The Totally Unwanted Sleepover (That Ended Up Being Awesome) [Glee]

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Title: The Totally Unwanted Sleepover (That Ended Up Being Awesome)
Author: missgoalie75

Reader: marsmaywander
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Klaine
Rating: PG13

Author’s Summary: Long story short, Finn is forced to stay at home with Kurt and Blaine while Burt and Carole go out. Shenanigans ensue. (Prompt Used: Kurt, Blaine, and Finn have the girliest sleepover.)
Warnings: "language"
Stats: MP3, ~42 min, ~6200 words, ~9.6 mb

Temporary Link: Sendspace, Mediafire

Permanent Link: Pending... (feel free to archive, mods!)
X-Posted to: personal lj, tumblr (with streaming audio), gleepodfic, kurt-blaine
(please comment and let me know if this link goes down or you need a different host; i’ll be more than happy to fix it, no matter how long after posting)

reader ramblings notes: feel free to con/crit! also make sure to leave a review on the original story if you liked it! i just read these stories aloud - missgoalie75 did all the hard work!

also! i’m looking for the next fic to do, so i’d also love comments with suggestions. looking for kurt-centric glee fics that are rated low (non-explicit), and short-to-moderate length (less than 10,000 words, plz).

Comments

[sordid-humors.livejournal.com]

I've never used Audacity, personally. I took one look at it and ran for the hills. It just... looks like the open source freeware of eight years ago (yeah, I'm a software guy). I've been using TrakAx (http://www.trakax.com/software/pc/), which has treated me pretty well so far. It has very good handling for cross-fading and working with multiple audio tracks--which is perfect for me, since I tend to do multiple takes and splice together the best samples.

I think it's the "Silence" button that's killing you. It's better to play the silences in your recording sessions, that way you have something to chop out later without the "hanging up the phone" effect of a total silence. Definitely use headphones when you edit over laptop speakers--you're going to get a superior sound quality. I've been delving into the land of creating my own sound effects (scary stuff, that), as well as accents--British accents, Irish accents, Russian accents, oh my! The deeper you go, the more you're going to be relying on that sound source, either your speakers or headphones, to show you how on-track you are.

Another thing to check is what bit rate Audacity is recording in, and whether you're recording in MP3, WMA, or FLAC. I'm old-school and record in FLAC; then again, I have the hard drive space. The better quality you're recording in, and the higher the quality of your remastered output, the more small details like the silences or background fuzz are going to stick out. It's something I'm currently fighting, so I feel ya. You want enough quality that the nuances of inflection and tone aren't lost... while at the same time, you don't want the fuzzies, the breaths, and the cuts/cross-fades to be apparent. It's a scale we have to balance, I guess.