Speaker 1: Hello and welcome back. Today I'm going to be showing off the template I use in my DAW every time I narrate a new audiobook. Templates are really nice to have because you can throw in all your usual plugins, all your usual settings, and have it set every time you start a new project. If you want to learn how to do this and the best ways to get your template set up, watch this video. So this is what Logic looks like every time I open up my audiobook template. If you use a different DAW, it's not a big deal. They all have the same sort of features and you can use templates in pretty much every DAW I know of. But the main features I have here are that all my tracks are already laid out for me, they have all their plugins in there, and I have a track window open up down here. So all of these things are things that I like to have every time I start a project. The first file here is the opening and closing credits that I would use for an audiobook, and that's the first thing I generally start off with. Under that I have different files for every chapter. All I have to do is throw in the chapter name and it is good to go. Over here I set up the input for the microphone that I normally use for doing my audiobook narration, so that's good to go. And I have my plugins here all ready to go. I just use a noise gate, compressor, channel EQ, and a limiter. I just did a video showing what plugins I use and why I use them in the order that I do, so if you want to watch that I'll put that in the description below. Over here on the master track, all I have is a level meter. This is something that just shows your obviously your sound level for each track, so I use that during the final part of the process when I'm going over it and making sure I'm meeting all of Audible's criteria for staying inside the range of sound that they want to have. I like to open up the track window down here with a much wider view than I have up here. You know, up here obviously you can only see 13 measures, and this is good when I'm editing the tracks and taking out those breaths and stuff because you want to be able to do a fine comb over everything. But on the other hand, I like to see the whole track too to see how much more I have left. You know, it's probably a psychological thing, but it's nice to say, oh hey I'm 80 bars through this edit, and the file's 200 measures long, so I'm nearing on halfway done with editing this. A lot of times editing can get very monotonous and boring, so it's nice to just see how much longer you have to go. So I like to keep this window open up whenever I'm editing. And then the only other thing I did is turn the snap function off. If it's on, obviously when you highlight or drag things to shorten them or extend them, it will snap to the bar lines, which is nice a lot of times, but when you're doing little minute edits of audio and you just want to get that breath out without taking out the end of one word and the beginning of another, you might want a little more control over it. So I just have it kind of, it doesn't snap at all, it's just kind of free moving so I can highlight just enough of that audio file and edit out just what I need to edit out. But that's really all I have. This might be a little bit short, but there's no reason to extend it longer than it needs to be. All I would recommend is that, you know, you can maybe start here, add in the things you like or take out the things you don't like, and then over time, every time you complete a new project, save that as a template. In Logic it's really easy to save templates, you just go to file and save as template. So if I've made any tweaks to my audio files that I think I want to do every single time I record an audio book, I will save a copy of the whole project, and then that way I can go through and delete all the audio files and stuff that doesn't pertain to anything but that one project, and then I can save it as a template. And if you just save the template as the same name every time, it'll just keep overwriting your old template and you'll have your new one set up for you next time you go to create another audio book. Yeah, just play with it and over time it'll get better and better until you really don't need to tweak anything when you start a new project. If you have any questions about this, let me know in the comments below, I'm always there and I'm always willing to help out. If there's any other videos you want me to do, let me know that in the comments as well. I hope you liked this one, if you did, give it a like and subscribe to my channel for more videos, that would really help me out a lot. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you next time.