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When you are ready to publish your new book, you’ll notice that you have several different publishing options available to you. One of those publishing options is a vanity press. The main difference between a vanity press and every other type of publishing option is that you are paying the publishing house to publish your book, and in most contracts, you are obligated to purchase a certain number of your print books.
How to Identify a Vanity Press
The short answer is if the publishing house asks for money upfront, it’s probably a vanity press. Most publishing houses either pay you an advance or they pay you royalties for each book you sell. In most instances, they don’t ask you for money upfront. However, there’s an exception to this, it’s called hybrid publishing, which is not quite an independent publisher and not quite a vanity press. For the purposes of this article, we’ll stick with vanity presses. It’s important to note that vanity publishers are sometimes referred to as subsidy publishers or subsidy publishing.
Read more: What is a Vanity Press and should you ever use one to publish your book?
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ACX and most other narrators and articles and blog posts will tell you that the average time spent on 1 hour of finished recording is 3 to 3.5 hours. If you have thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of pages to record that doesn’t work. You need to be down to .5 to 1.5 per hour of finished recording. Otherwise you are going to drive yourself batshit trying to get it all done. This inevitably means that you cannot sit and demaplify all the breathing. It’s tedious. It’s annoying, and eventually, you’re going to want to throw your computer through a wall.
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If you are contemplating recording your own audio books just know that the process is very tedious. I think it’s harder than writing the book in the first place, and for some of my books, it takes me just as long to record the audio as it did for me to write the initial book.
1. Figure out where you need your mic
You want to minimize echo and breathing while maximizing sound. This may mean that the mic is not directly in front of your face. You may need to put it off to the side. You test this by moving the mic and recording a paragraph and listening to it. When you get it to where you want it, leave the mic alone.
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The only way to keep breathing off the audio is to not record it in the first place. Now, you can give yourself motion sickness by rocking back and forth every time you need to breathe, which also means you need to focus on WHEN you need to breathe, which is a pain in the ass. You’ve not gonna be able to do it. Not reliably anyway. I briefly tried this cause the mic I have sounds best if you're on top of it. Unfortunately, if you are on top of your mic, it records every sound that comes out of your mouth. Even breathing through your mouth doesn’t stop it, especially if you have 24/7 allergies like I do. Forget it. I breathe like a freight train, and I’m always congested. It’s also time to record Little Bitey, so now I gotta find a way to truly keep that shit off the audio. In other news, AVIA I is done. The metric was - I'm sick of fucking playing with it.
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Initially, I was going to tell you how to debreath your audio automatically, but the truth is that if you’re using Audacity, you can’t. I did find a way using the Auto Duck feature, but that put static in the middle of the vocals. The minute you hear it, you won’t use that method anymore. Just to be sure I had all the freaking information on debreathing, I talked to two sound people. The end result of those conversations – You can’t debreath the audio automatically, and you will drive yourself nuts doing it manually.
Read more: How to Make Passable Audio and not Spend Your Life DeBreathing