Chapter 33 - The Farmer Sees A Strange Sight
At around 2:27 in the recording, after "A very strange sight indeed" there is a pop that sounds like it may be a bad edit. I hear "(pop) from that hole" but the text reads "Out from that hole" - could you check to make sure you didn't trim out a word at that point please?
At around 3:21 I hear "
the --- the farmer shouted" - the first "the" should be removed.
This chapter also has the same problems as I called out for chapter 32:
1) The opening silence is nearly 5 seconds but it should be 1/2 second.
2) The ending silence is about 3.2 seconds but it should be 5 seconds.
3) The volume for the whole chapter is 1/10th dB below the LibriVox minimum. The same compressor... followed by amplify... actions I suggested for chapter 32 should get your chapter near the middle of the volume range.
4) Upload the fixed chapter as billymink_33_burgess
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Chapter 34 - Billy Goes Home
1) Fix the length of the opening and ending silence as in the other two chapters
2) Your volume in this chapter is in the LibriVox range, so no change is needed.
3) At about 35 seconds there is a pop of some sort in the recording - it is in the silence between Billy's poem and the main story. It is quite audible and should be removed. You can zoom in on a noise like this by typing [Ctrl]-1 several times and you'll be able to see where the sound is clearly. Select the sound, press 'Z' to move the beginning and end of the selection to zero crossings in the waveform (for a nice-sounding edit), then press [Ctrl]-X to remove the sound. Pressing [Ctrl]-2 returns your view of the time line to the normal view.
4) Export and upload the fixed chapter as billymink_34_burgess
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A note - In chapter 34 I started hearing microphone popping on some of the words starting with plosives - "P"s, "T"s, "K"s - I believe you were a little closer to the mic for this chapter and it started catching air blowing right into it from your breath. This is no way serious enough to need recording again, but it would be nice to avoid in your future recordings. Simply moving the microphone so it is a bit off to the side of your face - still pointed at your mouth, of course - can help a lot. Many people use a home-made or purchased pop screen which also works great, but it can be hard to see what you are reading around the thing (another reason to move the microphone a bit off to the side).