We finished with the reading portion of the
audio book today. I wish I could do the first day over. I was much more
comfortable today, and really got into the story. Here's a picture from today:
Ben King is in the foreground. He's
producing this thing, I guess. The truth is, I don't really know what a producer
does. Ben runs a record label, and I'm pretty much doing whatever he tells me to
do. I guess that makes him the producer. Covita is running the computer and
sound equipment. As I mentioned before, she's a serious musician with a number
of
interesting CDs out.
Yeah, the studio is in Covita's house, but
she's got great equipment and a Macintosh, so you'll never know the difference!
So here's what's next. Tuesday Ben
is going to do the music tracks. Then we mix it and ship it off to a company in
Austin. They're doing the cover and making the CDs. Ben and Covita have been
doing this kind of thing for years, so I'm in good hands!
After we mix it, I'm going to put
a chapter online in an mp3 file. Until then,
here's a short little file that's kind of
funny. Just one of about a thousand mistakes I made. At times it felt like I was
averaging about one paragraph per take. One thing is for sure, my admiration of
the serious professionals who know how to read for an audience has increased
greatly. I'm not horrible, but I'm not that good. I will say that most of the
time I did better than this clip would indicate!
rlp
