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miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

Hi Cindy,
I am glad to see you here. Your recording is lovely. I hope to hear many more recordings from you.
Stav.
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Bob Sherman · Joined: 20 Dec 2008 Posts: 52 Location: Toronto

Thanks, Ruth. It's been a long time since I got a gold star! Very Happy

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ravenotation · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:42 am Post subject:

Welcome back Ruth,
Here's another for you & Stav. Sorry for the lateness of my entry this week, I'm having some

technical issues with my mic, probably due to me keep moving the poor thing around the room.
I do hope it PL's ok.
url; http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/rg/parting_bronte.mp3
time; 2m 13s
filesize; 2.03mb

ttfn,
raven
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DreamingDoll · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 42 Location: Dallas

This poem really applies to my life right now, I really enjoyed reading it.

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

I recently had a longer recording I did rejected, so if there are problems with this please post here or PM me.

Thanks! Smile

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miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

Hi raven,
I always enjoy listening to your lovely voice. I hear a constant backround hissssss which is a little distracting. And the silence in the end is much to long. But other than that, the reading is great.
Stav.
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miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

Hi DreamingDoll,
I never reject other people's recordings. I have never recorded, so I admire those who do this. Your recording may be a little too quiet, but other wise it's great. And I need to know it's duration...

Stav.
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miss stav · Joined: 05 Oct 2007 Posts: 4879 Location: Israel

Hello all,
this weekly poem is now closed. Thanks to all the people who read it.
Stav.
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RuthieG · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:35 am Post subject:

Hello Raven Smile

As I was downloading your recording to remove the excess silence, I thought I would have a play with it. Listen to these and see if you prefer either of them to your original.

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

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

If you prefer your original, I will just re-upload it with just 5 secs of silence at the end. It's entirely your choice. Smile

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ravenotation · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:35 am Post subject:

Morning,
Thanks Ruth for tweaking my recording. If it's okay with both you & Stav, please use the "parting_bronte_rn_nolev.mp3" file tweaked by Ruth.

I can only apologise for the mess I've made this time, it's been a rough week but I'm having serious mic issues.
Just between us, I think it doesn't love me at the moment, as I keep telling it I'll use it more & then not having the time. Moving it around the room all the time isn't helping as I don't have a permanent setup.

I'm also a well known procrastinator with my head in the clouds. Cloud Nine

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RuthieG · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:36 am Post subject:

Welcome back, Morgan Smile

We only ask for re-records if a section is not understandable - generally owing to problems with recording equipment. We reject recordings only with extreme reluctance, as we welcome all readers. In your case, if I remember correctly, we just couldn't get rid of some particularly difficult background noise that was making your voice very difficult to hear.

I think you are probably using an inbuilt computer mic? It is a very tricky noise - noise-cleaning has absolutely no effect on it! Laughing

Nearly all of the problems would be solved with a separate USB mic. (What's Santa bringing this Christmas? Laughing

)

I have done quite a bit of playing around with this file, and found a notch filter for Audacity which took out the odd hum at around 90 Hz. I then did a High Pass Filter to make your voice less muffled, amplified and noise-cleaned. Then I passed it through the Levelator to even up the volume - your voice tends to drop away at the end of phrases. Wink

I would like you to concentrate hard on keeping up the volume of your voice throughout the phrases, and speaking a little more slowly. If you listen to the lines "In the evening, when we're sitting By the fire, perchance alone," you will hear how lovely and clear your speech is when you slow down a little. I look forward to hearing you in future weekly poetry projects. Smile

Anyway, take a listen to the results of my playing about:

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

It was worth it, I think, to get this result. Doesn't it sound good?

Ruth
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DreamingDoll · Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Posts: 42 Location: Dallas

Ruth, thanks so much for the suggestions. As you guessed I am using a built in microphone. Sad

Did you do all that with the regular audacity program or are there extension that need to be added?

Also the time was 1:20
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RuthieG · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:52 am Post subject:

Gah! I remember writing a reply to this, but then we had a power cut. Rolling Eyes

Most of it was regular Audacity 1.3.

The notch filter is an Audacity plug-in that you get here. About three-quarters down the page. Instructions for use are in the readme.txt file included in the zip.

The Levelator is a free program available from http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator/

I think I did some noise-cleaning in the free basic version of Wavepad. I sometimes get better results with that than with Audacity noise-cleaning. I have ver. 3.10 that doesn't keep asking me to buy the Master's Edition, but I think you can still download a version that gives you the basic functions free from here.

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RuthieG · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:47 pm Post subject:

Thank you, everyone. This weekly poetry is now in the catalogue, and all files may be found at http://librivox.org/parting-by-charlotte-bronte/

Please join dii and aradlaw for the next week's weekly poetry, The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling.

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aradlaw · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: