good at computers, I'd do well in it. 4 years and a mental breakdown later, I realised that being good in something doesn't necessarily mean you LIKE it. Find something you like to do. Something that you'll stick to even in the hardest and darkest of times. If you can do that, you're probably one of the lucky human beings who managed to be honest enough to break through to that level.

t0ast: Ooooooooh. Nice. I agree with your large-posted sentimonies. STAYING POWER RULES!

Isca: Will this vengeance be filled with justice? JUSTICE VENGEANCE: The Movie. This Time It's Collateral. And congrats on that new job and your newfound resolute strength and

bigdsloan: Try emailing HollywoodSound for advice directly. His email is available in the roster

Gamesdisk: Welcome back. May the Jello be with you. Always.

Frogs: Sorry to hear you got the boot. Perhaps you should commit a final day prank in order to avenge your unfair retrenchment. For that would be a great way to go. Possibly a slow time-delayed final prank so you can get your severance packet before they discover the horrible truth of that smell in the ventilation system.

olaftheblue: Inspiring wisdom there. Words of improvement are never welcomed, but always sought. Strange that, sometimes.

Yes! In the midst of the decaying ruins of the NGVAC thread! It is up to ME to ressurect it with my splendiferous overly wordy megaposts! Yes, I shall stride boldly into the wasteland, braving the great unknowns of non-postoingdom and bring back fresh kills for all here to consume and revive this thread once more! Needless to say, we are all doomed. You may begin dispensing water out of your tearducts now.

Anyway since I have this space left at the bottom (1,200 characters or so remaining! Ooooooh....) I shall talk about something in order to liven the mood of all here. So. Anyway. That there voice acting thang. It shore is an interesting hobby, y'know. Ayup. Really interesting. Really, really interesting. Rats, I'm no good at this if my thoughts aren't focussed on something! Erm..... erm.... A question! Yes, I shall ask an excellent voice acting related question that no one has ever, in the history of this entire thread has ever asked before! It shall be an awesome question too! One which would totally floor you completely! Okay! Here we go!

Since almost every single professional voice actor in existence has a second name in order to work around the stupid acting guilds and regulations.... What would be YOUR second name to fool around and get more voice acting jobs than you're supposed to? Or would you do something as underhanded as that?

Me? I already got one: Omahdon. All I need to do is add a last name and I'm all set! How about.... Omahdon Lee? Cornelius Omahdon? Phillip Omahdon Fry! The possibilities are near limitless! Apart from the fact that I'm asian and it'd look weird if I didn't have at least an Asian looking last name. Or maybe I'd choose a last name that COULD be asian but at the same time it might not be!

And I'm back late once again, and I seem to have jumped smackdab right in the middle of some emotional turmoil and strife and what not. Exciting times for the thread it would seem! And not a moment too soon for this thread needed the life-giving properties of that ever-elusive and always bombastic when it finally does appear: CONTROVERSY! Let us dance with words and see what happens.

Oh, and if any was wondering where I'd buggered off to, I had to put the finishing touches and pull together a group project wherein I had been assigned group leader and was confronted with the stomach churning responsibility of trying to get everyone to turn in their section of the report. And it turned out most were a little late or a little short with their section. Oooh. But to spare all the other details, the project that we were working on was the social and economical implications of Australian legislation regarding the video game industry. Neat stuff. I got to write about console games in an official university academic report (or part thereof). Ain't that grand? Admittedly, it's marred by the amount of bureaucracy I had to maintain to keep the group together.... And talking about law is still talking about law.... But hey! It was about video games! Woo!

But enough of my banter about my current life going-ons! Let us now descend into the darkness of the abyss that is this! The Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club thread!

Metal-Angel: Hey, like I said in the email: Don't take it personally. I use that copy-n-paste response for every single person who tries to apply to the NGVAC without a sampler. It's my only true joy in this desolate, uncaring, unforgiving corner of the web we call the Newgrounds' BBS. Besides, if you'd cared to read at least one or two of the current pages before leaping into the thread proper, you'd have saved yourself getting that message and I'd have saved time cut-n-pasting it. Think of it as a mild hazing ritual.

