Toby outside his custom built cedar wood cabin home studio, in northland, New Zealand.

Toby outside his custom built cedar wood cabin home studio, in northland, New Zealand.

Over the last 20+ years Toby has developed his skill behind the microphone to become a force in world-class voice artistry with clients around the world raving about the quality of his work, how easy the process was, and the speed of delivery.

Toby has wide range of experience;

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  • Pirate radio in the UK in the early 1990s

  • Community radio in New Zealand in the late 1990s

  • 4 years at the New Zealand Broadcasting School resulting in a degree in Broadcasting Communications

  • 5 years in commercial radio in New Zealand

  • Managing Director of a commercial voice recording studio in 2005, which grew to be a respected international production house.

  • Became a full time-voice over in 2013 and is now working from a world-class home studio in possibly the most picturesque part of the entire world!

  • Currently runs a voice training school which has been running for 9 years training new aspiring voices entering the industry, and helping intermediate and seasoned pros with their audio and business skills.

  • In 2018 was nominated for 6 awards at the One Voice Awards in London, winning 4 of them. Later that year nominated for 2 SOVAs awards in TV commercial categories.

  • In 2019 again won Voice over of the Year at the One Voice Awards in London, as well as best documentary read, and best TV/web commercial read.

    Presently is the network voice for New Zealand radio brand, regularly the voice of national TV and web campaigns in the USA, UK, Australia, Dubai, India, New Zealand and many more.

Toby was featured recently in New Zealand media for his wins at the One Voice Awards in London

Toby Ricketts Voice over caught up with Jack and Hayley on the TVNZ Breakfast show today, for a catch up about voice over, accents, and phone messages!

Toby has the craft, knowledge, gear and experience to ensure that the voice for your project is a world class production

GEAR:

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Custom Passively cooled hand built Windows 11 workstation. Adobe Creative Cloud - Audition CC

Microphones:
Neumann U87ai
Sennheiser 416
Neumann kmi84
Telefunken m221B


Arturia Audiofuse interface
Komplete Audio 6 interface
Focusrite Forte interface

Tannoy Gold HPD/315/8 vintage studio monitors
Tannoy Precision 8 mid-field monitors with NAD T743 amp, subwoofer
Shure 846 in-ear monitors
Hempcrete structured, carbon negative construction,
Autex QuietSpace 50mm full room sound control treatment

Get a quality voice over today in New Zealand, British, Australian, Standard American or Global accents and find out just how easy it is!

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