Kitty wrote: ↑January 19th, 2020, 1:54 am
ok Shanna, I had a listen to your story now and it was SO funny. I was on to that guy from Maine after his second con.
A very entertaining story. And you have read it very nicely, very fluently and agreeably to listen to.
The only thing I may mention in your reading style is that compared to the previous reader Dan, your pauses in between sentences could actually be a tiny bit longer sometimes. It does have a bit of a rushed feeling in some parts. Leaving a second of silence in between sentences, or at least when a new paragraph starts, would make it easier on a listener to follow, so they can collect their thoughts and assimilate what is being said. I don't mean pauses over 2 seconds, that's too much (as I mentioned in my previous feedback to Dan), but a tiny bit more would be optimal. That said, you don't need to correct any pauses here, it's fine, but I mentioned it for your further recordings as a sort of suggestion
Gotcha! I read your suggestions to Dan and I understand.
I have a few notes to correct though. But don't worry, you don't have to re-record it all again ! Please don't do that, it's too much work - I mention it because we had some new readers re-record an entire section just for one error in a sentence - this is not encouraged ! Best to learn editing from the start.
That's what I need to learn for sure.
So here is what you need to edit:
> the whole section could use a round of
noise-cleaning as there is some background hum. Are you using Audacity ? It's easy to noiseclean, if you need help with that, I can give you a step-by-step
I did the noise cleaning as you suggested.
> your
volume is just on the lower accepted range at about 86 dB. But the intro is way softer than the rest. I would suggest
highlighting the intro part and amplifying it by 9 dB
Help! I don't know how to accomplish this.
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from 0:00-0:05: with 5 seconds the
intro silence is way too long, people will start to think there is no audio at all in the file. We recommend
0.5-1 second maximum before starting the intro disclaimer
Done.
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at 0:38: for the author please say "
by J. D. Ellsworth"
Done.
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at 3:16: (p. 26) "whose strict prohibition principles
deprived them of the gracious influence" - you say "
derived" which is a change of meaning. So here I would suggest re-recording the short part of the sentence. Record it in another window, then copy/paste it over to the right spot. Maybe adjust the volume and noise-cleaning a bit so it sounds a bit similar to the rest of the sentence
Wow. Can't believe I did that, it's fixed now.
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at 5:25: (p. 27) "I wouldn't dare (
cough) to take water (
cough)" - our policy is actually to
read what the author wrote and not "act it out". We do that in our drama section if you are interested in playing a role. I'm sure you would fit right in there.
But in prose texts it's usually not done.
Got it. I fixed the coughs. I would love to try the drama section out! I'll take a look thanks so much for the suggestion. I hope I fit in!
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at 7:10: "
end of the Black Cat..." etc. you can
cut all of this out, as it's actually only suppose to be said at the end of the very last section of the book. (which I noted in the first post) So only the reader of Section 8 has to say it in this case
Done.
thanks, a great start. These small PL notes are actually really easy to correct, so don't worry.
If you need any help, please ask.
Sonia
It will look brilliant later on when we have more of the series on one page:
That's why I prefer to err on the side of caution and tell newbies beforehand. It's a lot of time and work wasted, both for the reader and the listener. And so unnecessarily.
but lots of projects here still available: 
for some reason I never thought about the shooter, but actually it makes sense. The guy probably wondered where his money went to all these years.