COMPLETE [WEEKLY] A Poe-em of Passion by C. F. Lummis - rg

weirdone30 · Post by **weirdone30** » March 23rd, 2013, 3:38 am

I thought, why not give it a try?

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/rg/poeemofpassion_lummis_al.mp3

Alex

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 23rd, 2013, 5:37 am

Raven, thank you, PL OK

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Ruth

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 23rd, 2013, 5:37 am

Alex: nice lively reading. Unfortunately your volume is much too high, and voice distortion has resulted. Do you see that it is touching the top and bottom of the window in places? This is what causes the distortion. Try reducing the microphone volume in Audacity (slider control to the right of the microphone icon at the top of the screen) so that the wave form looks more like this:

To check your own volume you can use our Checker program - see info at http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Checker. Make sure you download the experimental version - you will find the volume in decibels on the Information tab. For your information, we look for around 89 dB, and your current test measures 100 dB.

Unfortunately, once the voice signal has been cut off ('clipping') in this way, it is not curable. Would you mind re-recording at lower volume, please? All the other tech specs are correct.

I do have a suspicion that perhaps your mic or your computer has some noise-cancelling enabled, which is making your voice rather muffled. If this is so, you may wish to hunt around for the controls and disable the noise suppression/cancelling features. You will likely find that there will be background noise after doing that, but Audacity has noise reduction features which are much gentler on your voice, and these can be used to put it right. I can give you advice on this, if you do find that you have noise-cancelling enabled.

I know of two possibilities:

Your microphone has a noise-cancelling feature
Your soundcard or onboard sound has a noise-cancelling feature.

Whichever it is (if my theory is correct) needs to be turned off.

Your soundcard or onboard sound (e.g. Realtek, SigmaTel, Creative etc) will have a control panel somewhere (probably a speaker icon in your taskbar), and if noise-cancelling is enabled there, you should be able to disable it.

The mic also may have controls, though I don't know what sort of mic you are using. These are likely to be in your computer's control panel under Start | Control Panel | Hardware and Sounds | Sounds | Manage Audio Devices | Recording | Microphone | Properties.

Don't be discouraged! These things only have to be sorted out once, and I love your lively style

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Ruth

Volfgang · Post by **Volfgang** » March 23rd, 2013, 7:59 am

Correction on sepulcher

: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/rg/apoeemofpassion_lummis_jab.mp3

Duration 1:22
Thank you

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 23rd, 2013, 1:08 pm

Thanks!

Ruth

David Richardson · Post by **David Richardson** » March 23rd, 2013, 6:38 pm

One more for the pot

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/rg/poeemofpassion_lummis_dr.mp3
R.T. - 01:36

weirdone30 · Post by **weirdone30** » March 23rd, 2013, 7:41 pm

Thanks Ruth.

I'll try to get on it.

Alex

weirdone30 · Post by **weirdone30** » March 23rd, 2013, 11:00 pm

Okay. I rerecorded it, here. Thanks for the checker program. This file has a volume of 90+ decibels. I got that with the lowest input setting. I don't know about the other issues your "suspicions". I'll look into them in the future.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/rg/poeemofpassion_lummis_al.mp3

weirdone30 · Post by **weirdone30** » March 23rd, 2013, 11:26 pm

Actually, I hope this doesn't cause confusion, but after I posted that last correction, I fooled around and I figured out how to turn off the noise cancellation you mentioned Ruth. I recorded this other version, (and I cleaned it too). It has a decibel level of 88 which actually makes it a little low, but I hope that's okay.

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/rg/poeemofpassion_lummis_al.mp3

Alex

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 24th, 2013, 2:13 am

David: thank you, PL OK. I think you have the edge over Peter in the sinisterness stakes

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Alex: Ah, good! Now PL OK. I have taken the liberty of just tweaking a little. I think you probably have quite a hum at one or two single frequencies (probably caused by the spinning hard disk). If you would like to send me a minute of raw recording with a few seconds of noise at the end (upload to my rg folder), I can show you a way of removing the hum, without having to use such high settings of Effect | Noise Removal (I hope).

Ruth

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 24th, 2013, 2:15 am

Thank you everyone. This weekly poetry project is now closed. I look forward to welcoming you to the next one

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Ruth

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 24th, 2013, 2:10 pm

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/a-poe-em-of-passion-by-c-f-lummis/

Thanks everyone for all the fun!

Ruth