

Some people work in a walk-in closet or back bedroom. Your studio should be isolated from external noise as well, such as planes. Bouncing will make your narration sound hollow. This is a room with curtains, rug, and walls that will absorb sound and prevent sound from bouncing all over the surfaces. What You Will Need for Production Sound Studio As with everything else online, you will need a book cover and blurb. You will also create an intro, outro and sample file for enticing your readers to buy your book. wav format, import them into an application that will level the sound throughout all your files, export to an. To create an audio book, you record your novel chapter by chapter using a decent microphone, edit the files, export them to. In this article, I will discuss the process for ACX production. Each venue has certain specifications for the audio files they will accept. From now on, I will always record any novel I write before I launch it.ĭuring my audio forays, I tried a couple of different vendors of audio books, but ACX (part of Amazon) was the easiest to work with. As a result, making an audio book improved the quality of my print and digital products. But more importantly, I caught a dozen typos that had slipped through the editing process. It gave me a renewed appreciation for dialog placement and effective tags. But in the end, it was worth reading through 300 pages of prose (multiple times). It was a long process, and I learned a lot about sound production along the way. And like the true indie that I am, I decided to produce my own audio book. When my newest indie book Apothecary came out, I decided to offer it in as many platforms as possible. Why not give them a third option to enjoy your book-an audio version. With the emergence of Amazon’s Match program (where a customer can buy both print and digital book as a package), it has become clear that readers want multiple ways to access a novel.
