Michael Baer Voiceover

01/10/2024

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09/08/2024

It’s funny what sticks with you. Watching Olympics and seeing a British cyclist named Emma Finucane, I instantly said to Christine “I wonder is she’s related to Paddy Finucane?”. She is, but largely unaware of him.

He was a legendary Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain, the youngest ever wing commander, shot down and killed at 21 years old off the French coast. I’ve known his name all my life, but can’t remember details of my own family tree or what I was doing a month ago, but I remember these things!

01/08/2023

I haven’t smoked in a couple of years it seems, don’t know why, but man! I forgot how much I love the smell of a well used smoker! Today I’m trying Pacific Rockfish with cherry wood. !

18/02/2023

At the BC Aviation Museum with my friend Steve, doing some recording tests on classic aircraft. The Viscount turboprop airliner from the 50s and 60s was a revelation too, with massive legroom from a bygone era. The Golden Age of air travel, really. But, prolly pretty damn loud too…

19/12/2022

So proud today. Every parent wants their child to get ahead… on the other hand, we may need to talk.

10/12/2022

Who needs power when you have a camp stove tucked away just for those pesky outages? Power back, but what the hell, we’ll take this one to the finish line, just ‘cause.

18/11/2022

Love it! Whoever was tasked with writing the Lee Valley catalog entry was having a great day! Well played!
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19/10/2022

I've been retooling some things lately. Among them is a new logo and graphics on my website and here, for example. It means I'm avoiding the hard things, of course, like regular and vigorous exercise, cleaning the house etc. But this is much more fun!

13/06/2022

First day of actual retirement- all set up with friends at Horne Lake, ready for fire and whiskey. Or fiery whiskey. Or maybe just whiskey…

10/06/2022

My last look from the House tablet position, which was at the center of much of my work these last 15 years. Today I’m retiring from the Legislature to pursue my work in voiceover and media production, but I have a great many fond memories of this place. Thank you!

12/04/2022

A very rare treat in April, to be warm and recording inside while a wet snow falls outside the windows. This just never happens here.

10/08/2021

This was some work I had done for Peter Kerschhackel at PK Productions in Austria, and shared recently. It reminds me why I love VO - there’s always an interesting, out-of-the-ordinary project just over the next ridge….

25/07/2021

In Part 4 of this series on building a recording studio for voiceover in my house, I happily leave the electrical and turn my attention to the subfloor. It'll be important to acoustically treat the floor beneath my feet in addition to the ceiling above my head, and not only to isolate others from my space, but myself to others. No-one below needs to hear me yakking into a microphone at all hours...

18/07/2021

Whoopsie! I skipped right past Part 2 in my series on Building a Home-based Recording Studio, which deals with the actual gutting of the room, down to the studs. This is the point which would reveal the shape I was in, and provide me a better idea of what I would have to do - it's like every scene you've ever seen in a movie in which someone takes a hit in the belly. Cut to shocked protagonist pulling back the clothing. Only, with less gore, but about as much cussing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZND9KZN-0Wk

It's time to take apart the room, gutting to the studs, in order to preserve the thick wood cladding for later re-installation. In building mass into the wa...

18/07/2021

Hoo-boy, this was an adventure I hadn't counted on. I knew I had a trace of k**b and tube electrical in my old house, but was very surprised by the extent of it - it turned out to be everywhere. Trying to clear this major hurdle forms the basis of Part 3 in my series Building a Home-based Recording Studio.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxM2n-Alfrg

In order to update the electrical service to my voiceover recording studio build, I thought it was going to be a simple matter of adding on a few new plugs t...

06/07/2021

If ever you've thought about gutting and building an acoustically isolated recording studio in your home, you might find this interesting. I've posted the first two parts of my little adventure to my Youtube channel. There are more to come, and will detail all aspects of the build. Come along for the ride.

https://youtu.be/zOrUrX2lO_g

In building my acoustically isolated Home-based Recording Studio for Voiceover, I gutted a room in my house, and built the room from scratch. Long before the...

12/06/2021

I've completed my profile on a new casting platform called CastVoices, just readying to fully launch. It's a little different so far from others. I had some fun with my introductory 'soundbite' -it's the mic icon - and am ready to roll.

https://castvoices.com/talent/michaelbaervoice

01/05/2021

I sometimes think I built my recording room just so I could do this. Acoustic absorption panel meets Gretsch beautifully don’t you think?