THE OTHER OPERATION: audiobook production & publication since 2020
The Listening Coach, read by author Jane Adshead-Grant and directed by Justin Mark Hill here at Landen Park Studio, is now available on Audible.
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The Seal Of Confession by Sven Hughes is now available on Audible and all your favourite audiobook platforms.
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How To Be Happy In Life And Love, recorded by author Pascale Lane and directed by Justin Mark Hill, is now available on Audible.
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Communicate For Change, recorded here at the end of 2021, is now available on Audible. Genelle’s recording was directed by Justin Mark Hill.
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There are always little maintenance jobs waiting to be done in a studio. One I had been meaning to get round to was replacing the VU meter in the mighty Focusrite ISA 430 Mk II Producer Pack mic pre.
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We offer two types of remote support at Landen Park Studio, which we’ll discuss in turn here. (Note: a previous version of this post described the Sonifex SY03 TBU, and the CleanFeed software. We no longer support either of these.)
Source-Connect
Landen Park Studio is a Source-Connect 4 Studio facility. This allows us to connect directly to other studios and to voice talent with Source Connect software anywhere in the world. Source Connect allows full-resolution audio to be shared and transferred between multiple systems with no loss of audio quality.
Zoom
For a lot of our voiceover work, Zoom provides a easy way to connect remote producers into the session. It’s important to note that this is only a solution where (a) the talent is physically here at Landen Park Studio and (b) full-resolution audio can be uploaded post-session to the client.
We set up the Zoom connection on a separate computer which is linked to the main studio computer and patched into the cue system. The remote producer, local engineer and talent can all communicate with each other and, thanks to Zoom’s ‘studio quality’ modes the remote sound is very good indeed.
We also optionally send and receive video. This allows the remote producer to see either the talent or the local engineer and vice-versa or, when we’re working to picture, the main video. We use this to great effect when we do our regular sessions for Channel 4’s A Place In The Sun.
Champion Building, a best-selling book by Bob Skeens, is now available on all your favourite platforms as an audiobook.
Narrated by Bob himself and produced here at Landen Park Studio, Champion Building is that rare thing – a book on selling which actually sheds new light and introduces genuinely new ideas for enterprise selling. You can check it out here:
People keep asking me to digitise their old DATs and cassettes into CDs, and I keep saying no. It’s not because I don’t have the means – it’s just that there are so many outfits already offering to digitise LPs, cassettes, VHS tapes and so forth, and prices are ridiculously low – so low it just isn’t worth the effort.
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We’ve been keeping in close contact the the MPG (Music Producer’s Guild), who have been liaising with the UK government regarding the status of recording studios and production houses in these difficult times.
We’re delighted to announce that The Other Operation will be producing the audio version of Olivia Cox-Fill’s extraordinary book “Walking A Tightrope – Memories of Wu Jieping, Personal Physician to China’s Leaders”.
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