[COMPLETE] The Prime Minister by A. Trollope - km

tjfranklin · Post by **tjfranklin** » September 10th, 2009, 10:34 pm

I'd love to do chapter 5 of The Prime Minister. This will be my first recording. I'll be submitting a test within the next day or two, if possible, before I submit my chapter. The name I'd like in the catalog is my real name, Tina Horning, please.

I'm a little nervous, but this sure sounds like fun! Can't wait to start.

kmerline · Post by **kmerline** » September 11th, 2009, 12:48 pm

dii, thank you for Sec 4 - Sec 21 is yours!

kmerline · Post by **kmerline** » September 11th, 2009, 12:51 pm

clifford wrote:Here is chapter vii of the Prime Minister

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/km/primeminister_07_trollope.mp3

time:17.39
size: 16,550 KB

Nicholas Clifford

I'm going to be away for three weeks, but if the book isn't finished by then, I'll plunge in again.

Nicholas, thank you for sec 7. I'm sure we will still be here 3 weeks from now - but if not, there's always "The Duke's Children". Have a good vacation!

kmerline · Post by **kmerline** » September 11th, 2009, 12:56 pm

tjhorning wrote:I'd love to do chapter 5 of The Prime Minister. This will be my first recording. I'll be submitting a test within the next day or two, if possible, before I submit my chapter. The name I'd like in the catalog is my real name, Tina Horning, please.

I'm a little nervous, but this sure sounds like fun! Can't wait to start.

Tina, welcome to LibriVox, and welcome to "The Prime Minister". I found your test, and it sounds just fine. Sec 5 is yours!

tjfranklin · Post by **tjfranklin** » September 13th, 2009, 9:57 pm

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/km/primeminister_05_trollope.mp3

Well, here's my recording debut! Let me know if there are any problems with volume levels or tags, filename etc.

Tina

Post by **annise** » September 13th, 2009, 10:23 pm

Thanks Tina - I better get down to some listening.

Anne

tjfranklin · Post by **tjfranklin** » September 13th, 2009, 10:33 pm

Oh! Sorry - I see I was supposed to include the recording length and file size.

For _05_ The Prime Minister:
time: 15:42
size: 14.3 mb

kmerline · Post by **kmerline** » September 14th, 2009, 12:30 pm

Thank you, Tina and Anne!

tjfranklin · Post by **tjfranklin** » September 14th, 2009, 1:28 pm

I'm ready to do some more recording - how about sections 8, 9, and 10?

Claire · Post by **Claire** » September 16th, 2009, 4:50 pm

Here's chapter 24 at 17:28:

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/km/primeminister_24_trollope.mp3

kmerline · Post by **kmerline** » September 18th, 2009, 8:24 am

tjhorning wrote:I'm ready to do some more recording - how about sections 8, 9, and 10?

Wonderful! The Sections are yours!

kmerline · Post by **kmerline** » September 18th, 2009, 8:29 am

Claire wrote:Here's chapter 24 at 17:28:

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/km/primeminister_24_trollope.mp3

Thank you, Claire; section posted and linked!

Mack · Post by **Mack** » September 18th, 2009, 6:08 pm

Hello! Here is Chapter Two. I hope it's okay!

To your request, I've uploaded it without noise cleaning.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/km/primeminister_02_trollope.mp3

14.84 MB
Length: 16:13

Post by **annise** » September 19th, 2009, 5:08 am

Mack wrote:Hello! Here is Chapter Two. I hope it's okay!

To your request, I've uploaded it without noise cleaning.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/km/primeminister_02_trollope.mp3

I've listened and your reading is fine. A minor point - we are asked to leave 5secs (10secs if it is over 30 mins) of room noise at the end of the recording - this is because some mp3 players cut off the endings otherwise

The volume was still a bit low and of course you had not noise cleaned as per request
To amplify it sufficiently without some peaks being clipped( flattened against the roof and floor) I had to squash some of the really high (or low) peaks. I highlight them and amplify -2 and listen and amplify again -2 if needed
.
Then I was able to amplify safely - all these steps you can try out and undo if they don't work.

I then ran a light noise clean , checking and undoing till I got a result I was happy with (you can just try on a small section)
The result is this
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/km/primeminister_02_trollopenc.mp3 . Have a listen and see what you think , If you like it we could use it and you could try with your next recording.
In spite of all this it was a really nicely read chapter , and we will have you back any time

Anne

kmerline · Post by **kmerline** » September 19th, 2009, 3:07 pm

Thank you, Mack and Anne.