Oh lawdy! Umm... @sharp glade.... are you aware that you are now level 1? You're getting closer to... um.....
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#First Audition Jitters.
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sharp glade
Hello! I just finished recording my first audition for an audiobook, and I wanted feedback. It's a raw recording, but I tried my best to isolate the background noise. I'm mainly looking for pacing and voice quality, I guess. I think it sounds good, but I don't want to be arrogant. So, let me know your guys' thoughts. I want to try and submit it before the end of the day. I've attached the edited version as well. Hopefully my final version.
hybrid zinc
Hello! I just finished recording my first audition for an audiobook, and I wante...
As someone who gets paid to do gigs and readings. You sound great! Keep up the good work.
You've even given me some different thoughts on how to narrate certain things.
sharp glade
You think so? Which one is better? The first or second. The first is raw, the second was noise-gated and noise-reduced in several places.
I'm trying to submit one audition a day, and I want to make a decision before the end of today, haha.
hybrid zinc
I don't have enough time to listen to both currently but I was listening to your delivery as I skimmed
trust your gut!
sharp glade
Okay.
cyan turtle
The first one. Unless specified, you always want to send auditions in raw.
sharp glade
Oh. Okay, but which one sounds better?
Wait, how come?
Wouldn't they want a recording clean and without mistakes or whatever?
They don't specify. It instructs me to submit my best performance.
Sorry. I should have clarified I'm submitting it on ACX.
digital oxide
Wouldn't they want a recording clean and without mistakes or whatever?
It's not that they don't want clean audio, but typically productions with an audio engineer on staff, who needs to hear your raw sound in order to make educated decisions on what might need to be done to someone's audio (or to decide that it's too much trouble to work with someone) want clean audio from jump, without having to touch it much. And there is very little more annoying as an engineer, than finding out that the remote actor's sound is not what it was advertised to be, because now you have to deal with a mess that didn't have to be one in the first place, so-to-speak.
sharp glade
Oh. Well, I submitted the edited version. Oh shoot.
digital oxide
I mean, I don't care, personally. It's not the end of the world or anything. It's just that you asked, so I figured I should explain the thought process.