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 Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:02 am Post subject: COMPLETE - The Offshore Pirate, by F. Scott Fitzgerald - lb |
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The Offshore Pirate, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940).
All audio files can be found on our catalog page:
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| Quote: | | This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball movie comedies of the 1930's in that it features a determined young heiress trying to get what she wants out of life.(Summary by BellonaTimes) |
- Target completion date: August 2009
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4368
- Type of proof-listening required: Standard
IMPORTANT - soloist, please note: in order to limit the amount of languishing projects (and hence the amount of files on our hard-pressed server), we ask that you post an update at least once a month in your project thread, even if you haven't managed to record anything. If we don't hear from you for three months, your project will be opened up to a group project as soon as a Book Coordinator can be found. Files you have completed will be used in this project. If you haven't recorded anything yet, your project will be removed from the forum (contact any admin to have it re-instated).
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- The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
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For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer: - "Part # of The Offshore Pirate. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain.
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"Recording by [your name]"
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"The Offshore Pirate, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Part #"
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luciburg
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Hi Bellona, I would be happy to set this one up for you and be your MC.
Lucy 
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:50 am Post subject: |
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All set and ready for you Bellona, looking forward to helping out with another one of your Solo's.
Lucy
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neerajanagarajan
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:08 am Post subject: |
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Yay, another short solo.
Hi Lucy, and hi BT, may I offer my services as DPL-er for this one, if no one else has already offered to do so? 
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| Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| neerajanagarajan wrote: | Yay, another short solo.
Hi Lucy, and hi BT, may I offer my services as DPL-er for this one, if no one else has already offered to do so? |
I'll put you down Neeru, I'm sure Bellona would love to have you DPL.
Lucy
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Thank you SO much, Lucy! Extremely delighted to work with you again!
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I'm signed up to be notified when you're done!
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What a great start Bellona. Moving you over to Going Solo Forum.
Lucy
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Downloading Section 1
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Hi BT,
Chapter 1 is lovely!
PL notes --
1) the beginning silence is about 2 seconds long - you'll have to cut that down to 0.5-1.0
2) the noise isn't so disturbing, could get used to it as the story progresses, but you might want to try out some noise-cleaning?
3) slightly long silence at about 5:21 (and at 5:58 as well?)
4) stumble at about 7:33 - we start back to New York...
5) the overall volume - it's kind of too loud, you might want to lessen the volume a bit (it averages around 1.0, not 0.5 as it should be)
Puffs of breath (plosive-like; wind?) here and there, but if the volume's lowered and the noise cleaned, the whole thing should be fine.
6) End of Part ONE of... (you've said part two)
The story's REAL fun Ardita gets on my nerves. Can't help feeling sorry for the poor uncle who escaped the book, but got the lemon on his neck. Great reading, BT!
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I'll see what I can do with the file. I thought it sounded okay except for the occasional plosives, but then I have a fan going in here because it's like a 100+ heat index outside so hard to hear background noise.
Part 3 uploaded.
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neerajanagarajan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:57 am Post subject: |
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I think everything will sound OK if you bring down the volume a little and that's all The noises and all will also not sound so big. Just a wee little.
It wasn't all that disturbing, but it would just make the recording better. The main changes that HAVE TO BE DONE are 1. and 6. Other than that, I think it's OK.
@ heat - *groans* Don't tell me, it's as hot here as well.
EDIT - Downloading section 3.
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Sections 2 and 3 - PL OK! Great reading, BT.
(Nice singing, too...)
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