Matt, that was Awesome!! You have such an amazing voice and your take was on point. I think you did a beautiful job on articulating every word and breathing. Overall, great job!

👏👏👏 why do I feel like I know your voice from somewhere?

Excellent read!  I could definitely hear you doing commercial work and/or announcer spots - or even live event “voice of god” gigs.

1:13 There was a background noise in the recording. If that happens during a recording, it’s usually easiest to go ahead and re-record that line as it can be difficult to remove noises after the fact. 

I didn’t really hear anything too notable where you may have stumbled, but it’s good to bear in mind, when you misread or have a little stumble (happens to everyone and it’s okay!), it’s highly encouraged to start again at the beginning of the sentence or paragraph or a point that would make it easy to remove and replace the mistake during editing. If you just keep going and don’t return to a solid point that makes it easy to edit out the mistake, you may need to come back later and re-record as a pick-up, and it becomes challenging to make it sound the same as the original recording. So, a good rule of thumb is to record so that it’s easy to edit later. When the mistakes are then edited out, it will sound like you read everything perfectly.

Great use of variation in tone, volume and pacing throughout the read.

To take your read to the next level, staying well hydrated will help to reduce mouth clicks during recording. A good rule of thumb is to hydrate well a couple of hours before recording and drink water in between as you’re recording to stay hydrated. 

As you progress with voice acting, investing in the RX series mouth declick plug-in is a very useful and worthwhile tool to have at your disposal to help keep the recording as clean as possible. 

For the purpose of this homework to work on projection, I felt you did very well with it! Great articulation/enunciation/pronunciation as well.

Keep up the excellent work!