Making the Most of Purgatory [podfic] (redux)

Title: Making the Most of Purgatory
Author: Resmiranda
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Inuyasha
Pairing: Sesshoumaru/Kagome
Rating: R
Length: 27:38min
Summary: How to win at losing.

Download: mp3| 25MB | 27:38min

And for my 100th podfic (I'm counting the micro-podfics individually, but not their translations, even if they're all posted together), I give you a repod of my very first podfic. I've fiddled with it in the past and I did record it once more back in November, but I'm only posting this version (from March).

This podfic went though a few versions over the years. I recorded the first one back in June 2012, my very first podfic. I hated the sound of my own voice back then and barely got though the editing process - there was a lot of noise, because I was using an older version of Audacity and it was hard to get the right amount of noise reduction, and I had a couple of repeat lines left in, because I didn't have the patience to listen to myself all the way though after I thought I was done editing. I then went back to it and edited it in November of that year, after Lunchee gave it a listen and pointed out what was wrong - that's the version that's still up in the original post. Then, in November 2013 I re-recorded it to track my progress, but I never posted it - I had switched to a better mic, but I didn't have a pop-filter yet and I thought it was too distracting. This version I recorded this March with another mic, as my 100th podfic.

The current version is 5 minutes longer than the first - my reading pace has slowed down considerably since then. I've also started enjoying editing a lot more than than I expected. I made a post here with all the differences, including screencaps of the waveforms and samples from all three versions.

Podfic evolution [and stolen meme]

So I reached my 100th podfic and I thought it would be a good idea to do some sort of retrospective.

There's this meme on deviantArt where you take one of your earlier drawings and draw it again and I thought it looked kind of interesting, so I stole it adapted it to podfic as best I could (the original drawing meme is here). I took my first podfic and repodded it, partly because I was curious, partly because I knew I could do better and I didn't feel like just editing the old one.



Title: Making the Most of Purgatory
Author: Resmiranda
Reader: kdheart
Fandom: Inuyasha
Pairing: Sesshoumaru/Kagome
Rating: R
Summary: How to win at losing.

Before version: AO3 | DW | 22.28min | 20MB
After version: AO3 | DW | 27:38min | 25MB
There was another version I did in November 2013, but that I gave up on because of technical issues. However it's still included in the audio sample.

This is how the three versions look like in order:


It's weird seeing the difference between the three waveforms.
First of all, you can see how my pacing has changed - the new version is ~5min longer than the first. I also seem to have settled on a much lower volume (not sure if that's a good thing though). They're also recorded with different microphones (the first one on the ednet desktop mic that served me well for over a year for podfic and another three before that; the second on a poorly treated AKG D44S and the final one on the Samsun Go Mic I got last Christmas)