Winner? New Audio of Intro Chapter.

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Lincoln on February 7, 2010 at 11:34am

I haven't heard your other takes, just to clarify, but I can comment on this one. You probably want to get rid of some of the noise behind your voice. This may be caused by normalizing the volume too high....it sounds a lot better about 6dB softer because it pushes the noise down enough that, while still there, it isn't as offensive. I pulled the overall volume down through a graphic equalizer,played around with a parametric equalizer by doing a high pass filter with a touch of low pass as well, and then lifted the volume up again (but not as high as you did) and I got the attached. The noise is still there but it doesn't start/stop as jarringly. I'm sure it can be made better with more work, but avoiding the noise as much as possible in the first place would be even better.

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• Aria_01_BLpass.mp3, 17.6 MB

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Lawson on February 7, 2010 at 12:01pm

Ah...I see what you mean. It seems like the Levelator always brings out that background noise because it isn't noticeable, to me at least, in the pre-Levelator version.

Off to do more work on this. Thanks for your tips.

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Lawson on February 7, 2010 at 12:02pm

What program do you use to equalize the sound?

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Lincoln on February 7, 2010 at 1:33pm

I use Adobe Audition. It's about a $400 price tag, but the the concepts of using equalizers to bring up vocal frequencies and high/low pass filters to remove extreme wavelengths can be applied from most audio programs. Just be careful of overdoing it.

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Lincoln on February 7, 2010 at 1:36pm

I don't use levelator, but if you try upping the mic gain (or simply talking louder) you might avoid it having to raise the volume (and thus the background noise) as much.

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Lawson on February 7, 2010 at 11:36pm

I recorded a new take.

How does this take sound?

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• Aria_01.mp3, 18.1 MB

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Lincoln on February 9, 2010 at 9:12pm

Much better!

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Lawson on February 9, 2010 at 10:53pm

Excellent. That's very good to hear.

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Permalink Reply by Casey Simpson on February 7, 2010 at 12:13pm

Tech issues aside, I was engrossed in the story and thoroughly enjoyed your prose.

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Lawson on February 7, 2010 at 12:16pm

Thank you! I've been working on this novel since 2005, and I'm excited to finally get it out there for people to respond to.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Rowe on February 16, 2010 at 1:57am

I listened to the original version, then the one you fixed. The second one actually did sound better. As far as story goes, I was hooked 11 minutes in. There was a lot of imagery, I'll admit you use a lot of bigger words than I understand, but it didn't stop me from understanding most of what was going on. After I heard the intro music I had to turn it up so I could hear you, but once I adjusted my volume it was fine. I really didn't notice much background noise. It seemed pretty original to me. I am interested in the kids and why she was resurrected and what that was all about at the end where she killed herself.

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