[COMPLETE] Kéramos and other Poems, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - kaz

msfry · Post by **msfry** » July 9th, 2021, 6:50 am

Section 5, Vittoria, is PL OK. What a beautiful, tragic, love story. Glad it ended well.

CoherentCape · Post by **CoherentCape** » July 9th, 2021, 4:59 pm

New and improved section 2,3, and 29. I fixed the time of silence and pronunciation. let me know if there are any other issues.

Section 2: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_02_longfellow_128kb.mp3 2.31

Section 3: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_03_longfellow_128kb.mp3 2.31

Section 29: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_29_longfellow_128kb.mp3 0.59

msfry · Post by **msfry** » July 9th, 2021, 5:26 pm

Edits on Section 2 are great! On 2 of the 3 pieces, (I can't remember which because I forgot to write it down) the beginning and ending silences are still too long (ranging from 2 to 30 seconds). Intro should be 1 second. Outro 5 seconds. This is to assure that those various mp3 players out there that clip a bit from beginning and end don't clip your reading, but not so long as to waste bandwidth (or the listener's time).

My Daddy used to say: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." I always thought it was a boy scout motto, but later learned he never was a boy scout! It came from a teacher he had in high school.

alanmapstone · Post by **alanmapstone** » July 10th, 2021, 2:19 am

Section 22 - Venice

https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_22_longfellow_128kb.mp3
1.19

I have only been to Venice once, but it seems to have inspired more poetry than any other city on earth

msfry · Post by **msfry** » July 10th, 2021, 6:52 am

Venice is PL OK. Thank you. Visiting Venice is on my bucket list, too! It is well described in Francis M. Crawford's novel, Marietta, A Maid of Venice.

CoherentCape · Post by **CoherentCape** » July 10th, 2021, 5:07 pm

They say third times the charm so lets see if I can follow directions this time.

Section 2: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_02_longfellow_128kb.mp3 2.28

Section 3: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_03_longfellow_128kb.mp3 2.28

Section 29: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_29_longfellow_128kb.mp3 0.56

alanmapstone · Post by **alanmapstone** » July 11th, 2021, 12:45 am

Section 26 - River Rhone

https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_26_longfellow_128kb.mp3
1.19

msfry · Post by **msfry** » July 11th, 2021, 6:23 am

CoherentCape wrote: ↑July 10th, 2021, 5:07 pm They say third times the charm so lets see if I can follow directions this time.

Section 2: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_02_longfellow_128kb.mp3 2.28

Section 3: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_03_longfellow_128kb.mp3 2.28

Section 29: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_29_longfellow_128kb.mp3 0.56

Intros are OK. Outros still wrong length, as follows:
02 30 seconds;
03 3.9 seconds;
29 3.5 seconds

msfry · Post by **msfry** » July 11th, 2021, 6:42 am

PL Notes Section 26

1:01 and fleets attend thy progress to the sea, I hear "freets atten", and there are birds chirping in the background. It's such unusual and wonderful imagery to end the poem on, I hope you will re-record this phrase.

Shiluh · Post by **Shiluh** » July 11th, 2021, 11:12 am

Thank you so much for the help!

Here is the cleaned up version: https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_20_longfellow_128kb.mp3

Let me know if you need anything else.

msfry wrote: ↑July 8th, 2021, 7:13 am PL Notes Section 20

Checker warns of excessive background noise and recommends a noise cleaning. To do this in Audacity, select about 4 seconds of silence from the end of your file, go Effects/Noise Reduction/Get Noise Profile. Then select the entire file, go Effect/Noise Reduction/set settings to 12, 6, 3, Reduce/OK. This should cut down the hissy background noise by about half, without affecting your voice quality, which is very good. NOTE: Different people use different settings, so feel free to experiment, and beware that if you do additional passes it might begin to affect the quality.

While you are at it, your volume at 86.2, is at the very low end of LV's acceptable range. Before noise cleaning above, I'd grab the whole file and go Effects/Amplify +3. And before you record anything else, adjust volume or gain on your mike or Audacity volume slider.

Make these adjustments, reupload your file using the same file name, post it here and I'll check it again.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » July 11th, 2021, 11:57 am

Section 20 is PL OK.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » July 11th, 2021, 2:29 pm

I have put Section 9 back in the pool.

pschempf · Post by **pschempf** » July 11th, 2021, 3:07 pm

May I have section 9, Michele?

msfry · Post by **msfry** » July 11th, 2021, 7:56 pm

pschempf wrote: ↑July 11th, 2021, 3:07 pm May I have section 9, Michele?

Have at it, Fritz.

alanmapstone · Post by **alanmapstone** » July 12th, 2021, 1:30 am

Section 26 revised
https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_26_longfellow_128kb.mp3
1.20

and Section 30 - St John's
https://librivox.org/uploads/kazbek/keramosandotherpoems_30_longfellow_128kb.mp3
1.21

I have had comments before about birds chirping on my recordings. I keep forgetting to shut the windows before I start

Unfortunately I myself never hear the bird song, either live or on recordings, as my hearing is deteriorating as I get older and I can no longer hear higher frequencies