hello again Bhavesh
thank you so much for this fast turn-around. And congrats for tackling and doing so nicely such a long section for your first recording.
It is absolutely NOT horrible at all, in fact I enjoyed the story and your narration very much. It already started with this great Texas accent (well at least it sounded Texan to my untrained ear) you put on in the first letter.
Excellent. Are you from the area maybe ? In any case, it was a nce touch.
I have a few small correction notes to write up, but it's mainly concerning some lengthy breaks in your recording, especially between the letters. You know, for a listener, anything over 2 seconds of silence really feels like a long time, one easily gets "thrown out" of the story, so I would suggest keeping pauses, even between paragraphs, to maximum 1.5, or at least under 2 seconds.
I'll point out the parts where you can make the cuts, it's quite easily done. The best thing is to
start cutting at the END and work your way up front, that way the time stamps stay the same
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from 0:00-0:02: two seconds of silence befor the intro starts feels long, we recommend not exceeding 1 second in the beginning
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from 8:04-8:06: (p. 41) between "1892" and "dear Fax"
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from 9:40-9:42: (p. 42) between "last two years" and "Three"
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from 10:02-10:04: (p. 42) between "collect" and "Four"
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from 21:25-21:29: (p. 46) between "your dejected Polly" and "Five"
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from 26:18-26:20: (p. 48) between "to say that" and "Six"
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from 28:09-28:12: (p. 48) between "well" and "Seven"
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from 32:07-32:10: between "amen" and the end disclaimer
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from 32:12-32:17: "End of Section 6" - no need to repeat "of the Black Cat....etc" here at this point. But it's excellent that you remembered to make the final project disclaimer, since this is the last section of the magazine
Apart from that, I have
4 small textual corrections to add, which change the meaning of the sentence. Now please, editing is really easy and essential, so it's best you practice it from the start. Please
don't re-record it all again, because that is too much work for such a long text. I say this because we've had new readers who recorded it all again only for 2 small errors.
I would not want you to go through all this trouble.
Do you use Audacity ? The easiest way is: to
record the wrong sentence correctly again in a new window. Then noise clean and amplify as you need so it sounds a bit like the old recording. Then highlight this part and copy/paste it over the wrong sentence in the masterfile. If you have any questions still, please ask away
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at 0:41: (p. 39) "to the reve
rend Arthur Selbourne - you say "reve
nant", which is a bit of a different thing
made me smile
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at 9:44: (p. 42) "of the reve
rend Arthur Selbourne" - same here
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at 15:03: (p. 44) "and that Lennox told Nannie
himself" - you say "
herself", but Lennox is a man
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at 31:37: (p. 50) "the reve
rend Arthur Selbourne" - and again, you were lucky the good reverend wasn't mentioned more often
So as I said, it's enough if you re-record these 4 sentences and paste them to the correct spots.
That's all. Please reupload with the
exact same file name, that way the old file gets replaced by the new one in the Magic Window (MW).
It's a wonderful debut and I hope to hear many more stories from you (maybe even in the next Black Cat). I hope you liked the recording process (it definitely sounds like it).
thank you
Sonia