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chapter 5 of the current podfic
Dec. 2nd, 2012 11:37 pm Finally got through today's chapter of the long porny podfic I'm working on. This is my third time through and finally I don't completely hate the result, so that's nice.
The system that seems to be working now is to record a few minutes at a time, and then go back and edit that much before I go on. Occasionally I'll re-dub a line of dialog, giving it a couple of different reads until I hit one that I'm happy with. If I try to do the whole thing at once, I tend to skim through when I'm editing and even if I do bother to redub, it sounds off with the voice on either side.
The absolute best changes I've made are to turn the sensitivity on my mic WAY down, so that when the characters get emphatic it doesn't overblow the mic, and to read off a tablet instead of the screen which eliminates mouse/keyboard noises and the need to swap between Audacity and other programs.
Every time I hit record the first time, Audacity goes Not Responding and I get crap on the mic, but if I stop and hit record again, it works fine. Possibly I need a better computer.
After the earlier reads, I decided that since it's nearly all in a tight 3rd Sherlock POV, it sounded odd for the narration to be in my US accent (and I kept losing the characters). So now the narration is pretty midpondian, which sounds okay to me (but will probably make other people wince, I know) although on occasion I realize my voice seems to have slipped off to New Zealand without my say-so.
To keep the voices distinct, Moriarty's tending to be a bit more Irish than canon, and Sherlock is as close as I can get to basso..
Two chapters to go . . . and then I'll have to convince myself that I actually want to post this thing.
The system that seems to be working now is to record a few minutes at a time, and then go back and edit that much before I go on. Occasionally I'll re-dub a line of dialog, giving it a couple of different reads until I hit one that I'm happy with. If I try to do the whole thing at once, I tend to skim through when I'm editing and even if I do bother to redub, it sounds off with the voice on either side.
The absolute best changes I've made are to turn the sensitivity on my mic WAY down, so that when the characters get emphatic it doesn't overblow the mic, and to read off a tablet instead of the screen which eliminates mouse/keyboard noises and the need to swap between Audacity and other programs.
Every time I hit record the first time, Audacity goes Not Responding and I get crap on the mic, but if I stop and hit record again, it works fine. Possibly I need a better computer.
After the earlier reads, I decided that since it's nearly all in a tight 3rd Sherlock POV, it sounded odd for the narration to be in my US accent (and I kept losing the characters). So now the narration is pretty midpondian, which sounds okay to me (but will probably make other people wince, I know) although on occasion I realize my voice seems to have slipped off to New Zealand without my say-so.
To keep the voices distinct, Moriarty's tending to be a bit more Irish than canon, and Sherlock is as close as I can get to basso..
Two chapters to go . . . and then I'll have to convince myself that I actually want to post this thing.
