It takes about 90 minutes to get an hour’s worth of usable tape. SB: I do about 20 pages an hour, 100 pages a day. I keep a pillow with me and wrap it around my stomach at moments. Right before lunch your stomach starts to rumble, and right after lunch it’s digesting. Stomach noises are the bane of our existence. I have diabetes so I need to have food-it’s like my utility belt. I usually have food in the studio and Diet Coke to keep me awake. Those last two things help combat pops, whistles and other mouth noises. I also put a few drops of breath freshener on my tongue to get rid of cotton mouth and put on a light coating of lip balm. I take a sip of throat-coat tea that soothes the throat. I take a slip of water, to hydrate the vocal cords. SB: I usually have two or three pages open in front of me and there are four things I do every time I turn a page. PW: What do you need in the studio to function? If it sounds like it rolls off my tongue, then we’ve done our work, because I was stopping and stumbling all the time. When I was reading The 9/11 Commission Report, there were so many Afghan names, I could only get from one comma to the next before checking the pronunciation. My work is sometimes secondary to the work of the producer and editor. For me, its more a matter of tone rather than accent. We want the author’s words to speak for themselves it’s about them, not me. I don’t want to interfere with the author’s words. The only time I really apply definitive voices to characters is when an author notes that a character speaks a certain way or has a specific quirk. ![]() I spent four and a half hours working on pronunciations, writing down phonetically. I got in touch with his son Brian and he got me notes on pronunciations. In the Dune books, there were 490 words that don’t appear anywhere but in the imagination of Frank Herbert. Sometimes the type of book dictates what kind of notes I take. I take a certain amount of notes while reading, but mostly I use a highlighter to create visual cues for myself. ![]() SB: I’m a slow reader, so I usually only have time to read it once. ![]() PW: Can you take us step-by-step through recording a book? Six months later, Dove was sadly bankrupt, but I found myself working for Books on Tape on a near-constant basis. He dropped into the studio, listened to me, then handed me his card and told me he’d like me to work for him. The day I went in to record my very first short story was actually Dan Musselman’s last day at that studio he was leaving to build Books on Tape’s first studio and begin work as its executive producer. Scott Brick: An old college friend who was working for Dove Audio at the time got me an audition.
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