[COMPLETE] New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Wiggin-mtf

[Twinkle88]

Happy to sign up to voice 1 not sure about the singing but will give it a go

Thank you so much! That's all I can ask.

[JayKitty76]

I could edit a couple more chapters, Twinkle, if that's okay with you. (Trying to do one or two at a time so I don't overcommit myself.)

[Twinkle88]

Wonderful! Thank you! I'll sign you up for Seven and Eleven.

[Twinkle88]

PL note for Chapter 6:

@ 19:59, 20:05, & 20:15: I think the "hip, hip, hurrah" lines are too loud. If you look at them in Audacity, you can see they are clipping. Could you lower the volume on these so it matches the rest of the chapter? (And maybe even lower the Edgewood Minister's lines right before each one, too, a little.)

One easy way to do this and ensure that it will match the volume of the rest of the chapter is to use Audacity's compression tool. If you haven't used compression before, this is how I recommend people apply it:

(The trick to the compressor tool is to temporarily add some extra seconds of silence at the very beginning of the recording. Otherwise, the beginning of the recording will have a muted, fade-in effect -- not sure why this happens.)

1. Click and drag to highlight the first 15 seconds of the chapter
2. Hit Ctrl + C to copy this selection
3. Now click in the area at very beginning of the track (to the left of all the waveforms)
4. Hit Ctrl + V to paste those first 15 seconds
5. Now hit the Silence audio selection button (or hit Ctrl + L if you have trouble finding it)
6. Hit Ctrl + A to highlight the entire chapter
7. Click Effect > Compressor...
8. Next to Threshold, move the slider to about -16 dB
9. Next to Noise Floor, move the slider to -40 dB
10. Next to Ratio, move the slider to 2:1
11. Next to Attack Time, move the slider to 0.10 secs
12. Next to Release Time, move the slider to 1.0 secs
13. Make sure the boxes next to Make-up gain for 0dB after compressing and Compress based on Peaks are NOT checked
14. Click OK
15. Now click and drag to highlight those first 15 seconds of silence
16. Hit the Delete key

But overall I loved the chapter! I think the amount of space between lines was great, and all the other characters' volumes sounded good to me.

[bhavya]

PL note for Chapter 6:

@ 19:59, 20:05, & 20:15: I think the "hip, hip, hurrah" lines are too loud. If you look at them in Audacity, you can see they are clipping. Could you lower the volume on these so it matches the rest of the chapter? (And maybe even lower the Edgewood Minister's lines right before each one, too, a little.)

One easy way to do this and ensure that it will match the volume of the rest of the chapter is to use Audacity's compression tool. If you haven't used compression before, this is how I recommend people apply it:

(The trick to the compressor tool is to temporarily add some extra seconds of silence at the very beginning of the recording. Otherwise, the beginning of the recording will have a muted, fade-in effect -- not sure why this happens.)

1. Click and drag to highlight the first 15 seconds of the chapter
2. Hit Ctrl + C to copy this selection
3. Now click in the area at very beginning of the track (to the left of all the waveforms)
4. Hit Ctrl + V to paste those first 15 seconds
5. Now hit the Silence audio selection button (or hit Ctrl + L if you have trouble finding it)
6. Hit Ctrl + A to highlight the entire chapter
7. Click Effect > Compressor...
8. Next to Threshold, move the slider to about -16 dB
9. Next to Noise Floor, move the slider to -40 dB
10. Next to Ratio, move the slider to 2:1
11. Next to Attack Time, move the slider to 0.10 secs
12. Next to Release Time, move the slider to 1.0 secs
13. Make sure the boxes next to Make-up gain for 0dB after compressing and Compress based on Peaks are NOT checked
14. Click OK
15. Now click and drag to highlight those first 15 seconds of silence
16. Hit the Delete key

But overall I loved the chapter! I think the amount of space between lines was great, and all the other characters' volumes sounded good to me.

I'll edit this today and send it back to you! I'm sorry I couldn't get back earlier, my laptop was unfortunately under repair.

[wib66]

Here are the files for Voice 1 the reader credit is in chapter 5 hope that is ok. Thanks

https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/newchronicles_02_voice1_128kb.mp3

https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/newchronicles_05_voice1_128kb.mp3

[JayKitty76]

PL note for Chapter 6:

@ 19:59, 20:05, & 20:15: I think the "hip, hip, hurrah" lines are too loud. If you look at them in Audacity, you can see they are clipping. Could you lower the volume on these so it matches the rest of the chapter? (And maybe even lower the Edgewood Minister's lines right before each one, too, a little.)

One easy way to do this and ensure that it will match the volume of the rest of the chapter is to use Audacity's compression tool. If you haven't used compression before, this is how I recommend people apply it:

(The trick to the compressor tool is to temporarily add some extra seconds of silence at the very beginning of the recording. Otherwise, the beginning of the recording will have a muted, fade-in effect -- not sure why this happens.)

1. Click and drag to highlight the first 15 seconds of the chapter
2. Hit Ctrl + C to copy this selection
3. Now click in the area at very beginning of the track (to the left of all the waveforms)
4. Hit Ctrl + V to paste those first 15 seconds
5. Now hit the Silence audio selection button (or hit Ctrl + L if you have trouble finding it)
6. Hit Ctrl + A to highlight the entire chapter
7. Click Effect > Compressor...
8. Next to Threshold, move the slider to about -16 dB
9. Next to Noise Floor, move the slider to -40 dB
10. Next to Ratio, move the slider to 2:1
11. Next to Attack Time, move the slider to 0.10 secs
12. Next to Release Time, move the slider to 1.0 secs
13. Make sure the boxes next to Make-up gain for 0dB after compressing and Compress based on Peaks are NOT checked
14. Click OK
15. Now click and drag to highlight those first 15 seconds of silence
16. Hit the Delete key

But overall I loved the chapter! I think the amount of space between lines was great, and all the other characters' volumes sounded good to me.

