Hi! Since it helps to spit out what you've learned, I thought I'd sum up tonight's meeting. Maybe you all have the same questions and takeaways I have? Takeaways: Public domain short stories are great for practice. Hard = bad; soft = good. Start where you are. Use what you're comfortable with. It doesn't have to be pretty; it just needs to sound good. Record on your phone in different spaces in order to hear how the sound is different. Jeremy has great settings for his voice and is going to share his Audacity stuff in the future. Thank you! Use what's free to get a feel for what's out there, and then you'll know what you're looking for and if you even need something else. Dynamic mics focus on your voice and ignore the background; cardioid mics pick up mosquitos in the room but sound great in a studio. Turn down the gain knob when singing or doing a louder character. Work on mini projects as you can to get started. Questions: How do I approach content creation so that I don't just become driven to create more of whatever gets easy likes? How do I figure out what EQ settings work for my voice? (Jeremy, help.) Do you have suggestions for a good filing system for keeping track of files on the computer? (I know we learned this at Guild, but repetition helps us learn!) What is ACF standard? Can you tell I'm a teacher? :-D Blackie Bear and Champ were listening in. They say hello. And they want to know if next time we'll have cookies.

This is a little something I recorded in my "studio" the other day, as part of my continuing sound tests. Thought I might as well do something I could post at some point. The initial recording was a little too quiet, so I Normalized it in Audacity to -3.00 db. (I didn't notice any clipping). So hopefully it sounds alright.