I wasn't even going to say "I'm super fucking awesome, look at me!".Joey Batz wrote:Here's me being an asshole again. Your Vegeta voice sounds like you're reading off lines from a script. I mean, I know you are, but you know what I mean. The first thing that popped in my head was my 7th grade class reading Fiddler on the Roof while staring aimlessly at the clock waiting for the day to end. Your Freeza sounds like a generic villain voice ("I'm angry because I'm evil! Now watch as I perpetually growl"). That's too much even for Nappa, let alone Freeza. Sorry if this sounds really harsh, because I know it is, but frankly I don't think it would do you any good to have us sitting here talking about how "you're really good" and "you sound so convincing".That's the Paula Abdul approach to judging, and I prefer the Simon Cowell approach (well, I think I'm being a bit nicer, but you know what I mean). Keep working at it, change what you're doing wrong, and who knows? Maybe you'll be the next Masako Nozawa. But you really do need work.
My advice for your Vegeta and Freeza, imitate the Japanese voice actors. Especially Freeza, go for that pompous, almost elegant tone of voice that's sinister, haunting, and mocking all at once. For Vegeta, I think a generic Japanese villain's voice--sly, coy, and even mocking at times--would work.
As for MasakoX, I usually love his work. I think he is an awesome Goku and the TFS parody really shines under his portrayal of the lead character. But I thought his performance was lacking here. Actually, I saw one clip of him doing SSJ4 Goku in GT swallowing the Dragon Ball and wasn't too thrilled with that either, so maybe he's better at portraying Goku being silly or naive. But we'll hold off on judgments like that until he has a few more serious-Goku scenes under his belt (honestly, I don't think there's more than a full minute of MasakoX-serious-Goku scenes throughout the entire Internet). Whatever the case, I don't know, it felt like he really wasn't putting any effort in. The part where he yelled "FRIEZAAA!!!" seemed to be lacking emotion, as did the "You fool!" line, a line I think was delivered more convincingly by Sean Schemmel in the anime (but let's steer away from that please). His voice just didn't seem to fit the way it does during the TFS DBZ Abridged parodies. Then again, it could just be the combination of Infinite World cutscenes and shitty translations. At least use Burst Limit clips next time.
In fact, I seem to have the most trouble when it's DBZ, I need to improve my VA'ing for DBZ. But as you said, I should try imitating the Japanese VA's, it might take a while. But, I'll try.
But, yeah. MasakoX does seem more fit for Parodies. But, I seriously think I'm the only one to ever use MasakoX in a serious DBZ dub. I also had put that clip up on YouTube of "eating the Dragon Ball".
He actually sent me multiple takes of the same line, I probably didn't pick out the best one. But, the ones that were used, sounded the best to me.
Well, hopefully these show you I'm at least decent at VA'ing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8cYlL0WYeY
It's where Light meets Ryuk in the Death Note Live Action Movie, I do both Light's and Ryuk's voices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1xHtCcMB9Q
Scene from the Death Note TV Special, I do all voices. Didn't give much effort on Soichiro and Matsuda. Also, my crappy music mixing.