Hello! I am Tim Hall. My main concern right now is turning my quartet of novels about the 50s and 60s (entitled John Brown's Children and can be found by entering that name into Substack) into audiobooks. I have been posting them both in text and audio versions on Substack and am halfway through the fourth book, so i am close to finishing my first attempts to record. I recorded the audio very crudely, but people have commented that they like my narration. I realize that the audio version may not be of a good enough quality, even after being worked on, but I think I should try to learn to work on it and then do so, at least for the first volume. If it is not good enough I will start over. I have some equipment: Windows 10 Dell laptop, earphones HD 280 PRO, a fairly quiet room. I recorded all the audio directly onto the computer, but I also possess a good quality condenser microphone but, perhaps unfortunately, did not use it while making the recordings. I have Audacity and Garage Band software.
As far as I can tell, my first step would be to save the individual recordings of sections of book one into one file. You cannot do that within Substack; you have to do it externally. I am about to begin trying to do that. Then I plan to learn how to edit it.