A Request For Help For an Audio Project

[Brinniel]

Well, my teacher let me play both recordings at class. I don't know whether he'll grade one or both...we'll see.

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Is the music by Ibrin? It fits there really well.

The music came from the program Garageband. I really wanted to use Ibrin's music and even found a song I thought would work. But when I put it with the voices, the combination of the two was too busy and distracting. It's a shame since it would've been nice to use, but I think her music is beautiful enough to be played as more than just background music. Though if we ever do make anymore recordings like this, we should definitely try to fit her music in somewhere.

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Also - if I were you - I'd pay a visit to the audio suite once more and turn Bilbo's voice a little bit down as well as raise the background voices a wee bit to lessen the feeling that Bilbo speaks to the microphone in front and the crowd is somewhere back there and far away.

Yeah, that's actually one thing my teacher critiqued me on. What I should've done is also had some reverb to the voice like I did for the cheers. But it's hard to make things perfect when your time is limited, plus I'm still pretty new to audio mixing/editing...so far I'm enjoying it, though. If I have time, maybe I'll slip into a suite this weekend and fix the slight issues I have. But as it is the very end of the semester, there are no guarantees.

With the Beren and Thingol excerpt, I originally had some trouble attempting to balance the huge differences in room tone and quality...something I had my teacher help out with slightly last week. But after a lot of EQ-ing, there was a vast improvement. It's not perfect...and because we recorded from all over the world, I don't think it can be, but it still worked well enough.

I don't think any of my classmates were terribly appreciative of the subject matter...I guess none are Tolkien fans. They were more impressed with the fact that I managed to recruit people from four different countries to lend their voices.

Of course, I did this more for you guys than anything. The fact that I needed a project for school was simply an excuse to get into an audio suite and do something BD/Tolkien related. It was a lot of fun. I don't know if I'd do another Tolkien excerpt again for school, but if I ever have another opportunity I'd love to work creating more audio excerpts during my free time.