Sound Off

It's so late--I should be in sleepy land right now, especially as I have to get up early for a Voicetrax class in a few hours.

But I just invited a host of new folks to come look at the blog, and I don't want to fall down on the job just yet. It'll be three weeks of daily posts if I can make it tomorrow, and that's probably the most consistent I've been at anything, ever, that didn't involve painful punishment for failure. Here the punishment is only shame and humiliation, and I've been heaped with those so long they've lost all meaning.

I was actually up because of the class tomorrow. It's another seminar on the audio book business by Pat Fraley, which I'm looking forward to greatly. I was hoping to record a CD of a pitch to the book company to read Thomas the Rhymer, by Ellen Kushner (from NPR). I was hoping to have him listen to it and give me a bit of feedback, and also, hopefully, to impress him a bit (he seems to like my readings from other classes).

But, as always, it's more work than I had planned on. You can't believe how critical you can get when you're recording yourself. The ability to go back and re-record instantly, as well as edit as you go along, is really more of a curse than a blessing. I fiddle endlessly and re-record constantly. I'm also tired and hadn't put enough work into character voices to do it properly quite yet.

I wanted to upload the recording here so you could have a listen, but I'm not technologically savvy enough, especially at 2:20am. Maybe I will manage it soon.

In any case, the pitch recording isn't going to happen tonight. I don't want to take the man a poor demo; hopefully I can send it to him when it's a bit more polished.

In the meantime, if any of my faithful readers knows of a good book that they think could be a good match for my voice and style of reading (if it's old and overly elaborate, it's right up my alley), feel free to pass it on. If it's older than 1925, it's all good. If it's less than 80 years old, it has to be checked to see if anyone else has recorded it before. You can generally check on Amazon to see if there is an audio version of the book for sale; if not, odds are good I can do it (copyright law generally allows only one audio recording of any given book that's still in copyright).

So, nothing funny or pleasant or interesting today. Sorry. Make up your own joke and insert it here.