Built by
the talent
and the agent.

John's journey into voiceover started unexpectedly. After spending over a decade recording music, he found himself drawn to the world of voice acting — landing roles in TV commercials, film projects, video game characters, and corporate narration. Along the way, he built and ran a scrappy but successful production company, and even made people laugh through acting, improv, and stand-up comedy.

Through all of it, one frustration never went away: the gear problem. John had invested years building a quality home studio. But the better he got, the more he traveled — and the more that studio became an anchor instead of an asset. He started packing gear into bags and hauling it everywhere, but the setup process on the road was always clunky, time-consuming, and unreliable.

He tried every workaround. Satchels stuffed with loose components. Cables that may or may not be compatible with this week's laptop. Mic stands that didn't survive the flight. Thirty minutes of setup before he could even test levels. Nothing worked reliably enough. And every failed setup meant another potential booking lost to a competitor who happened to be near a proper studio.

The breaking point came when John realized the "portable studio" he needed simply didn't exist. No company had ever created a fully integrated, travel-ready recording kit with professional-grade components that could go from case-to-recording in under 90 seconds. So he decided to build one.

John personally selected every component in the VB1 Pro — from the Universal Audio Apollo Solo interface he'd relied on for years, to the custom-engineered Hexium™ tray system that holds the entire rig together. Every choice was informed by real sessions, real deadlines, and real frustration.

Vox Boy isn't John's first product. But it's the one he wished had existed fifteen years ago.

Taylor's career in voiceover began at Voices.com, where he quickly distinguished himself — earning the President's Club Winner award in 2019 during his very first year. Working daily as a liaison between voice talent and the creative teams who hire them, Taylor helped provide seamless access to professional voice artists in over 100 languages.

Through that role, Taylor helped hundreds of voice actors land projects with top agencies and global brands, securing work that ranged from $100 gigs to $100,000 campaigns. He collaborated with agencies including Media.Monks, Oliver Agency, The Marketing Arm, BBDO, DDB, Droga5, Ogilvy, and Saatchi & Saatchi — helping bring campaigns to life for brands like Nike, Adidas, Dell Technologies, FedEx, Microsoft, Shopify, and teams across the MLB, NHL, NFL, and NBA.

But Taylor saw a pattern that troubled him. Talented voice actors were losing jobs — not because of their skill, but because of their setup. Actors traveling without reliable recording gear. Beginners overwhelmed by the maze of microphones, interfaces, cables, and software they needed just to get started. Working pros forced to rent expensive studio time ($150–300/hour) or waste precious hours cobbling together makeshift rigs from incompatible components in hotel rooms.

With projects often worth thousands — sometimes tens of thousands — of dollars, a single missed audition due to poor recording conditions could be devastating. Taylor watched it happen over and over.

When he connected with John Kubin — a voice actor he'd helped land multiple major bookings during his time as an agent — the two realized they'd been observing the same problem from opposite sides of the desk. John knew the gear. Taylor knew the business. Together, they had everything they needed to build a solution the industry had been waiting for.