Websites to Promote Your Audiobook for Free

If you’re looking for places to promote your audiobook for free, here’s a great list of websites and forums that you could use to your benefit!

Reddit Audiobook Threads

If you have a great book that you want to promote, you can try posting on different audiobook threads on Reddit. This could bring great attention to your audiobook if you have something great to sell.

Audio Jukebox

Audio Jukebox will host audiobooks on their website for free! Reviewers will be able to check out your audiobook and give you promotions through their reviews. You can even upload multiple books at once. You just need to fill out a form in order to submit your books for reviewing.

LinkedIn Audiobook Listeners Group

This LinkedIn Group is for those who love books, and use audiobooks as a way of simplifying the ways they consume them. It is a private group that you need to request to join, but once you are in you are free to promote your book to the group.

Goodreads Audiobook Group

This is another website for those who love audiobooks, promote your book here and you could get some great reviews and attention!

Facebook

There are many public facebook groups for audiobook consumers, including free audiobook giveaways, everything audiobook, and audiobook promos. Promoting your audiobook on these groups may be a great way to get it some free attention, and some free reviews.

Conclusion

These are just a few free options that are out there to promote your audiobook to a wider group of people. You can even try all of them together to give your book the most attention possible!

If you need help turning your book into an audiobook, we offer audiobook production services that will help you reach a wider audience and increase your book sales. 

Learn more here and listen to some of our audiobook samples.

So did you try using any of these sites? How did things go? Let us know!

- By Julianna Martinek

What is Mixing and Mastering?

You might have heard of the “mixing and mastering” part of music and audio production, but you may not know exactly what it means. So here’s the break down of mixing and mastering in audio production:

Mixing

Mixing usually refers to making songs with multiple tracks or recordings into one cohesive final product, and making sure that everything is in its place. Think of it as literally mixing ingredients together to make one working batter. Mixing involves adding effects, levelling, tuning, eq, compression, and a lot of other components, to give you a beautiful song that everyone can enjoy listening too.

Mastering

Mastering is the final step of the audio production process. Mastering involves balancing the elements of a song and enhancing it to perform well on different systems and media formats. Think of mastering as the final polish of an audio production. Mastering involves different steps using tools such as audio restoration, equalization, compression, limiting, sequencing and spacing, and stereo enhancement.

Here’s a deeper look into some of the mastering processes.

Audio restoration

This step involves fixing and removing small mistakes from the original mix.

Equalizing

Equalizing fixes any imbalances in the audio, and brings out elements that need more depth.

Compression

This step fixes the dynamic range of the audio, it involves enhancing the louder bits of audio and bringing up the levels on the quieter bits of audio.

conclusion

After all the steps of mixing and mastering, you should have one balanced, complete piece of audio, and can move on to sharing your work to different platforms. Mixing and mastering ensures that your audio will have a great sound, and will be of much higher quality compared to the original recording.

Learning how to professionally mix and master can take many years of experience. If you need help mixing and mastering your song now, fill out the form here. We’ll set you up with our best audio engineer to do it for you, so you can focus on what’s important: the music.

So do you have any further questions? Let us know!

- By Julianna Martinek

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Curious about the other stages of music production?

Check out these blogs to learn more:

Songwriting

Arranging

Tracking

Editing

Best External Microphones for Your iPhone

If you are seriously looking into recording videos, music, and podcasts on your iPhone, you should consider buying an external microphone to give your audio the best quality. Here are some of our suggestions for great external microphones on iPhones. These are all compatible as long as your iPhone has the lightning port.

Rode SC6-L

This mic is great for interviews, as it features an input and output breakout box that allows for two mics and one pair of headphones. You can also record on separate tracks through the app.

Rode VideoMic Me-L

This mic is directional, and allows you to focus on one noise source while reducing other noises around you. It comes with a clip and windshield to secure your mic even further and to protect it in harsh outdoor weather.

SHURE MV88

This mic has a great sound quality. It’s pocket-sized and compatible with iOS. It has an all-metal construction with both directional and stereo pickup. You can download the Shureplus MOTIV app to change different settings on the mic as well.

ZOOM iQ7 Mid-side

This mic features a capsule that can be rotated in order to be used horizontally or vertically. It also has two directional mid and side elements that can help you record audio coming from different directions.

ZOOM iQ6 X/Y

The ZOOM iQ6 X/Y features two unidirectional recorders to cover wide areas and center sound sources. You can change the analog dial to suit your needs, and choose the best option mic gain setting whether you’re in a loud area or a quiet one.

Conclusion

All of these mics are of great quality, so be sure to do your research and choose the one that best fits your needs. When filming and recording with your iPhone, other additional equipment might also be your friend as well.

So which mic will you choose? Do you have others to recommend? Let us know!

- By Julianna Martinek