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I'm on a roll at the moment...

Title: Afore the Dawning of the Day
Author: [livejournal.com profile] aeshna_uk
Reader: [livejournal.com profile] jadesfire2808
Summary: Apparently Ianto had been doing more with his time than filing, washing coffee cups and disposing of the occasional dead body. (Gen, AU)
Warnings:Character death

Length: 18.27 mins/7.39 MB
Link: Megaupload

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Date: 2008-04-16 05:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com
YAY! *bounce* Even more podfic! *bounce* Can't wait till I get home so I can DL it! *bounce*

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Date: 2008-04-16 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com
*grin* With you keeping me going, how can I not record more?!

Thanks :D

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Date: 2008-04-16 06:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com
*Puts on cheerleader outfit for you*

*cheers madly*

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Date: 2008-04-16 11:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rustydog.livejournal.com
I'm on a roll at the moment...

You certainly are! I'm amazed at both the volume and quality of what you've been putting up. And you said you've had a sore throat? Now that's dedication!

Do you do anything with your breathing, like concentrate on keeping it quiet, or damping it with Audacity? I can barely hear you draw breaths, but on my recordings I feel like my breathing is distracting. I don't know if it's the recording equipment or a technique problem.

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Date: 2008-04-17 07:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com
My sore throat comes and goes, and Audacity is a wonderful thing - I can edit out the coughing. So far, I've been fine, but I usually finish with a massive coughing fit *roll eyes* I'm just not that bright ;)

Are you using any kind of barrier between you and the microphone? I have a cotton hankie draped over mine, which stops most of my breathing being heard. There are instructions linked from the [livejournal.com profile] amplificathon profile page about how to make your recording sound better, and that was the big tip that I picked up. Other than that...I do try to think about when I'm taking a breath, especially since some people write really long sentences. This fic in particular was tricky on that front so I print out the story, do a trial run, and go through and mark all the weak spots - sentences that don't flow, plosives that come through too strongly, breaths that can be heard - and concentrate on them next time through.

I also make liberal use of Audacity's 'delete' function :)

That's about it, really. It sounds like you're doing plenty of practising - when are we going to hear from you? And if you don't mind my offering, I'm happy to do a 'beta-listen' for you :) You know where I live...*makes encouraging noises*

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Date: 2008-04-17 11:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rustydog.livejournal.com
Audacity is a wonderful thing! I've been editing out... all my breaths. ::headdesk:: I also love the delete function! It's so nice to be able to just start a paragraph over and delete the one with the mistake later.

The hankie sounds like a good tip, thank you! I read jinjurly's tips on her site awhile before I started recording, but I had never looked at any of the other tutorials, so I'll go do that. One of my difficulties is that although I purchased an external microphone, it doesn't seem to work with my computer, nor with my audio recorder - or if it does, the quality is pretty poor. So I've been just holding up my digital recording device in front of my face, and uploading the files later to edit in Audacity. I have to do noise reduction, and that makes my voice sound a little tinny, I think.

I've been printing off my stories and, after a draft recording, marking all the sentences with stress notations, but I hadn't thought of marking breathing.

I also can't use Audacity on my home computer, so for editing I've just been trying to steal free minutes at work, but that's not very productive unless I stay an hour or two late and dedicate some time. And the weather's been so nice this week, and I'm working on a conference, it's hard to do that! :)

I've got four fics recorded multiple times, and a couple of them edited, but I'm still not satisfied with them. The question is, will I ever be? I suspect not. Heh. I might be almost at the point of giving them up. It's very kind of you to offer beta listening, thank you! Sometime next week is my goal to have something finished enough for other ears, or at least as much as I can get it.

Rest well, and I hope your cold is on its way out, fun loopiness or not! :)

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Date: 2008-04-17 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rustydog.livejournal.com
Squee!

You're third this week! And that's all since the last time the standings were updated, isn't it?

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Date: 2008-04-17 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com
Yay! That's great - thanks for the link!

Although I'm now wondering how on earth she got 124 points...I need to find me some rare pairings.

Competitive? Me? ;)

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