[Complete] Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac (English)-lt

Post by **Lynnet** » June 15th, 2017, 7:50 am

Ligeti_Grieg wrote:Just wanted to post an update into this project. I have been given a massive assignment to write six two-hundred page books about music. I also have to edit them, and, thanks to the skills I have been able to practice on Librivox, to record them too. Needless to say, my time is limited. However, I am still keen to push on with this project, and once Liszt, Chopin, Richard Strauss, Grieg, Rebecca Clarke, Olga Neuwirth and Amy Beach and a whole host of others are behaving themselves, I can post sporadically. I can certainly finish this by the end of September.

There's no rush here... if you check in like this every 2-3 months, that's fine. And congratulations on your commissions!

Post by **Lynnet** » September 29th, 2017, 7:37 pm

It's been more than 3 months since you checked in. Are you still planning on recording this?

Ligeti_Grieg · Post by **Ligeti_Grieg** » October 1st, 2017, 9:30 am

Yes. The deadline for my books is right now, so I can crack on with the project ASAP.

Ligeti_Grieg · Post by **Ligeti_Grieg** » December 9th, 2017, 7:24 am

I'm back! My new microphone will take a couple of days to arrive, but I became impatient. I hope the sound quality of this one's up to snuff. I wanted to push on with the project.

cherylstewart · Post by **cherylstewart** » December 9th, 2017, 2:39 pm

it is great your back.
On Sections 15 and 16 the MW is giving me file not found - It isn't set to ready for PL, but it looks like a file has been loaded???
Cheryls

Post by **Lynnet** » December 9th, 2017, 3:23 pm

cherylstewart wrote:it is great your back.
On Sections 15 and 16 the MW is giving me file not found - It isn't set to ready for PL, but it looks like a file has been loaded???
Cheryls

There was an error in the file names. I've corrected them now.

cherylstewart · Post by **cherylstewart** » December 10th, 2017, 2:42 pm

Section 15 PL Notes at the beginning there is an exclamation -"What a ......it", that I think is going to have to be removed.

Section 16 PL notes: three very short repeats: 24: "Galley of the Louvre Gallows of the Louvre"
24:56 "Inquired the queen, inquired the queen"
27:22 Explained the prince....a sly look. Explained the ..."

Cheryl

Ligeti_Grieg · Post by **Ligeti_Grieg** » December 19th, 2017, 10:21 pm

I'm pretty sure that Section 15 intro is definitely part of the text. I cannot remember the context at all. I quite like the book.

Anyhow, I have since updated my microphone to a professional standard RODE with a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 box thingy. This naturally records as a mono track. (This is because it has a second track with which you can plug in another mic). It can't record in stereo without a second mike, and thus a stereo file would be two exact copies of a mono track, which will be condensed into a mono file anyway. I enclose the next chapter recorded thus as a mono track, saved at proper bit rate etc. I hope it's okay.

Ligeti_Grieg · Post by **Ligeti_Grieg** » December 19th, 2017, 11:40 pm

For the two tracks recorded, Catherine the Italian inexplicably becomes Scottish. I had in my mind Mary Stuart from a previous scene. She is Italian for all the other tracks-I checked, in case you were being too nice. I'm not particularly inclined to re-record the files, as she does not say much. I hope that this is acceptable. I can re-record if required.

cherylstewart · Post by **cherylstewart** » December 20th, 2017, 11:08 am

Ligeti_Grieg, PL Notes, chapter 15 Ha, Ha, No "What a crock of shit" is definitely not part of the text. And will have to be removed. Thanks, Cheryls

cherylstewart · Post by **cherylstewart** » December 20th, 2017, 2:54 pm

On Section 17 I am getting file not found?
The file name looks ok to me
Is this something to do with not being set to ready for PL?

Post by **Lynnet** » December 21st, 2017, 4:41 pm

Ligeti_Grieg wrote:I'm pretty sure that Section 15 intro is definitely part of the text. I cannot remember the context at all. I quite like the book.

The profanity does not appear in the Gutenberg text... if you are using an alternative text, that will have to be officially cleared. As it stands, it will need to be edited out. Thanks.

Post by **Lynnet** » December 21st, 2017, 4:46 pm

cherylstewart wrote:On Section 17 I am getting file not found?
The file name looks ok to me
Is this something to do with not being set to ready for PL?

Cheryl, you should be able to access it now. The file name on the server was wrong. The only way the server and Magic Window would be different is if one was edited after uploading. In this instance, the _128kb was added to the MW but not the server.

If you forget to add it to the file name, it's best to leave it and I (or whoever is the MC) will correct it at cataloguing.

cherylstewart · Post by **cherylstewart** » December 22nd, 2017, 9:53 am

OK, That explains it, Thanks
Cheryls

cherylstewart · Post by **cherylstewart** » December 22nd, 2017, 2:58 pm

Section 17 PL Notes: A few short repeats or corrections:
9:20 "Wouldn't it be a fine thing ..Wouldn't it be..."
12:18 "They propose to put.. ppppp.. They propose to.."
20:15 "In less than an hour all was..In less than ..."
23:43 "The treasurer..The treasurer..."

Your new microphone sounds great.
I did notice the Scott's dialect, but I think it is ok, up to you.

Would you please set the "status" to "ready for PL" when you load a file, else it doesn't come up in my dashboard as ready for PL. Thanks

Cheryls