Voice actor Hans Wackershauser explains why raising your volume by even a small amount on camera can ruin an otherwise perfect take, while the exact same energy would land fine on a theatre stage. The microphone, he says, plays by its own rules again.

He also describes what his body actually does while building a character in the booth, admitting that filming the process would produce enough strange contortions to fill a movie on its own. From there he walks through how brutal auditioning has become as everything moved online, with a role that once drew a dozen hopefuls now pulling in a thousand.

Hans closes with the story of an ad campaign he recorded that ended up airing in Egypt, a performance of his own he still has never heard.

Topics: Hans Wackershauser, voice acting career, recording booth, audition process, cartoon voice

GUEST: Hans Wackershauser | http://hanswackershauser.com

Originally aired on 2026-08-27

Voice actor Hans Wackershauser explains why raising your volume by even a small amount on camera can ruin an otherwise perfect take, while the exact same energy would land fine on a theatre stage. The microphone, he says, plays by its own rules again.
He also describes what his body actually does while building a character in the booth, admitting that filming the process would produce enough strange contortions to fill a movie on its own. From there he walks through how brutal auditioning has become as everything moved online, with a role that once drew a dozen hopefuls now pulling in a thousand.
Hans closes with the story of an ad campaign he recorded that ended up airing in Egypt, a performance of his own he still has never heard.
Topics: Hans Wackershauser, voice acting career, recording booth, audition process, cartoon voice
GUEST: Hans Wackershauser |<a href="http://hanswackershauser.com"> http://hanswackershauser.com</a>
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-08-27

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