Testing, testing - Lazy Dragon reading test · 5:36pm Sep 25th, 2017
I'm fooling around with making a reading of the kids story, The Lazy Dragon of Dragonvale before I publish it. Before you listen to this thirty-second snippet, be aware that I have a voice well-suited for writing. Also, if you want to help edit it (regular or irregular editors welcome), drop me a line and I'll send you a link. It would be nice to find any errors *before* I record for real. Also, if you want to do the reading and sound better than me (a low bar, as you can tell) let me know. I've replaced my raspy croaking with Jake the Army Guy's wonderful final product. Comments welcome.
The *real* picture I'm using in the final version was drawn by Harwick on Fimfiction or Harwicks-art on Deviantart.com because it is *far* better. (Harwick is AWESOME!!)
I think your voice is fine for this story. I would have stumbled over words a lot. I do that, though I was remarkably well put together when I did a reading of "Book one: the beginning" by Minecraft. Possibly because that story is a masterpeice beyond description.
Enough rambling, if absolutely no one else who works better hours and has more skill shows up, i can do sound editing to a fair degree.
I'll give it a shot. Been wanting to try V/O.
Could use a better mic, but your pacing is decent and overall you're understandable. That's all I really ask for. :B
And your name is seriously pronounced "George"? c.c Like, despite there being no E on the end? Not "gey-org", the way it's written? I don't know what to believe anymore. D:
I always wondered if your name was pronounced like that dude from "Sound of Music". Guess not.
lazy is a favorite past time of ours
4678369 It dates back to when I wanted an 'alternate name' to use for posting on the internet (because some of these people are *crazy* enough to track you down in real life). So our cat, George Felis... Oh, wait. That name is taken by an optometrist in South America (really, I've gotten his misdelivered email). And a professor at UNC. And a sales rep in Utah. And (according to Google) a guy born in 1934 in Missouri. But Georg (without the e) Felis was unclaimed. Skip ahead a bunch of years, and I needed an alias to submit ponyfic under. Guess which one I used? (yes, my cat is credited as writing ponyfic)
Yeah, even a Blue Yeti microphone would not help this voice. What you hear is after Audacity has done all the High/low/normalize/clean passes, too. I do need to slow down, pitch my voice down, and take pauses, because it's a kid's story.
4678410 Might as well take the easy way, rather than 'Yor--je'
4678354 I should throw this open as an "Equestria's Got Talent!" competition. "Have you never recorded before? Does your voice sound like a bog full of frogs? Well, now you too can be rich and famous⁽*⁾ like all of your favorite stars! Just record the attached story and send the raw audio back to the competition, and we'll do the rest⁽¹⁾ of the work. Record two stories and get twice the income! Apply today!"
(*) As rich and famous as you are now, at least.
(1) Like collecting the money and skipping out on the bills.