Elliair: Yes, it's good to be back! Only to go away again.... And then come back! Speaking of which, I think your monkey is doing some freelance work. I recently heard an advertisement on the car radio that went something like this: "'Beware of the Dog' signs are great, scaring off most burglars from breaking and entering. But what happens if those burglars happen to be a bit more persistant? That is why you should get full coverage with our new range of 'Beware of the flesh-eating monkey' signs!". I'm not kidding. That was a real ad. Well, a mock ad that went into a real one a second later about homes and contents insurance. I thought that was.... interesting. But anyway, worry ye not about summarising for I! Have done that myself! And you need to be casted in more original stuff *pats pats* Go to the VAA and whore yourself there! Lots of stuff to dive into, I think. :-)

LazyKenny: Ah yes.... chimpcartoons. Can you imagine that back in the days when samplers weren't mandatory, we just let him in like that? It seemed like such a long long time ago.... Course it's been only about a month or two or something. Newgrounds' time sure passes quickly. Why, I remember when I updated that goddanged roster nearly every day! ..... Okay, that never happened but it got updated more regularly than it does now, at least. Apparently though, updating less regularly on the roster = updating less frequently on the thread = slipping to page 2 on the C&C forum! EGADS! The correlation is far too explicit not to miss! Things certainly are quieting down a wee bit too much around here, I should think.

Revenge_Is_Fun: Hey, that Legendary Frog forum thread looks like a nice place to ply one's wares! Though it looks like most of the posts are one month old or so.... Rats.

MC_Huggies: LIES! You mentioned nothing! You're secretly trying to make me appear foolish! Aren't you??? AREN'T YOU??? I'm not crazy! IT IS YOU WHO ARE THE CRAZED ONE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I need my pills. And if you want to see something FF7:AC, here's one of the trailers fandubbed with me in it as the Wheelchair Man in White: http://www.voiceacting.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=7224 Admittedly, I'm probably one of the weak links in the movie, but take a listen to the guys who did Vincent and Kadaj. Now they're quite the awesome.

bigdsloan: We're big on using bananas to beat up people who don't have samplers. And then we unless Elliair's attack monkey that's been trained to eat flesh. And banana-scented flesh just drives that monkey wild. Like WHOOPA! CRUH-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaZEE MUN-KEEEEE!

TVs_Slayer: Ah, a question. A question to end all questions. A question that one stares in the face of with eyes open, ears shut, and tongue lolling as the abyss stares back into you: What.... Is GOOD voice acting? Or even BAD voice acting? What indeed? Such a question consumes me at night as I ponder such a thing to myself, wondering if in fact my so-called talents are but mere illusionary constructs manifested by my own ungainly hubris in order to further engorge my ego.... Or something more tangible than the mere whisp of breath that escapes my lips as I attempt to breath life into a character so sorely lacking in a voice of their own. I weep so at this dillemma.

But anyway! Good voice acting: The Giant Robo English dub. It's like.... Lightning. Like teetering between a time when all dubs were automatically considered bad, and the time when dubs were considered "adequate". It was produced in such unique circumstances I don't think its like will ever be seen again. It just had so much ENERGY and ENTHUSIASM and terrific over-the-top melodramatic deliveries from all the actors involved (Genya was David Lucas/Steve Blum's finest role. I mean, his Spike from Cowboy Bebop was great, but he has some real range playing a megalomaniacal madman in Giant Robo). The entire production felt like it had something to prove: the dub lines were almost poetically Shakespearian in their quality, so much so that the reading the subs made the show feel dull and lifeless in comparison. It kinda reminds me of when Metal Gear Solid came out with its solid (haha) voice work and incredible over-the-top script. You can't capture that sort of magic again, even with a re-release. It was really the most perfect moment to bring it out, seriously.

And now I must cut my megapost in half! Onwards to the next post!

Audacity should suit your needs and its free. Goldwave is less free (shareware) but it's quite a good program to consider using, too.

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

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And now for the happiness that is reviewing the applicants for the....

THE NEWGROUNDS' VOICE ACTING CLUB ROSTER!!!!

Let's start with the first application I can find after page 145 of this thread!

lil_philip (147)
PROS: Nothing
CONS: Everything
VERDICT: If you want to join the club, check out the How to Join? section of the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster. It'll provide the details for how to join, as well as help on how to fill the requirements. PLEASE DO NOT POST A PROFILE WITHOUT A SAMPLER UPLOADED SOMEWHERE FOR DOWNLOAD. DO NOT SAY "I'LL MAKE ONE LATER" OR "I'll GET A MICROPHONE IN THREE MONTHS" OR "EMAIL ME FOR SAMPLES PLZ, K?". GET A SAMPLER, HAVE IT UPLOADED AND LINK IT BEFORE POSTING YOUR PROFILE. THIS IS NOT A NEGOTIABLE POINT. THIS MESSAGE IS IN ALL-CAPS AND BOLDED FOR A REASON. SORRY IF IT SEEMS REPETITIVE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS POINT WAS CONVEYED PROPERLY. Finally, this is a VOICE ACTING club. It is not a I CAN DO ALL THESE VOICES THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE I CAN DO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A MIC club. Don't try and join if you don't have a working microphone. That's just plain stupid.

