[Studiotalk] Reading big books!

[Stephen Lewis]

D'Oh! And I see now you were asking more specifically about the page turning noises rather than the issue of photocopying ...

The suggestions offered are good; best practices are to make the narration team stop recording between page turns plus the effort of the narrator reading ahead the night before and writing the ending sentence words from the following page on the previous page.

Book holding devices are also useful as most modern mics can and will pick up the sound of the narrator moving a finger across the page to keep their place so anything that can be done to keep them from brushing the pages is good.

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The NLS standard, and how our studio has operated for decades, is to have 2 identical copies of the book: one for the narrator and one for the monitor and reviewers. They should be the same edition to ensure consistency of error notations etc across copies.

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Hello again,

Now that I've chosen to take on the challenge of recording this huge book (556 pages), my next question is what is the best way to physically do that?  I have always made photocopies for my narrators to use to reduce paper noise (it hasn't always worked) while they were reading.  As I can't see doing that with this title, what is the most effective method that some of you are using for your narrators in the booth?  Any suggestions?

Linden Coffman
Director
Indiana Voices
Indiana State Library
Talking Book & Braille Library
315 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-232-3683
E-mail: lcoffman at library.in.gov<mailto:lcoffman at library.in.gov>

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