Podfic notes: The Morning After - Recording

 A window opened when everyone was gone or asleep and I took it using the time to record part of my podfic. I realized, in a reread that it had three different types of text. 
The letter: boldface
The narration: plain text
and the flash back, including sex scenes: italic

I decided to record each one differently. The first I recorded with my mic on it’s basic mono setting (a heart shaped profile). I used that for the narration. I wanted the letter to sound differently, so I used the stereo setting, but the computer noise was too loud. After playing around with filters for twenty minutes, I put soft stuff around the computer to cut down noice, and placed the mic below the desk, sitting on the floor to record.

I was able to get the last of the letter recorded just as the kids woke up, but the sex scenes will have to wait for another day.

At first I recorded by deleting defective takes and recording over them, but this became untenable when I was under the table because I couldn’t reach the mouse, so I will have to edit out the bad takes. I used a trick I heard on Auralphonics and clicked my tongue three times whenever I made a mistake. Tongue clicks are sharp marks visible easily on the track.

I think I will make separate clean tracks for each part and then input them into Ardour for the final assembly. I am a novice in Ardour, but this is just the kind of project to learn on. Maybe Saturday I can record the sex scenes.
Laters...