Keith Elphick

British, Australian, Scottish, Yorkshire, Irish, South African, American, Italian, Asian,Jamaican accents, all fairly convincing and perfect for spoken ads. Having lived an a number of different countries has allowed me to study and imitate these accents almost to perfection. Mr. Magoo and other comic and cartoon voice style characterizations are also part of the repertoire.

Starting off in high school as an actor and debater, I progressed into a career where the spoken word was essential, as a product presenter in my early years at shopping centers and moving into small acting roles. I became the front line singer for a number of local and International bands in Australia, and touring the South Pacific and Asia regions. From there, I became a voice over talent for a wide range of products and services including voice tracks for medical centers where some of the trickiest medical names and terms sharpened my articulation skills. More recently working in SE Asia TV as news reader, and voice over talent for English speaking ads and documentaries. During this time I became heavily involved with both audio and visual production for television broadcast, and have also owned and operated my own audio visual studio, and have a good understanding of hi end digital media and software. Some of my media roles have been with: Capital TV Bangkok, Pattaya People Cable TV Thailand, Ko Chang Cable TV Thailand, Star Channel TV SE Asia, Channel 31 Australia, ABC TV Australia. Purely a hands on education in both audio and vision, starting at a an early age in analogue studios, learning recording techniques of the day and performing in a variety of bands as a musician, singer giving me greater access to a number of well known studios in the Sydney area. I attended the well known Max Rowley voice over School for a short period, but as voice work was starting to come my way, I decided to progress my career on my own, with no regrets. All my experience has basically been hands on with a strong emphasis on achieving the required results both technically and talent as efficiently and accurately as possible within the deadlines required. Preparing and delivering daily news reports for Pattaya People TV in Thailand, on a daily basis really sharpened my voice and writing skills, and has been of great benefit to my work to this day. Adobe CS 4, Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, Sound forge, Adobe Audition, Sony Vegas software. Shure / Seinheisser / Rode mics. Berringer / Sony mixing 16 track desks / variety of outboard gear including analogue compressors, mic pres, digital re verbs and effects etc. Nero and Adobe burning and authoring software to DVD and Blue Ray. Korg and Yamaha multi platform keyboards and samplers. Yamaha NS 10 monitors. Berringer Bi amp monitors. Genelec monitors. Given a good brief, I can design, write, produce, soundscape, and voice virtually any project to broadcast standard and to any preferred format. On the other side of the coin, where only a pure voice over is required, I can have an "audition" copy ready for assessment within 24 hours to anywhere in the world via FTP or Mp3 email. Jingles, music backers, and sound scapes can be produced here in my studio (to brief), and I have access to and am a member of one of the largest "royalty free" libraries in the world.