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Okay, so it seems to me that the best plan will be to *standardise* the volume across scenes, at least, and to try and do even more noise removal.

The echo effect for the Flowers/psychics definitely needs work, agreed. I'll see what I can do about toning it down.

I have faith that it'll all get done :)

Works well, until those busybodies from Medical haul you out and try to resuscitate you ...

but I'll go over them again to check. Can't have that sort of thing floating around!

Audio effects are still being fiddled with, so comments like these are very helpful and will definitely be taken on board :)

You're right, I'm hoping that the addition of the visuals will help differentiate between everyone's voices, but as it is I'm going to need to recut Scene 5 anyway - the disparities between how the two actors recorded their lines and then how I had to pitch-alter one of them for some reason confuses Audacity mightily and meant a need for some serious fiddling around with rates ... so that one's in line for probably the most drastic alteration.

Not using my headphones, anyway. Haven't tried listening with my speakers.

Anyway, Scene 2 is good. There are a few places where it sounds like Plat is stumbling over the words, but the point gets across.

Scene 3 - yeah, I agree that the reverb makes it difficult to understand the speaker, whether it's Tess or someone else.

Scene 5 - Good work.

Scene 6 - Agreed, lots of variation in the voices, and I can't always understand them.

Scene 39 - I still can't understand anything in the announcement aside from "All agents" and "get your butts down here, now." It goes too fast and there are too many Ss. Esses. Sibilants. {= P Maybe cutting down on the echo effect would help? Also, I did notice that this scene seems to be louder than the others.

As for lines... yeah... um... I haven't been able to find a quiet, roommate-free moment (when I didn't have homework) all year. I still want to do it, though. *sorrowful kitty face*

~Neshomeh

There are a lot of these, and this is one of the worst. Can I take it if no one else wants it?

That word expresses my opinion on that fic in one anguished scream. Quite.

Backtrack to the past
a story in which Luke Leia and Han get thrown back in time by the force. warning this was written when i first woke up enjoy no bad reviews plz i know i'm not a talented writer so lets just leave it at that :P


Severely OOC. That's all I have to say about it.

I still haven't recorded my lines, due to college eating my time/brain. I will do it as soon as I a) find my headset/'borrow' my brother's and b) manage to get some quiet time where you won't hear either my brother's fake Scottish accent from the next room or my brother's music.

Unfortunately I have given up my only guaranteed quiet time in preference of going into college on that day to get work done in an environment where I can get assistance where necessary.

Yeah, I think what tore it for Trojie did the same for me. WTF indeed... well, a good mission from you guys, I think I need to give my brain a dousing.

Or four.

I had no clue about a lot of the canonical elements but you made this fun to read nonetheless, so as far as I'm concered you've done a great job :).

Me: Brass bra? Doesn't brass turn skin green?
Him: HAHAHAHAHA! So she would have green- (gestures)
Me: Yes. (snickers)
I love my costume jewelry, so I tend to have green fingers, wrists, and ankles.
It's still hilarious.

I haven't the foggiest what the continuum even is, let alone anything about it, but that was nonetheless very enjoyable, and all made sense.

Spotted one tiny punctuation mistake: "“Jade’s not ‘old-looking,’ if the official data ..." - that comma after old-looking should be after the quotation mark too.

The centre-justification was a nice touch, and excellent use of agent-stuck-in-first-person.

Oh, and if you want to finish three or four missions at once, the trick is to find really short, really horrible ones. The more horrible the better, because ideally you want "so bad you can only write a sentence at a time before running off to a different mission". Thus you get to write many at once, although admittedly the downside is severe brain breakage.

On reading over the collected roleplay, I noticed that Morgan's partner's name has been misspelled on the two occasions she's mentioned. She should be Traf, not Tarff, and I'm not sure how that happened, since I know I would've noticed if July's reply had had that incorrect version. Anyway, I don't know if that's carried over into your scripts. It's not a big problem (and to be honest no one other than me will notice :P) but, yeah.

hS, helpfully annoying

The thing about a good PPC mission is that you can enjoy it without knowing the canon. What's an Oracle Knight? Where's Malkuth? What do ligers have to do with this fandom? I haven't the faintest idea, but it's still fun to read. So good mission. Very enjoyable.

I need more synonyms.

hS

I thought you wouldn't. :P

They're very quiet. For scene 2 I had to have my headphones on and volume to maximum, and that was about the volume I'd expect it to be at normal level. So you'll definitely need to up the volume when you finalise them. Other than that, the intro's good. Very ominous. :P

Scene 3, a bit louder (good). Obviously the tracks need fiddling a bit, as you say (might I recommend you pay particular attention to the slight click on and off on each clip? A very brief fade effect might help with that, or if you can find a static removing function that'd be even better). At the moment my ears are too busy adjusting to the sudden background hiss to understand much of what Tess is saying. And. Er. The third voice later is either Tess with a reverb on or a Flower. I can't tell which, and I can't actually make out anything it says. So. Yeah.

Scene 5 is great, and I don't just say that because I wrote it. :P Obviously some of that is the fact that it's a single microphone not having to change, but it's at a decent volume and I can understand it. It's rather spooky without context, but that comes later.

Scene 6: decent volume, I can understand most of it, but there's a lot of variation in how the voices sound. Not so much a problem when you've got visuals, but at the moment it sounds like there's about five people there. And, again, the differing background noises leave that slight delay in understanding.

As a note on that, you could try adding a single background noise to the entire scene (air conditioning or something :P), and then including a slight (quarter second, even) fade at the beginning and end of each line. That'd make the backgrounds less noticable, and might facilitate understanding.

Ah, if only audio editing was as easy as fiddling with pictures...

Scene 39 I've heard before, but somehow sounds better now. Not sure whether you've edited or not. It still has slight clicks at the end of lines, but a bit of background noise (which is basically required for the Tomb) will mask that perfectly. And I can understand the Flower, too. So I have only good things to say about that scene. And it makes the problems I noted with the previous ones look likely to go byebye. So good. ;)

I'd offer my help for editing the audio here, but I suspect you've got it pretty much in hand. If you do need me to help out, though, well, you know where I am.

hS

Not a PG, but I think you need a writing sample.

And acid, just in case fire isn't enough.

I'll do my best to polish them some more before the final cut, but best to remember that this is an amateur effort :)

Unfortunately the average PPCer doesn't have studio-quality microphones, though, it seems :P

Anticlimactic though this is, files can now be found HERE:

http://www.box.net/shared/2xbkhkp528

Enjoy, hopefully :)