Well…it took a while to settle in to record this. Several manuscript revisions have gone by. Studio issues. Heat waves. Etc, etc.
But we're finally here! First couple of recording sessions are in the books. Part of the delay, too, was finalizing how the author and myself wanted these damn voices to sound! I've recorded the first few chapters three times now.
- First recordings: We thought the narrator voice--based on my suggestion--should be a cowboy voice, as he were a character in himself, sitting at a campfire telling this story. Unfortunately, I recorded these way too hot, and I knew they'd be unusable.
- Second recordings: Volume was good. My narrator voice was good. A grizzled gunslinger telling a tall tale. UNFORTUNATELY--we both deemed these to be “too much.” The characters in the story have their own accents and their own voices. So we came to the conclusion that the narrator's voice should not interfere with the experience of hearing the actual characters.
- Third recordings: These are what we're going with. Neutral accent on the narrator. The characters themselves have their own accents. El Diablo, the antagonist of sorts--his voice is similar to what I was going for with the Narrator voice. I could hear right away why this would be problematic.
So that's chapters 1-12, plus the title read, prologue, and introduction.
More soon!