Returning to Our (Many) Selves in a Recording Studio

By Michelle Redo

The trees were nearly at peak foliage when my audiobook client Betsy Armstrong arrived from her Nevada desert home to sit in my Maine closet-studio for five days straight in October. Our objective? To catch all the mistakes while recording her memoir, so she won’t have to return for retracks in February. We didn’t want her to have to make a second trip. Especially in February.  

Recording your book and fixing every misspeak as you go is a nice goal, but if you happen to...