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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Amen to that. One of my former girl friends was a voice talent (for all I know, she may still be).
I have a pretty big collection of audiobooks. I'm pretty open as far as the approach goes as long as the talent knows what he or she is doing, though some books just scream for a particular approach. I suspect that the poor audio quality may be older material where the audio was ripped from the cd's rather than created from the master.
Rule one is you can't please all the people. As anyone who has ventured onto the internet knows, there are always people who hate something because it's not exactly like they would have done it, regardless of it it's actually well done or not.
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AH, maybe it was taken from a CD instead of the original source. But still. It sounded like it had been copied, recopied and then copied a couple more times -- and not from the original. Luckily we only wanted it as a sample and weren't trying to listen to the whole thing. When I worked at the library there was at least one audio company that was blacklisted for low quality recordings. The library had to stop ordering from them because audio is so expensive and after two or three checkouts the CDs wouldn't play, would skip or would otherwise have developed problems.
I think audio books will enjoy some of the boom that happened when indies entered the book market a few years ago. With the equipment out there, smaller studios have a chance to make recordings (and Amazon helps that process by matching up authors with recording artists.) For those who don't read indies, there's still a huge amount of backlist material that an author can take to market.