I bought a new mic and I was making some tests to let my wife finally begin her Delores recordings, as well as testing a bit more @DanielWolf’s new lip sync routine (sorry Daniel, I had lots of stuff to do, I’ll send you the file you asked ASAP). I have also plans to re-record all Ransome, but after we finish a first complete set of sentences so @RonGilbert can begin working on the integration.
We are thinking of some new trailers to publish.
@seguso provided us a Doug that made me laugh to tears, too bad the audio quality wasn’t good enough.
I’m having a hard time accepting that this is nevertheless a fan project with amateur equipment. Next time (if we ever get to doing another similar project) I’ll try a kickstarter to have funds for equipment or to rent a room in a recording studio.
It’s a Neewer NW-800. It’s a low-cost solution, the quality isn’t wonderful, but for the price it’s really worth it. I bought a bundle with mic, pop filter, “arm” and phantom power source for less than 50 euro.
Again, it might not be a wonderful mic, but it allows me to record at home without reverb. It would probably work better if I had also a better sound card, I suppose. The reviews online were good, but were all done by people who had lots of equipment to plug that thing in not just a laptop mic entrance. In fact, I needed an external USB sound card (12 euro) to have better signal to noise ratio, but it seems it’s not needed if you have a desktop computer and plug the mic directly to the motherboard.
But again: I’m just an amateur. I’ll buy better equipment if I ever need to do more voice stuff (which I hope but that’s another topic).
Quiet, please. May I have your attention for a moment, dear Ladies and Gentlemen? I have an announcement for you:
This morning I re-recorded 50 lines of Franklin which were lost due to a corrupt file, and… I realized we now have 100% of the male characters lines recorded!! *
* without considering the characters of the three devs, who have 6 lines each
This doesn’t mean they’re done. We are still cutting files. And some recordings must be redone, but -you know- this is another important milestone to fulfill our deadline of providing @RonGilbert a full (yet rough) set of lines for the game within the end of the year.
We’re working to complete the female characters. We still have to do Natalie, Sandy, and part of Delores. The rest is done.
I literally can’t wait to see the new trailers @Guga is working onto…
After a year from our first attempt to make an italian dubbing of Thimbleweed Park, here we are with a new piece of the dubbed game!
This time, @Guga has made a lot of post-recording work: volume level adjustment, batch programming, lip-syncing (thanks to @DanielWolf for his help and support).
In this clip, you can hear @Guga starring Ransome the *beeping* clown and Elwood Brown (not on this forum) starring George the postal worker!
I’m very happy with 1) the quality of my new mic and 2) how the volumes turnes out, since the original files had very different levels and I managed to automate the process.
I still have to provide @DanielWolf a more extensive feedback on his new lip sync routine. I have found another sentence that works strange, George’s penultimate one has no mouth movements. Which is cool in the vid because it sounds and looks more menacing, but that is definitely something that needs to be looked into. Daniel, I’ll send you the file and log tomorrow now I’m already in bed
not just a laptop mic entrance. In fact, I needed an external USB sound card (12 euro) to have better signal to noise ratio, but it seems it’s not needed if you have a desktop computer and plug the mic directly to the motherboard.
now I’m already in bed