OLD HUB

P.S. I get that you've got limited bandwidth at the moment, so I understand if you can't listen through everything. I may also try a scottish and see how it sounds.

Hi, I am re-submitting our audition for the Nords, this time with a proper mic setup:

https://soundcloud.com/szarles/sets/skywind-audition-for-nords

Thanks.

Szarles

Hi, I am re-submitting our audition for the Nords, this time with a proper mic setup:

https://soundcloud.com/szarles/sets/skywind-audition-for-nords

Thanks.

Both of the voices sound great, but could you please repost this in the Nord Audition thread so Lango doesn't have to wade through 3 pages of comments to find this?  I'm trying to get things a bit better organized than they are currently.

Smitehammer

Both of the voices sound great, but could you please repost this in the Nord Audition thread so Lango doesn't have to wade through 3 pages of comments to find this?  I'm trying to get things a bit better organized than they are currently.

Sure, thanks. Well done with the new threads, definitely a good idea as this one is pretty hard to follow.

Sounds great! people have been telling me I should voice act, but I'm having a hart time trying to tell which characters are already taken.

 

Check the neohub.  It has a link tonthe updated spreadsheet google doc.

Heya ladies! I'm going to be re-doing some of the recordings I did a few months back that have some quality issues. If you take a quick look at the assignment sheet and see a female NPC my name is next to in purple, and you want to give that character a shot in the audition hub, please let me know so I don't re-record stuff you want to try out for. 

 

Voice Assignment Spreadsheet

 

 

OK, I have now been assigned by Langotriel, so here is the link to my recording for Engar Ice-Mane:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jy0eqkyf3vgiosj/Engar-Ice-Mane.zip

I am not sure if it is OK as it is or should still be worked on? ;)

Also, in the quest Engar is a warrior that has been accused of stealing furs from Rigmor Halfhand. When the quest is solved it turns out that Engar's wife and Halfhand had an affair and he was falsely accused.
From what I can see in this recording around 4:40, originally, player could see a dialogue line with Engar about Halfhand:

"I had no quarrel with Halfhand until this day. I thought him a friend to my family, to my wife Risi Ice-Mane, especially. While I was on the hunt, he was known to keep counsel with her and others who remained in the village. And now this from him!"

It sounds like a pretty strong hint, so I just wanted to make sure it was left out intentionally?

@Szrales .. Listening to it now, the S and CH sounds are a little sharp.. the sound in general is not perfect.. if you feel you could do better, then go for it! if not, clear up those sharp sounds (watch my 2nd tutorial on the first post of this thread)

 

Okay, so these are some preliminary recordings created with a mediocre sound device, limited equipment and finite editing. The purpose is to get feedback on the concepts and whether I have the voice to pull off my selected characters. Once I've gotten this, if you guys like the content, I'll invest more time and money into producing higher quality recordings with the proper equipment and more meticulous editing. If you don't like it, it's back to the drawing board!

Demnevanni Concept 1 is the more ambitious and creative of my Demnevanni concepts. If I had to describe it, I'd say that it's the voice of a bastard offspring King Kai and the Adoring Fan. Based it off the content of his conversation and just a desire to make a fun character.

Baladas Demnevanni Concept 2 is the more down-to-earth of my Demnevanni concepts. Pretty standard Dark-Elf type voice. Basically, it's what I thought matched his face.

Dunmer Misc is my attempt at a standard Dunmer making miscellaneous statements: salutations and the such.

VivvicVivvic Concept (with Effects) is my attempt at my favorite character! Again, minimal editing. In my mind the finished product sounds a bit like the child of a Dunmer and Zeratul from starcraft might. For now I upped the bas and put a duplicate with altered pitch in the background. Took like two minutes, but if you like it let me know and I'll endeavor to complete the concept.

Vivvic Concept (no Effects) same thing as the previous but without the duplication/altered pitch. Just putting this up here for your convenience.




 

Eugh, apologies for the lack of activity over a month...

