My Adventure in Odyssey (An Excerpt from Ch. 1 of “Refocusing My Family”)
“Okay, Amber, we’re ready for you. Let’s head on back to the recording studio and get you set up.” I hopped off the stool where I waited for my cue and followed the engineer into the soundproof recording booth. “Have a seat right here, honey. This microphone is for you,” he explained, walking over with me to help me get situated. I placed my script on the music stand in front of me and plopped myself down in the chair. “Here are your headphones. Just put them on your ears like this,” he continued, as he adjusted the wide black strap across the top of my head and placed an earphone over each ear. They felt like a pair of winter earmuffs, only much heavier. My head bobbed at the weight of them, and the suction they created around my ears muted all sound, causing the world to go silent. Then a loud, clear voice from within the earphones broke the dead air. The sound came from a man on the other side of the glass where the engineers sat in front of their mixing boards, ready to record. “Okay, Amber, let’s test the microphone. Do you have your script?” “Yes, but I already know my lines.” I smiled with pride. “Alright, then here we go!” I was a home-schooled third-grader. When most kids visit their dad at work, they go to an office, or a storefront. I, on the other hand, was in a recording studio at the Focus […]