kdheart | May. 8th, 2019

I'm not sure part 1 of how many this is going to be, but I'll get around to doing a proper post about my editing process at some point.

You know those before and after Photoshop pics? Well, this is something like that, except for podfic. We were having a conversation in the server last night about playing around with volume and I shared a screenshot of a raw recording along with the finished podfic for comparison and then I went through a few more projects, because it looked interesting.

I thought I'd share a wider selection here for anyone curious.

I couldn't go back further than 2017, because any unedited files I have from before then are still unedited.

Here's a short one for a little breakdown

I tend to record each page/screen twice and mark the end with a snap. I count those as takes and any flubs and pickups in between those go unmarked. One page is about 4 minutes unedited and about 3 minutes when edited.
I use the second take and keep the first one as backup in case I mess up a word or there are any background noises I've missed when recording.
Most of the fics I record tend to be on the quiet side lately, so even when I boost the volume, they're not very loud. Still, I try to keep them from going over -3dB.

Here's a longer one (45min), recorded in two sittings.

This one's about the same length, except I had the "brilliant" idea to record it in one sitting. (It's Eat me, EL James! Yes, that's mostly one long sex scene)

This was a much longer one. This took three days to record and eight sittings. It was actually the third time I recorded this fic, but I never finished the first two attempts, because I kept having to change my recording setup.
For some reason, the project for the 6th part glitched and isn't working, but I had it saved in another folder and used that when editing.
Backup your raw recordings as WAV or other lossless formats before you start editing!!!

Here's a few more for the curious