VO Minute: Recent Episodes
Marktree Productions
The VO Minute is a free podcast for the voice-over community. Each episode provides information, tips, and guidance on a variety of subjects of interest to VO talent. Some episodes focus on technical topics, such as equipment selection and recording methods. Others discuss voice-over techniques and various aspects of the business, with the occasional anecdote thrown in for good measure. Each episode is approximately 1-3 minutes long. We welcome topic suggestions from our listeners, so please email or tweet your ideas. Enjoy!
A free podcast for the voice-over community. In this episode, does this job violate your ethics?
A free podcast for the voice-over community. In this episode, finding truth on the Internet.
A free podcast for the voice-over community. In this episode, you'll regret setting your noise gate like this.
A free podcast for the voice-over community. In this episode, noise gates and the people who love them.
A free podcast for the voice-over community. In this episode, the first three things to look at when faced with a long cold read.
A free podcast for the voice-over community. In this episode, a perspective from the casting side.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, calling all beta testers...
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, why are these auditions soooooo long?!
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, a commentary on an audition feedback system.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, surly engineers and the people who work with them.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, researching talent agencies, part 2.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, researching talent agencies.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, putting together an effective coporate narration demo.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, creating the best home studio possible.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, repeated cadences and how to avoid them.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, an example of what not to do in an email correspondence.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the ups and downs of shotgun mics.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, getting started with basic equipment.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, sharing links to your demo.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, be careful of what you post.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the fundamentals of VO, part 3.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the fundamentals of VO, part 2.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the fundamentals of VO, part 1.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, fixing some common pronunciation problems.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, changing your register to fix a sing-song pitch pattern.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, working with accents and a big pitfall to avoid.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, using your VO skills to help others.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, pick a gender, any gender...
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, sending demos via email.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, dealing with the pay-to-play sites.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, you have your first demo, now what?
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, selecting production music.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, untying your eneregy from your volume.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, who am I? Where am I? What is going on?!
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, making auditioning work for you.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, working and playing well with others.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, energy does not equal punching words.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, don't talk over the director.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, all the reads you should have at your disposal.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, do you really want to do this job?
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, why you shouldn't skimp on your demo.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the third in a three-part series on how to use compressors correctly.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, happy everything to everybody.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the second of a three-part series on how to use compressors correctly.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the first of a three-part series on how to use compressors correctly.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, what and when to eat before a session.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, should you specialize? No, but...
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the correct pronunciations of "the" and "a". Yes, it's true, not everyone pronounces them correctly.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the third in a three-part series on timbre and volume. This is part of a larger series on applying the elements of sound to voice-over.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the second in a three-part series on timbre and volume. This is part of a larger series on applying the elements of sound to voice-over.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the first in a three-part series on timbre and volume. This is part of a larger series on applying the elements of sound to voice-over.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the second in a two-part series on duration. This is part of a larger series on applying the elements of sound to voice-over.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the first in a two-part series on duration. This is part of a larger series on applying the elements of sound to voice-over.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the third in a three-part series on pitch. This is part of a larger series on applying the elements of sound to voice-over.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the second in a three-part series on pitch. This is part of a larger series on applying the elements of sound to voice-over.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the first in a three-part series on pitch. This is part of a larger series on applying the elements of sound to voice-over.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the third in a three-part series on comprehensive mic technique.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the second in a three-part series on comprehensive mic technique.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the first in a three-part series on comprehensive mic technique.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, loosen up and get out of your head!
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, what to do when you have downtime.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, what do you expect from your agent?
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, voice-over efforts for Anime and video games.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week is about, well, auditioning for video games.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, should you learn about the production side of the business?
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, managing your energy whether you're sitting or standing.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, finding the fascinating characters in your industrial script.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, more on medical and technical reads.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the ins and outs of medical and technical reads.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, pickups and page turns and edits, oh my!
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, making sure your character voices have fully-formed characters behind them.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, deciphering the spec and being your own director.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, can you legally use that music and those sound effects?
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, what to do with those pesky loud breaths.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, affecting your audition may not be as effective as you think.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, don't get trapped in AM radio land.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, the best way to read a double by yourself.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, how much rehearsal is too much rehearsal?
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, using mic technique to your advantage.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, getting the right pacing for the audition.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, some remarks that are best kept to yourself.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, what ARE those people talking about?
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This week, how to make your engineer your friend, not your foe!
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode describes how to do a level check.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode talks about compressors and gives an example of an over-compressed sound.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. Wishing everyone a happy holiday season and best wishes for the New Year!
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode explains how to use gain or amplitude adjustment to reduce spikes.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode explains spiky signals, the problems they cause, and some solutions.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode defines and explains the normalizing process.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode discusses the problem of noisy clothes.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode explains audio file types and their uses.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode introduces the important topic of microphone technique.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode discusses the importance of technical simplicity in your audition set-up.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode discusses what VO talent should look for in audio software.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode discusses audio interfaces. An audio interface is required if you use an XLR (instead of a USB) microphone.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode discusses the differences between USB and XLR microphones.
A free weekly podcast for the voice-over community. This episode gives tips on where to set up a home recording space.
The first in a series of free weekly podcasts for the voice-over community. This introduction describes what you can expect to hear in the VO Minute.
Each episode is approximately 1-3 minutes long. We welcome topic suggestions from our listeners, so please email or tweet your ideas. Enjoy!