Thanks for the reply. We talked on another thread for a good while, much earlier in the year.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/understanding-sound-levels/51771/1
It took me a lot of trial and error, but I built myself a portable recording booth, that, with the Zoom H2N you recommended, gives me noise floors around -70. It’s in my bathroom, actually, that, with a little calking around the door is surprising soundproof. Adding lots of acoustic foam to my tiny recording booth that collapses when it’s time to use the bathroom as a bathroom, has made it nicely sound-deadened. I’ve recorded and edited 13 hours to complete my novel and am about to send it on to Audible. I need to find advice on how to convert it all to the required mp3 format (or whatever) Everything is still on .wav. I know I read it here before.
I’ll post some video of my home-made booth to that old thread. You asked me to do it, but it went through so much evolving over the months, it’s not till now I can do it. It was heartening to see an article that said it costs about $3 to $4K to produce an audiobook. I know I’ve easily lost that much in income with the time I’ve had to steal to get this done.
I did a lot of video editing back in the day and think I’ve become a competent audio book editor. I’ve become rather compulsive at editing out those loud T’s and S’s I tend to make. I think I could give somebody a good deal narrating and editing whatever.