Duplicate Your Demo Sound with Hugh P. Klitkze

Can You Duplicate Your Demo? This June, Commercial Voiceover Expert Hugh P. Klitkze will listen to your demos and then challenge you to re create that sound in a live workout! Get one-on-one direction on your demo duplicate reads!

A demo is meant to highlight your voiceover ability. Your demo should be an accurate representation of reads you can perform off the cuff. This June, the VO Peeps is offering you the opportunity to live up to your demo sound with commercial VO expert Hugh P Klitkze. Participants will submit their demo to Hugh ahead of the workout, and then read scripts designed to test their ability to duplicate their demo sound!

Participants will receive:

• Personalized Feedback: Receive one-on-one direction and constructive criticism from commercial VO expert Hugh P. Klitkze, helping you refine and perfect your voiceover technique.
• Real-World Application: Practice and apply your demo skills in a live setting, using commercial copy that challenges you to match the quality and tone of your demo performances.
• Skill Enhancement: Learn techniques to consistently reproduce the high quality of your demo performances, essential for succeeding in live auditions and actual voiceover work.
• Professional Insight: Gain valuable insights into what casting directors and clients are looking for in voiceover auditions and how to effectively meet those expectations.
• Peer Learning: Benefit from listening to the demos and live reads of fellow participants, offering a broader perspective on voiceover performance standards and diverse styles.

About Hugh

“My goal for every student is to not need me anymore. I love working with you, but you’ve got to be able to do this on your own”.

I’ve said a lot about voiceover, in the booth, in the classroom, in private lessons, and online.  And people have found my thoughts on the subject to be valuable. How do I know? When voice talent took my direction or otherwise applied what I wrote or taught, they made money. Not all of the time, but enough of the time. And sometimes quite a lot of it, too. You can’t work at an agency for as long as I did without making money for both your clients and your employer. I loved every day I was at Buchwald. I spent almost 15 years, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, directing about 125,000 voiceover auditions. And that number is probably a little low. But something happens when you do the same job for a long time.  You start to hear a little voice in the back of your head asking if there is anything else for you out there.  I’ve read that many people who changed their career paths felt a similar thing. And there was what my Dad said:  “You might get a different kind of satisfaction from working closely with a talent for an intense, longer period of time rather than so many people, so quickly every day”. Dad was right.