I'll edit this today and send it back to you! I'm sorry I couldn't get back earlier, my laptop was unfortunately under repair.

Thank you, Twinkle!
If you want to, Bhavya, you can do this, but you don’t have to

[bhavya]

PL note for Chapter 6:

@ 19:59, 20:05, & 20:15: I think the "hip, hip, hurrah" lines are too loud. If you look at them in Audacity, you can see they are clipping. Could you lower the volume on these so it matches the rest of the chapter? (And maybe even lower the Edgewood Minister's lines right before each one, too, a little.)

One easy way to do this and ensure that it will match the volume of the rest of the chapter is to use Audacity's compression tool. If you haven't used compression before, this is how I recommend people apply it:

(The trick to the compressor tool is to temporarily add some extra seconds of silence at the very beginning of the recording. Otherwise, the beginning of the recording will have a muted, fade-in effect -- not sure why this happens.)

1. Click and drag to highlight the first 15 seconds of the chapter
2. Hit Ctrl + C to copy this selection
3. Now click in the area at very beginning of the track (to the left of all the waveforms)
4. Hit Ctrl + V to paste those first 15 seconds
5. Now hit the Silence audio selection button (or hit Ctrl + L if you have trouble finding it)
6. Hit Ctrl + A to highlight the entire chapter
7. Click Effect > Compressor...
8. Next to Threshold, move the slider to about -16 dB
9. Next to Noise Floor, move the slider to -40 dB
10. Next to Ratio, move the slider to 2:1
11. Next to Attack Time, move the slider to 0.10 secs
12. Next to Release Time, move the slider to 1.0 secs
13. Make sure the boxes next to Make-up gain for 0dB after compressing and Compress based on Peaks are NOT checked
14. Click OK
15. Now click and drag to highlight those first 15 seconds of silence
16. Hit the Delete key

But overall I loved the chapter! I think the amount of space between lines was great, and all the other characters' volumes sounded good to me.

I'll edit this today and send it back to you! I'm sorry I couldn't get back earlier, my laptop was unfortunately under repair.

Thank you, Twinkle!
If you want to, Bhavya, you can do this, but you don’t have to

I dont mind! It would be super helpful if you can, but if you need help let me know!

[Twinkle88]

PL note for Chapter 6:

@ 19:59, 20:05, & 20:15: I think the "hip, hip, hurrah" lines are too loud. If you look at them in Audacity, you can see they are clipping. Could you lower the volume on these so it matches the rest of the chapter? (And maybe even lower the Edgewood Minister's lines right before each one, too, a little.)

One easy way to do this and ensure that it will match the volume of the rest of the chapter is to use Audacity's compression tool. If you haven't used compression before, this is how I recommend people apply it:

(The trick to the compressor tool is to temporarily add some extra seconds of silence at the very beginning of the recording. Otherwise, the beginning of the recording will have a muted, fade-in effect -- not sure why this happens.)

1. Click and drag to highlight the first 15 seconds of the chapter
2. Hit Ctrl + C to copy this selection
3. Now click in the area at very beginning of the track (to the left of all the waveforms)
4. Hit Ctrl + V to paste those first 15 seconds
5. Now hit the Silence audio selection button (or hit Ctrl + L if you have trouble finding it)
6. Hit Ctrl + A to highlight the entire chapter
7. Click Effect > Compressor...
8. Next to Threshold, move the slider to about -16 dB
9. Next to Noise Floor, move the slider to -40 dB
10. Next to Ratio, move the slider to 2:1
11. Next to Attack Time, move the slider to 0.10 secs
12. Next to Release Time, move the slider to 1.0 secs
13. Make sure the boxes next to Make-up gain for 0dB after compressing and Compress based on Peaks are NOT checked
14. Click OK
15. Now click and drag to highlight those first 15 seconds of silence
16. Hit the Delete key

But overall I loved the chapter! I think the amount of space between lines was great, and all the other characters' volumes sounded good to me.

I'll edit this today and send it back to you! I'm sorry I couldn't get back earlier, my laptop was unfortunately under repair.

Hi, Bhavya!

That's okay! I hope your laptop is working well again!

I asked for some additional help with the editing since I hadn't heard from you in while. Chapter 6 is now assigned to JayKitty76, so please leave the Chapter 6 PL notes for her to edit.

[Twinkle88]

Here are the files for Voice 1 the reader credit is in chapter 5 hope that is ok. Thanks

https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/newchronicles_02_voice1_128kb.mp3

https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/newchronicles_05_voice1_128kb.mp3

Thank you!

[TriciaG]

I'll take Voice 2.

I assume I follow the cues of the others for the quick song?

[Twinkle88]

Wonderful! Thanks! There's a link to audio you will sing along with just above the song in the script.

[TriciaG]

Here you go!

https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/newchronicles_02_voice2.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/mightyfelix/newchronicles_05_voice2.mp3

I did 2 versions of the song: one sedate, one more energetic.

[Twinkle88]

Great! These are both PL OK!

[Twinkle88]

Chapter 2 is ready to edit!