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4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET / 6pm BST
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This course will provide students with the basic skills necessary to create and edit simple spreadsheets suitable for use in organizing and tracking information required in business and in life. The attendees of this small group, hands-on class will apply the skills presented in real-time by working on supplied practice materials as well as by creating and manipulating new spreadsheets of their own design.

Instructor: Dawn Harvey

Instructor Bio: Dawn Harvey (she/her) is an actor, VO artist, multi-award-winning audiobook narrator, and audiobook director. Having taught law and psychology classes in a prior life, Dawn began teaching audiobook narration almost a decade ago with students from across North America. Dawn is also a private coach with clients from around the globe.

Target Audience: Narrators with minimal spreadsheet experience

Zoom instructions: You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link to your event. The Zoom link will also be available to logged-in ticket holders on this page 15 minutes prior to the event.

Got questions? Email panacademy@pronarrators.org and we’ll get back to ya!

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Narrators who work at ACX, Spoken Realms, and Findaway Voices are responsible for completing the post production work on audiobooks so that their audio meets publisher specifications.  This work can be outsourced or the narrator can do this work.

This course will use many of the tools at Twisted Wave to edit, proof, pickup, and master audiobook audio to meet these specifications.

The instructor will present a set of steps that build a finished audio product, which the instructor will call a “workflow.”  The workflow is like a recipe, and like any recipe, once mastered, will allow the “chef” to adapt to specific needs and discoveries.

Instructor: Jack de Golia

Instructor Bio: An award-winning audiobook narrator, e-learning voice, video game actor, and storyteller: Jack will give you winning, ahead-of-schedule voice work for audiobooks, e-learning, political ads, cartoons, commercials and videogames, and anything involving character voices. With a PR & stage-acting career spanning four decades, Jack brings a seasoned and always fresh approach to voiceover work. It’s been said he has the voice of “every man’s man.” While Jack is based in Las Vegas, his studio lets him work all over the world as a male voice actor.

Target Audience: This class is for people with basic knowledge of Twisted Wave and who have Twisted Wave on a laptop or desktop computer, which can include the free demo version.  A Mac computer is optimal, though Twisted Wave now has a PC version.  

You should be able to start and stop recording, start and stop playback, set recording levels, and gauge your room tone.  You should also know how to read the two level meters on either side of the main Twisted Wave screen so that you can set your audio to peak between -6 and -4 dB.

The instructor will provide a short audiobook script. You’ll be asked to record at the levels just mentioned and include 15 seconds of room tone. The instructor will send you instructions for uploading the audio sample.  You will be asked to not do any editing.  Please do not remove or adjust breaths, nor process this audio in any way.

Zoom instructions: You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link to your event. The Zoom link will also be available to logged-in ticket holders on this page 15 minutes prior to the event.

Got questions? Email panacademy@pronarrators.org and we’ll get back to ya!

4pm PT / 7pm ET / 12am BST
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Audiobook narrators no matter where they work can use Twisted Wave for trouble-free intuitive recording.  

This course will show many of the tools at Twisted Wave for in-the-booth audio recording and simple editing prior to post production work.

Target Audience: This class is for people who want basic knowledge of Twisted Wave and for those with some basic knowledge and who want tips and tricks to take full advantage of Twisted Wave’s tools and features. Students should have Twisted Wave on a laptop or desktop computer, which can include the free demo version.  A Mac computer is optimal, though Twisted Wave now has a PC version.

Instructor Bio: Jack de Golia, “the Voice of Character,”  has narrated some 200 audiobooks for ACX, Spoken Realms, Tantor, Blackstone, Audible Studios, Deyan, and Findaway. His recording tool of choice: Twisted Wave. Jack has long shared his skills with Twisted Wave at conferences and in classrooms.

Jack has won AudioFile magazine’s Earphone Award, been a SOVAS nominee in 2018 and 2021, and a SOVAS winner in 2021 for Best Audiobook Narration of a History. Jack holds a BA in Dramatic Art from UC Davis. A veteran stage actor, public relations professional, and native of San Francisco, Jack lives near Las Vegas.

Zoom instructions: You will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link to your event. The Zoom link will also be available to logged-in ticket holders on this page 15 minutes prior to the event.

Got questions? Email panacademy@pronarrators.org and we’ll get back to ya!