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Well I wanted to give a shout out to the Elf too, so now is the time. I just got my voice overs last week and I am very happy with them. Kevin a.k.a the demented elf has a question sheet, once you fill it out, he takes it from there.

He takes the time to do some nice segments around the info you provide.

Also if you use Zara, you can grab the time and temp items that he did so the voice matches.

Rick

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Not to take away from "The Demented Elf", I've heard his work and it's excellent, but I wanted to do my own customized voice-overs myself, no offense there Mr. D. Elf.

My first year with LOR and FM Transmitter, but I made my own Voice-Overs with a software package I bought called MorphVox Pro and some of my WAV/MP3 editing software to add in background music at a nice lower level.

If we could post MP3/WAV formats on the forum, I'd let you hear how my Halloween Voice-Overs came out using the program.

MorphVox Pro lets you customize your voice to sound like anything you want, Monster, Ghoul, Female, Male, etc. I made my own Ghost voice for my Halloween Display. It's one of the best tools I've bought for making my own customized voice-overs. And the software isn't that expensive either! Cost is: $39.95 and you can also download a lot of FREE extra voice paks for it too, and all the voice paks are useable during the free trial period as well!

Check it out:

http://www.screamingbee.com/product/products.aspx

Free trial period (I think it's 7 days) and you can download and install all the free voice paks during the trial period. You can even record and test out all it does for free during the trial period. But I was sold on it just a couple hours after playing around with it to create my own VO's for my display!

NOTE: There is a FREE version, but it does not allow you to record and save your voice creations! Nor does it have many of the features in the Pro version.

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I also do my own voice-overs. I realize this isn't for everyone and if you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself, then don't. In my case, I've done some radio work over the years and have no fears whatsoever of sitting in front of a microphone. I use Audacity to do the job. It's probably a little bit more cumbersome than software designed specifically for the purpose such as Orville uses, but it gets the job done. It, too, allows you to alter the pitch and/or speed of your voice and provides for some interesting possibilities. The nice thing about doing your own is that you can add or change announcements as conditions warrant quickly and easily during the course of the lighting season.

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George Simmons wrote:

I also do my own voice-overs. I realize this isn't for everyone and if you don't feel comfortable doing it yourself, then don't. In my case, I've done some radio work over the years and have no fears whatsoever of sitting in front of a microphone. I use Audacity to do the job. It's probably a little bit more cumbersome than software designed specifically for the purpose such as Orville uses, but it gets the job done. It, too, allows you to alter the pitch and/or speed of your voice and provides for some interesting possibilities. The nice thing about doing your own is that you can add or change announcements as conditions warrant quickly and easily during the course of the lighting season.



I agree George! Especially when you have to CANCEL a show due to weather conditions, which is exactky what I had to do when the rains poured in and kept the show from operating, but as long as I didn't run the show(no lights or anything turning on), the MP3 Showtime Director would and could still play a voice over to let folks know why the show/display wasn't operating that night.

I tried using Audacity, but for some strange reason, the program just would not work properly or at all on my system. Tried everything to get it to work, but since I already had several software packages that allow me to edit, convert and modify WAV/MP3/WMA files, I didn't really need Audacity for that, but these programs I already owned, Ihey just didn't do the job well enough to make "disguised" voice-overs like I wanted or needed.

So my nephew is who originally told me about the MorphVox Pro software and after testing it out for a couple of hours, I just knew I had to add it to my software arsenal for creating my own "specialized" voice-overs for my show!



BTW: I'm no stranger to a microphone either. I used to volunterr on the making of a television show called (Brevard Community College) "B.C.C. Sunspots" that was aired on Public Television in Melbourne, FL. (This was back in 1980) I was the "sound man" for the show, used to do narrations, the sound checks to make sure everything was functioning and even the video camera work!

It was a lot of fun and interesting to learn, but I got called to a great paying job back over in Orlando and had to give it up. We used to film public interest stories such as the college sporting events, the Brevard Zoo, Human Interest Stories and even some of the other specialty schools in the area, like a Secretarial School. So that's why I have no qualms about creating and doing my own voice-overs either! :D
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