Melissa White
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113 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Melissa White’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's normal. If somebody gets a role you wanted, you're not just going to be like, oh, my gosh, everything's great. You know, you wanted that role. Right. And I think it's important to acknowledge that because we do live in this society where you're told that you can't feel negative emotions a lot of the time. And it's like. All right. Well, we all feel it.
So either we can be fake or just be open about it and, you know, accept it. And it's how you process it that matters. So if you get jealous, don't leave a mean comment. Just be like, OK, like, let me sit with that for a second and then maybe congratulate them. Because at the end of the day, they booked it and they earned it, you know. So it's just about the attitude and the mindset that you have.
But yes, it is competitive and it does get to all of us sometimes. Yeah.
And you'll get the next one. That's what I always tell myself. We'll get the next one. And and I think, Ryan, it's like you think about what could I do better? I always like to go back and listen to people's performances because then I'm like, OK, this is what they were looking for.
And I can take a mental note that, oh, my next audition, I should do something like this because this is what's booking right now. So, yeah, it's like just taking putting a positive spin on things.
So the voice I use the most is the one that you're hearing right now. Oh, okay.
And, you know, it depends on the actor, right? A lot of voice actors use their natural voice a lot. Some of them are more vocal chameleons, and they do a lot of different voices, and they do have that bag that they pull from. For me, I look at the character, I look at the description, and I think, okay...
Or not the character, even if the commercials like we want like warm, motherly nurture, you know, or like peppy and energetic and like Gen Z and whatever. So you just look at that and then you pull from that.
But I will say my characters are almost always just slight variations of my natural voice, unless I'm voicing a little boy or something, because I don't sound like a little boy for the most part. No, you don't. So it just it just depends. But for me, I'm more of a voice actor that I just I use. The voice that my mama gave me, you know?
Yeah. And I think like I part of it is what's been ingrained with me. One of my first classes that I ever took was your natural voice is your biggest moneymaker. So I've always kept that in mind. And it's been true for me because when I try to do a weird voice for me, it doesn't sound authentic.
And so I don't book it because there's somebody who's going to do that better than me because they just sound like that. So if it's like an animated character or something, then yeah, then we like turn on the crazy voices. But for the most part, I'm not going to like be down here trying to be like deep voiced mommy voice, you know, because that's just not what I sound like. And somebody does.
So I just it's it's about finding your niche. That's like a big part of this industry is figuring out where you specifically fit.
A lot of actors, myself included, will have lead in lines that we like use to get ourselves into character. I'm going to bring up Erica Lindbeck because we were just talking about Persona 5. But I know she voices Futaba and I know she'd be like, my mom, she because Futaba has mommy issues. And so she'd always like start talking about her mom to get back into the voice.
So that's what I do for my characters, too. I'm like, what's a line that really describes this character well so I can get back into the mindset and the voice? Because, yeah, it's the same way. And also, your voice does sound different every day. Like, from day to day, it doesn't sound exactly the same. So it's like, there's going to be slight variations. Like, if I have...
10 sessions for a character. It's not gonna sound exactly the same in every session, but it's about getting as close as you can to that sound. But not beating yourself up if you don't, because it's like, ah, well, nobody's gonna be listening that closely if they do back up.
Ryan's in his villain era.
Every single audition I've done has been from my home studio, but I will say some of them you audition and they want you to do the job in studio in person. Okay. So I have worked in studio, but it's after I booked the job for auditions. I mean, I've seen it every now and then where they're like, OK, callbacks are going to be at this studio in L.A. or whatever.
But it's just not very efficient for casting directors because I do casting myself and I wouldn't want all these talent coming in and like reading for me. I just want to lock in and listen to the auditions back to back to back to back, like on my own time, you know, at my own pace.
I don't I take little notes, but I can re-listen, you know, I just feel like it makes it more complicated because you are recording probably the auditions in the studio. But it's like, just send me your files. I'll listen. And then it just it's easier. It's easier for everybody, I feel like. So, I mean, I've maybe seen one audition that was like go in studio for voice acting anyway.
Yeah.
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