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Voice work, sound craft, real studios.
George The Tech’s Performer Friendly Podcast sits where voice performance meets the technical realities of recording from home. Recent conversations move between room treatment, demo production, television sound, voice coaching, live announcing, and the day-to-day choices that make spoken audio sound professional.
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George The Tech’s Performer Friendly Podcast is a practical, industry-inside show about voice performance and the sound work that supports it. Its center of gravity is voiceover, podcasting, home recording, and audio production for people whose work depends on being heard clearly. The show does not treat gear as a toy shelf. It treats sound as a working condition. Recent episodes put room echo, acoustic panels, rugs, plug-ins, demos, auditions, vocal warmups, and television sound practices into ordinary professional conversation. David Pogue appears in a profile tied to an interview from March 2024 and a later re-release around Apple, the First 50 Years. The strongest material there is about making a home office sound usable without turning it into an unpleasant workspace. Queen Noveen’s conversation brings in live announcing, coaching, online comments, notifications, and the discipline of not letting attention pull focus from the work. Ed Moskowitz adds a production sound perspective, with talk of booms, lavaliers, green beds, wiring actors, and the limits imposed by cameras, lighting, and sets. Chuck Duran’s episode stays close to voiceover demos and audition audio, including the risk of sending out raw sound even when the read is strong. Martha Kahn’s profile returns to the actor’s body and choices: audience, backstory, character, articulation, plosives, and straw-method warmups. The Voice Over Body Shop episodes broaden the frame with Dan and George, chat-room questions, sponsors, and guests including Harlan Hogan and Elaine Clark. The register is informal but specialized. People joke, interrupt themselves, name tools, and compare notes from actual work. That looseness matters because the show’s value is not a polished lecture; it is a record of practitioners explaining how voice work survives contact with rooms, clients, equipment, comments, auditions, and production habits. It suits a listener who wants practical audio and voiceover context from people who speak in the vocabulary of the field. It also suits performers who understand that talent and technical presentation are often judged together.
Made for: Suits a listener who works in, studies, or closely follows voiceover, podcasting, home recording, and spoken-word production. It also fits performers who want practical context on how sound quality, coaching, demos, and career choices intersect.
What sets it apart: The show keeps performance and technical setup in the same frame, moving from vocal choices to acoustic treatment without treating either side as secondary. Its best moments come from practitioner detail: booms, lavaliers, plug-ins, demos, room echo, articulation, and audition audio.
George The Tech Interviews the Pros in Voiceover, Podcasting, and Audio Tech
Twelve booms over a sitcom set might recalibrate what you call a complicated mic setup.
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David Pogue's studio makeover becomes a practical lesson in cleaner sound and better conversation.
David Pogue returns here because Apple, the First 50 Years prompted George the Tech to re-release their March 2024 conversation. The episode works best when it keeps the studio problem tactile: acoustic tiles, a rug, a CAD model, and a plug-in all become part of a practical…
Queen Novene reflects on career momentum, public attention, and the one bad comment that can linger.
Queen Novene's profile looks at the less glamorous side of a career lift: the moment attention turns into constant notifications, public reaction, and the need to manage what gets through.
Ed Moskowitz traces television sound from overhead booms to the wired, wide-frame habits of modern production.
Television sound mixing comes through as a record of changing habits on set and the fixes that kept dialogue usable. Ed Moskowitz remembers placing 12 booms above the set of Sybil while three operators worked across green beds, then traces how shows such as The West Wing and ER…
A focused reminder that clean voiceover audio is part of the audition, not a finishing touch.
A voiceover audition can be well performed and still fall short if the recording feels unfinished. George the Tech's conversation with Chuck Duran keeps returning to that practical divide, framed through Duran's story about a performer with strong reads, raw audio, a major…
A practical voiceover discussion with useful technique notes and a needed warning about overpromising coaching packages.
Martha Kahn gives George the Tech a grounded look at what voice acting asks of people considering voiceover, especially those still sorting out technique from aspiration.
Practical tech judgment with lived-in fingerprints.
Professional AV briefings with practical detail.
Home theater, Windows, Linux and space in one feed
Voice Over Body Shop hosts an in-studio interview with Cris Anthony Lansdowne, the voice of Barbie, discussing her career and taking audience questions.
["David Pogue says his main gig is CBS Sunday Morning, where he still produces 30 to 35 stories a year while finishing Apple, the First 50 Years.", "George the Tech and Pogue spend much of the episode on the Westchester County home studio, comparing a former 6-by-6-foot Connecticut booth with acoustic tiles, a rug, and a CAD-based room plan.", "Pogue tells the Windsor Castle story behind arranging 'Video Killed the Radio Star' for the Queen's Six after a four-day stay in the castle guest apartment.", "The conversation closes on Clarity VX, ChatGPT, DALL-E, deepfakes, and Pogue's complaint that AI transcription still makes too many errors."]
George The Tech’s Performer Friendly Podcast interviews Queen Novene about her path from Connecticut performing-arts training to Los Angeles voiceover and live announcing.
George the Tech interviews Ed Moskowitz for The Voice Recording Handbook, and Ed traces a path from technical theater at Cal State Fullerton to live sound work at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm.
["Chuck Duran says raw audio can make or break a voice career, and this George the Tech episode centers on voiceover demo production and studio quality.", "He traces his start from Peter Frampton's \"Do You Feel Like I Do\" and a cheap Kmart guitar to moving from Florida to Los Angeles at 13 and meeting Jess Harnell.", "The conversation shows why Chuck and Stacy Oswald build custom demo scripts, why commercial production now leans on story and sound design, and why clients notice clean studio sound first.", "Chuck argues that home-studio quality, mic technique, and adapting to the AI-era market matter because agents and clients often pick the most usable-sounding take."]
George The Tech’s Performer Friendly Podcast brings Martha Kahn on to break down voice-acting basics for children and adults.
Dan and George interview voiceover legend Harlan Hogan, discussing his career and taking audience questions.
Dan and George interview Laya and Cyla Hoffman about their podcast and voiceover careers.
Dan and George interview Elaine Clark about the voiceover business at the Podcast Movement Expo.
Cris Anthony Lansdowne, the voice of Barbie, joins the Voice Over Body Shop podcast for an in-studio interview.