Funeral + College assignments kinda got me bogged down, along with ages spent trying to login here again D:

Last time I was here I failed pretty hard at recreating a voice I'd done the day before... but I'll try to work on them again now that I've time!

Again, apologies D:

I've been assigned Ulgar/Ghost Ulfgar, what do you guys think about this treatment of the Ghost version (living version still needs some cleaning up)

I'm not entirely sure how to 'hand in' completed lines/characters, but I have seen some people posting zip files here before.
If you would like the lines through a different channel, let me know (preferably as a PM as this thread is very active and I might miss it).

Iselilja

I'm not entirely sure how to 'hand in' completed lines/characters, but I have seen some people posting zip files here before.
If you would like the lines through a different channel, let me know (preferably as a PM as this thread is very active and I might miss it).

Please post a copy of this to the Imperial Auditions thread (for reference), and send a copy to Langotriel for quality assurance, and Gigaflare for eventual implementation.

@A game of scones

With the quality of the mic, it is a little hard to tell if the voices are any good at all. You could probably pull off a decent wood elf but to be sure i would need to hear it cleaned up a lot.

@Blazestorm Any character that is going to have effects will get those effects through me. Please raw samples with your FX samples because if we decide to use it, we need to give everyone the same effects for the sake of consistency. For example, all vampires should have the same effect .. we can't just have lots of people randomly slapping on effects because then we get a big mess. Hope you understand ;)

Also, judging sound quality is hard with effects on.. please only add effects as proof of concept..

@Iselilja

Jeg lastet ned filen men den fungerer ikke :/ 

Might be a broken zip archive... try to zip up the files again and reupload :)

@Smitehammer

Suck a bag

@Lang: Okay! Thanks for the feedback. I went ahead and purchased a better mic. When it arrives, I'll start over. 

If you think I could manage a Wood Elf would you mind sending me some of the previously accepted auditions? 

P.S: I'll scour through the list provided at the start of this thread for a specific character, but can you point me to a Wood Elf character with unique dialogue since the misc lines have already been taken?

Is voice acting still disorganized or has it been sorted out?

A Game of Scones

@Lang: Okay! Thanks for the feedback. I went ahead and purchased a better mic. When it arrives, I'll start over. 

If you think I could manage a Wood Elf would you mind sending me some of the previously accepted auditions? 

P.S: I'll scour through the list provided at the start of this thread for a specific character, but can you point me to a Wood Elf character with unique dialogue since the misc lines have already been taken?

Check here for the list of assignments.  Compare to the Excel sheet to find any characters with unique dialogue you may try out for.  Be aware that the Excel currently has some issues that still need to be resolved.

LASentry

Is voice acting still disorganized or has it been sorted out?

Well, the auditions have been more or less sorted out.  Lango and I are better able to see auditions as they show up and we can both assign roles directly to the Google Doc independently.  But as I mentioned in another thread, the Excel sheet itself is host to a myriad of issues: third person references, typos, lack of 'unique' greetings for characters with 'unique' lines of dialogue, and improper file formatting.

So have you guys taken over from Stijmunkey?

Not sure what happened to Stij.  He was having internet problems which I suppose never got fully resolved.

@Langotriel

I tried using WinRar this time. Hopefully that works better.

I recorded everything with the settings that we discussed in the other thread, but I still feel there is a lot of hissing at times.

Iselilja

@Langotriel

I tried using WinRar this time. Hopefully that works better.

I recorded everything with the settings that we discussed in the other thread, but I still feel there is a lot of hissing at times.

It worked that time .. I listened to a few clips and noticed a problem.. you have cut of the beginning and ends of many words.. " e polite" instead of "be polite" .. have you manually cut it off or have you used a noise gate? it should be done manually and you need to not cut it so early.. :P

gogogo! HEIA HEIA!

Alright!
I'll listen through them and re-record the lines where I notice this.

I hope to have the next character done by the end of the week, but it depends on work-hours and such. They can be a bit unpredictable.

