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EDIT: We have all the parts cast and lines recorded, so it's safe to say auditions are over.

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It's time for more Smitemasters' Selection Voice Auditions!

The upcoming hold has a lot of dialogue and people in it, since it's intended to flesh out the story a bit more and prepare us for DROD: The Second Sky. So there's going to be a plot! Beethro has finally reached the City again and is trying to learn more about the Grand Event and what he can do about it.

Since there are still some details to keep secret, I'm only going to post some characters and some lines, and the Caravel Team and I will be shoulder-tapping people in a similar manner as happened for previous SmSs.

This post contains some sample lines to give you all something to work with. Feel free to audition for one or multiple characters.

This topic header has some tips by mrimer about the kind of voice recordings we're after.

Post your audition files in this thread.

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Here's most of the roles we're looking for:

Gossipers (2 or 3)
Citizens (2 or 3)
Chemist
Guards (2 or 3)
Guard Captain
Slayer
Aumtlich

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So, if you're the least bit adventurous or confident, step right up and give your best shot at a recording.

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03-06-2011 at 04:54 PM
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If I can find my microphone tomorrow I might have a go at this. Is there a deadline for voice submissions?
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MHighbrow wrote:
Is there a deadline for voice submissions?

I don't know.

Maybe mrimer can give a timetable or something. I'm personally hoping that we can shoulder-tap all the voice actors we need within the month as a conservative but reasonable estimate, or by the middle of April as a very late estimate.

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I may give this a shot. Though sadly, while I do have access to a recording studio these days, it probably won't help the terribleness of my voice. :P

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gamer_extreme... it doesn't matter if the voice is terrible or not. All you really need is for your voice to have a character of its own.
Take those guys with the really high voices who do the Chipmunks. :D

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I like fame and fortune: I'm in! I recorded everyone except Beethro here, and if I picked a voice for one part that's good for another I have no problem juggling them around. All one take, all uncompressed .wav (roughly 56MB) to make it easier to work with. I also left in a bunch of pre and post audio for filter purposes if required. There's one plosive that I know about, so let me know if you want to use that particular voice and I'll rerecord it without the plosive; I'm actually working right now and just wanted to get this out the door quickly.

Edit: the file didn't attach, probably because it was too big. Here's an mp3 of it instead, and I'll provide the .wav if necesary.

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I'm game. Saw this in the newsletter though I've not been into the forums for quite some time. Been a DROD fan since I found a copy on a laptop that has since bit the dust. Great puzzler.

As the above poster said, this is one take for me, voices can be interchanged.
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I've tried three roles here: Aumtlich, Chemist, and Gossiper. The squeaky narration identifies each, since, like the others so far, it was all done in one shot. As always, any tone, rate, etc. could be applied to any character.

EDIT: I removed this attachment because it is outdated. Some far better work is attached to my next post.

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I like plots. Plots are good - but only if they're actually good, otherwise they're bad and I don't like them.

And no, I don't actually know how to use Audacity, how'd you guess?

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Well, here's three sets of voices that I've done so far. After trying to use Sonar to do it, I found that it doesn't know how to handle a USB microphone (which explains why I still had a sound card installed in my old computer). Ended up using Audacity.
I only did one voice in each conversation, just to keep them straight.
I'll post a Part 2 once I find some more lines to read.

Now I just need to figure out what to sing, because everybody always tells me I have a really good singing voice.
(Guess I could sing "Don't Name Your Sword" :-)

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I picked up Audacity and a much better microphone (and practiced my voices more). The recordings attached here are an enormous improvement over my prior audition, in my opinion. This time I did it with the sound quality settings Caravel asks for, though I did convert them to ogg files to save space. I've included the guards this time, as well.

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Some Notes:

If you have been shoulder tapped before, and have access to the special board, you can do auditions there as well.

Shoulder tapping will start hopefully in a couple of days, so there's still time to post them.


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Well, here's my entry! I love the games and as a voice actor I'd love to be a part of them that way too.

Many thanks!

David Ault
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I'm going to submit my audition as soon as I find a microphone that doesn't have static more than half the volume of the recording...
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Someone Else wrote:
I'm going to submit my audition as soon as I find a microphone that doesn't have static more than half the volume of the recording...
You might already know this, but if you have a "Microphone Boost" setting enabled on your system's mixer settings, disabling it will cut that static a good deal.

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Hmm...

But no, it looks like it's my microphone. I should be able to get a better one tomorrow.
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I'm in! Okay, you can hear me clicking in these recordings, and there's a little background noise, but that's not gonna happen in the final recordings if I get picked. I have a terrible, annoying voice (everyone else disagrees but when I hear myself recorded, I want to kill myself for ever opening my mouth) but I think I did a pretty good job with the gossipers and aumtlich. What do you guys think of my Scottish accent?
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I'm auditioning for Beethro with a similar voice to my 1st Slayer voice, but different. I hope they're not so short of good voices that they end up picking me! :P

EDIT: AAAAAAAGH! :fear I just said I was auditioning for Beethro (I just saw the link) and as it turns out, the whole thing's over and it was all in 2008, before I even joined the forum! SO EMBARRASSING!!! :blush

EDIT2: Really, I can't stress how embarrassed I am enough! It can't be described in words!!!

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Ah, don't worry about it, Rat Man. The main point here is to have fun doing something you enjoy.

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Thanks, Mike! I'd mod you up but I don't want to mod anyone up until I get my fourth mod point. :?

So I'll mod you up as soon as I get it. :)

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I got that mod point and modded you up a while ago. :thumbsup

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Oh, boy! I wanna be the Guard Captain1

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Hear this!

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Hear This!

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Gossiper 3

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amadan wrote:
Well, here's my entry! I love the games and as a voice actor I'd love to be a part of them that way too.

Excellent voices David, and good sound quality too. What kind of a setup do you use?

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Scary?

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Sounds like the french guy in the Simpsons. :thumbsup

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Stop right there!

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DiMono wrote:
I like fame and fortune: I'm in!
I just realized that I put the file under a CC license, when that might be restricting my voices from being chosen. So if that's an issue, let me know and I'll repost the file with a public domain license.

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DiMono wrote:
I just realized that I put the file under a CC license, when that might be restricting my voices from being chosen. So if that's an issue, let me know and I'll repost the file with a public domain license.
Even 'all rights reserved' shouldn't matter at this point -- it's the licensing of the final recordings that matters, and Caravel can figure that out with the people they shoulder-tap.
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Random: I added the thread to my email watch list, and when you posted your reply (thanks, by the way) the link in the email was to forum2.caravelgames.com. forum2 rather than forum. Has anyone else experienced this when getting notified of posts in this thread?

I know this isn't a bug reporting thread, but other threads are giving me working links, it's just this one that's given me a dead one. So I put the question here.

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