did you say you put Vick's VaporRub on your lips?? 😳

Thank you! Was trying to find out where I could change my package prices for gigs and totally missed the options at the top.

Thank you! I owe you a Dr. Pepper (Sorry, I don't drink alcohol). ha

Love your energy and simplicity.

Thanks for this! How do you decide on payment, and how much?

For someone who makes six figures on Fiverr, it's a shame that this video has only one comment. I'm currently watching your video. Thanks for putting your effort into sharing this. I learned a lot.

I'm trying to set up my gig but it's not letting me check the voice over on the first package, even if I set it to no packages. It's greyed out and I can't do anything about it. Is there any way to fix that?

Thanks Susan!!! This was SO helpful ❤

I’ve struggling on what to put in the message box and this is helpful. Going to try it starting tomorrow!

Thanks for letting me remember having a CTA

I could listen to your voice and watch your videos all day. Thank you for your content, it truly is timeless! ✨

super helpful, even 3 years later haha. Thanks Susan!

Almost feel like $20 isn't enough for commercial rights since they will use your voice potentially thousands of times for $20. I guess its because I always hear about royalties and such in entertainment.

Thank you for this video! However, I have a question; What if I’m new to this , and I don’t have any titles narrated under my belt? What message do I leave?

Happened to me just yesterday. It was my first ever enquiry with Fiverr and they sent me a Skype link. I wasn't sure about the rules but common sense suggested this can't be right. I wrote back something similar to what you wrote. The client ghosted🥴

Thanks! I was wondering this exact thing, and there you were! One other question I have is about Royalty Share books. A lot of auditions I see are from people who are clearly self publishing (sometimes they don't even know how to spell or form a complete sentence >.<) and most often the budget is Royalty Share. I know that if this is a well-known author whose books are likely to sell this is a good deal, but for self published authors, this seems to be little more than a way to fleece the narrator out of a paycheck for recording something that nobody is going to buy, because even a 95% cut of $0 is still $0. Should I avoid these auditions? Or if I should take them on with discretion, what do I look for to know if this is a good idea or a waste of my time? Thanks!

Thank you!! Susan, when submitting your audition, in addition to the message, do you say anything about price/rate at that point? They give a range, like $200-$400/pfh. Maybe you'd do the book for the high end of that range but not the low end. At what point do you state what you'll do it for?

Excellent information. Thank you!! Susan, when you do closing credits for an audiobook, do you assign them their own file? Meaning, after I say "The End" at the end of the book, do I then say the Title/Author/Narrated by/Copyright info directly following "The End", or is it expected that closing credits will be their own file like the opening credits?

Thankyou , That's so helpful

Really Great Vid on using studio one for audio books. How do you use this DAW to make sure your final files met the requirements for ACX? Id. like to use Studio one as it is my primary DAW and not have to switch. Thanks

Susan, when recording an audiobook, do you record each chapter in an individual track or record straight through in your primary RAW track (perhaps noting chapter locations with markers) and separate the chapters after processing the whole thing as one big long track in RX?

THANK YOU! YOU made me LOL and I learned some good sh__tuff

Is there an equivalent ACX check for studio one?

Another perfectly concise video with a game changing tip! Thank you!! 🙏✨

This so phenomenally rocks!! Game changer! Thank you for another great one, Susan!

Hi, would I need to purchase rights for a KZbin video that is purely fiction/entertainment? (Very insightful video 😊)

Another killer video! Thank you so much for this. I just landed my first audiobook on Upwork and your videos are helping me so much with preparation. Thank you for being so generous with your knowledge 🙏❤ I hope I can check out the course/academy you mention soon.

Another fantastically helpful video!! Susan, do you have a video showing how you set up that macro for reducing gain by -12 db of a selected area with keyboard shortcut?

