Branching Out

[gnomi]

Last night I tried something I've never tried before -- recording a story as podfic (not one of my own stories). I've been thinking about doing this for a bit, but I couldn't figure out the technical logistics of it, having neither Garage Band (since, while we have iLife, I haven't installed it due to significant lack of hard drive space) nor a good microphone (though we've been talking about getting one).

But then it hit me. I have a handy-dandy tape recorder and a spiffy little toy that allows me to make digital files from cassettes. So last night -- allergy attack and all -- I sat down to do maybe a paragraph or two to see how it came out. And I got swept away with reading the story, so I ended up doing almost the whole thing (I have maybe a screen's worth left to read). Mind you, I haven't *listened* to any of it yet (I'm vaguely frightened of hearing what I sound like). But I made a decision when I started reading: I'd read straight, leaving in all errors and the places where I went back and started a paragraph/sentence over again. I can always clip the errors out when I put it into the machine (the software that came with my toy allows that).

Of course, day 1 of Annual Horrible Allergy Attack was probably not the *best* time to do it, but I figure that, if I can do it when I sound like I'm storing a family of wombats in my nose, it'll be even better when I'm *not* congested.

Comments

[tiptoe39.livejournal.com]

I would *love* to do that.... sigh.... if only i had a wide enough audience that anyone would actually listen.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

*hands you kleenex*

I have garage band and have yet to play with it. But I want to. :) Actually I would really like to make some recordings of my daughter talking and singing and put them on her blog. I should get a microphone.

[eal.livejournal.com]

Very brave and very cool!

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

you'll hear tomorrow how the allergies have taken over my life :)