Audiobook Behind the Scenes - #EvansBook ep. 73

What's up everyone? I thought I would give you a little behind the scenes of what it looks like when I'm making my audiobook. So I'm here at the Cherry Beach Studio, downtown Toronto. It's the home of Justin Bieber and Ludacris and Rihanna and 50 Cent. And all these big recording artists when they're in town. And I'm on my lunch break recording my audiobook. Lunch is this broccoli bread soup and some chicken fingers and veggies that I need to get through. And I want to take you on a little tour of what I'm doing here. This is where my producer sits, has all his gear there, and I have another producer who joins from Skype who coaches me on what I need to do better. And I'll take you behind the scenes here. This is where I'm doing all the magic. We actually had a chair here, but I took it out because I prefer standing up. I get energy and vibe when I'm standing up as opposed to sitting down. This is what I'm looking at. So we got a microphone with a windscreen there, and then my notes are here. So I'm on page— we're making really good progress. I'm on page, what, 164?

We're halfway through.

A good day you're supposed to get through 80 pages. Last Monday, my first day, I did 120, and we're through 44 now, and then I will keep doing some more later on today. So pretty pumped about that. We keep this, this thing here so when I'm speaking it bounces the sound off of. And then I'm usually, I get these headphones on where the guy in Skype is kind of giving me direction. I got my coffee, can take notes, and it's good. It's so, it's, it's, it's really demanding.

It's taxing.

I always lose my voice at the end of these, but it's so much fun. It's so much fun, like channeling you guys, knowing that this is what is going to be—

you guys are going to be listening to in the car, on the subway, whatever it is.

I'm channeling that into me, and I want to just give you a little behind the scenes, behind the scenes of what it takes to make a hit, a future hit audiobook. There's a— I'm wearing, I'm wearing shorts. Can you see the shorts? Shorts. They're actually pants that rip off, uh, because it gets hot in here. It gets hot in here. It's this tiny room. Their main stage is in there. When Bieber and those guys come with a band, they do it in here. But if it's a solo person, they do it in here because the sound is easier for one person. But it gets hot in here. It gets super hot in here. There's one vent on the wall. Let me show you up there. That's the one vent coming in.

But it gets hot because they don't want any fan sounds.

They don't want any whir happening in the background. It sounds so crisp. It's so much better than the sound that I put on the other stuff. Even the lav mic or my Yeti mic, it's a lot better. So the first day I was lucky that I wore pants that were, uh, you could rip off because it does get nice and hot in here. So we keep this door a little bit open so that I get a breeze. But also the energy, the energy that we're firing out generates some nice heat too. So just finishing off the lunch and then gonna get back. We still have, we still have this much, this much to read. That's it for the sneak peek, guys.

I'll see you soon. All right, I'm all done walking out of the studio. We got the whole thing done. It took an extra half an hour just to wrap up. We're like done on time. They're like, hey, we got 10 more pages, can we get it done? It'll probably take about about half an hour, 20 minutes, so I don't have to come back next week. We got the— it was supposed to take 3 days to do it, I did it in 2. And man, guys, the— it's fire. At the end, I'm like, I'm, I'm so into it and so like wrapping everything up and just yelling into the microphone. And then if I miss a word or something, it's like, okay, you got to redo that part. Like, no, you're killing my vibe! I was feeling it, I was on a roll. Anyway, it's been such an awesome process, just, uh realizing how much love is in the book and how if you guys apply even a quarter, a tenth of what's in there, it's going to have such a dramatic change on you and your business. I'm so excited to see this thing come out. You know, I wrote it, I forget how long ago, right? And everything was like chunks at a time, and now seeing it all together, man, I'm fired up. I'm so fired up.

You guys are going to love it.

For those of you guys who got the ebook, you're going to love it. You got the regular book, you're going to love it too. But man, the amount of— Ahh, coming into the ebook, I'm so juiced up. Anyway, I gotta quickly rush home because now I'm late. I saved the chicken fingers for Nina because she said if I have chicken fingers I have to bring her home some. So that's it. I get next Monday off, hopefully, unless there's some technical issue that they need to deal with. The editor looks at it and then they call— what do they call them? Pickups. Pickups. Like I made a mistake or I said something wrong or there was a technical issue. And apparently after the first day there was nothing wrong. They loved everything, which is awesome. Awesome there was nothing to pick up, or they didn't, uh, or they didn't listen to it. But it's usually super rare to have no pickups. And so hopefully today was no pickups too, and we're just done. I have— I can't wait to listen to it, guys. I'm so excited. Anyway, okay, I'm late. I got to go, I got to go. Much love. Continue to believe. I believe in you guys, and whatever your one word is. And I'll see you soon. Goodbye.