Born to Teachers and Amateur Audio Enthusiasts in the small rural community of Belwood, Jack's first love was stories- writing, reading, telling, and singing. He developed his acting skills through High School, University, and through film and community theatre.
Jack writes the lion's share of Sonic Cinema Production's (previously Electric Vicuna) Audio Drama scripts and has his own writing site at www.jackjward.com. Jack also is the middle of book writing, screenplay production, and is the CEO of the Mutual Audio Network- where he and the best people in the world Listen & Imagine, Together!.
He's thrilled to co-host the Sonic Society with his wonderful, talented, friend David Ault as they enter their second decade in the medium!
Craig Robotham is amazing. There I said it. A tireless educator, writer, and audio drama lover, Craig has built an impressive collection of dinner theatre audio drama you can host in your own home at Weird World Studios. But that’s not enough, Craig’s assembled a list of supplements and guides to help any educator neophyte in this amazing medium.
Check out his Education List and get ready for the Fall!
In the triumphant return of Rachel Rumler and her new audio drama group “All Souls Audio” for the Playhouse a revival of the classic “Rebecca” from Lux Radio Theater.
Voices.com has some great references and opportunities, hence this audio piece on how to make your voice sound either younger or older by veteran voice actress Cristina Milizia
One of the possibilities moving forward might be investing in a Whisper room for recording. Maybe even two. Can you imagine the dialogue between two actors in your house with Whisper room’s attached?
Cracked did a fantastic bit on how speaking with dialects can be important. Like we often say, the story is more important than getting the specific accent perfect. Little touches are also important like exactly what is the flavour of your show? Certain heavy accents can accentuate zaniness. Other times if you’re demonstrating old versus new, older characters may have thicker accents whereas younger characters would have a lighter touch.
Check out That Bad Movie Accent Makes More Sense Than You Know on youtube and consider what kind of accent or dialect best tells the story!
Lothar Tuppen and Jeff Billard joins Jack to look back at the first of this special season of the best of Bill Hollweg beginning with a double feature including “X-Minus One’s The 7th Victim” and the first episode of “Amity- Dark Waters” all with the thanks of Broken Sea Audio and Howl-O for the music!
Our Sonic Summerstock Playhouse opens with a classic tale from X-Minus One. “The Amigos” Collective Audio Group present, “The Knock” in remembering their brother- Bill Hollweg.
Tonight Jack speaks with Steve Schneider, Tanja Milojevic, Richard Summers and Owen McCuen about their recent work in 11th Hour Productions Heavenly Deception.
Producer, artist, software developer, actor, and all around Renaissance man Steven Jay Cohen has your back when it comes to getting the best recording levels.
Check out this post on his site: Setting Your Own Recording Levels: A Step-by-Step Guide.
Something has changed. You bought a new mic? A new pre-amp? You added some new sound treatment? Or, your set-up is the same, but the room its in is different? Any variation in your recording space means that you really should go through all of your settings again. Don’t be afraid. There is no reason to be overwhelmed.
If you take it step-by-step, it’s really not that difficult to do.
Tonight Jack is proud to present a special two hour bonus episode of the No Sleep Podcast Live showfrom David Cummings and starring among others our David Ault.
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