dS - An Admirable Solution, by Speranza, read by crinklysolution

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Title:  An Admirable Solution 
Written by:  Speranza
Read by:  crinklysolution with song fragments sung by luzula
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Ray K /Fraser
Rating:  NC-17
Length: 2:52:03
Download from mediafire:  mp3, m4b

Excerpt:  Ray was a sucker for pizza, and so it was over a large half-pineapple, half-extra cheese pizza at Mama Carmela's that Fraser suddenly looked up and said, "We've been friends for some time now, haven't we, Ray?"
Ray had, at that moment, brought a slice of pizza halfway to his mouth, but he'd been married for fifteen years and he knew an important relationship-conversation-opener when he heard one, so he put the pizza down. "Yeah, Fraser. We sure have."
Fraser nodded, like Ray was just confirming something he'd already suspected. "And while we haven't always seen eye to eye on things, it's certainly safe to say that we've established a rapport, right?"
"Right," Ray agreed, and joined Fraser in a hearty round of nodding.  "We are just chock full of rapport, you and me."

Reader’s notes:  I would like to thank luzula for her generous and talented contribution of the singing bits, and also my heartfelt thanks go out to izzady for her thoughtful and very helpful beta of this podfic.  Also, comments are always very welcome, love to hear what you think of this...

Music credits:
Won’t You Come to Me in Canada? (unknown)
The Wreck of the Green Cove (words and music by Stanley G. Triggs)

Comments

[luzula]

Eeee! I am so looking forward to listening to it! Which, in practice, means that I am going to save it up like candy and then listen to it when I really need something good.

[crinklysolution.livejournal.com]

Understood! Thanks again, your singing definitely added to the quality of the podfic for me....

[circlette.livejournal.com]

I've never even watched Due South, but your description made this fic sound fantastic, and I was not disappointed. Looking forward to listening to your podfic now!

[crinklysolution.livejournal.com]

Wow, words can't convey how happy your comment made me - that's so cool that you would try this out without any prior knowledge of due South....thanks for commenting, and hope you enjoy it!

[circlette.livejournal.com]

I've found amplificathon to be a great way to find new fic to try--if a story was good enough for someone to spend hours and hours podfic'ing, that's a pretty strong recommendation. :o)

I finally got a chance to listen to your reading! It was really well done--I especially loved your smug Ray voice. Also impressed that you went to the trouble to get someone to sing the songs so prettily!

[crinklysolution.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for your comment, it made my day! You are actually the first person (apart from my lovely and very thorough beta izzady) to give me feedback on the finished podfic, so your taking the time to come back and let me know you liked it and why is especially welcome. I'm glad you thought the singing was well done - personally I can't carry a tune in a bucket, but luzula is not only a talented podficcer, she can sing beautifully and she actually had the sheet music, so that was very kind of her. Thanks again!

[circlette.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about feedback! It's hard to know what you're doing right and wrong when all people will say is "OMG HEARTEYES" or something :o) Not that that isn't nice in its own way...

The recording itself was great--no background noise or popping on your p's (something I still have to work on). If I had to give one critique, it's that every so often it was hard to tell who was speaking, if both Ray and Fraser were speaking in the same tone of voice and there were no dialog tags--in the conversation about hockey, for instance. It didn't come up very much, though!

[crinklysolution.livejournal.com]

Cool, it is great to hear that there are things I can improve on, and yes, it is hard to know what to improve on if people just tell you that they liked what you did. (Though that is always welcome, too!) I didn't know you were a fellow podficcer, that is awesome! I just went to your journal and downloaded Neal Caffrey vs. The BBC, that looks delightful and I will be sure to leave you some feedback after I get a chance to hear it. As for the popping on the p's, I used to have problems with that, but found if you use a wind screen or microphone cover or just tip the microphone slightly away from you when you're pronouncing those words that pop, it helps a lot. I think that the next time I record something I will put a bit more time into the differentiation between voices. It's good feedback and I'm happy to have it - some characters are easier to do that with than others, don't want to tip the line between differentiation into campiness... I tried something with that particular piece about the hockey, which was to record each character's dialog separately and edit them together, but maybe even more would work even better... Thanks again!

[circlette.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I wouldn't call myself a podficcer yet--I'm still such a newbie! I'm working on my second one now, and while the sound quality is a lot better since I'm using a real microphone this time, I'm still have trouble with my plosives popping--so thank you for the tips!

[daraq.livejournal.com]

This is going to be fun! Downloading the m4b, thanks.

[crinklysolution.livejournal.com]

You are most welcome, thanks for commenting.

[dodificus.livejournal.com]

My favourite part of your reading was this tiny dreamy stream of consciousness from Ray at one point, I forget what he was saying but you sounded half sleepy half drugged and it was awesome:)

[crinklysolution.livejournal.com]

Dodi, you are always the best at picking out the part that when I'm recording it I always think: "Well, here goes nuthin', I hope I don't sound like an idiot!" and letting me know you liked it, which is so very rewarding. Personally, I like the stuff where I take a risk, it makes me happy to test the edges, but it is GREAT to hear that you liked this, and I very much appreciate your kind words and encouragement. This was one of my favorite things I've yet recorded...glad I could share it with you!