Day 28, Track 5

[cantarina]

Welcome to Day 28's check-in post! Today is the third-to-last-day of ReMoPodMo Track 5 - let's finish strong. Go podficcers go!

Let us know how you did today.

Day 28 on LJ

Comments

[analise010]

OMG. THIS RIGHT HERE. I'm a loud person, IRL and my breathing is everywhere. I also swallow a lot, so I feel you on the rerecording front.

[jelazakazone]

Crap. Ok, how do you make the breathing not so loud? Do you pause to take a breath? WHAT CAN I DO? I didn't used to think I was terribly loud. Maybe I should sit a little farther back from the mic. I've got an external mic.

[analise010]

You can pause, but that can sometimes interrupt of the flow of the story - in my experience. Are you using Audacity? If so, you can either silence the breath out entirely under "Generate --> Silence" or you can use the "Amplify" effect. It lets you amplify or de-amplify a sound, by putting in a positive or negative dB value.

Lulza just made a new post called "Podficcing: Beyong the Basics" Maybe something in there will help you?

[jelazakazone]

Yeah, I saw her awesome post, but I am using Garageband. I am going to try pausing.

Also, how do you slow yourself down? I think I might be reading a hair too fast.

[analise010]

0_0. Oh, dear, I'm still working on that one. Every time I try to slow down it sounds like cartoonish slo-mo (deep voice and all T____T).

[jelazakazone]

I think that what I recorded today might be acceptable. Maybe. I have to say, this experience isn't making me excited to do more. But then again, in February I am pretty sure I said I was never doing another one and here I am with an external mic and actually editing, so who knows what the future holds:D

LOL at cartoon voice though!

[analise010]

I know! For a lot of people, editing is a chance to relive their podfics again and it's definitely my LEAST favorite part of the process. (>_>)

I did a 6 min podcast on this, but podfic is basically how I express my head canon, so I suffer through editing to make that happen. ♥