.... Urgh. Moving on.

Twinx0r (149)
PROS: Very nice and practical demonstration of the kind of voices you can do and your acting ability. Clear samples with no background noise.
CONS: It's a little soft until it gets SUPER LOUD WITH EFFECTS at the end, but apart from that, it's all peachy.
VERDICT: Welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster shortly.

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE gap of no applications. Works for me. UNTIL!

MetalAngel (156)
PROS: Nothing
CONS: Everything
VERDICT: If you want to join the club, check out the How to Join? section of the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster. It'll provide the details for how to join, as well as help on how to fill the requirements. PLEASE DO NOT POST A PROFILE WITHOUT A SAMPLER UPLOADED SOMEWHERE FOR DOWNLOAD. DO NOT SAY "I'LL MAKE ONE LATER" OR "I'll GET A MICROPHONE IN THREE MONTHS" OR "EMAIL ME FOR SAMPLES PLZ, K?". GET A SAMPLER, HAVE IT UPLOADED AND LINK IT BEFORE POSTING YOUR PROFILE. THIS IS NOT A NEGOTIABLE POINT. THIS MESSAGE IS IN ALL-CAPS AND BOLDED FOR A REASON. SORRY IF IT SEEMS REPETITIVE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS POINT WAS CONVEYED PROPERLY. Finally, this is a VOICE ACTING club. It is not a I CAN DO ALL THESE VOICES THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE I CAN DO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A MIC club. Don't try and join if you don't have a working microphone. That's just plain stupid.

Argh. Well, anyway it's kinda funny how I actually have LESS to reply to after all this time.... Anyway the

THE NEWGROUNDS' VOICE ACTING CLUB ROSTER!!!!

has been updated with the following new members: For the females' side we have Kitsunesqueak, Mikoto_HiME and Sakura-shino. For the males we have Anax, RyanChampion, Rylord and Twinx0r. Give them a warm (belatedly added) hand!

A thousand apologies for being away for so long. I was held back from postage by a dastardly combination of Baten Kaitos for the Gamecube (So. Much. F***KING. Micro. Management. Of. Decks. But. Can't. Look. Away!) and the crunch time for a group-based project (due in less than a week and not everybody has handed their stuff in to me to collate it. argh). I apologise to all the applicants between this and my last post who were probably waiting for that beloved ACCEPTED or hated REJECTED or confusing YO MAMA.

.... Nobody missed me, did they? ;_; SHUNNED! *sobs sobs* *recovers* But anyway there's a silver cloud on every lining and a penny saved is two birds in the bush! ONWARDS! I shall now leap into the fray and try and tackle 15+ pages worth of missed messages. Oy. Maybe I'll just reply to stuff from the last 5 pages or so.

Except for the following stuff that stand out for me:

TVs_Slayer: I'm starting top doubt the validity of the NGVAC roster as well. I mean, it LOOKS pirdy and all (in a.... highly plain black-n-white sorta way) but I seriously doubt it gets the use it's supposed to since most producers just post here asking for help and people leap unto them like a rabid pack of dogs. So.... I guess the only reason it still exists is because I maintain it. Hmmm.

Isca: My condolences on the situation you're currently in (well, when you posted a week ago), and hope you can find a job and perhaps another acting class to enroll into somewhere else. Good luck!

And it looks like we got ourselves another pariah dog in the form of Sinar on page 154! I wanna flame people making eyebrow-raising demands followed by incoherent threats, too! I'll be the k3wl357 guy on the interweb! WOO! But now it's all over and I missed out on all the excitement. It makes me unhappy on the inside. ;_; Oh well. There'll always be Paris. They like Jerry Lewis, you know. That's gotta be breaking some kind of law, somewhere.

Anyway, let's start replying to stuff from p155, since there's greater likelihood that people' remember that far back. Maybe. Probably not.

EvilSqueegee: Dude, your writing looks keen and it looks like you've really worked things out with an eye towards detail. I'd love to audition for your stuff. In fact, I will do so, right now!

Revenge_Is_Fun: And since I popped zombie sounds in EvilSqueegee's inbox, I've popped some in yours too! ZOMBIES FOR EVERYONE!

Hobbes_The_Prince: Yup, I've had that sort of problem before. Super picky producers who want EXACTLY a certain actors voice and want no other. It's pretty frustrating, especially when you know you can't do it, but you're hoping against hope that another one of your voices will do the job. But it doesn't. Wasting all that time you took to audition. Rats.

KagomeHigurashi: Congrats on graduating high school! That was the easy part. Now the pain begins. @_@

I haven't seen it yet, but congrats to everyone who was Chips & Pete!! It's riding on a nicely high score right now!

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

[This cut-n-paste message has been brought to you by the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club, with help from sponsors like Salt: When All The Other Ice Cream Flavours are Taken. And posters like you.]

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

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At 5/18/05 07:10 PM, Caraboo wrote: You can use the sound recorder that comes automatically with almost every computer... just open start, go to programs, then accessories, then entertainment, and there it is.. it's actually called Sound Recorder and you can record up to 60 seconds that can be put into flash there is a trick to make it so u can record more than 60 seconds but with flash it doesn't matter you can just record one ting at a time and palce it where you want.

No no no no no no NO. Sound Recorder is bad. Sound Recorder is evil. Even worse yet: Sound Recorder is DEFAULT. Anybody can do better than Sound Recorder. Really. Audigy is free and lets you record at higher sampling rates, saves to mp3, and offers you tools on getting rid of that horrifyingly terrible background noise. Sound Recorder = avoid.

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

[This cut-n-paste message has been brought to you by the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club, with help from sponsors like Carding Officers Plus: Making You Flash Your ID Is Our Pleasure! And posters like you.]

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

[This cut-n-paste message has been brought to you by the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club, with help from sponsors like Carding Officers Plus: Making You Flash Your ID Is Our Pleasure! And posters like you.]

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps! And remember: "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks. (No Purchase Necessary. Lesbians not Included)"

[This cut-n-paste message has been brought to you by the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club, with help from sponsors like Carding Officers Plus: Making You Flash Your ID Is Our Pleasure! And posters like you.]

And now.... MORE INTERESTING STUFF!

Rylord (141)
PROS: A good variety of voices and nice acting range complemented by an equally nice lack of background noise.
CONS: Your samplers sound like you've applied a couple too many filters to them, so they sound like you're recording underwater or from inside a closet. They're also extremely short, which is irksome. I mean, it's not really a stated requirement, per se, but it'd be nice if the clips were compiled in a single 1-minute demo so we don't have to download several small clips to get the full range of your abilities. I also question why would anyone want someone to act like Microsoft Sam when they can easily just get the real deal?
VERDICT: Try getting in touch with HollywoodSound regarding cleaning up your samples, he is available at unitysound@PREVENTTHEHARVESTINGgmail.com. Remove the all-caps to get his actual address. And... Welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster shortly.

KitsuneSqueak (142)
PROS: Well, third time's the charm right? All my comments about your ability to act well as several traditional anime-like voices carry on from my review before. Having everything in a single zip file makes things convenient as well.
CONS: What comments also carry on from before are those about the shortness of the samples (though not as bad this time round) and their poor audio quality (which remains more or less the same).
VERDICT: I'm just going to add your profile to the roster on the proviso you get some help with the quality of your samples. Seriously, you might have a smaller set of competitors on the female side, but it's damn strong and having samples of that quality just makes you look bad. Have a talk with HollywoodSound regarding cleaning up your samples, he is available at unitysound@PREVENTTHEHARVESTINGgmail.com. Remove the all-caps to get his actual address.

Anax (142)
PROS: Variety of voices to go with nice flash animation skills. Nice over-the-top, cartoony voices.
CONS: Your accent REALLY carries through. There's a certain awkwardness that you hide quite well, but it's still quite noticeably there. Beyond that awkwardness though, your voices are pretty darn good.
VERDICT: Welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster shortly.

Why god, why do these people exist to TORMENT ME????:

Hydro-Man44987 (142)
PROS: Nothing
CONS: Everything. Not only that, you didn't provide an email address for me to mail this to. Now that just makes my misdirected range all the harder to contain!
VERDICT: If you want to join the club, check out the How to Join? section of the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster. It'll provide the details for how to join, as well as help on how to fill the requirements. PLEASE DO NOT POST A PROFILE WITHOUT A SAMPLER UPLOADED SOMEWHERE FOR DOWNLOAD. DO NOT SAY "I'LL MAKE ONE LATER" OR "I'll GET A MICROPHONE IN THREE MONTHS" OR "EMAIL ME FOR SAMPLES PLZ, K?". GET A SAMPLER, HAVE IT UPLOADED AND LINK IT BEFORE POSTING YOUR PROFILE. THIS IS NOT A NEGOTIABLE POINT. THIS MESSAGE IS IN ALL-CAPS AND BOLDED FOR A REASON. SORRY IF IT SEEMS REPETITIVE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS POINT WAS CONVEYED PROPERLY. Finally, this is a VOICE ACTING club. It is not a I CAN DO ALL THESE VOICES THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE I CAN DO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A MIC club. Don't try and join if you don't have a working microphone. That's just plain stupid.

