~[Youth Fiction] Love Me, Love My Dog, by Carolyn Verhoef - icequeen

[Mdoreen32]

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Chapter 7 19:04

[BrianFullen]

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Chapter 7 19:04

Thank you

[BrianFullen]

Chap 4 - 23m46s Nancy
Again thx for the kind words!

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PLOK. Wonderful. Thank you!

[BrianFullen]

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Chapter 7 19:04

Section 7 is PLOK.

A really fine reading. And now I know what a stereo opticon was.

And that took me down memory lane to when kids had a handheld view master slide projector. Mine displayed slides held in circular cardboard holders so that I could advance the slides by depressing a button while I listened to a companion recording pressed as a 45 rpm vinyl record. I think there was a beep or maybe simply a spoken instruction when it was time to advance to the next slide.

At least that's how I vaguely remember those things. The experience was like reading a comic or short story book for kids who were too young to read and didn't have someone there to read to them. They could watch and hear a story anytime they wanted. Of course, nowadays all kids probably just have smartphones ...

[Mdoreen32]

Thank you!
Question- Do you hear static in my recordings? I don’t in the raw ones but I do in the edited ones. Not sure if it just my laptop or am I hearing things. I redid this 3 times then gave up.
Doreen

[BrianFullen]

Thank you!
Question- Do you hear static in my recordings? I don’t in the raw ones but I do in the edited ones. Not sure if it just my laptop or am I hearing things. I redid this 3 times then gave up.
Doreen

I did not hear static in this one. We also collaborated on Joseph in the Snow - Lomond was DPL on that project and I was BC on it - and I don't recall your having static issues on that one. Did you?

Before listening I did pass your recording by Checker as is my custom whether I am BC or PL or both. According to Checker background noise for your section 07 recording is 24.2 dB which I think is quite good. I hope so, anyway, because my own recordings always have that same measurement for background noise.

I don't know if you use Checker. If you do, you won't see a value for background noise unless you enable the method that checks for it. If you want to do that, then within Checker, do this: Validation->Choose Validation Methods ... and check the tiny Background Noise box and click on Change. From then on (maybe starting with next new execution of Checker) you will see a value for Background Noise at the bottom of the readings that Checker lists on the Information tab.

When I am editing in Audacity I always do Effect->Noise Reduction. I suspect that you do that too because your waveform appears flat in between times that you are speaking. I don't know the values that you use in the second step of Noise Reduction but I use 12, 6.00 and 6 respectively for Noise Reduction, Sensitivity and Frequency Smoothing Bands. I think those values are any of Factory Default, or LibriVox recommended, or typical for Speech. I really don't remember.

My laptop is kind of beat up and I will probably get a new one in the not too distant future. Maybe when back-to-schools specials or even Black Friday time arrives. I no longer trust my own internal sound card on playback. At first I thought it was my headphones, but then my son loaned me (he said no hurry for its return) an external sound card that connects via USB dongle. When I use that in combination with my headphones, I no longer hear the occasional crackling or static that I had been hearing.

Maybe this too a lengthy a reply. Sorry if it is. The short answer is that I think that your section 07 recording is perfectly fine.

[BrianFullen]

Thank you!
Question- Do you hear static in my recordings? I don’t in the raw ones but I do in the edited ones. Not sure if it just my laptop or am I hearing things. I redid this 3 times then gave up.
Doreen

I did not hear static in this one. We also collaborated on Joseph in the Snow - Lomond was DPL on that project and I was BC on it - and I don't recall your having static issues on that one. Did you?

Before listening I did pass your recording by Checker as is my custom whether I am BC or PL or both. According to Checker background noise for your section 07 recording is 24.2 dB which I think is quite good. I hope so, anyway, because my own recordings always have that same measurement for background noise.

I don't know if you use Checker. If you do, you won't see a value for background noise unless you enable the method that checks for it. If you want to do that, then within Checker, do this: Validation->Choose Validation Methods ... and check the tiny Background Noise box and click on Change. From then on (maybe starting with next new execution of Checker) you will see a value for Background Noise at the bottom of the readings that Checker lists on the Information tab.

When I am editing in Audacity I always do Effect->Noise Reduction. I suspect that you do that too because your waveform appears flat in between times that you are speaking. I don't know the values that you use in the second step of Noise Reduction but I use 12, 6.00 and 6 respectively for Noise Reduction, Sensitivity and Frequency Smoothing Bands. I think those values are any of Factory Default, or LibriVox recommended, or typical for Speech. I really don't remember.

My laptop is kind of beat up and I will probably get a new one in the not too distant future. Maybe when back-to-schools specials or even Black Friday time arrives. I no longer trust my own internal sound card on playback. At first I thought it was my headphones, but then my son loaned me (he said no hurry for its return) an external sound card that connects via USB dongle. When I use that in combination with my headphones, I no longer hear the occasional crackling or static that I had been hearing.

Maybe this too a lengthy a reply. Sorry if it is. The short answer is that I think that your section 07 recording is perfectly fine.

EDIT: I don't if money is in an object for you. It usually is for me. The external sound card I am using is FiiO. I think my son got it from Prime a few years back. I see ones now for < 20 bucks. I see others from other vendors for as low as 10 bucks. Mine works on PCs. I run linux on my laptop but I don't believe that OS matters. I don't know what solutions might exist for Mac. I've never had one of those.

[Mdoreen32]

Thanks Brian. I do use Checker I’ll have to add that noise floor check. . I do a noise filter first then noise reduction and normalize Compression and then mouth de click and de click from Izotope for my editing. I have an Apple laptop. I also run it thru an ACX check
Doreen

[BrianFullen]

Thanks Brian. I do use Checker I’ll have to add that noise floor check. . I do a noise filter first then noise reduction and normalize Compression and then mouth de click and de click from Izotope for my editing. I have an Apple laptop
Doreen

All sounds familiar to me. I have to do a lot click removal myself. Some of them can be tough to isolate.

[njgorgen]

Chap 5 - 13m44s Nancy

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[BrianFullen]

Chap 5 - 13m44s Nancy

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Thank you!

[BrianFullen]

Chap 5 - 13m44s Nancy

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Thank you!

Perfect, Nancy, thank you.

[Mdoreen32]

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Chapter 8 Another Stray Kitten 23:10

[BrianFullen]

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Chapter 8 Another Stray Kitten 23:10

So sweetly read. Thank you for that. PLOK!

[Mdoreen32]

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Chapter 9 25:12