Wynt Woody’s Narration Newsletter (Spring 2024)
April 29, 2024
Happy Springtime!
Here’s what I’ve been working on:
NARRATION WORK
(Audio samples available upon request.)
Just completed
The Power of the Five Elements (North Atlantic Books)
Non-fiction, holistic medicine
Work-in-Progress
Hungarian Poetry in Translation
Recently completed
The Age of the Individual and My Life and Times in It
Reminiscences, autobiography, European history
The Dean of Shandong (Princeton University Press)
Non-fiction, current events, China
The Gerasimov Doctrine
Fiction, Intrigue, Dialects, Accents (R.P., Cockney, Yorkshire, Russian, Texan)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Achieved certification from Paul Meier Dialect Services in
Standard British English (R.P.) and Cockney dialects
NEW EQUIPMENT IN THE STUDIO
Microphones and Pre-amps
• AEA R44CX25LE ribbon microphone
Warm, rich, resonant, round, full-bodied, inspired by the classic RCA R44.
Read about the precursor R44CE here at TapeOp. My R44 is one of only 44 to be made, based upon the stock unit, but significantly improved.
• AEA KU4 ribbon microphone
Silky smooth with extended mids and top end. Read more at SoundonSound.
Pre-amplifier
• AEA RPQ3, specially designed for AEA ribbon microphones
Read more about the AEA RPQ3 here at SoundonSound: