Tammer's New Vegas Companions - Fletcher
sturkmaster for Fletcher (Veteran Mercenary)
Ainsley Fletcher is a hardened, veteran mercenary with an eyepatch, a robot arm and an ego the size of a planet. It's not entirely undeserved, though. He's middle-aged (no small feat in a post-apocalyptic wasteland), and he's in a very dangerous line of work, so to have made it this far for so long speaks to his considerable level of skill. He's a brawler, gunfighter and explosives expert with a cocky attitude, and tends to look down on everyone else, or seems to think they're all trying really hard to impress him and are coming up short.
I picture him with a deep, gruff, working-class London/Cockney accent (think Idris Elba or Jason Statham, less so Michael Caine) Bonus points if you're actually a Brit and are willing to collaborate with me to offer suggestions for more authentic-sounding dialogue or let me know when I'm using slang incorrectly.
<Confrontational> Got a problem, bruv? Could feel your eyes on me soon as you walked in.
<Incredulous> Are you takin' the fucking piss?
<Contemptuous> Do I look like a man who gives a fuck what some pissant wastelander thinks of my name?
Thanks for your audition! I like your jaded, laid-back, slow-to-anger take on the character, like he genuinely doesn't care what people think of him. My only concern is that the voice sounds a bit young. Would you be able to pitch it down more without it sounding forced? Changing the pitch in post can be pretty hit-and-miss, so a live solution is preferable.
My biggest flaw is that my voice isn't as deep as it could be for stuff like this. I pitched this audio file down a little bit and it does still sound pretty natural, but any farther and it's clearly pitched down. I won't be able to record another take until tomorrow, but I'll post the pitched down version for now as a separate audition. If it's still not great, I can try again tomorrow and try to make him a tad more gruff.
Yeah, I actually downloaded this audition and played around with it in Audacity. Pitching it down 10% still sounds somewhat natural but any more than that and you're right, it sounds audibly manipulated.