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Art and Science of Audio Book Production

Issued September 1995

Job Description for Monitor

Purpose

The monitor controls all technical operations during a recording session, thus allowing the narrator to devote full attention and effort to the task of narration.

Supervision Received

The monitor works under the supervision of the studio director who assigns tasks, sets priorities, and provides guidance on matters of studio policy.

Requirements

Good vision and hearing.
Good ear eye hand coordination.
Ability to learn to operate the recording equipment correctly and sufficient dexterity to perform those operations.
Ability to work well with others and to accept critiques from the narrator, reviewer, and studio director.
An artistic sense for spoken language and the ability to work with problems related to translating printed text to spoken communication.
Fluency in the language in which the text is printed.
Ability to use dictionaries and other reference sources.

Responsibilities

Working with the narrator to achieve a recording of high artistic and technical quality.
Ensuring that the sound track is free from audible noise.
Ensuring that the text is accurately narrated and all edits are clean and undetectable.
Ensuring that the segments of sound track with corrections to the recorded text are acoustically identical to the rest of the recording

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