And once again a megapost to soothe your daily dreads and ills.... And bring in other daily dreads and ills for you to consider! Life is grand. Anyway, last NGVAC chat was a fun time waster, and I look forward to more chats. Though possibly with less nerdage that went on after a while when everyone indulged in their INNER GEEK and went on a rampage of riddles/Star Trek/Star Wars. Not a pleasant sight to see. At all. And yet.... INTERESTING STUFF! ON! TALES! OF! ..... INTEREST! But it looks like I missed out on another chat the day after. Which people seemed to have more fun in. Pfoo. Am I secretly regarded as a pariah dog who don't get to be in the fun chats, or something?

Elliair: Heeeeeeey! Are you saying that the rest of us manly men on the man roster of the NGVAC aren't manly? We's resents that! Why, we's so manly we're chavaunistic pidogs who whistle at women and treat them like sex objects! Dat's hwo manly we's are, babe! And your statement on attending a NGVAC/VAA-related convention confuses and bewilders me. Your feminine mind is far too complex for a manly man like me to unravel! Hence I must continue to treat you like a highly fetishised object of maculine desire in order to maintain my false sense of superiority over the feminine gender. I'm a narcissist! And you should stop beating yourself up over the first post thing. The fact that you're actually doing it at all is pretty darned impressive in itself! O.o And I'm vaguely disturbed that there's an album of NGVAC songs. Am *I* on there? Am I? Huh huh huh? No? Pfoo. But I shall listen anyway! As soon as my 56K modem cooperates *grumbles*

RyanChampion: Welcome to the NGVAC, where the process for getting parts is as simple as simple can be! Simply take a large stick and beat off the rabid competition as everybody tries to scramble for the limited roles that come by the NGVAC! No, really, you'll have to fight tooth and nail for parts around here. So FIGHT like you've never fought before!

TVs_Slayer: Hey nice page of samplers you got there! I'm assuming that's up to replace all the old samplers you had before, so I'll just update your profile with that one all-encompassing link, okeydey?

Masquerade_X: Errrrr.... I'm pretty sure I was Doctor Manabe in that Pretty Face thing, I think.

Tweekit: Woo! Double casting! Hurrah! Thanks a lot, sending email your way to confirm parts and get me dirtah dirtah hands on the script.

Isca: I too have a deluge of lines I should be doing. But when I look at them and notice how huge a backlog it's become, I go "eh. Maybe later". I've been saying that for some scripts which have been in my in-box for upwards to three months now. @_@ I should really get around to doing them.... Eh. Maybe later. *rolls around lazily* Still, there are occasions when a script is like LIGHTNING and I go "Wow! I gotta do this right now!". The problem is working my way to finishing all the other scripts that are there too.... Sometimes you just gotta grit your teeth and get down to do them.

8-Bit_Red_Mage: Record.... to CD.... What? Most people would record to their HARD DRIVE first and then burn that sample unto CD instead. I'd hate to imagine the kind of power a computer would have to be able to record and burn that recording unto CD all AT THE SAME TIME. That's theoretically impossible, I think. O.o And no, the club isn't going anywhere yet. We may not have posts every 10 to 15 seconds but we're still very much alive and full of meaty goo.

grim_studios: Aw, I definitely missed the boat on Spaced Out. Still, I think the people who are already onboard are doing a great job and would probably get in lines faster than I ever could. I was scared away by the whole "one flash a week thing" that you had up. O.o

At 5/16/05 09:35 PM, Elliair wrote: Anyway, Deathsaw_Glock, you can try visiting and joining the Voice Acting Club in C&C.

He already has. Or at least, one of his old usernames is on the roster. First it was ArtistJ, then it changed to Justi and now it appears to be Deathsaw_Glock. Damnit, I really wish people would stop changing their usernames at a drop of the hat. *grumble grumble grumble like an old man* Anyway, hees profile be over on dis side: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~omahdon/AVA/NGVACroster.htm#Justi

Le megapost. She return. From the deep. The merciless, bottomless deep. Sacre bleu!

