Hi Joshua,
Your reading is nicely measured. I do, however, have some PL notes for you.
Your opening silence is just over a second long, but needs to be between 0.5 and 1 second. Please clip a bit off to bring it down to that range.
At 9:53, you read “… and at night she
caterwalked in the hall in the most fearful manner, and paid not the east attention to us. When we tried to coax her, she refused all food, preferring to steal all that she wanted.” The text reads “and at night she
caterwauled in the hall in the most fearful manner, and paid not the least attention to us, when we tried to coax her. She refused all food, preferring to steal all that she wanted.” As caterwalk isn't actually a word, I believe you need to correct this.
At 11:13, you read “…who followed every movement with her yellow eyes. Though she kept as quiet as a lamb, her trust was perfect; she knew…” The text reads “…who followed every movement with her yellow eyes, though she kept as quiet as a lamb. Her trust was perfect; she knew…” Here (and in the example above), while the words you read are accurate, you’re punctuating them differently than the text does, which changes the meaning slightly. I leave it up to you to decide whether you want to correct this one, but it's also something to watch out for in future readings.
There are 6 1/2 seconds of silence at the end of your recording. Please delete 1 1/2 seconds to bring this down to 5 seconds.
There’s a fair bit of background noise throughout this recording, even though the Checker doesn't seem to pick it up. Applying Noise reduction in Audacity would improve that. To do this:
1. Find a section of your recording that contains only background noise and no speech, but where the waveform isn't flat. A minimum of 0.05 seconds is needed, though a longer Noise Profile is better. Select that section.
2. With that section selected, click “Effect > Noise Reduction....”
3. Under Step 1, click “Get Noise Profile.”
4. Select the entire recording, then check your Noise Reduction parameters under Step 2. Mine are set as follows, and I’ve never needed to change them:
Noise Reduction (dB): 12
Sensitivity: 6.00
Frequency smoothing (bands): 3
Noise: Choose "Reduce"
5. If they’re set to this already, just click OK.
Let me know if you have any questions about any of this. Reupload the file when you've finished and I'll give it a spot PL.
Cheers,
I appreciate the positive feedback. It's one of the things that keeps me motivated to continue reading!
will put this into the Magic Window for proof listening.
Awesome thank you! And yes I uploaded my 1 minute audio in the test thread. Can’t wait to get started!