Holy Bible NLT

By: Tyndale House Publishers

Narrated by: Mike Kellogg

Experience the dramatic life-changing power of God’s Holy Word on the go! This dramatic, multi-voice recording with original orchestral music and sound effects brings the major Bible themes and stories alive.

Features:

• Dramatic, multi-voice recording
• Original music and sound effects
• The easy-to-understand New Living Translation
• Enhanced chapter navigation so you can easily jump to any Bible passage you’re seeking

©2001 Tyndale House Publishers (P)2001 Tyndale House Publishers

Voice = AWESOME; Music = DISGUSTING

MIke Kellogg's voice is sensational.

But holy cow, audio publishers... WHY add background music to this!? Inevitably, some people are going to hate the distraction, and more people (like me) are going to hate the quality of the mixing AND be distracted too. A very unfortunate double whammy.

Plus, it's all synthy instrumentation that sounds horrid. At the very least, why not use actual acoustic instruments?

A ridiculously bad production decision that's insulting to the audience who expects a clean and respectful delivery of an amazing translation of the Holy Bible. (The 'musician' was probably a relative of a Tyndale executive.)

And actually, the engineering of the voice track is completely mental throughout: the loudness levels are absolutely all over the place. Check out pretty much any transition from one chapter to the next, and you're likely to go 'woah there!' [For the nerds out there: check out a basic waveform display of the audio signal. Crikey.]

*** Dear Tyndale (and Audible): Please release a PROPERLY engineered 'voice only' version. I'd pay a lot extra for that. Seriously.

But still, this is a great reading.

Good, besides volume

Each track is a different volume. So you are blasted with a loud voice or miss what is said. This happens on every track change. if this happened once or twice I would not care, but every track. This is disappointing, especially when it is so easy to sync the volume in almost any audio software.

Perfect performance. No chapters.

The main narrator’s performance could not have been better. I haven’t found another audio Bible narrator that compares.
The translation has issues because it really isn’t a translation. It is an interpretation. And I think the interpretation veers far from what the Bible says at certain points.
My biggest complaint with this audio Bible is that there are no chapter headings, which appears to be a common problem with audio Bibles.

Wanted something easy to follow!

The narrator is captivating, and easy to listen to. The version is in normal English which is an extremely great way to read/listen to the Bible. Especially for a first time reader!

Obsessed!!

I love this dramatized version of the Bible. It’s been challenging for me to listen to the Bible as much as I want but this has made it easy and engaging. 1000% recommend and easily the most well-rounded English version (in my humble opinion).