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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 10: EQ for Audiobooks

EQ got easier when I stopped asking it to do everything I need to start this one with a confession: I used to be completely lost with EQ. Not “I am still learning” lost. I mean guesswork lost. I would watch the analyser, drag points around, do things that felt like they should be right, […]

An audio editor showing multiple tracks with cuts and fades. A pair of headphones are on a table to the left and a dark grey trackpad on the right.

Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 9: Invisible Cadence Editing in Logic

The edit that feels wrong This part is about the kind of editing that can be technically perfect and still feel wrong. You know the feeling. The noise is gone. The cut is clean. There is no obvious click or pop. And yet the sentence feels impatient. It feels like the narrator is rushing the […]

a mic on a boom arm with a plosive screen in front of it and headphones and coffee on the table. A spectogram of audio is visible with three iconds below denoting breaths, mouth noise and mic angle

Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 8: Clicks, Breaths, Plosives

August 30, 2026
by Eddie Tonkoi

When repair tools start eating speech This part exists because I did the most tempting thing in the world: I tried to fix mouth noise with a tool. And it did not just smooth things out. It started deleting speech. Not subtly. Not “maybe it is a touch softer”. I mean full consonants disappearing. Occasionally, […]

two types of audiograms with a mc and headphones

Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 7: The Noise You Notice

August 13, 2026
by Eddie Tonkoi

The noise that steals attention Quick experiment to start. Imagine you are listening to a narrator in a quiet room, and underneath the voice there is a faint something. Not loud. Not obviously bad audio. Just a little texture. Now imagine that texture changes every twenty seconds. That little moment of checking is the problem […]

two audio waveforms with a mic and headphones and an audio interface

Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 6: Leave Headroom

July 31, 2026
by Eddie Tonkoi

Why headroom is a performance tool This part is about gain staging, which sounds like the dullest part of audiobook recording until the exact moment it matters: a line that suddenly gets louder than the rest. In a chapter I recorded recently, there was a scene where a policeman shouts at a crowd. Not a […]

a boom mic arm coming from the left with a standing pop filter. on the desk is a piece of paper and pencil, a pair of headphones, and a cub of coffee. the walls have sound isolating materials. the scene is serene and uncluttered with a lamp and a plant

Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 5: Remove the Safety Net

When the microphone starts hearing your habits The last few parts of this series have been about the capture side of V3: the recording chain, mic technique, consistency, and choosing a book voice on purpose. That work made the microphone more predictable. It started hearing the same voice, in the same way, every time. And […]

A microphone and pop filter setup with simple distance and angle guide lines showing repeatable microphone placement.

Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 3: Mic Technique Is Processing

Learning the MV7+ Like an Instrument In the last segment, I stripped my recording chain down until there was nowhere left to hide, removing all the links in the chain that were there to fix my audio and that immediately exposed something uncomfortable: If I wasn’t going to fix things later, then everything had to […]