We’re running a community radio station again for a week at the end of July; when we did this last year, a number of very helpful dopers emailed me all sorts of voice samples for use in station idents and jingles; it was all great stuff and everybody’s work was used in some way or other.
I’m reusing some of it again this year, but I also need some new material; chiefly, I need a 1950s-style American male science presenter-type voice (you know, from those public information broadcasts about the power of the atom, or the kitchen of tomorrow). It will be mixed in with a variety of snippets from real commercials, so the voice doesn’t have to mimic any particular person, just the general feel of the thing. I’ll post a sample of the general style later tonight if anyone is uncertain.
For this part, I need the following phrases: "Starring Adam Quantrill" (pronunciation: as it reads; ‘quan’ as in quantum, ‘trill’ to rhyme with frill - given the general style, emphasis of syllables really doesn’t matter if it is wrong). "The Chase FM Breakfast Show" "Chase FM in the morning" "Eighty-seven point nine" "Wake up to Chase FM"
The style and accent is all I need; I can make it sound like a 50s recording by undersampling and narrow band filtering.
I may also need some other stuff, but I haven’t quite worked it out yet.
If anyone would like to contribute, please email your material in wav or MP3 format (44Khz if you have the option) to themangetout [at] Yahoo [dot] com
Thanks in advance to any contributors and thanks again to last year’s folks.
I’ll see what I can do as well. I know exactly the voice you’re looking for.
If you need it, I can also do almost any type of voice. Basically, if I can hear it, I can imitate it. Celebrities, cartoons, pretty much anything. Email me if you like.
I sent you 5 MP3s (44KHz, as requested). I don’t check that email account very often though, so if you need anything else your best bet is contacting me here.
I just wanted to add that the e-mail I sent you will be from Roman Ogee at Yahoo dot com. It has SDMB and my username here in the subject line. Just in case you thought it was spam, or Yahoo Mail thought it was bulk mail and filtered it into that folder. It’s a .wav file, mono, 44.1 KHz.
Thanks; if anyone wants to improvise some stuff, that would be great; I’m particularly looking for slightly wacky (but still family-compatible) soundbites, but not something that is too overtly “oh ha ha, I’m so wacky”, if you get my drift.
Some possibly helpful info:
The station is called Chase FM, broadcasting on 87.9 from the 18th to the 25th of July, from a small Hampshire village called Waltham Chase. There will be a huge variety of content. The station has a key phrase ‘Local voices on your local radio station’, which is somewhat cheesy, but there is potential for some irony there, as most of these voice samples are very much non-local (perhaps someone could record something along the lines of “How did I get in here? I’m not a local voice!”)
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