Revenge_Is_Fun: Aw pfoo. I can't get the image to the right size for the NG BBS sig without completely distorting the image and making the text unreadable. Bugger. But thanks for the link, anyway! I'm sure I could use it for other purposes. @_@

Dragonias: Hey, sarcasm in, sarcasm out, buddy. And you'll need to raise the volume after recording using the "amplify" option in your chosen sound editor. There's also an option to add a 20dB gain to your recordings which is somewhere in the advanced options of your mic sensitivity/volume settings.

kiwi_banger: I think the main reason why you haven't gotten any auditions yet is because you haven't really given any kind of info on your project. I mean, give us a bit of an incentive to try out for your production. What's the story all about? What are the personalities of the characters you need voiced? Can you give some example lines for us to try out? Is it a large project or a small project? How many fingers am I holding up? So many questions, so little time.... In any case, D-Mac_Double has the right idea, if you're having trouble with people coming to you, then you need to go to them using the roster info. 'Tis what it's there for.

Frogs: He's not the messiah! He's a very naughty boy!

Shock_Dingo: NI! Oh dear, this could turn into an avalanche of spectacularly unfunny attempts at quoting the Monty Python crew. I think I should stop now.

Elliair: You mean, having gatherings at conventions like the several the VAA has planned? What happens if those of us who are both at the VAA and NGVAC go to a convention where there is a gathering of both groups at the very same time? It'll be pandemonium, people! PANDEMONIUM! Like one of those movies with the Olsen Twins in it where they switch identities and confuse everyone with their antics. Oh how incredibly amusing they are! Ohohohohohoho! I want their sweet flesh. @_@ Anyway, I'll be turning up to the chat if I can.... 11:30AM on Sunday my time, right?

KitsuneSqueak: Like I said, I haven't been able to access the files on the freewebs server at all. O.o I think they've been eaten up, or something. Use ripway, I seem to have better luck with downloading from there. And resubmit your entire profile again when you reapply, sil vous plait.

Daeleo: Errrrr.... It looks like the first and the third link for your examples are the same? Not to mention the links currently appear to be broken.

Isca: Congratulations on hitting the 100 role mark! Banzai! Banzai!

And one profile review thingy.

Sakura-shino (141)
PROS: The quality of your samples are definitely much improved from before. Background noise is kept to a minimum and your voice comes through as clean and clear. You definitely have a gift for speaking quickly and for playing angry that SOUNDS angry.
CONS: The clips are kinda bit on the short side. A lot on the short side, really. And pretty limited in scope. You also forgot to list "Specialities" for your profile, but I'm going to assume "anime type voices" would be one of them.
VERDICT: Overall, I think you'd be a nice addition to the roster, you just need to work on a longer sample that shows off more of the emotions/voice types you can do. In any case, under those provisions: Welcome aboard! Your profile will be added shortly.

And now some reviews of people's clips/profiles from the past couple of pages:

RyanChampion (137)
PROS: A nice clean clip with a group of characters who have clearly defined emotions and vocal types. The fact that they can be differentiated from one another easily, especially in a clip with multiple characters all talking to one another and done by the same person, is definitely a plus.
CONS: It's a little bit on the soft side, but nothing major. It's also a little on the short side as well, you might want to think about making a longer clip of a series of shorts. YouSendIt is a bit of a fiddly service, but since I downloaded your sampler just fine, I don't think it should be a major problem, either.
VERDICT: Welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster later.

KitsuneSqueak (138)
PROS: (the following comments are based on your clips available on Geocities, I have been unable to download anything from Freewebs) You emote well for the Genis Sage clip, you got to high volumes without distortion and you avoided mic pops and puffs in general.
CONS: Your clips are short. They're like.... Really, really short. And some of them are just one word. I don't think anybody can tell someone's ability to act from a single word. Sound quality is a bit of an issue as well: there's a lot of background noise and some "adjusting the mic" sounds.
VERDICT: Get longer clips which have sentences with different emotional content, and try to clean up your sound quality a little bit. Have a talk with HollywoodSound regarding cleaning up your samples, he is available at unitysound@PREVENTTHEHARVESTINGgmail.com. Remove the all-caps to get his actual address.

