Kitty wrote: ↑July 24th, 2021, 9:53 amhaha, I know the feeling, but be warned....with many of us (including me) it never burnt off. LV can be addictive.
I know how important a first feedback is, so I took the time as fast as I could to listen to your section and right away: it's lovely and restful to listen to your voice, not hectic, still emotional enough to not be boring. Nicely paced and clearly spoken. Easy to understand. I'm happy you chose a Rover section to participate in (I hope it won't be the last).I've recorded/edited it several times but I have no idea what I'm aiming for so I've submitted what I had in order to get some feedback as a guide for improvements.
So as far as narrative is concerned, it's perfect. Textually all word perfect as well. I only have a few minor adjustments to recommend, concerning the silences. Anything over 2 seconds feels very long for a listener. I always recommend not exceeding 1.5 seconds, even between paragraphs, that's fully enough. I noticed two places where the silence felt dragging on too long for me, could you cut those down a little bit please ? Also one sentence in the intro needs re-recording, but the rest is fine. If you need help on how to insert new sentences, let me know and I give you a step by step.
Oh and as for "recorded it several times" ! Please don't do that too often. I know how boring it can be to re-record the same section again. Spot editing is the ticket, and very much encouraged. Learning how to edit in the early stage will save you much time with later sections.
Here are the time stamps that you need to adjust:
> at 0:08: "all Librivox recordings are in the public domain" - you forgot to say Librivox here
> from 0:29 to 0:32: between "Elizabeth Oakes Smith" and "ten to one" - I would significantly shorten the silence here
> from 2:21 to 2:23: between victimised even now" and "we wish" - shorten the silence
That's all. Please reupload with the exact same filename, the old one gets replaced by the new one then.
Thanks !
Sonia
Thank you for the feedback. Here is the new recording.
https://librivox.org/uploads/kitty/rover0120_01_various_128kb.mp3
time: 7:48