#podfic notes

Step 1. Cross my fingers and try to just record the YT video.

Step 2. DuckDuckGo variations on how to record YT audio that’s actually usable.

Step 3. DuckDuckGo variations on how to convert the YT video into just the audio I need (because this shouldn’t be this hard, and I probably could’ve just read the lyrics and gotten this over and done with forever ago).

Step 4. Trust a WikiHow article that recommends putting the YT link on a MP3 converter site and downloading the resulting MP3.

Step 5. Successfully don’t have any pop-ups or weird things happen. Import the MP3 file into the Audacity project.

Step 5.1 - Fiddle around with trying to get the Zoom to do what I want because the default zoom levels have been shifted, and there’s no way I’m making the edits I need while being able to see ten minutes on the screen at a time.

Step 5.2 - Make a Cut of some excess silence and realize that my Label track has not been locked to my main track, so the labels for where the song lyrics are supposed to go have shifted.

Step 5.3 - Fiddle around with the volume levels so the lyrics don’t sound like I’m trying to deafen the listener in the midst of the story.

Step 5.4 - Fiddle around with Fade In and Fade Out. Completely redo one snippet of lyrics because that was way too much intro. Second guess myself.

hashirama: normal register, smiles and laughs a lot, broaden the accent

madara: deep, raspy voice. snappy. move the accent closer to rp

tobirama: deadpan and or angry. accent is between hsrm and mdr

Anyways. End of March 2023, I got sick, and I lost my voice as April began. My throat sounds like someone tried to do something painful to it, and I just barely made it out alive.

My shortest podfic is "Gynger" at 56 seconds.

My longest podfic is "some fictions we took to mean fate" at 5 hours, 40 minutes, and 15 seconds.

The fandom with the most works is: Harry Potter.

Number of repods: 0.

Number of Meta works: 1.

Number of written works: 3.

From SleepyHalos on some fictions we took to mean fate:

I loved this! It made my work commute so much better <3 thank you for the pod! I hope you'll do more merthur!

The comment was left about three weeks ago or so, but I keep mentally coming back to it. I’m used to not really getting very many comments on my podfic, and it usually doesn’t bother me. [As someone who started out writing and got very overwhelmed by update requests, I have sometimes been relieved by the relative quietness of my podficcing inbox.]

In hindsight, I kind of bit off more than I could chew with trying to do a Big Bang as my main reintroduction to the Merlin fandom. Trying to do 50K in that short of a time frame meant that I just didn’t have any inclination to look at another Merlin fic for the longest time afterwards. There was just too much stress associated with it.

Thanks to a commenter on ao3, it’s been brought to my attention that there’s an echo in Letters From Along A Wandering Wind.

I did not intentionally use an Echo effect. I honestly don’t remember there being an echo when I was working on it. But, you know, there’s an echo-y sound.

A brief look back on taking part in my first Podfic Bingo with some thoughts on what to do next year. Quote-Unquote year, really. Sign-ups should open up this spring.