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Look, Ma — No Noise Floor!

Posted on by Heather Henderson

My new soundproof booth has passed all road tests with flying colors!  I’ve narrated one book in there so far with beautiful results, and I love having both my commercial and my audiobook mics set up so that I can switch back and forth during the day as needed.

My DH (who built it evenings over the course of a year) tried to DIY most of it, but we did splurge on Auralex and haven’t regretted it — it is so dead, and I mean that in the best way —  perfect for audiobooks, especially.   I go in there and don’t emerge for hours, which is why we call it Heather’s Playhouse:

UFOs

Posted on by Heather Henderson

One of the most interesting nonfiction books I’ve recorded recently is Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.

 Nut-job stuff, right?  Not at all.  Kean is a well-published investigative journalist who almost unwillingly got drawn into a fascination with this subject after a French colleague sent her a confidential French government report. 

 There’s nary a conspiracy theory or flying saucer in the whole book.  Instead, it consists of testimonials by commercial airline pilots, four-star generals, fighter pilots, and government officials (like, a former White House chief of staff, a NASA senior research scientist, and the former Deputy Chief of the Belgian Air Force) about their encounters with UFOs.  

 My husband is skeptical about everything – and he’s part Norwegian, which means he’s stubbornly skeptical.  But it’s even made him reconsider his opinions.

http://www.blackstoneaudio.com/search.cfm?search=ufos