It's not hard at all. I think that's why I like it--it's really, really easy. I just sat in a non-squeaky chair, tried to limit any background noises, and read my monitor. =D
Steps:
1. My Creative Zen mp3 player has a microphone that records as wav files. I sit and record, pausing sometimes to take drinks of water, or just taking the drink of water/cough whatever with the intention of cutting it out later.
2. I drag & drop the wav file from my Zen onto my hard drive.
3. I open the wav file in an editing program (Goldwave, which you can message me about if you're interested), and still in wav form, I cut & paste sections of the audio track. It's easy to use. I cut out messed-up parts and deep breathing moments and anything weird. I also try to cut down the length between paragraphs so they flow together in an even and pleasant pace. This step takes the longest, since I mess up often and there's a lot to cut out.
4. I use Goldwave's effects to get rid of background noise/hiss/hum.
5. I save the file as an mp3, then I open it in iTunes and add track name/artist/album tags. I delete the wav file and keep it just in mp3 format. I like to save them as 192 bitrate, when I remember to.
It takes me maybe 10 minutes to record a 4 minute thing, then takes me 'bout half an hour to edit it down and clean it up. Pretty fast. The biggest hurdle has been learning how to pace my reading and enunciate all the wrods, but I figure that's good speech practice in general. =) Also, remembering to take deep breaths between paragraphs and have liquid around to drink.
(Okay, so really I just want to play Dr. McCoy and give my hand at a southern growl, but c'mon.)
I'd love to hear it! I haven't tried ST yet; I don't know how I'd handle McCoy. Sheldon has a faint Texas accent, but I'm not able to really get that, so I try to focus on other aspects of his speech pattern. When I didn't know how to say something, or couldn't hear it in my head, I watched a few youtube clicks of the show to remind myself.
My other post on it has some variety of tips that I've figured out the last four days. One thing I do think is that it's important to give the characters their own voices. Even if it's a small change--Penny's voice is very close to mine, for example, just a little higher and girlier--it makes a world of difference, especially in dialogue scenes. It's also word pacing as much as accent or pitch. People just speak at different verbal patterns.
Anyway, I'm making it sound too difficult! It's actually easy. I did a 2 long drabbles before I had my third one which I felt confident sharing with others.
Let me know if you like any of the ones here! I can always use suggestions, myself.
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Date: 2009-06-16 08:05 pm (UTC)It's not hard at all. I think that's why I like it--it's really, really easy. I just sat in a non-squeaky chair, tried to limit any background noises, and read my monitor. =D
Steps:
1. My Creative Zen mp3 player has a microphone that records as wav files. I sit and record, pausing sometimes to take drinks of water, or just taking the drink of water/cough whatever with the intention of cutting it out later.
2. I drag & drop the wav file from my Zen onto my hard drive.
3. I open the wav file in an editing program (Goldwave, which you can message me about if you're interested), and still in wav form, I cut & paste sections of the audio track. It's easy to use. I cut out messed-up parts and deep breathing moments and anything weird. I also try to cut down the length between paragraphs so they flow together in an even and pleasant pace. This step takes the longest, since I mess up often and there's a lot to cut out.
4. I use Goldwave's effects to get rid of background noise/hiss/hum.
5. I save the file as an mp3, then I open it in iTunes and add track name/artist/album tags. I delete the wav file and keep it just in mp3 format. I like to save them as 192 bitrate, when I remember to.
It takes me maybe 10 minutes to record a 4 minute thing, then takes me 'bout half an hour to edit it down and clean it up. Pretty fast. The biggest hurdle has been learning how to pace my reading and enunciate all the wrods, but I figure that's good speech practice in general. =) Also, remembering to take deep breaths between paragraphs and have liquid around to drink.
(Okay, so really I just want to play Dr. McCoy and give my hand at a southern growl, but c'mon.)
I'd love to hear it! I haven't tried ST yet; I don't know how I'd handle McCoy. Sheldon has a faint Texas accent, but I'm not able to really get that, so I try to focus on other aspects of his speech pattern. When I didn't know how to say something, or couldn't hear it in my head, I watched a few youtube clicks of the show to remind myself.
My other post on it has some variety of tips that I've figured out the last four days. One thing I do think is that it's important to give the characters their own voices. Even if it's a small change--Penny's voice is very close to mine, for example, just a little higher and girlier--it makes a world of difference, especially in dialogue scenes. It's also word pacing as much as accent or pitch. People just speak at different verbal patterns.
Anyway, I'm making it sound too difficult! It's actually easy. I did a 2 long drabbles before I had my third one which I felt confident sharing with others.
Let me know if you like any of the ones here! I can always use suggestions, myself.