About Us - Carasmatic Productions

Who we are

Active in the voiceover and music recording industries since 1991 and incorporated in the U.S. in 2003, Carasmatic Productions became increasingly well-respected with projects such as the translation and voiceover production for the 7-language car Navigation and Infotainment System for the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti and the Maserati Quattroporte. In the past 15 years, our voiceover productions have been heard around the world on a daily basis and our talent roster has grown to one of the most comprehensive in the business.

Founded by two polyglots, Joan Dans (Harvard-educated linguist, professional voice talent and voiceover producer) and David Garcia (recording engineer and musician), the goal of Carasmatic Productions is to simplify the complex task of multilingual voiceover production for our clients, while delivering the highest quality audio and ensuring the linguistic integrity of every production.

We’re not a voiceover “agency” — we are a full-service Voiceover Production company. We take your script, your goals and your budget to heart, then create and produce a voiceover that fits your needs. We don’t represent talent, rather we fully create your voiceover for you: managing script production as needed (often including the translation, or adaptation of your translation for video sync requirements), finding and hiring the perfect voice for your project, directing them expertly, and editing the recording so that the end-result fulfills or exceeds your expectations. We are a one-stop-shop. And we can do this in any language — just try us! Whether it’s a rarer request such as Malayalam or Kapampangan or the commonly-needed Latin American Spanish, our attention to detail ensures you get what you need. On time, in budget and at the highest quality.

How We Work

In this Wild West of voiceover production since the advent of the internet, we’ve noticed that while the availability of foreign language voices has increased dramatically, quality control seems to be getting lost in the shuffle. That’s where we come in!

Indeed, you yourself can possibly get voiceovers recorded in multiple languages by surfing the internet and hiring individual talents you find. So why hire us?

Multilingual voiceover is what we do — and ALL we do! We live and breathe localization, and have a track record to prove our competence. There is no language that can stump us!
Our roster of talents numbers more than 2000 in over 150 of the world’s languages. We have hundreds of translators available at a moment’s notice to help with your project.
All of the voice talents we use are vetted for accent authenticity, error rate, and acting ability, and the studios in which we record these talents are fully vetted for audio quality. All audio recorded runs through our Los Angeles studio for a final quality check before we deliver it to you!
We have 20+ years of experience in voiceover production. We are trusted by Amazon, Motorola, Google, major TV and radio stations and more. See Client Testimonials.
Our principals and projects managers have vast multi-lingual knowledge and experience, from advanced degrees in language from Harvard, to education in Europe, India or Asia, and multilingual upbringings. We never say, “That’s Greek to me” (unless, of course, it is actually Greek!)
We have developed extremely successful, proprietary methods of dealing with scripts in multiple languages that streamline the process and increase accuracy.
We’re experts at dubbing! We employ multilingual sound engineers and editors so that if your video shows a balloon going up, we can be sure that the voiceover doesn’t say it is going down…
We offer a satisfaction guarantee. We fix our mistakes for free, and we offer a choice of several levels of Quality Assurance on every project to meet your needs. See: Satisfaction Guarantee

Give us the opportunity to show you how quick, easy and painless a multilingual voiceover production can be — let us help you make your project a success!

Our Clients Come First

Our Company Motto is: “There’s no traffic on the extra mile”

We like to go the extra mile for our clients, and the fact that most of our business is repeat business tells us it’s worth the effort. We also get a large number of referrals from satisfied clients. Recent clients and interesting projects include: Costco and AARP (telephony/IVR systems); Motorola Mobility (we recorded voiceovers embedded into Motorola phone models in 5 languages); Amgen (pharmaceutical trial video voiceovers in 40 languages); Spotify (radio ads in multiple languages); Russian promos for the E! Channel; WGBH (dubbing for a documentary for Boston’s public broadcasting station); Goodyear Tires (telephony prompts in Canadian French); Hot Pockets (jingles in 4 languages, including Icelandic); Gates Foundation (voiced for their “I am a Global Citizen” campaign) and many more.

Read our CLIENT TESTIMONIALS here.

Why Choose Us?

Choose us to make your life easier!
Choose us if you want guaranteed native voices in any language –expertly recorded and edited — to make your project sound great.
Choose us if you want a one-stop-shop you can trust with a promise of quality that makes you comfortable.
Choose us because we’ve been vetted and approved by Google, Motorola, Dow, NBC, and so many more.

Meet The Founders

Founder

Joan Dans

Bio

As a veteran voice talent for over 25 years, Joan has voiced the car navigation systems of models of the Jaguar, Land Rover, Cadillac, and Mercedes Benz, in addition to having voiced hundreds of commercials, IVR systems, mobile and video games, corporate videos and more. Her live announcing of the Medal Ceremonies at the Nagano Olympics was heard by millions around the world. She also has more than 10 years of live radio broadcast experience.

Joan has studied: Spanish, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Ancient Greek, and Bahasa Indonesia. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Joan grew up acutely sensitive to regional accents (fueled by the struggle to eradicate her own), and now has a great appreciation for the micro-differences within a language, as well as the more global differences amongst languages.

Education

Harvard University in language studies. Received B.A. (magna cum laude) and M.A. in the Japanese Language; honors thesis on “Aesthetics of Japanese Literary Translation.”

Founder

David Garcia

Bio

Forsaking a legal career, David chose sound engineering as his professional path and has become an efficient master of Pro Tools for music and voiceover.

At Carasmatic, he works in the capacities of sound engineer, editor, music creator, and occasional Spanish interpreter during sessions. He oversees all Spanish and Portuguese language projects and speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Galician, and English. He’s a bit camera shy, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a better voiceover editor!

Education

Law School and Sound Engineering School. David graduated from the Escola de Imaxe e Son School of Sound Engineering in his native A Coruña, Spain.

Our Studios

Carasmatic Studios is located in Los Angeles, California. A full-service commercial recording facility, the ProTools studio is equipped with Lynx Aurora converters; Vintec preamp; Neumann mics; a large variety of analog preamps, EQs and compressors; a soundproof and acoustically-treated booth; and was custom-designed to handle our in-house voiceover and music projects. We also partner with vetted, professional recording facilities in every major city around the globe so that we are able to record whenever and wherever our clients need us to. We’ll work out the time zone issues for you for a hassle-free production. Clients can listen into sessions and direct remotely with affordable Phone Patch and Skype-assisted sessions, billed on an hourly basis. In addition, ISDN, Source Connect and other protocols for remote direction are also available upon request. Just let us know what you need!

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