My First Televised Voice Overs!

Here are a few commercials my friend Vaughn Armstrong created for a business called Campus Book Rentals. We did 15 and 30 second spots on each commercial...but they've only posted the 15 second ones on Youtube...so that's all I get for now.

These have been periodically played on Utah's local television stations. It's a start! :)

Bathcrest Commercial Jingle

I sing in a couple acappella groups and one of them is called Eclipse. About a year ago one of the guys from the group asked if I wanted to go to a recording studio and sing a bass line for a radio commercial. I was like: "Heck Yes!" I was just excited by the idea that I could be a part of a radio jingle of some sort. Everything was set up that me and two other guys from Eclipse (Dan and Kevin) would drive to a recording studio in Bountiful where we were going to record a jingle for a business called Bathcrest AND they told us they'd pay us for our time.

Cool.

I'd never recorded a jingle in a professional studio before, so I was excited to see how this would go. We got to the studio met the engineer, got our sheet music and then everyone looked at me: "You're up."

"Uhhhhhhhh.....Ok."

I went into the recording room, put the headphones on and started studying the music while the engineer set some levels. Fortunately I didn't have to completly sight read the music. I was able to listen to a midi file of the jingle and sing along a few times before we started recording. The recording went quickly and then it was onto the other guys. Dan laid down some background vocals and then Kevin laid down some backgrounds along with some beat boxing. The whole process for all of us took about 2 hours. Not too long at all. As we were leaving David Osmond arrived to lay down the lead vocals. We talked briefly then headed for home.

Why am I writing about this 1 year later? Nothing seemed to have ever come from the recording session and we never heard any ads on the radio or tv....so we guessed they decided not to use the jingle. But then today a Bathcrest commercial came on TV and it totally had the song we recorded playing as the background music! It was fun to hear the end result and If I don't say so myself....it sounded awesome!

If you'd like to hear the awesome acappella jingle, here's the link with TV commercial (the music plays in the background):

http://www.bathcrest.com/video9.html


Thanks for reading!

-James