okay. Love your wonderful masculine, country style rendering.sasha wrote: ↑March 23rd, 2021, 1:29 pmI've been recording mine today. My first take was way too fast - like I was playing a tenor sax solo in my head. It was also way too loud - the mics were cranked all the way up for capturing bird calls. So I had to make a few level checks before I got the volume down to about the same as yours. I also stumble, trip over words, inhale at the wrong time, and generally have a lot of false starts, all of which will have to be edited out. I've got to take a break for PT and to check the dryness of the laundry on the line, but I'm getting there!
Re-the thigh slaps - they were loudest & most intrusive at the beginning, but as you got into the rhythm, became nearly unnoticeable by the end. Any musical accompaniment I add will mask them further, so if I take your lines from the 2nd half of the poem, there shouldn't be a problem.
Just for laughs, here's a snippet from one of my level checks:
TASCAM_0284.mp3
Oh, I forgot to add - if any of you other contributors have a particular preference for your rendering of a particular group of lines, don't hesitate to let me know which, and I'll give them priority.
well done