[Complete] Stories Worth Rereading by Various authors - lt

clupher · Post by **clupher** » February 13th, 2017, 9:16 am

It looks like there's one story left here. May I read #97 -- The Man Who Died for Me?

chulsky · Post by **chulsky** » February 13th, 2017, 11:47 am

clupher wrote:It looks like there's one story left here. May I read #97 -- The Man Who Died for Me?

Thank you, Christi, looking forward to it!

likefood · Post by **likefood** » February 13th, 2017, 10:31 pm

After editing, I was listening through, and I noticed that--in addition to changing "whenever" to "wherever"--there are about two minutes' worth that I need to completely re-record because of a train horn in the background.

Post by **Lynnet** » February 14th, 2017, 6:31 am

likefood wrote:After editing, I was listening through, and I noticed that--in addition to changing "whenever" to "wherever"--there are about two minutes' worth that I need to completely re-record because of a train horn in the background.

That's not necessarily a problem... things like that only need to be corrected if they make the listener jump out of his skin. If you hadn't noticed it before, that's probably not the case here

Listeners have commented they like the sound of 'real life' in the background (the occasional dog barking etc.) as it makes them feel they are in the room with the reader and that 'perfect' recordings sound too clinical.
Of course, if you're a perfectionist and it will keep you awake at night, go ahead and fix it

likefood · Post by **likefood** » February 14th, 2017, 7:05 am

Lynnet wrote:
likefood wrote:After editing, I was listening through, and I noticed that--in addition to changing "whenever" to "wherever"--there are about two minutes' worth that I need to completely re-record because of a train horn in the background.
That's not necessarily a problem... things like that only need to be corrected if they make the listener jump out of his skin. If you hadn't noticed it before, that's probably not the case here Listeners have commented they like the sound of 'real life' in the background (the occasional dog barking etc.) as it makes them feel they are in the room with the reader and that 'perfect' recordings sound too clinical.
Of course, if you're a perfectionist and it will keep you awake at night, go ahead and fix it

Thanks for the advice!

clupher · Post by **clupher** » February 16th, 2017, 5:11 pm

Here's my section.

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/storiesworthrereading_97_various_128kb.mp3
15:41

likefood · Post by **likefood** » February 16th, 2017, 7:50 pm

Lynnet wrote:
likefood wrote:After editing, I was listening through, and I noticed that--in addition to changing "whenever" to "wherever"--there are about two minutes' worth that I need to completely re-record because of a train horn in the background.
That's not necessarily a problem... things like that only need to be corrected if they make the listener jump out of his skin. If you hadn't noticed it before, that's probably not the case here Listeners have commented they like the sound of 'real life' in the background (the occasional dog barking etc.) as it makes them feel they are in the room with the reader and that 'perfect' recordings sound too clinical.
Of course, if you're a perfectionist and it will keep you awake at night, go ahead and fix it

I'll leave the faint passing train horn in the background, but there are five words I need to correct, and then I'll finally get this uploaded.

chulsky · Post by **chulsky** » February 17th, 2017, 1:28 pm

Sec.97 PL OK

Nice voicework, Christi!

clupher · Post by **clupher** » February 18th, 2017, 8:35 pm

Thanks!

likefood · Post by **likefood** » February 19th, 2017, 9:37 pm

I finally got some quiet time, and I finished! Checker passed, no clipping. I don't have any tender feelings to hurt, so by all means if the singing parts don't sound good, please let me know, and I'll re-record them as just speaking.

Duration is 17:03
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/storiesworthrereading_91_various_128kb.mp3

chulsky · Post by **chulsky** » February 20th, 2017, 9:01 pm

likefood wrote:I finally got some quiet time, and I finished! Checker passed, no clipping. I don't have any tender feelings to hurt, so by all means if the singing parts don't sound good, please let me know, and I'll re-record them as just speaking.

Duration is 17:03
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/storiesworthrereading_91_various_128kb.mp3

Thank you, Daniel, for the wonderful final accord (pun intended!). Your singing is most enjoyable! PL more than OK

likefood · Post by **likefood** » February 20th, 2017, 9:12 pm

karlkuzmich wrote:Thank you, Daniel, for the wonderful final accord (pun intended!). Your singing is most enjoyable! PL more than OK

Thanks! Glad I could help this one get closer to being finished.

Post by **Lynnet** » February 22nd, 2017, 7:23 pm

All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/stories-worth-rereading-by-various/

SirVive · Post by **SirVive** » April 3rd, 2017, 10:15 pm

Yay!

Been away for a while but decided to come see if this was done yet - looking forward to listening! Sorry I wasn't able to be more help

Still listening to a back log of books I had downloaded a while ago - the latest was The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew - a fascinating book ... as are so many here

Thanks for all your hard work!