Mikoto_HiME (139)
PROS: A nice array of clips and voices. Clean samples with a good variety. Experience carried over from the VAA (hi there!).
CONS: Too. Many. Short. Clips. That. Are. Extremely. Short. And. Are. Actually. Quite. Useless. In. Ascertaining. Acting. Ability. Please try sticking them together into a single sampler instead, like for the Retarded Sampler or the monologue in the Momiji short. As it is, I'm going to ignore the other links and just add those as the examples in your profile.
VERDICT: Welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster later.

There's always one of these. Always:

Okumi (140)
PROS: Nothing
CONS: Everything
VERDICT: If you want to join the club, check out the How to Join? section of the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster. It'll provide the details for how to join, as well as help on how to fill the requirements. PLEASE DO NOT POST A PROFILE WITHOUT A SAMPLER UPLOADED SOMEWHERE FOR DOWNLOAD. DO NOT SAY "I'LL MAKE ONE LATER" OR "I'll GET A MICROPHONE IN THREE MONTHS" OR "EMAIL ME FOR SAMPLES PLZ, K?". GET A SAMPLER, HAVE IT UPLOADED AND LINK IT BEFORE POSTING YOUR PROFILE. THIS IS NOT A NEGOTIABLE POINT. THIS MESSAGE IS IN ALL-CAPS AND BOLDED FOR A REASON. SORRY IF IT SEEMS REPETITIVE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS POINT WAS CONVEYED PROPERLY. Finally, this is a VOICE ACTING club. It is not a I CAN DO ALL THESE VOICES THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE I CAN DO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A MIC club. Don't try and join if you don't have a working microphone. That's just plain stupid.

Back by popular demand! It's--

MEGAPOSTALISTIC FLYING CIRCUS! As opposed to stercus. Which would be very icky and smelly.

Elliair: Saaaaaaaaay. That logo you whipped up is nigh on perfect for the new title image for the NGVAC roster! Would you mind inserting a "probably" to make it "Because your voice probably sucks" and I'll put it up. Wooha! I think we've got our catch-phrase people! Be sure to throw it around at every given opportunity to do so! "Choose the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club! Because your voice probably sucks." Also, I think setting up a website for the NGVAC chats is a pretty swell idea.... Though I question its usefulness if it's just for sayoing when the next meeting is, since you just post the times here every week, anyway. If it's a hub for all the NGVAC recordings, some sort of commentary from those involved (voluntary of course) and other what nots, that page would be very cool, indeed. You work so hard for the club! Here, let me give you a cookie. All you have to do is get in the car with good 'ol Uncle Omahdon and we'll take a drive to our secret place. @_@ Man, I'm creepy and weird. And as for a decrease in VA-related requests.... Eh, it goes up and down. Just give it a couple of days and BAM! People start asking for voice actors again. That's where the old cut-n-paste advertisement for the NGVAC comes in. Aw yeah.

Revenge_Is_Fun: Ooh! Another nice image! I think I'll have it as my siggy pic. Would you mind putting that "probably" in?

Sakura-shino: Nice Hatsuharu clips! And errrrr.... Interesting random clip. O.o I'm hearing a lot of mouth noises and mic pops though, try angling your microphone away from your lips just so it's picking up your voice, just not necessarily your breath.

Tweekit: Ah, thanks for the role of the Narrator! (or at least, keeping it pending) I shall enjoy playing that role. I never get to use that voice very often, so I'll be a happy little munchkin when I get to do his lines!

MC_Huggies: Yarr! Talking like pirates be a fun thing to do when you're bored, yarr! And that slogan about the person doin' thar reading with the distinct possibility that thair voice thar be sucking do make a pretty slogan to read, yarr! Adding "yarr" at the end of every sentence is really weird, yarr!

Erkie: Establishing a VA thread in the Audio forum would be a very cool idea.... But on further reflection, isn't that part of the BBS specifically for Newgrounds Audio, as opposed to audio in a Newgrounds Flash? Looking at the majority of the threads, it looks like most are about making sweet, sweet music.

8-Bit_Red_Mage: Hey, you'll never know if you never try, right? Mind you, it'll probably take some practice, but I think anybody is fully capable of voice acting. With practice. Never forget the "practice" part. When you first start out, you'll invariably go through a "My god. That's my voice?" phase where you're trying to naturalise the voice you hear in your head, to the recording of your voice coming through the speakers. It's a pretty awkward step, but once you get used to it.... There'll be practising. And more practising. Geez, I'm making voice acting sound hella daunting.... Maybe somebody else should do this pep talk. All I know is, I've spent 5 years doing this thing and I definitely think my voice and equipment could stand to use a lot of improvements. If you want to start off, I'd reccomend sticking to a crappy microphone first and then work your way up when you can appreciate the quality difference a better mic can make. If you can afford the ones that are worth tens of thousands of dollars, anyway. Oy.

