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Your housemate doesn't re-listen the recorded book, doesn't make edits, doesn't clear up passages, cut and rearrange unwanted silences? He is either wildly unde
by ohgodplsno 5y ago
Your housemate doesn't re-listen the recorded book, doesn't make edits, doesn't clear up passages, cut and rearrange unwanted silences? He is either wildly underestimating it by only taking the "talk into a microphone" part in consideration, or I feel terribly sorry for anyone listening to his audiobooks.
- delgaudm 5y agoThis is correct.
- salamandersauce 5y agoDoes the narrator need to be involved in making edits, re-listen to recorded book, cutting and rearranging unwanted silences? Other than the occasional line redo if something is flubbed or off I don't see how that involves the narrator?
- delgaudm 5y agoIn many cases in the ACX world the narrator does it all. All the production falls to the narrator.
- playpause 5y agoIt's not just the odd flubbed line, it's loads of problems. I hear a lot of stories about it. Sometimes the narrator's pronunciation of a weird name can drift, very gradually, and the engineer then has to go a long way back to figure out where the drift started, and get them to restart from there. It has to sound natural and flowing, so no you can't just re-record individual lines and splice them in later, they would stand out and it would sound shit. That's why it can take up to a few hours to get one hour of audio down. (But not 5-12 hours, he says that's a huge exaggeration.)
- breakfastduck 5y agoThat's not the narrators job though, is it? And the comment was about the narrators input.
- playpause 5y agoHe's constantly listening out for mispronunciations, unwanted pace changes, mouth noises etc. He frequently has to stop the narrator, listen to it back, get them to do a whole bit again... That's why it can take up to 3 hours just to get one hour of audio down. Not 5-12 hours though.