A collection of short Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ( )
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Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Submit one file per act.
Make sure you add this to the beginning of your recording: [Role], read by [your name].
If you are reading narration, please include for each file:At the beginning: Chapter [#] of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit Librivox dot org.
At the end: End of Chapter[#].
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AFTER recording Need noise-cleaning?
Listen to your file through headphones. If you can hear some constant background noise (hiss/buzz), you may want to clean it up a bit. The latest version of Audacity is recommended for noise-cleaning. See this LibriVox wiki page for a complete guide. Save files as
128 kbps MP3
sherlockholmes_[role]_##_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. sherlockholmes_narrator_01_128kb.mp3)
Please ignore tags for Genre and Track Number - these will be filled in automatically at the cataloguing stage.
Transfer of files (completed recordings) Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.
Please note, this is the first time I've attempted one of these, so please bear with me,
and point out any mistakes.
This is being done in collaboration with elizabby, and she will be DPL on the project.
(Beth has also done most of the already, by breaking down the scripts in Google Docs,
so I shall also post that link a bit later.)
I will edit this as required, but I do have one immediate question - do I have to be MC use the Magic Window?
(I've only been a BC on a solo read before - so I'm not entirely sure how the MW works.)
Andrew
I have absolutely nothing in this world but time - so I believe I should invest it wisely...
I’ve put on the first two stories just to set the template, I’ll let Andrew do the rest.
Andrew, I suggest putting a comment at the top that casting will be gender neutral except where marked in the MW. Otherwise we will never fill all the little male roles.