chocmuse wrote: ↑January 21st, 2024, 1:19 amSection 17 done! Phew!
I'm afraid the recording is a bit fuzzy, I was speaking into the side of the mic to avoid plosives and I think I overdid it. I think it's bearable, but I am sorry about it.
wohooo a new chapter is in. And highly interesting, about the animal life. Interesting that "kangaroo" is not a native Australian word. I would have thought it would be.
Excellently narrated again, but yes, the background noise is rather disturbing.
Here is what I would suggest:
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volume: too high, nearly 96 dB. Please
reduce by -6 to get closer to the avearge of 89.
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background noise: too high - maybe you can
run another round of noise cleaning. For example, I tried it with a
sample of around 19:58 to 19:59 and that made it very clean to listen to
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at 0:22: "The journals contained in the body of this publication,
illustrated by the map which accompanies it, are, I conceive" - you need to
read the entire text, even if there is no map. I thought it was a footnote when I suggested to leave that out, sorry about that misunderstanding.
We could make a short note in the summary that the map mentioned in chapter 17 is not available in the e-text source you used. Readers may well look at another edition where the map is included.
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at 4:34: "from the superior nature of the country in that direction,
as the remarks inserted in the map will testify" - also here, the
full text needs to be read
thanks, and great that this is progressing.
I am wondering now, since this is "only" about 34 minutes, maybe the entire chapter would have fitted in under 74 minutes and we could merge them all into one chapter nevertherless. It's up to you, you can decide that when you record the second part and see it's under 74 minutes.
Sonia