If they’re also doing the editing, you’re looking at another hour and a half to two hours of work to edit and master the files. Well, that finished hour can take anywhere from an hour and a half to two and a half hours to record. So numbers can sound misleading.įor example, let’s say a narrator-I’m just going to use a round number-let’s say they’re getting paid one hundred dollars per finished hour. ![]() They get paid only for the final run time. The important thing to know is that the narrator does not get paid for the amount of time it takes to record (or record and produce if they’re doing everything themselves). The rates that a narrator gets paid vary widely. NML: There may be narrators out there who are under salary with a particular company, but I’d say the lion’s share of narrators are working as independent contractors. RR: What’s the salary for an audiobook narrator? I’m prepping something or cooking something, but it’s great to be able to have that flexibility to work from home. I get up like somewhere between 5:30 and 6:30, and after I get the coffee going, I spend the first part of the morning working on business stuff: answering emails, invoicing, prepping a project…in the mid to late morning, I’ll start recording, and I’ll record on and off throughout the day probably until 8:00 or 9:00 o’clock at night.īut in between that…I’m going for walks…I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. NML: I would admit to being probably a little slower in my production output than maybe some other narrators. There’s no director there’s no engineer you’re doing it all yourself. So in those instances there is no one else. Me, personally, I work solo in my home studio, and there are a lot of narrators out there who who are the same. Most of the big production companies do in-house recordings where there is a separate engineer and a separate director and stuff like that. There are certainly production companies. NML: Well it’s different under under different circumstances. RR: So in my imagination, when you’re doing this, you’re in some sort of recording studio with a director listening and recording and giving you some direction. Because if you overdo it under do it it’s you know it’s going to kill the book. It’s weird because this is something that I’ve thought about many times: when a person reads a book, the voices they hear in their head…are their own creation, and that’s going to vary significantly from one reader to the next…Having the the background or the training to be able to modulate your performance for this particular medium is really important. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox.īy signing up you agree to our terms of use Having some type of background in acting and performing is really important in terms of being able to bring the right amount of emotional content to the scene, not hamming it up or not having it be too flat. I should be a narrator.” But there’s a lot that goes into it. And people will say, “Oh, I love to read stories to my kids.” Or, “People tell me I have a great voice. I get approached an awful lot about becoming a narrator. How much training have you had to do to get to that point? What have you done? ![]() RR: You definitely have the voice for it. It’s just it’s not always easy of course but it’s just an absolutely wonderful job. ![]() So for the last five years to be able to do this full time, it’s something else. I always had that passion for performing. I’ve been acting and performing most of my life. Noah Michael Levine Rebecca Renner: Well, first of all, how much do you love being an audiobook narrator?
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