wow that was a fast turn-around, thank you Adam. And the story is really well narrated, and easy to understand, not too fast and not too slow.
A great debut for your first section. Hopefully many more to come.
The topic of epidemic is strangely contemporary right now
There are a few small things to correct still, but no worries, you do not have to re-record it all again. In fact we encourage spot editing, as it's less time consuming for the reader and for the prooflistener. Editing in Audacity is very easy, you'll see....
Here is what you need to do to this file:
> the
volume is exceeding 92 dB, which is our upper accepted limit. Could you highlight the whole text and
decrease by -2 at least, to get into a good average of about 89-90 dB ? Here is the step-by-step in Audacity:
1. highlight your recording
2. go to Effect
3. go to Amplify
4. input
-2 (don't forget the MINUS sign) in the
first upper box (called "amplification dB") – change nothing in the lower box !
5. press ok
> the
DC bias is a bit high (-33 – normal would be around -2 to +2). You can regulate this in Audacity:
1. highlight your recording
2. go to Effect
3. go to Normalize
4. make sure the box "
Remove DC offset" is ticked and press OK
>
at 0:25: for the
title, could you please always include the full title I mentioned in the Magic Window, it includes the author if known, in this case here, you'd have to add all the underlined part: ''This Cold'',
by Mrs Elizabeth Oakes Smith, author of ''Sinless Child'', etc". To add or correct a sentence, the easiest way is:
1. record it into a new Audacity window
2. noise-clean and amplify
3. copy/paste it onto the correct time-spot in the master file
4. listen to the sentence before and after and tweak the volume a bit manually, to get to a similar volume
> Then simply
reupload with the exact same filename and the new file with replace the old one.
> Oh and please, always mention the
length of your file (see examples of other readers on this page). It's easier for me to update the magic window then.
Thank you ! And let me know if anything is unclear.
Sonia