Audio Book Editing

I've been editing an audiobook for the past couple of weeks--it's tedious, but great practice. Because audiobooks consist of hours and hours of audio, it's a lot of editing. In order to make your money's worth, you have to edit fast and precisely. Using tools like 'BetterTouchTool' to map shortcuts on my keyboard and mouse really help to speed up this process. As for my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), I use ProTools for all of my audio editing needs. ProTools is great for big sessions, and even though audiobooks only have one track (the author reading), the sessions end up being huge simply because there's so many hours of recorded audio.

The "bonus-fun" about editing audiobooks is that you get to learn while you're working. I'm not listening to the meaning of every word because I'm busy listening to the technical quality of the recording and tracking my place in the physical text as I go, but I end up catching a lot of fun facts and good stories along the way :)

P.S. My cat, Totoro, likes to help!