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Back from New York and back to work. It was an exhausting 10 days out of "The Valley" and I'm so glad to be home and back at the keyboard. Was fun seeing my publishers and editors and especially enjoyable to sit in to hear Tim record The Age of Swords (or most of it). I'll be getting dailies of the stuff that we weren't in studio for -- man is it GOOD!!
— Mar 28, 2017 06:33AM
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Mar 28, 2017 06:45AM
Sounds awesome Michael!! :)
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Your writing and Tim's reading? Of course it's GOOD haha!
Can't wait for it. Im saving credit in my Audible account just for it.
How do those recordings work? Does he have a director or ever have to do a re-take?
@Audrey - yeah there is a director (in addition to us) and we listen in with earphones. If we hear something that's not quite right, we stop and the "tape" is rolled back to and then he does it again, erasing the mistake.Not everything is caught during by that process and there is a QA person that goes through the whole book with the manuscript - line by line. They'll flag areas and then Tim will come back in the studio to do retakes on those. Then there is some "leveling magic" to make the sound days later be at the same level as when the rest of the book was recorded and the updated snippet is inserted to fix the mistake.
Thanks for asking.
Fascinating. When I read out loud, my voice starts going out after about twenty minutes. Listening to a book, you don't hear them taking a break at all, so they start appearing superhuman.
Most audio narrators don't read for more than 4 hours a day, so their voice doesn't get damaged. TGR has a very high word rate (number of words he records in a hour). Mostly because he makes few mistakes and the recording sessions run very smoothly.When I do the "Author's Note" it's only a few pages but it takes me MUCH longer, and I don't sound nearly as well.