In regards to the other thread Lango,

I don't have the most ideal setup to be honest. Right now I'm using a Blue Yeti as recording device, and since this is a USB microphone, it is plugged directly into my PCs motherboard. Which by any means, isn't a bad motherboard, but I guess it generates some noise. Perhaps I should try to get rid of the room noise before I do anything else.

stijmunkeysorry guys . . . after my internet was "fixed" it crapped out a day later! still working on trying to get it going properly, keep up the good work though! ill fully check out the new audition system and do a much needed update as soon as I can! thanks for picking up my slack boys!

Boys? boyssss??

WE ARE MEN OF THE NORTH AND WEST! FREEDOM FIGHTERS! WE BRING EVIL FORCES AND SLACK TO JUSTICE!!! AAARRRGHHH!!

Also: we have google docs now.. updated lists for DAAYYYYYSSSSS...

Settle down, boys, settle down. ;)

 

 

@Langotriel

I made some new recordings with a duvet fortress - don't ask what it looks like, I feel silly recording with it - and did the noise removal a little differently. Please give it a listen.

@Others

Feel free to comment as well :)

Hi,

What sort type of voice are you looking to assign Vivec?

 

Speaking of updated lists, I've submitted Aesliip to Giga already, so if that could be updated to "Completed" that would be awesomesauce.

Cheers.

@Mace

that sounds AWESOME!.. but you could speak a little clearer. Pediful? myselvf? *Pityful & *Myself. Make sure you pronounce things in a way everyone will understand (They should not need subtitles)...

Once you clear up your speech a little, it is pretty much perfect!

*EDIT

Also, make sure you normalize etc.. follow the steps in my second video tutorial. If you are shouting at any particular point, then select parts that are quieter and normalize them separately (I mean huge chunks.. don't nit pick too much).. Hope that makes sense :P

*double post*

Langotriel

@Mace

that sounds AWESOME!.. but you could speak a little clearer. Pediful? myselvf? *Pityful & *Myself. Make sure you pronounce things in a way everyone will understand (They should not need subtitles)...

Once you clear up your speech a little, it is pretty much perfect!

*EDIT

Also, make sure you normalize etc.. follow the steps in my second video tutorial. If you are shouting at any particular point, then select parts that are quieter and normalize them separately (I mean huge chunks.. don't nit pick too much).. Hope that makes sense :P

Definitely makes sense, I'll go a bit more in to details with everything and incorporate the things you talked about, just wanted to run it by you before I proceeded. Before I can record everyone needs to be out of the house, otherwise the noise they make will be caught by the microphone, so bear with me if I'm a bit slow :) Will keep you updated.

Seems the nord accent you want is just beyond what I'm able to pull off. Tried like crazy. Still, applied for other races, and I got some updated stuff here https://soundcloud.com/lunaticked/

If I can be useful, let me know.

So I ordered a new microphone and pop filter but the package was stolen off my porch. >.< Went ahead and ordered ANOTHER and paid for expedited shipping. Should be here tomorrow and I'll start recording right away. 


In the mean time I have a few questions pertaining to a couple things you might want to look at.

Simple one first: Do the assignations under the "Shared/Misc Lines for Races," apply to male vocals, female vocals or both? You guys might consider making two separate blocks: one for the males of each race, one for the females of each race. Also, does this mean that all the misc lines for the assigned races are taken and you're not looking for any more voices to augment that? 

Next, the opening post has Baladas Demnevanni listed as available under the "Main Quest," heading but also lists him as being assigned to JackLankester under the "Male Dunmer," heading. You guys might want to correct this, but in the mean time should I bother auditioning for Baladas Demnevanni? 

Finally, when there's a conflict between the Google Spreadsheet for voice assignations and the opening post, which should I defer to? Or should I query on each specific contradiction? For example, Tholer Sayoni shows as available under the "Main Quest," heading in the opening post of this thread. The Google Spreadsheet says he's not only assigned, but completed!

 

 

 

The Google doc is the updated one. Langotriel and myself have been updating that as we go.  We have no way to keep the first post in this thread updated, which was one of the main reasons behind making the Google doc and the new hub/audition layout.

