Expralitemonk wrote: ↑November 6th, 2021, 11:00 am
24 and 25 ready for PL!
Final 5 recorded, just need to edit!
Section 24 is so sad! But certainly PL OK.
In section 25, there is a minor noise problem for the first 3 minutes (plus maybe a few seconds past that — I'm not exactly sure where the noise stops). It sounds like there is a small motor or fan running in the background. I did a trial noise reduction myself on that first 3 minutes, and found it solved the problem really very well, so I'd suggest you consider doing this, as the audio quality of your other recordings is of a very high standard, and it would be a pity to leave this blemish in place when the solution is really pretty simple.
If you're not familiar with how to perform noise reduction in Audacity (and I wasn't until a few months ago) there are some good instructions here:
https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/Noise_Cleaning#Noise_Reduction_with_free_Audacity_2.1.0_and_later_versions
Note that these instructions assume you want to reduce noise for the whole recording. That is not the case for you, as the problem disappears past the 3:00 or so mark. I suggest you select only the first 3 minutes and 10 seconds when you apply the noise reduction.
When I did my 'dummy' noise reduction on your file to see how well it would work, I sampled noise for about 1.2 seconds, from roughly the 7.6 to 8.8 second mark (there's a silence there, where the noise is present).
I used the following settings for noise reduction, and they seemed to work fine:
Noise reduction: 18 dB
Sensitivity: 6.0
Frequency smoothing (bands): 1
I do suggest you work on a COPY of your original, so that if you mess anything up, you've always got your original to fall back on.
If you've got any questions about this I'm happy to try to answer them - but I'm certainly no great audio expert, I'm afraid.
Your actual reading of both 24 and 25 is, as always, wonderful — and I'm delighted to hear of your progress in getting the rest recorded.
My knowledge of the history of Virginia Woolfe's mental health difficulties is only very slight, but at least to a naive ear this account of smug, self-important Dr Bradshaw sounds like a most exquisite piece of revenge on Woolfe's part.
. Hopefullly you can juggle both. Have sent you a PM on this.