Q: Judging by the audio track’s superb sound quality, I’m guessing you have a professional studio?Ī: That's a lovely compliment. It really changes your writing style and makes you think about what a sentence is trying to say. (It kinda worked for that Shakespeare guy). I believe that all writers should write as if their words were for actors. Both stories and poetry come to life when read aloud. How did you end up in the audiobook business?Ī: Firstly in doing books written or edited by ourselves. Q: You’ve produced more than a few audiobooks. It's like being able to make that ball hit the goal when the guy actually missed the post. In the way that fairy princesses never have gurgling stomachs, audio narrators don't appear to breathe/gasp. An audiobook however needs to be professional. There's a whole bunch of turntable analogue amplifier guys out there. He once wrote a poem complaining that all the cleaned up tracks of Edith Piaf lacked the crackle and fragility of the old 78rpm records. If you are a bit of an old hippy like Oscar who listens to rough Bukowski poetry, that grainy amateur effect is the fix. But, making an audiobook, it’s a lot more than just plugging a microphone into a computer and reading from a book on the shelf, isn’t it?Ī: Yes – but it depends on the effect you are after. Q: One happy consequence of the digital revolution is the availability of moderately-priced, downloadable audiobooks. It was Emma and Oscar who produced the lovely audiobook version of Les Woodland’s Tour de France: The Inside Story. Because making a good audiobook is far more than just reading into a recorder, much more. I was so intrigued by it all (such as, how do little two-word edits get inserted so that you can never hear that the audio file has been changed?), I asked Emma Calin and Oscar Sparrow of Gallo-Romano Media to spill the beans, to explain the magic. Sign up for our Email Newsletter Making an Audiobook An audiobook producer explains how it's doneĪs we've been making our books available in audiobook versions, I have been pleasantly surprised by the high level of artistic and technical finish that is consistantly achieved.
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