Hi, what’s the ideal placement for the microphone for Acx audiobooks?
I see a lot of people having it hanging overhead and slightly tilted/angled - Is this preferred?
Does it make a vast difference as compared to straight in front of you at a slight tilted angle?
Cheers
Nate
Overhead and tipped is good because it leaves you free to read your script in front. Also, if it’s even with or slightly above your nose, it’s much less likely to pick up P-Popping and other mouth noises.
But you don’t have to do that.
Which microphone were you considering? Did you buy it already?
Have you done any theatrical reading before?
You should know that ACX has changed their publication standards. You need to be reading something I can buy on Amazon and have the rights-holder’s (author’s) permission. No more reading the book you wrote and will get around to publishing some day.
They also apparently killed off the Audition Process where they would review a short reading critically and post suggestions if it’s not good enough for a whole book. That’s the messy one because the technical numbers are only the first test. It also has to pass Human Quality Control where a real person listens to it for distortion, bad reading, or other theatrical problems. There is no other way to judge that except publish a test on the forum and let us guess at it.
Still interested?
Koz
Great, I’ll try overhead. Rode Nta1. Theatre work in past.
I’ll post a sample when I get a moment, with the filter curve etc, and await a scolding 
Before you do that.
That’s not useful. It’s far more valuable if you post a clean, dry, raw reading. Don’t do anything to it.
https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html
We will marshal our forces and master it for publication. If we can’t…
Koz