due South podfic: This is a Story That I Tell Myself, by Spuffyduds

[luzula]

So, have another podfic!

Title: This is a Story That I Tell Myself
Author: Spuffyduds
Rating: R
Fandom: due South, Fraser/Kowalski
Read by: Luzula
Format: mp3, 22 mb, 24.06 minutes
Download: at Sendspace. ETA: also at jinjurly's podfic archive: right click and download.
Notes: Thank you, yet again, to zabira, who metaphorically held my hand and corrected my pronunciation of a couple of words. Also thank you to spuffyduds who lets us record her wonderful stories. This story made a deep impression on me, and I really admire the way Spuffy took the sledding-into-the-sunrise ending of CotW and turned it into this painful yet so beautiful story. Yeah, and a warning: this is angsty. Feedback on my reading is very welcome.

Comments

[akamine_chan]

Holiday stuff swallowed my free time, so I didn't get around to listening until now.

What a cute accent you have. (Sorry, couldn't resist. And it is cute.)

You did a wonderful job with the story. I really enjoyed it. My only critique is that there's a persistent muffled squeak in the background that distracted me a little. It was noticeable to me 'cause I have the fancy noise-canceling earbuds...it might not be so noticeable if you're just listening at the computer, without headphones...

Anyway, I did enjoy it tremendously. Thanks for your hard work...

[luzula]

Thank you so much for commenting back, I really appreciate that, since I'm new at the podficcing.

Cute accent, huh? : ) Well, I'm Swedish, but spent two years in Seattle as a child, so I'm sure my accent is a mish-mash of different influences.

Hmm, I'm aware that I don't have the best recording equipment. Actually, I record with my iRiver mp3-player, which has a decent microphone for being an mp3-player. Then I used the noise-removal on Audacity to get rid of most of the noise. I could've removed more, but that distorted the voice a bit. So it was kind of a trade-off. If it bothered you, I'll see if I can remove a little more on the stuff I'm doing next...

[akamine_chan]

Oh, that explains it. The accent wasn't completely Scandinavian, but I couldn't figure out what the other influences were...

If it bothered you, I'll see if I can remove a little more on the stuff I'm doing next...

Nah, it was a little distracting at first, but then my mind just filtered it out. I just figured you'd want to know, so if you decided to do more recording (yes, please!) you might think about the ways to get rid of the squeak and/or other background noise...