Radio announcer voice lulz.
Only Chris spoke in his real voice, which is a damn shame- he stumbled over the sillier ones. I basically tried to do an impersonation of the announcer from The Simpsons (at the RACETRACK Racetrack racetrack) and pitch my voice as far down as it could go and speak in Midwestern Newscaster Voice, and Ken yelled in a ridiculous faux-German accent, and his voice is
way deeper than mine normally- the decades of chain-smoking will do that. How'd we do? Rode NTK, smashed with I forget what. These were the takes we chose. Our drummer felt he couldn't top this, so no ad for him. He did a big long interview though, which works.
Eric radio voice:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13184331/Garda%20Commercial%201.mp3Chris radio voice:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13184331/Garda%20Commercial%202.mp3Ken radio voice:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13184331/Garda%20Commercial%203.mp3That's a pretty accurate representation of what Chris actually sounds like, albeit with super radio compression. He just spoke his lines. Ken and I are joke voices, but we thought they worked. The one we used of his is more overtly silly where mine we chose because it actually sounds like radio-voice.
There's actually a trick to this. To do it right you have to be very singsong-y. You can't be at all monotone. And it doesn't matter if you have a particularly deep voice or not as long as you can act like it and hit some low notes and work the mic. It's all about playing the character.
Soooo much of getting that sound is retarded unnatural EQ, too. The outtakes from this are pretty humorous when we break character.