Archangel: Legion Ep. 3

Welcome to Episode 3 of Legion. Will Matt find his friends?

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Music in this episode from:
Sidfaiwu
Kent Gustavson

Scott Roche as Matt York
John Wilkerson as Pastor Ben Cain
Jen Avila as Sara McDowell
Thomas Reed as Chief DeWitt
and Keith Latch as Sgt. Andy Nixon

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  1. Jesus Geek » Blog Archive » Guest Appearance in Archangel says:
    October 13, 2008 at 10:43 am

    [...] out my performance in Scott Roche’s audio novel Archangel: Legion, Episode 3. I play Pastor Ben Cain. I like that name, it sounds like a character out of [...]

  2. sidfaiwu says:
    October 14, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Hey! Noise is tamed. The recording is a much better quality. What did you do different?

    There are some amplitude issues now. It doesn’t effect the quality as much as the noise did. The most common cause of that is not keeping your distance from the mic consistent and/or changing the direction you speak. There could be other causes. Question: did you reduce the noise after you set the volume levels?

    I love how you decided to handle Matt’s “taking stock” of the situation. The setting and his realizations were perfect and believable. It may not be his in his character, but I’d like to have heard the guilt he must feel written about more explicitly.

    But over all, I think your writing has improved quite a bit with Legion. Keep up the great work.

  3. Scott says:
    October 14, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    I’ve been playing more with Noise Reduction. I think the amplitude came from me being inconsistent with distance from the mic. Levelator did some funky things with that and I had to do some manual tweaking. I reduced noise after Levelator had a go so that NR could handle artifacts created by leveling.

    And re: Matt and guilt, I think you’ll get more of that. He carries more than his share.

    Thanks for the compliment on my writing. I hope it’s improving. Gotta buckle down this week and get more text cranked out.

  4. sidfaiwu says:
    October 14, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    My guess is that if you NR before Leveling you may get better results. Audacity’s NR uses frequency-specific gating. Thus it sets the volume for which the gate opens based on the noise sample you select. It expects noise at the same volume throughout the audio track. Leveling changes the volumes for not only the voices, but also the noise. If the noise has been filtered out first, it shouldn’t be present at higher volumes either.

    Here’s my typical effects path for voice: NR -> EQ -> special effects (if desired) -> normalize -> compression/limiting

    My guess is that Levelator is a fancy combo of normalizer-compressor-limiter.

    If there are multiple voices, as there are in audio dramas, I would perform these steps separately to each part making sure the noise sample I use is from the voice part I’m applying the reduction to. I would then hand-adjust the volumes of each voice part if necessary (usually not needed if the last two steps are performed correctly). I would then apply EQ (perhaps) and more compression (definitely) to the mix-down.

    Have you tried using Levelator separately on each voice and again on the mix-down?

  5. Scott says:
    October 14, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    I haven’t tried that. Sounds like it might be worth it.

    “My guess is that Levelator is a fancy combo of normalizer-compressor-limiter.”

    I’m not sure if it compresses, but it probably does. I’ve been happy with the results.

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