As avid readers of this blog (who he?) will know, I have been experimenting with audio. I managed to upload A Christmas Ghost Story to Soundcloud and that went quite well. The quality seems ok, via Audacity, a reasonable soundcard in my PC (installing for playing Dungeons and Dragons online...) and the Blue Yeti microphone, which is lovely.
The issue I have is that we live by a road. It's an old house with shutters but only single glazed windows so it doesn't keep the noise out. Mostly it's road noise but also dogs, kids, drunken people and earlier in the year the enormous row of seagulls. We live by the sea.
You can do some fancy things with Audacity to edit out the noise where it falls between speech ("in the gaps" to you) but sometimes you can hear it behind the speech. I went up to the back bedroom away from the road, using a borrowed laptop but in fact the laptop's sound card wasn't as good so the sound was tinny. Also I was getting wind noise (from the wind, not me) and kids and dogs.
Sheila's suggestion is that I wear a quilt over my head. And you know, that's not so silly. I mean it will look silly, but I think the deadened, dampened sound (I had to explain what I meant when I talked about dampening a sound to Sheila, but then I was a drummer in a punk band once, so I used to damp my bass drum all the time. With a quilt as it turns out.)
So learning points from this post:
1. Wear quilt over head.
2. Audition as a narrator to make fortune.
3. Post picture of where I live so you can get an idea of the seagull problem.
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