===== Director of Recording (AZ1A) =====
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**JOB TITLE**\\
Director of Recording\\

**PURPOSE**\\
The director controls all technical operations during a recording session, thus allowing the reader to devote full attention and effort to the task of reading.\\

**RESPONSIBILITIES**\\
  - Working with the reader to achieve a recording of high artistic and technical quality.
  - Ensuring the sound track is free from audible noise.
  - Ensuring that the text is accurately narrated and all edits are clean and undetectable.
  - Ensuring that the segments of sound track with corrections to the recorded text are acoustically identical to the rest of the recording.

**QUALIFICATIONS**\\
  * good vision and hearing
  * good ear-eye-hand coordination
  * ability to learn to operate the recording equipment correctly and sufficient dexterity to perform those operations
  * ability to work well with others and to accept critiques from the narrator, reviewer, studio manager and volunteer manager
  * an artistic sense for the spoken language and the ability to work with problems related to translating printed text to spoken communication
  * fluency in the language in which the text is printed
  * ability to use dictionaries and other reference sources

**TRAINING**\\
  * observation of working team in the studio
  * minimum of two 2-hour practice sessions in the studio
  * listening to a minimum of two AZC recorded books

**TIME COMMITMENT**\\
Recording commitment two hours, once a week at the same time each week for a minimum of six months.

**SUPERVISION**\\
The director works under the supervision of the studio manager, who assigns tasks, sets priorities, and provides guidance on matters of studio policy.\\

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