Interesting! I usually find his accent as Dean to be fairly neutral overall. The Texas character does slip in from time to time, but no moreso, I guess, than I'm used to hearing with the WV accent that was imported into the area where I grew up. (Jared's Texan has also been known to make an appearance. I've heard him slip in an "all y'all.") But overall, I think both guys have neutralized their accents pretty well. But I think I see what you're saying.

I think I hear what you're saying about the timbre as well. It's the same . . . tonal quality? . . . that I'm used to hearing, but it's . . . I don't know . . . You're the music expert. :-) But it's something interesting for me to consider. Interesting, indeed!

I've been interested in differing regional (or in my case, non-regional) dialects since we touched on it in high school English class. If it's a conversation you'd like to continue, I'm game. :-)

Speaking of . . . the skit I'm doing today, the woman I'm playing opposite is using her comic, OTT deep south hick twang, and I, when we were reading through it, was using my regular, very clean non-regional speech. I'm trying to decide of my using something softer than hers but more southern than my own will work, or if it will just make things more awkward (since I haven't really practiced it) and detract from her comedy. Hm . . .