Timber Sound Productions was built from the concept that high-end production can come from anywhere. Nestled away in a West Coast paradise, the people of Timber Sound have worked on projects with some of the biggest brands in the world.
With shimmering, shiny, state-of-the-art gear and years of experience across various media industries (advertising, video games, music etc), the Timber Sound team is ready to grow your audio potential.
Matt Cowlrick’s voice over career spans over 20 countries, utilizing multiple accents and a variety of voice types and age ranges. His clients include an impressive collection of the world’s top brands and multinational companies. Matt records for commercials (TV, radio and web), animation, corporate and industrial narrations, promos and many other mediums. Before entering the voice over world, Matt was a professional classical musician in Brisbane, Australia. Now in Timber Sound, Matt brings his experience from thousands of voiceover recordings and working with some of the top ad agencies in the world. He blends the raw creativity of the performing arts with a keen sense of what is required to cut through in today’s world of business and commerce. When not in the studio, Matt is usually hiking with his wife, daughter and dog in the outdoors of Vancouver Island, competing in triathlons or playing music. He is also an avid musician and improv performer; he has performed in Fringe Festivals and multiple stage productions.
Brian has been writing music professionally since 2009, after studying film scoring at the post-graduate level. Since then, he’s written and produced music for over 150 advertisements, as well as short films, TV, and games. Equally comfortable writing for full orchestra and small ensemble, Brian’s worked on everything from blasting Metal to ukulele solo, Big Band to Synth Pop, epic symphony to ‘musique concrete’ and countless styles in between.
Jordan is a professional sound designer, editor, mixer and recordist. A graduate of the Vancouver Film School Sound Design program, he initially started working as a freelancer for film and TV and eventually transitioned to working full time in games. After relocating to Edmonton, Alberta Jordan worked at BioWare where he was part of the team that brought the worlds of Dragon Age and Mass Effect to life. Since returning to the freelance world, Jordan enjoys the variety of work in everything from indie games (For the King, Duelyst, Okhlos, Fossil Echo) to media for Mega Bloks, the Edmonton Oilers, CBC, and more.
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Finding the right voice is one thing, recording it right is another. Timber has a top-of-the-line voiceover studio available for client projects to make your great voice sound brilliant. To add an extra layer of brilliance, we have experienced producers and designers available to add those bells ‘n’ whistles.
If you’ve spent hours working on a script, chances are you have been hearing things a certain way in your head. Voice direction can assist in communicating those creative desires to the voice talent hired and even unlock possibilities you didn’t consider.
Even the most experienced voice talents benefit from working in a directed session.
Using someone in your production that has no experience whatsoever in voiceover? Psst. It’s harder than “talking in front of a mic”! A voice director can help to guide the performance to get the desired results.
Your time is valuable and should spent doing the things that require your personal finesse. Casting voices for a production is an in-depth process that has more hurdles than you might expect. You’ll find yourself wading through the multitude of talent websites online, and if you decide to use an online casting site – dealing with the mixed bag of voice overs that you’ll find there.
We have a network of hundreds of professional voiceover talent that can deliver quality work for your project. Whether you want a voiceover professional from Canada or an international VO – we can help.
Timber Sound Productions has two studios available for your projects. One is a voiceover and production studio in Metchosin, BC, and the other is Rolling Sound Studios, a mobile ADR/Voiceover/Music recording studio.
Timber Sound Studio: The fancy/nerdy details
Microphones:
Neumann U87ai
Sennheiser MKH416
Neumann TLM103
RODE NTG-3
Audio Technica 4033
RODE NT1A
OTHER:
Apogee Quartet digital audio interface
Universal Audio 6176 Channel Strip
Focusrite ISA One
Isolated & treated room 11 ft x 6 ft
M-Audio CX5 monitors
Shure 840 headphones
Radial Gold Digger
ProTools 12
TwistedWave
Source-Connect Standard
ISDN via ipDTL
Phone patch and Skype
Timber Sound Productions has experts in the science and art of sound design. Don’t let brilliant visuals, game design or storytelling be let down by a poorly executed soundscape. We’ve got you covered.
The right musical expression at the right time helps to communicate all of the subtext that YOU know you want to be in a scene, but can be difficult to tactfully convey with words and picture alone. When everything comes together, it suddenly FEELS right – and that’s no accident. We specialize in crafting original music that eliminates the guesswork and targets your specific direction the first time.
“Exploring Options” doesn’t have to be desperation tactic. A curated music search provides a hand-picked variety of options that allows you to see your production from new perspectives and can help hone your vision of the perfect ‘feel’, while providing access to music by composers and producers that have become (or are en route to becoming) household names.
Modern game scoring tools have elevated the craft with options that go beyond ‘background’ loops. Engage your players and give them cinematic agency within your world with a custom music system built to enhance your game design and give natural feeling reactive and proactive information to the player in real time.
You’ve built a game and we can help bring it to life with some marvellous sound. We’d love to partner with you to make your game’s world as immersive as it can be.