Jack actually showed me quite a few thinks that night. He also showed me how to use the analyze function on Twisted Wave which I never knew was there. I had questions for him about some programs I could use for audiobooks, and I had the luck of getting an email from a friend at that moment. Just then, I happened to have been, over several days emailing back and forth with Jack de Golia. For someone who has been in VO for years, I was loosing it completely. So at this point, dinner was not being cooked. Note, ALWAYS save your raw audio!! The Meltdown At this point the only thing I had going for me was that I had saved the RAW audio. And I had already applied my commercial effects stack to the ENTIRE recorded book. His best guess was to play with how I normalized it. I sent him a photo of my audio because I could see there was a meter for it in my DAW, which is Twisted Wave. Mine were between -25 and -27.įirst I called an engineer I work with regularly and he had gone to both college and graduate school for audio production and he had no idea what an RMS was. In my case, my RMS, or Round Mean Sound, levels were not within the precise range of -18 to -23. ACX is kind enough to tell you precisely what is wrong with your audio. You get a little orange or red, depending on the screen settings of your monitor, triangle with an exclamation point in it. So my audio was immediately flagged as being insufficient for their needs. If you have never used ACX, when you upload your audio it has a tool that immediately measures the quality of your audio. The snag happened quite unexpectedly when I uploaded my audio to ACX. I used iAnnotate and I was proud of how the audio and the editing when. I marked the manuscript on my iPad just like Sean Pratt taught me. I learned quickly that narrating audiobooks is vastly different than recording a 30 second spot. As a well-established professional voice actor I wish I could say that when I recorded my first audiobook everything went well, but that is not the case.
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