Hey Girls and Boys of Half-O-Rum, I Have A Teensy Request

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Philosopher B.

Hell-ooo. Welp, I normally don’t do this kind of thing, but I’m in kind of an annoying position. I was recently assigned a project in my Sound Communications class that’s due this Thursday. I’m supposed to record eight people (4 male, 4 female) to read sentences from a book so I can edit them into the same track and alternate between male and female voices.

I’m supposed to reserve recording equipment from the RTF room, but you have to do it 48 hours in advance, which I have to do tomorrow (Monday) so by the time I get the equipment out, I’m not going to have it for very long before the project itself is due. I think under the circumstances I can get a few male voices, maybe one female voice, but as for filling the 8 people quota, that’s not going to be so easy.

I can’t do man-on-the-street recordings, ‘cause we’re not supposed to have a lot of ambient wind/car noises in the background, and anyway I don’t know how you’d ask strangers to read to you. We’re going to do man-on-the-street recordings later in the semester, but that’s completely different from this assignment.

So what I’m asking is, if you have a mic, and could spare a few minutes sometime between now and Thursday, if you could possibly record yourself reading a measly 3 sentences from ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ and send them my way (I don’t care how, though mediafire would be nice), I’d love you long time. I think I need maybe one or two guys and two or three gals.

Since the voices alternate, I’m going to start off with one male voice, then go to a female voice, then to another male voice, then I’ll need another female voice to read:

It’s sort of a … yawning, tingling sensation in my … my … well, I suppose I’d better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so let’s call it my stomach.
Good.
Oooh, it’s getting quite strong.



Then a male voice for:
And hey, what about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head?
Perhaps I can call that … wind!
Is that a good name?


Female:
It’ll do … perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I’ve found out what it’s for.
It must be something very important because there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it.
Hey, what’s this thing?


Male:
This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail.
Hey, I can really thrash it about good, can’t I?
Wow, that feels great!


Female:
Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on.
Now, have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.


That last voice would be number 8. Ideally if you sent me something you could post about it in this thread right away, so two people don’t record the same thing.

So if you could that’d be swell, if not and you think I’m a looney (I am, but that’s another story :p) or needy or have fleas or something, please ignore me.

- Philo-B
 
As soon as I get home from work I will download audacity and do this for you :p

and I may have to re-read all the hitchhikers books now because they are fantastic :p
 
I think he wants us to read each male line if we are male and each female if we are female and then he will splice together the ones he likes the best so he has 8 separate voices.
 
I just recorded the last one for you.

Doesn’t seem to achieve very much but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on.
Now, have I built up any coherent picture of things yet?
No.


I'll try sending it as an attachment in a PM.

EDIT: Oops, guess that doesn't work anymore. It's only 450K or so; can you PM me an email address?
 

Ross

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I'll do it as soon as I get back to my room from doing laundry... That'll be in about 1/2 hour.
 
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Philosopher B.

Pm'ed you, Zen. Thanks again!

I think he wants us to read each male line if we are male and each female if we are female and then he will splice together the ones he likes the best so he has 8 separate voices.
Yes, the dude lines are listed in red.
 
No problem. There aren't many I'd do this for. Hope it doesn't suck too bad.

Er...I meant my recording, not your project.
 
ok well I recorded my voice for both male lines. You can decide if you want to use them or not.


http://www.4shared.com/file/137632393/f9cb88d2/voice_line_1.html


Male:
And hey, what about this whistling roaring sound going past what I’m suddenly going to call my head?
Perhaps I can call that … wind!
Is that a good name?

http://www.4shared.com/file/137632411/da537573/voice_line_2.html


Male:
This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail.
Hey, I can really thrash about good, can’t I?
Wow, that feels great!
 
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Kitty Sinatra

Male:
This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail.
Hey, I can really thrash about good, can’t I?
Wow, that feels great!
Just out of curiosity, is there a word missing there? Shouldn't that read

Hey, I can really thrash it about good, can’t I?
 
I'll record for all three female lines; you can pick which one you like best. I'll send you the link when I have it.
 

North_Ranger

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I just tried reading those aloud by myself... and I realized I sound like the dirty version of Percy from Blackadder Goes Forth:

 
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Philosopher B.

Am listening to what I've got so far right now. Soundin' good, y'all.

No problem. There aren't many I'd do this for. Hope it doesn't suck too bad.



Er...I meant my recording, not your project.
On the contrary. Your recording rocked! :D


Male:
This … let’s call it a tail – yeah, tail.
Hey, I can really thrash about good, can’t I?
Wow, that feels great!
Just out of curiosity, is there a word missing there? Shouldn't that read

Hey, I can really thrash it about good, can’t I?
Whoops, my bad, yeah, looking at the book I see I left out 'it'. Shouldn't matter, though, it doesn't change too much, plus I don't think the teacher is gonna whip a copy of the book out and demand to know where the missing 'it' is. :p

Edit: Ross sounds remarkably like Kris Straub. Just a random observation.
 
and I imagine mine was grating on your nerves. But seeing as how you are still typing it would see it didn't make you commit suicide and for that I am happy.
 

Ross

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>.>

Go listen to the podcasts then, silly. I've been on the last few (and will be on tonight's 'cast as well).
 
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Philosopher B.

Well, I gots me quota. I would just like to reiterate what a rad bunch y'all are. Seriously, now. I really appreciate it.

Also, thanks for reminding me about the podcast, I keep forgetting to listen to it. I'm-a catch up post-haste. :D

- Philosopher B., going away to fiddle with CD labels and study sheets for tests and other such things.
 
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