Production of an audiobook : recording, editing and mastering
Seppänen, Juha (2022)
2022
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Audiobooks have grown in popularity during the last decade. The medium for this form of literature has transformed from CDs to streaming, which together with smartphones and widely available internet has made audiobooks more accessible and popular than ever.
The goal of this thesis was to collect best practices for how to record, edit and master a quality audiobook. As many narrators record from home, there are many aspects in the process they should understand – even if they were not the final engineers of the recordings. The thesis goes through the process in chronological order, starting with the preparing the recording space and ending with the delivery of the mastered files.
The bigger purpose of the thesis was to gather simplified but exact and relevant information for a narrator who may not already be aware of the technical aspects of audiobook production.
The theoretical part studies the three parts presented in the thesis title: recording, editing, and mastering. Different methods and pieces of equipment are compared with the subtext of how one can achieve a quality result, even with a smaller budget.
The practical part of this thesis was an empirical research on the three aspects of audiobook production for commercial distribution in the Finnish market from the viewpoint of a narrator-engineer. The recording process of one audiobook is described at the end of the thesis.
The goal of this thesis was to collect best practices for how to record, edit and master a quality audiobook. As many narrators record from home, there are many aspects in the process they should understand – even if they were not the final engineers of the recordings. The thesis goes through the process in chronological order, starting with the preparing the recording space and ending with the delivery of the mastered files.
The bigger purpose of the thesis was to gather simplified but exact and relevant information for a narrator who may not already be aware of the technical aspects of audiobook production.
The theoretical part studies the three parts presented in the thesis title: recording, editing, and mastering. Different methods and pieces of equipment are compared with the subtext of how one can achieve a quality result, even with a smaller budget.
The practical part of this thesis was an empirical research on the three aspects of audiobook production for commercial distribution in the Finnish market from the viewpoint of a narrator-engineer. The recording process of one audiobook is described at the end of the thesis.