In addition to courses on DAWs, Lynda offers loads of classes in marketing, social media, web site design, and other topics useful to your audiobook business. You pay for the service monthly, can take as many courses as you want, and can cancel at any time. You can preview the Pro Tools 12 Essential Training at this link, but classes on every popular DAW are available. While they aren’t audiobook specific, I also suggest you look at the extensive video courses on DAWs and other useful topics offered by . Lynda courses are much thorough and come with a transcript and materials. I highly recommend you purchase the 2 excellent webinars about audiobook recording and mastering that studio engineer George Whittam and ACX engineer Charles Clerke taught for ACX users through for. ![]() This article on the ACX blog about the most popular software choices will give you pros and cons of several DAWs to help you make your decision.īefore you undertake an ACX project, you need to learn how to use your recording software, at least to the bare minimum capabilities of recording, saving, and exporting your files. Your software choice may not seem so clear-cut. For that reason, he decided that he would use it, too. He researched the needs of his current clients and learned that one of his main publishers uses Pro Tools. However, I explained that he should choose software that a lot of his peers are also using so that he could easily get training and support. He initially wanted to buy a proprietary, self-contained system so he wouldn’t have to learn how to use recording software. We first talked about his choice of computer system and Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software. The thought occurred to me that anyone who is new to home recording and working through ACX might benefit from the 4 key areas of practical advice and information that I gave to my friend about becoming a successful ACX producer. Once he was finally convinced that establishing a home recording studio would be an empowering career move on all levels, he decided to create one and asked many questions while implementing his plan. possibility of creating his own publishing company and performing titles of his choice in his spare timeįuthermore, traditional publishers are increasingly employing narrators who are experienced in home recording.excitement (and sometimes need!) to earn passive income each month from carefully selected Royalty Share projects.ability to work directly with authors and fill holes in his recording schedule.ease of finding interesting books on the site and auditioning to narrate them.I often talked with him about the many merits of using ACX, including the: For the longest time, he had absolutely zero interest in setting up a studio and recording at home, largely because he is not comfortable with technology. If you’re only cancelling because you ran out of time, talk to the author and see about an extension.One of my friends is a well-established and highly successful audiobook narrator with years of experience working in commercial studios for traditional publishers. ![]() If you’re cancelling because you can’t stand the book as a whole, then what everyone above said is the way you’ll go. You also can’t tell by the book’s sales because some really good books are far down on the list! Unfortunately, with the era of self-publishing, you’re almost always guaranteed to get a book that makes you want to cry! And the trouble is you don’t get a very clear look at the whole thing before you agree to take it on. I know I’m a bit late to the game here, but If you’re cancelling because you’re worried about not getting it in by the deadline, talk to the author! I fell behind on things a couple of times, once around the holidays when life got crazy unexpectedly, and again after Covid hit and my kids were home all day and I became a teacher of four grades! Each time, I contacted the author and they were MORE than happy to give me as much time as I needed to complete the books. Yeah, I will definitely research more and go for the shorter books next time. Treat it as a learning experience and take more care to find out exactly what is involved before committing to future work. I wouldn’t expect so for a one-off incident, but if you gain a reputation for not completing, then it’s unlikely that anyone will want to hire you in the future. It will be much harder to achieve an amicable cancellation if you place blame on them.ĭoes it put a black mark against your name? ![]() I would recommend that you do not mention that when writing to the author. The amount of grammatical errors in the book makes it even harder. If you can amicably agree to cancel, then cancelling looks straightforward. It looks like the first step should be to contact the person that you are reading for. I haven’t, but there’s some information about cancelling a contract on the ACX site: Has anyone any experience with cancelling an Acx book narration?
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