I've never heard of Jack Whatshisname, so he probably done runned off n' junk.  So feel free to audition for the part.  At the least your audition will give us a good place to start in finding a character that best fits your voice.

We're not bothering splitting the audition threads on sex and race, since we're not exactly swamped with female auditions even at the best of times.

Hey peeps

Love the work you guys are doing on this, ive been following it since i heard about it years ago.

Anyways i thought i would try out the newest release of Morroblivion with the voice acting, (ive done it before so i know what im doing) however i noticed that the voice acting is not working, both the old release and the new one, i have the necessary files enabled in Oblivion Mod Manager to no avail, i even changed the load order.

Oblivion is installed patched to the latest version including all expansions.

Same as above for Morrowind

Got OBSE and the unnofficial patch installed with the silent voice mod, everything is on a fresh install of all the games and mods. I have installed the sound folder in the data folder of my oblivion install and the mod file as well.

i have also included my load order if anybody wants to take a look.

Can Anybody help please?

 

Lango- How's this sample sounding? I'm currently taking advantage of a mild respiratory infection to aid in the coughs for the dying lines. How's the accent here? Any corrections needed?

BlazeStorm

Lango- How's this sample sounding? I'm currently taking advantage of a mild respiratory infection to aid in the coughs for the dying lines. How's the accent here? Any corrections needed?

I like it :) Accent is good ..you are rolling Rs.. you sound 500 years old (kinda :P ).. Good enough for me

dont turn away from the microphone when you cough.. because we can't animate that in game so it will be weird to hear the coughing get quiet all of the sudden. If you are worried about peaking, try and control the cough more.. or perhaps cough to the side of the mic.. whatever works.

Listen to around 1:50 .. listen again.. and again. There is sound there that should not be there.. might be air from your breath or waving arms around.. i don't know. But try to avoid that.

Overall it is pretty good :) Well done! Get to work!!! (record it all in one sitting so that it is consistent).

Yeah, I heard that bit, I don't know what it was, maybe my sleeve on the edge of the table. 

OK, great, I'll keep going and try to get a clean sample.

Hi guys! I'm just giving an update so you don't think I've abandoned my project. I've been editing my voice files for Edryno Arethi and Kjolver, but I was having an issue with exploding sibilants in a few of the tracks and it was driving me crazy. I've just come across a plug-in for Audacity that I'm going to try out, so hopefully that will help resolve the problem. I've already re-recorded a couple of times and I don't know if I'm being too picky about my files, but this is my first time doing this so I hope you can bear with me.  [External image]

I'm sure it will be great! :D

Out of curiosity, i did a little digging and found a few lines of Vivec's dialog. they sound rather... odd, ostensibly because he had reached Chim. I'm not totally sure of the validity of the video so keep that in mind. The author claims that they came from the data files.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnW2vJoOIUo

I just wanted to know how you wanted Vivec to sound. (My apologies if this was previously discussed)

Hey, guys! So would it be weird to have a pronunciation thread or something? I can't seem to get "Hortator" to roll off the tongue, and is Almsivi said Almseeeeeevi or Almsihvi? :P

Almsivi is a combo of Almalexia, Sotha Sil, and Vicec.  So Alm (alms for the poor), si (as in sil or window sill), and vi as in... Vivec?  Short I not like vitality or vitamin.  Maybe the British vitamin?  Or video - that has a short I.  

A hortator is one who exhorts action, so hort from exhort, and ator like orator.  Put primary stress on the Hort.

Sotha Seal?  I always said it with a 'short' i.

Hello, i posted an audition in the dark elf audition area, how does one know the opinions or status on approval of a submission if there is no posting other than auditions themselves?
Sorry, i'm fairly new here :P

Sirbab: I don't know who's QC-ing Dunmer at the moment (Smitehammer maybe?), but I'd just wait for one of those guys to listen, I think Stijmunkey, Smitehammer & Langotriel are doing most of the work on those things at the moment.