The Audacity!

Today I’ve been playing with Audacity, a free audio recording and editing software that doesn’t just meet expectations, but obliterates them. It is surprisingly simple to use and even without filters or tweeking results in recordings of acceptable quality. I haven’t tried out all the different options and effects yet, but regardless it does what I got it for, and does it above what I had dared to expect of it.

So why am I telling you this?

Because what I got this software for is to record my voice… as I read parts of my work to you. I have done recordings for audiobooks before, so why not do the same for my own stories? Snippets, scenes, chapters, entire books – it’s all possible!

But let’s start small: Today I have made a try-out recording of me reading a scene from the upcoming “The Kalbrandt Institute Archives”. It’s short, just over 2,5 minutes, but after I sent it out for a test drive this afternoon, I got a lot of enthusiastic responses within the hour. Hopefully that means I’ve done something right!