Nice! When u say izotope rx is $30…isn’t it closer to $400 normally? What version is sufficient for cleaning room tone for audiobooks? Thanks

Another GREAT video, Susan! Thank you!!! Question... I don't have Microsoft Word yet for making documents (I'm soooo overstretched for budget right now). I do have Libre Office but have never made a document like your Script Edits Doc. Even if I try and come up with something kind of like yours, if I send it to the author as an attachment, will they be able to open it and add their edits and send it back to me? Thank you for any input about creating this wonderful document you show 🙏🙏🙏

Great content! Very helpful! You have a happy and grateful new subscriber. Thank you!!

Hi Susan, Thanks for this video it is beneficial. what size are you designing your PDFs in Canva? Whatever size I choose during the design is different after downloading. the ends are cut off.

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this important tip! I didn’t realize how important the message area was.

Hey how are you excuse me please tell me how would I Rank my Fiverr saller account Gig please

thank you so much Susan, u too (:

Great video Susan 😊 I agree on all points. Well done.

Cool 🎉

9:15 actually the peak level isn't that. The peak level limit, in reality, is -0.1 dB because going to 0 dB in digital audio introduces clipping artifacts which ruin the sound of the recording. ACX standards are set at -3.0 dB for extra "headroom" so that, when they encode the file in different ways, there is virtually no chance that the peak levels will go above -0.1 dB and ruin the sound with clipping artifacts. Peak level has absolutely nothing to do with human toleration. As far as not blowing out your listeners eardrums, that is more related to RMS levels. If they listen to one standard audiobook at -18 RMS, and you brickwall limit your recording to -6 RMS, that is about 4x as much sound energy and, depending on the user's volume settings, it might be jarringly loud at best. It's also worth mentioning that -18 RMS is not some perfect standard. Music on streaming services is often around -14 RMS (though they do not use RMS as a standard) and a lot of people will turn off Spotify limiters and listen to their music around -6 RMS, though that number depends on how loudly that artist's music is mastered. You might have noticed that I never said that -6 RMS will blow your ears out and indeed it won't blow your ears out. It's just a different loudness level. Volume settings on your device are king. So then why is the ACX standard the way it is? One big reason is because if it is too quiet, some devices will be too quiet to hear the audiobook in a noisy environment like while walking next to a road or something. That being the case, you have to make it loud but what is the problem with it being too loud? Well there are a lot of potential problems. Music chooses somewhere around -14 RMS and that is a decent standard. When you have a voice only audio file though, it starts to sound unnatural even with the most transparent processing to make it that loud without the peak level being too high. -18 RMS is the upper limit because of the "dynamic range" of solo human voice audio. You could go higher but it is a disadvantageous tradeoff between preserving dynamic range (naturalness) and loudness. Also if you want bonus points and you have multiple different narrators, especially if they are different genders, consider confirming to ACX standards at the same time as measuring LUFS instead of just RMS. There are too many times where the chapters read by females are louder and I have to adjust volume between chapters because, while the RMS is the same, the perceived loudness (measured fairly accurately by LUFS) is different. And that's the real reason to conform to loudness standards like this: it's bad if users have to ride their volume setting.

Perfect. Thank you!

Do you have a video on how to work with an author and get their chapters uploaded on ACX?

I love your videos but some info is now outdated like the Buyers Request is no longer valid in Fiverr.

Thank you so much for this video Susan! I'm new to audio narrating and this was great insight into what and what not to do during auditions.

I'm looking for how to MARK the audition script for Pronunciation, Intonation, Peaks and Vallies, and any mistake areas. How is this done with a TABLET or LAPTOP? And what if I want to do it the old fashioned way with Paper?

My ACX check didn't show up in Analyzer after doing everything , help😢

You are such a brilliant instructor! Thank you so much. I am now closer to recording my audio book!!!! Whoopeee!!

I needed every one of those "don't worry dont worry dont worry"'s. Thank you!

So glad I found you!! I am learning so much from your amazing content.

Thank you!

You are using the 2 piece of candy method instead of 1

This may be a bit late ( a year later according to posting) but I've been going down the narrator path (CHECK ME OUT) and I was wondering how to reduce the peak level? I'm at the dreaded 0.00 DB 😅 Thank you so much amazing tutorial!