It’s been a little hard to take people seriously when they complimented my voice.. but recently, when a bunch of complete strangers started making comments, it got my attention.
One of the many, many tricks I use to try to sleep at night is to listen to bedtime stories for grown ups. And some of the readers are good… and some… aren’t. They may flatten their tone so much as to be clipped (Just Sleep podcast) or have go for a kind of drone (Sleep Cove). And, me being me, I mutter to myself as I’m drifting off that I would do it different.
Do you start to see how I suddenly had the idea to record some Bob Ross style soft readings? And of my own stuff that I either haven’t published or reserved the rights to… well, it just all came together with more reasons TO do it than to NOT do it.
I chatted with a co worker who does some sound engineering on the side, and settled on a Yeti X mike.
And then it was delivered! And I was sick, lost my voice, and sighed a lot, staring crankily at the box. But, even for me, illnesses pass, albeit much slower than I wanted it to, and I was able to record a quick seven minute short, and slip into a video file and get it uploaded.
The next morning, I was going into my office to work, and logged into both computers. Because YouTube is stupid, it started autoplaying the recording.
The voice I heard sounded NOTHING like what I hear when I talk… it sounded warm and smooth and personable. And if you know me, that’s not me. It honestly freaked me out more than a little bit. So I decided it was allllllll because of the magic microphone.
Shoosh, it helps me not feel any weirder than I already do, which is pretty damn weird. It also made me feel better that I sent the clip to my ex-husband, and HE couldn’t tell it was me either.
Vindication.
In any case, since I don’t seem to sound awful, and I’m kind of having fun doing it, there’s a new YouTube channel with bedtime stories for grown ups. I’d like to record at least one new one a week… and it may be my stuff, or public domain stuff… we’ll see how it goes. I do have an idea for a new fairy tale that I think would work best if I did it episodically anyway. If any of this sounds interesting, I hope you’ll check out the channel.
Yay for new projects!
Curiouser and Curiouser 