Reading/listening to audiobooks has been a great way to pass time and an even better way to fall asleep.
But not all narrators make the books as good as they deserve. Almost like a director not making a movie good enough.
When I started to listen to audiobooks I didn’t know this and it was not until I stumbled upon Ray Porter I realised the importants of a good narrator.
After listening to Ray Porter I actually ended up searching for books he had narrated instead of good book suggestions. Luckily too as I found one of the best series I know, The Bobiverse.
Another good narrator I just discovered is T. Ryder Smith, but I’m also interested to see what other narrators people have grown fond of. Especially if you also have listened to some works of Ray Porter.
Who is your favourite narrator?
The narrator can make or break a great book, simply by being monotone, breathy, pacing, and what have you.
I've personally found Steve Pacey to be the best narrator so far.
I'm thinking of trying "The lies of Locke Lamora" as I enjoyed reading the novel.
Anyone have any info on Michael Page? Who's your personal go to narrator?
Quality of the story itself aside, whose voices do you most enjoy hearing tell a story?
I really enjoy MrCreepyPasta and Dr Creepen. Those some nice voices.
I haven't dug too far into SK's novels but all of them have been audiobooks. Frank Muller and George Guidall were absolutely fantastic for the Dark Tower and Steven Weber is absolutely FANTASTIC narrating IT (only 1/4 of the way into the book). Thoughts?
Every avid audiobook listener has a favorite narrator. Mine is R.C. Bray, who is yours?
As the title!
This isn't *entirely* comprehensive given the limit on poll options, but the only ones missing are G'raha for exactly two scenes, Elidibus for only one scene, and that time Hythlodaeus co-narrated with Emet, if there are any thoughts on them.
I'll admit that I'm drawn to Ardbert's largely because I like Ardbert himself a lot and he's maybe my favorite character, I enjoyed him reflecting on each zone as well as his encouragement in his final narration. Putting that particular bias aside, I like how Edmont and Emet have a specific framing for their narrations. Edmont's narrations are excerpts from his book and Emet's are seemingly his commentaries watching your adventure in real-time, demonstrated with the narration and later actual dialogue in Ultima Thule that implies he and Hyth have both been watching the whole time. (with that hindsight you can almost imagine them with bags of popcorn)
As an aside I do think it's neat how you don't know that the intro narration in ARR is an actual character until you finally meet Louisoix in Coils. (I don't recall if he had a voice in 1.x and even if he did I doubt it would be the same person since everyone else was recast in ARR iirc)
Title basically.
Working on a project today, I realized most of what I know about editing together revised scripts without the benefit of ADR is stuff I've learned from trial and error over many years. It dawned on me how limiting that is so wanted to ask this forum.
To be clear - and this is probably a flawed example - but I'm talking about doing this sort of exercise:
Taking this recorded sentence:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
And somehow smoothly rejiggering it and transforming it into this edited sentence:
The quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog.
For sake of argument, let's say either you have more recordings of the same person saying those words in different arrangements or you don't have any additional recorded material to draw from.
How do you do this?
Disclaimer: more often than not, I will suggest we re-record rather than Frankensteining something like my example together since this type of work can get to be quite a rabbit hole for me and my clients but maybe I'm not doing enough?
EDIT: Haha tried to edit my badly worded title to "...have you seen any good online tutorials?" but I guess I cant.
Looking for more content to listen to while I work out or while I’m at work.
I’ve been listening to MrCreepypasta since 2012 and haven’t strayed too far. Borrasca>
Recently got into Audible rather hard, and would love to hear your favourites so I can listen to them too. Canon or legends doesnt matter.
Personally I find Darren’s voice the most calming which makes dessert campfire and sleeper mountain my favourite sleep casts. I also find the male voice most helpful for me but I’m interested in other people opinions. Please feel free the share :)
I do but I was talking to a buddy of mine today and when I mentioned this he couldn't imagine what I was talking about and he'd never even heard of it. Is this not a common thing or what?
I am a fairly new audibler (couple of months subscriber). I just finished the Bobiverse trilogy (waiting for Book 4 to be on sale) and it made me love Ray Porter's narrating skills even more. I first discovered his talent when I listened to the Joseph Bridgeman series. After that I sought out all books that he narrated that I think I will like. I now got the the Bridge Sequence to listen forward to and achingly waiting for Project Hail Mary to go on sale.
He can masterfully make character voices during dialogues distinguishable, skillfully switch accent (especially British and Australian), and make acceptable enough female voice. The way he can incorporate emotions is superb.
So yeah, Ray Porter is my personal #1 narrator. Feel free to change my mind ;)
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The only other detail I remember was the album cover having what I think were red circles on it and the title being something along the lines of "hello, it's morning"
NOT Neutral Milk Hotel.
excluding authors who narrated their own book, like Barack Obama or Julie Andrews
I have several:
Scott Brick
George Newbern
Dennis Boutsikaris
Steven bel Davies
Robert Petkoff
Joe Barrett
the very beginning of us falling for each other - that time we were just neighbors, and I woke up, hungover, in your bed... listen here
Communism Will Win
