Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused)

Aussie VA (Pending studio update; just moved house!) — Works with @ImmersedProd — Formerly Snr Admin @ Closing Credits — [email protected] — (They/He)

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

For all #voiceover #voiceactor & demo stuff, pls see my website https://t.co/mg67XDpgo4
I've taken the step to purge all my info here, and can now be found elsewhere around the web. I'll be keeping this profile & engaging occasionally, but I'm not feeding their gluttonous ai bs.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[GenerOZity @GenerOZity]

Our biggest show ever is coming.
5 days straight in Melbourne.
GenerOZity 17: Slumber Party.
Want to be a part of it?
https://t.co/5It36BW5nY

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

I've been recommended for / invited to roles in a bunch of projects over the years that I just didn't personally vibe with or wasn't overly interested in taking part in.
More often, though, I didn't have the time / energy.
Whatever your reasons, they're yours. Saying no is okay.

[Christina Roberts🎙️Voiceover Artist. @RealChristinaNR]

VAs can decline a role for any (or no) reason at all. I just declined a role because I didn't like the script/story. OP tried to argue with me. I wouldn't tell them, because it would have been hurtful. I merely said I do not have to take every role. PLEASE just accept a no.

[Meggie-Elise | Voice Actor 🎙️🌸✨ @MeggieEliseVA]

I started pursuing a career as a voice actor back in 2018 from Gilbert, Arizona. I moved to Dallas, Texas in August of 2024, where I’ve only recently had the opportunity to record in-person at studios like Crunchyroll and Studio Nano.

Even while living in AZ, most of my opportunities came online or remotely, including projects like Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Strinova, Honor of Kings, Poppy Playtime, Path to Nowhere, Scratchin Melodii, and more. Fun fact, the English dub for My Deer Friend Nokotan was recorded partly in AZ and partly in TX while we were in the process of moving 😆 but was all done remotely.

Remote work is absolutely possible. With a good setup, professionalism, consistency, and knowing where to look, you can make it work. A majority of my work is still done remotely, and it can work for you too!

[Tianasaurus Rex @TianaCamachoVO]

On the subject of remote recording and accessibility, please also don't punch down at remote actors for "never setting foot in a *real studio* when those actors are probably disabled. Every time you do that, you risk punching down at a disabled actor.

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

@MerriamWebster Oh I would love for you to weigh in on the fact that "casted" isn't a word, and that it only exists as "cast" in past- and present-tense forms, with "casting" being its only variant 🥲 #petPeeve

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

@RooRyderVA Why say it, when you can spray it? 🤣

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

@Reece_Bridger "This isn't even my final form!"

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

@AlyssaFerrariVO I feel like a kind of 'entry level' or social media-specific "media training" should be designed & offered for folks that wouldn't ordinarily be expected to 'need' it.
Then again, for every person that does it, there'll be dozens that don't see it or assume they don't need it...

[Eric Sheffield 🎙️ Professional VO 🎙️ @EricSheffieldVO]

Contrary to popular belief, you in fact do not need 100+ voices to be a voice actor.

If you are an amazing actor with just your 1 voice that will take you further than being okay with 100 voices.

[Rhiannon Moushall @rsmoushall]

Hey VA’s, different countries have different trends and styles! From commercials to animation to games, what’s ’industry standard’ in one place, may not fly in another 🤷‍♀️

Train globally and always consider the production’s location when submitting 🌏

[MyToasterIsMoist👾 @InvertedToaster]

Since the “Focusrite bad” talking point is making the rounds again and people are talking about interfaces, here’s a dumb lil’ video I made on exactly that!

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

@hannah_chapin I got a pair right around when I turned 30 and had such fun with them. Can't remember where they disappeared to nearly 10 years ago, so you have my vote in part so I can live vicariously through your upcoming shenanigans haha

[Solly ⭐️ @sollymcwolly]

I'll tell yall rn as someone who went from Voice Acting to working behind the scenes in content creation. Most devs/creators in general don't know where to find actors and/or don't know the first thing about making a casting call. (🧵)

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

@DarrylJoseph138 For sure! Having profiles & folders you can nest shortcuts within will also help - and after a time, you'll get the muscle memory down, and it'll just feel like second nature for a bunch of repetitive tasks.

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

@DarrylJoseph138 Hahaha oh dang, did I? 😅
Well, I'm sorry and you're welcome 🤣

I got mine originally a handful of years ago when I thought I was going to stream a lot more than I did, but have found it invaluable across so many programs - none moreso than my beloved REAPER though haha

[Laneth 🍉 - VA & Audio Engineer (VA-focused) @The__Neth]

@AlyssaFerrariVO Yep yep! Even an entry-level mic can be made to sound amazing in a well-treated recording space, but a more expensive and highly sensitive mic in a poorly treated space will more than likely be unusable.
Also, dropping ~$1K+ on a mic before earning from VO is a crazy step to me😅