There was a lot of info put on the the table during this conversation about Audio Books. Nathan Lowell walked us through how he produces his audio files and even his marketing ideas.
Where you can find Nathan on the web...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathan.o.lowell?fref=ts
Podiobooks: http://podiobooks.com/contributor/nathan-lowell/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nlowell
Blog: http://nathanlowell.com/
I ask this talented and brilliant person to give us a list of the equipment and software that he uses, which by the way... made it possible for him to have over 5 million downloads of his audio books.
(We make no guarantees that your results will be the same.) B-])
Nathan writes...
Highly recommended: A digital recorder.. the Zoom H1 at $99 is an excellent value. It comes with very nice mics. Its limitation are on inputs. (I don't know what they are.) More info http://goo.gl/uNqiUx
The next step up would be Zoom H2 at about $150. It will take a mini plug microphone but the built ins are also excellent.
More info http://goo.gl/nEbeu3
Top shelf is the Zoom H4N at about $275. I can't recommend this highly enough. It's a great "starter" and it has inputs for both mini plug and "pro grade" XLR. It also has all the power hookups you need to use some of the high end mics with it if you get to that point.
More info http://goo.gl/7lQtD1
Mics are optional if you get one of these Zooms. For reading books, unless you're trying to set up a studio and you're sure you want to do this, the H1 is my recommendation.
Right now I use
- Zoom H4
- Rode NT1-A shock mounted on a boom.
More info http://goo.gl/Hwm3ox
Software I use
- Audacity for editing and rendering.
More info http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- Kid3 (a linux tool) for adding the ID3 tags, altho the iTunes application does an excellent job of it.
More info http://kid3.sourceforge.net/
Many great thanks to Nathan Lowell for his help and great conversation.
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