COMPLETE: [SOLO] Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs - dii

reecedawg · Post by **reecedawg** » June 24th, 2020, 11:18 pm

Two more chapters to PL, if you please...

Chapter 17 (23:53)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_17_burroughs_128kb.mp3

Chapter 18 (19:04)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_18_burroughs_128kb.mp3

Thanks!

loon · Post by **loon** » June 25th, 2020, 3:32 pm

reecedawg wrote: ↑June 24th, 2020, 11:18 pm Chapter 17 (23:53)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_17_burroughs_128kb.mp3

Chapter 18 (19:04)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_18_burroughs_128kb.mp3

Both chapters are PL OK.
Thanks for picking this suspenseful book :-)

reecedawg · Post by **reecedawg** » June 25th, 2020, 9:41 pm

Thanks, Rich. Burroughs does know how to end a chapter.

Should have the next chapters up shortly - in the home stretch now!

reecedawg · Post by **reecedawg** » June 25th, 2020, 11:59 pm

Two more chapters ready for PL when you can...

Chapter 19 (18:48)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_19_burroughs_128kb.mp3

Chapter 20 (18:34)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_20_burroughs_128kb.mp3

loon · Post by **loon** » June 26th, 2020, 3:34 am

Home stretch indeed. OK, I've grabbed 19 and 20 and will PL soonish.

loon · Post by **loon** » June 26th, 2020, 11:49 am

reecedawg wrote: ↑June 25th, 2020, 11:59 pm Chapter 19 (18:48)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_19_burroughs_128kb.mp3

At 17:38 I hear a door slam in your recording - just before the words "As Janzara realized...".
I believe that sound can be edited out cleanly. With that the chaper would be perfect.

Chapter 20 PL coming up.

loon · Post by **loon** » June 26th, 2020, 12:21 pm

reecedawg wrote: ↑June 25th, 2020, 11:59 pm Chapter 20 (18:34)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_20_burroughs_128kb.mp3

In chapter 20 I hear a similar thump to the one in chapter 19 - this time at 5:25. Again, I think it could be edited out pretty easily. (If you edit out the noise, edit in a similar amount of room noise - I think the timing in the sentences just right as they are. or try an Audacity [ctrl]-L "silence audio selection".)

Again, the rest of the chapter is perfect. If you don't want to go back and edit these I'll give them a PL OK, so it's your choice.

reecedawg · Post by **reecedawg** » June 26th, 2020, 12:25 pm

I will go ahead and edit out those noises... Thank you for catching them. Will re-upload once they are cleaned up.
Thanks!
Matt

loon · Post by **loon** » June 26th, 2020, 12:29 pm

With just 2 chapters to go Edgar Rice Burroughs is starting to wrap up things. There's the romance between Talaskar and Komodoflorensal to resolve. Princess Janzara needs to find sanctuary - somewhere away from her dad. And Tarzan still needs to find his ring. And, oh yeah, Tarzan needs to grow back to his normal size and get home.

reecedawg · Post by **reecedawg** » June 26th, 2020, 12:48 pm

Here are the clean files for 19 and 20.

https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_19_burroughs_128kb.mp3

https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_20_burroughs_128kb.mp3

loon · Post by **loon** » June 26th, 2020, 1:33 pm

Both of the edited files are PL OK. Nice clean edits - thanks.

reecedawg · Post by **reecedawg** » June 26th, 2020, 9:48 pm

Last two chapters, ready for PL!

Chapter 21 (15:23)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_21_burroughs_128kb.mp3

Chapter 22 (18:28)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_22_burroughs_128kb.mp3

And here we are, with nary a loose end left untied...

loon · Post by **loon** » June 27th, 2020, 2:32 am

reecedawg wrote: ↑June 26th, 2020, 9:48 pm Last two chapters, ready for PL!

Chapter 21 (15:23)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_21_burroughs_128kb.mp3

Chapter 22 (18:28)
https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_22_burroughs_128kb.mp3

And here we are, with nary a loose end left untied...

In chapter 21 there is a missed edit at 8 minutes. "And he, in turn, recognized his captor" begins and is then repeated. Everything else is fine.

In chapter 22 your first word - "Chapter" - is very close to the beginning. Audacity, which on my machine always takes a fraction of a second to gather its wits before making sound, doesn't reliably play the word chapter (even tho it's plainly there when played with VLC or other MP3 players). Could you please splice a bit more silence onto the beginning - bring it up to about 1/2 second - and upload again. Then chapter 22 will be fine as well.

Burroughs waits until the very last sentence to tie the final bow in this story. I'll wait for your two uploads and then we'll be ready to add Tarzan to the LibriVox library.

reecedawg · Post by **reecedawg** » June 27th, 2020, 8:15 am

Thanks for catching those - with the number of edits I do in each chapter, I'm surprised it took me this long to miss one.

Here are the cleaned-up files:

https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_21_burroughs_128kb.mp3

https://librivox.org/uploads/dii/tarzanandtheantmen_22_burroughs_128kb.mp3

Thanks!

loon · Post by **loon** » June 27th, 2020, 1:37 pm

Congratulations Matthew! All 22 chapters in Tarzan and the Ant Men are now PL OK. Now we can hand it off to our MC Diana for the final publication steps.

Thanks for reading this exciting and entirely-believable book to me (and others).

(I still think "Komodoflorensal" sounds like a toothpaste ingredient. My sympathy goes out to whichever peon in the typesetting department at Grosset & Dunlap who had to type that name 211 times.)