KitsuneSqueak: No. Posting your profile with samples does not automatically garner you a place on the roster. See your profile review in the next post.

Dragonias: I'm sorry but.... What? Ich hablo gibberish non, dude. Your ability to confound people with the English language aside: I think I get the basic gist of what you're saying. Judging from what you're trying to say, you should be connecting the line-in jack on the headset to the line-out/speaker-out jack on your soundcard. As in: unplug your speakers, and stick the headset jack in there. Most soundcards only have one line-out/speaker-out jack, so it's going to be a toss up between having your speakers connected, or having your headset connected. If you can stretch the wire so that your headset can plug in the speakers and your mic connected to the mic-in jack, that could work as well.

TVs_Slayer: I didn't retire so much as slow down. I'm an old man, you know! Bitter, cantankerous, and filled with a general loathing of the world. Dat I am, sonnyboy! But since you insisted, your name is right dere in da bold. Revel in the attention! REVEL, I SAY! I'll whip it out of you like I whipped the devil out of my dear young students I teach at an all-boys private school! Oh yes, those naughty, naughty little boys and their devils. Deep down inside. Where only I could touch them and draw him out! @_@ And I'm sad to hear the NGVAC ad thing fell through. Tis a shame. :-( Maybe convert it to an audio-only flash tupesque thing? Cause that's what I had up before.

Isca: Oooooooooh.... That was a very nice song clip. Reminded me vaguely of Dido or the opening to Lain. I loves that.

PelvicThrusters: I don't believe recording devices were around when Leonardo Da Vinci was alive, thereby making it impossible to ascertain what he sounded like. o.O

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps!

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The NGVAC does have a thread. No, seriously.

Try out for the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club. The roster, has details if you want to join.

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A megapost. Just a wee one.

BlueAuraProductions: Sure, sounds good! I'd be happy to provide a voice for your production. Just send a script and I'll be on my way. That is, if you don't mind me tinkering around with the script occasionally. I'm a bit of a script-whore, as my profile in the roster mentions, and I like to mess around with writing dialogue.

RyanChampion: *sighs*

Elliair: Yes, it is good to be back and seeing all your people! Why, I hardl;y recognise any of you any more! You've grown so big and tall! Wait, that's just my cataracts. Nevermind. And.... People are trying to imitate me what now? Sounds like that was an interesting little chat, that it does. O.o Oh well, the next time shall come! The next time shall come!

Revenge_Is_Fun: New link to resume noted. Will update your roster profile later.

Shock_Dingo: Ah! The Hulk piano ending theme! I used to love listening to that. Your narration really tugged at the old heart strings! Right there! Oh! My twisted black heart is beating again, even! But now I must expose myself to the cruel injustice of the world again to build up those layers of cynicism and despair.

Angal_the_Chupacabra: I don't think I needed to know that. At all. Elliair is right, though this thread does go off topic at times, try to refrain from using the NGVAC as a PM service. That's what email is for, yanno?

Tweekit: I also offer my services as a VA and tentatively as a writer/editor. I have other things on my plate at the moment writing-wise, but I'm sure I could help a bit. Maybe. I have a good sense of humour. I laugh at Jerry Lewis movies! .... Maybe that wasn't a good example. Anyway, I'll send you an email with links to my samplers.

Aimi: Hey, you heading off to AX too? Sorry I couldn't be there with all the other VAA people. That's what happens when I didn't take my budget into consideration and miffed everything up. :-( Oh well.... Maybe next year!

MC_Huggies: I still like D-Mac_Double's suggestion from way back when. To paraphrase: "Choose the NGVAC! Because your voice probably sucks". Or if you want something a little less hostile how about something simple like "Thar be Voice Actors!", which I think sums up what the club is all about, really. It's direct, to the point, and people can quote it easily when people post on the NG BBS asking "Where the voice actors be at, j0?". "Why.... The NGVAC! Thar be Voice Actors!". Yeah. That's my thinking processes for ya. As for the actual logo.... Something abstract like a figure in front of a microphone. Only funky! My inability to describe visuals fails me.

And while I'm up:

THE NEWGROUNDS' VOICE ACTING CLUB ROSTER!!!!

.... has been updated. Profiles added: For the females we have Revenge_Is_Fun. For the males we have Angal_the_Chupacabra, Daeleo, Joseph_Collins, Klepto_Bysmal and meneldil.