SunSpots Zak Miller voices full-time

SunSpots Productions Zak Miller becomes full-time Voiceover Talent

As one of the founding members and manager of SunSpots Productions Orlando recording studios team, Zak Miller has decided to “put out his shingle” and work as a full-time voiceover announcer. Zak’s been working behind the console and mic for over 12 years with SunSpots and produced over 7,500 sessions and personally voiced over 1,700 radio and tv commercials and narrations. You can hear Zak Miller’s voices at SunSpots: http://www.sunspotsproductions.com/Voice_talent_detail.cfm?id=59

Zak got his start behind the mic in 1992 on the air at WCHZ in Augusta, Georgia. Zak says, “That opened the part of my brain that told me I love to voice! I produced my first spot for a horse show at a South Carolina mall. I had no sound effects so I had to foley everything!” From that radio station in Georgia, Zak worked his way to WDIZ in Orlando, Florida working middays as a DJ. Eventually he moved off the air to the Creative Service Department of Clear Channel Broadcasting in Orlando. While there, he voiced for the Orlando Predators Arena Football Team, Solar Bears Hockey Team and various concerts for the Orlando area.

It was Zak’s work on the radio that attracted SunSpots Productions attention. He joined the SunSpots team in 1997, soon after the company opened its Orlando studios location. Within a few years he became manager of the Florida studio. Zak describes his early years at SunSpots Productions, “Being on the ground floor of SunSpots was a very exciting time. To be a part of the growth and formation of a company like SunSpots with the ideals and approaches to the industry will always remain a special memory. To be able to raise the industry standards and what is and was expected from a production studio and talent agent was a great feeling. SunSpots has changed the way I approach life, business and relationships.” One of his favorite memories of SunSpots was, “sitting in the lobby eating Chinese food and thinking of names for the company. I’ll never forget the time that Janet (SunSpots Co-Owner), fellow voice talent Jaz Adams and I spent the day piling sand around the building to keep “Lake Cassidy” from flooding into the studios!”

Zak’s enthusiastic about his career change to jump to the other side of the recording console as a full-time voice talent. “I am very excited about voicing full-time. How come? When you’re able to do something in life that feeds your passion and creativity, your life becomes more fulfilled…My favorite spot to voice is a spot that tells a story. I love to be able to bring a person into a scene with my voice and my inflection.”

The entire SunSpots Productions staff wishes Zak the very best in his new voice talent career. To hear Zak Miller’s voices (he does a variety of voiceover styles) and his voiceover demos please contact SunSpots Productions at 800-355-SPOTS or online at www.SunSpotsProductions.com. You can also schedule Zak through SunSpots web site.

SunSpots Productions is a global supplier of voice talent and creative audio production and is a licensed talent agent in the State of Florida. SunSpots creates award winning audio from their studios near Asheville, North Carolina and Orlando, Florida.

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Zak gets half-naked for the 2009 Orlando Addy Awards

This year’s Orlando Addy Awards were presented at the Shakespeare Theater with a Shakespearean theme and in keeping with that theme Treefrog Cinegrafix, Inc. produced videos with Shakespeare’s characters parodying our delightful biz. This video was filmed here at SunSpots Productions Florida studios and even stars the studio manager, Zak Miller. The “engineer” was filmed in Xavier’s studio and Zak was in one of our six voice booths.
Notice the Christmas tree branch on his head. We couldn’t find any olive branches for his ceremonial garb. Hail Zakus!

Star Wars Weekends Video

I’m in a postin’ mood today. I found this video in the vaults that Zak Miller produced for Disney’s Star Wars Weekends. He did all the audio post at SunSpots FL studio. Tom Cassidy voices, but I think they chose James K. Flynn for the final mix. It’s a couple years old and ran on tv and I remember seeing one run at a theater at Downtown Disney one night. Just a side note on Downtown Disney; if you love movies and great audio go the AMC theaters there. Enormous, digital screens and amazing audio. Only downside is the pricing.

It takes a moment to load. Crank up your audio for this video. As always, Zak gave the audio a creative smackdown and it sounds great!

Hey Zak, do you remember what effects you used for the mouse ears opening on the tower? Sounds like some old chains being pulled or something.

Tom

Congratulations to Zak for 10 years and 7,000 sessions!

Zak Miller, our Studio Manager at SunSpots Orlando studios, just celebrated two milestones with us. He’s celebrating his 10th anniversary at SunSpots and he just completed his 7,000th session behind the console. WOW! We can hardly believe it’s been 10 years already. I remember sitting on the floor at SunSpots when we had just one studio going in Florida and dreaming about what things would be like a few years from then. We couldn’t believe then that we’d become a global leader in our industry. It’s been Zak’s hard work and extraordinary dedication that has helped us achieve that goal. I can’t thank him enough for being there during those late nights, weekend sessions and doing what he does every day to separate us from the herd. You can read more about Zak here. By the way, 7,000 sessions equates to 12 to 15,000 spots he’s recorded at SunSpots. We’re not kidding when we say we do “professional audio production”.

And let’s not forget Zak is a professional voice talent too! Listen to Zak Miller’s voiceover talent demo.

If you’d like to schedule Zak to do your audio production or to voice a spot or two for you please call us at 800-355-7768 or you can book your entire session the web way by using our voiceover session scheduling page.

Congrats amigo! Also, thanks to Jay Patrick, SunSpots very first engineer, for hearing Zak’s production work on the radio in Orlando and saying…”Hey, this guy’s got it! He’s really good.” Yep, we think he is and so are you Jay! (Jay’s been with us since the very start when we were simply “The Cassidy Company” and we’ll talk more about him soon.)

Peace-
Tom