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kdheart ([personal profile] kdheart) wrote2014-04-22 10:29 pm

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: [personal profile] 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)