{"id":369,"date":"2016-01-16T01:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T06:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:45:42","slug":"male-voice-talent-chad-talk-to-us-about-online-voice-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/male-voice-talent-chad-talk-to-us-about-online-voice-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Voice Talent Chad Letts Talks To Us About Online Voice Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" title=\"Male Voice Over expert Chad is one of The Voice Realm's most hired voice talent.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/userfiles\/photos\/89789chadletts_avatar_big.jpg\" alt=\"Male Voice Over expert Chad is one of The Voice Realm's most hired voice talent.\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male Voice Over expert Chad is one of The Voice Realm&#8217;s most hired voice talent.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We caught up with one of the internet&#8217;s busiest male voice over actors who gives us his take on the industry, his background and his success working with The Voice Realm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/view-profile-artist.php?artist_id=76\">Male Voice Talent :&nbsp;Chad Letts<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How long have you been doing voice overs? How did you get started?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing voice over since 1997.&nbsp; My first gig was for the role of &#8220;Tempest&#8221; in an RPG video game for <a title=\"Sony Playstation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CD0QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fus.playstation.com%2F&amp;ei=_L4NUcfdJKex0QHEioDQDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNGIWIKFXczYO2DZYi6FHeD2Y1nOCA&amp;bvm=bv.41867550,d.dmQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sony Playstation<\/a> called Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete.&nbsp; Then I ventured into radio and moved around from city to city until I realized that I could make a better living doing voice over full time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What are some of the benefits from being a freelance <a title=\"voice actor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/voice-gallery.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voice actor<\/a> and working from home?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aside from being my own boss, I love the freedom to create my own schedule but more importantly, I LOVE interpreting copy and being creative.&nbsp; My favorite thing to do is exceed my clients&#8217; expectations in creativity, small suggestions to improve copy, and turn around time.&nbsp; The great thing about the voice over community is that there&#8217;s little to no ego to deal with from voice actors.&nbsp; They&#8217;re very down to Earth and love what they do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How has <a title=\"Voice Talent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Voice Realm<\/a> helped you find work?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Voice Realm essentially acts as an agent.&nbsp; They go out and find clients that have a VO need or a VO problem, and I&nbsp;fulfil&nbsp;that need and solve their problems.&nbsp; At the end of the day, it&#8217;s about customer service.&nbsp; The Voice Realm is easy to contact, responsive and friendly.&nbsp; Not just to the end clients, but to the voice actors, too.&nbsp; I like that.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How is it different to other sites&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;seen?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Voice Realm does an excellent job of putting me in front of&nbsp;<b><i>quality<\/i><\/b>&nbsp;clients. They take the stress and guess work out of rate negotiation so that I can focus on the creativity part.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What\u2019s the quality of jobs like that&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;seen come through the site?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rates and the quality of client have continued to increase over the (almost) year I&#8217;ve been on The Voice Realm.&nbsp; As the quality or client has increased, so has the selection of talented, professional voice actor.&nbsp; They have full, professional grade studios in their homes and you can hear it.&nbsp; From a client&#8217;s perspective, it cuts down on casting time because they don&#8217;t have to weed through voice actors that are just starting out in the business.&nbsp; They get audition after audition of professionally trained voice actor.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How about the assistance and support you&#8217;ve&nbsp;received&nbsp;from the site?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Excellent.&nbsp; The Voice Realm expects voice actors to be prompt and responsive to clients, and in return, they respond promptly to any questions I have.&nbsp; I like that.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Where do you see the future of the voice over industry going?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a tough question to answer.&nbsp; My best guess is that the online casting paradigm will continue to grow and evolve.&nbsp; I have so many clients that are apprehensive about doing business online, but once they see how easy it is cast talent over the internet, they jump in head first.&nbsp; <a title=\"Online professional voice recording service\" href=\"professionalvoiceoverservice.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Online voice casting<\/a> is opening up a whole new world to talent and clients and I expect it to continue to grow and evolve.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What are some of the benefits&nbsp;you&#8217;ve&nbsp;found from being in control of which jobs you audition for?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The benefits are endless.&nbsp; I once had an agent tell me that the most powerful tool an actor has, is the ability to say &#8220;no&#8221;.&nbsp; If the job doesn&#8217;t feel right, pass on the project.&nbsp; Being selective and picky in what you audition for is key.&nbsp; I think Daniel Day-Lewis is perfect example of an actor that says &#8220;no&#8221; more than he says &#8220;yes&#8221;.&nbsp; As a result, his body of work is smaller, but it&#8217;s so good that it makes people love the work he does even more.&nbsp; The same goes for voice actors.&nbsp; Knowing your voice and knowing what you can&nbsp;<b>do<\/b>&nbsp;verses what you can actually&nbsp;<b>be<\/b>&nbsp;is the most valuable thing I&#8217;ve learned from my coaches.&nbsp; I can &#8220;do&#8221; an impersonation, but I can actually BE the conversational &#8220;guy next door&#8221; because I AM that guy.&nbsp; And I think that comes through in the auditions I send out and the gigs I book.&nbsp; I get to be true to me.<\/p>\n<p>To audition or hire male voice actor&nbsp;Chad&nbsp;for your next professional recording,&nbsp;check him out at The Voice Realm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We caught up with one of the internet&#8217;s busiest male voice over actors who gives us his take on the industry, his background and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[427,279],"tags":[448,44,210],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevoicerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}