Crusade is COMPLETE!

Greg Crites’ second podiobook, Crusade, is now complete. Rumor has it he’s going to re-release improved audio in the future, but plenty have enjoyed it as-is. You decide.





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4 Responses to “Crusade is COMPLETE!”

  1. Gail Says:
    June 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    If all Greg has to do is run the episodes through Levelator, then we are only 22 cheese sandwiches away from a new and improved Crusade.

  2. Jersey Todd Says:
    June 14th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    Leave it alone. Its fantastic just the way it is. Bravo.

  3. Evo Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    You’re not helping, Todd. Greg has discovered the magic of The Levelator. So the episodes will have the exact same content, but at an even volume for those pesky people like me.

  4. Greg Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 6:15 am

    Hey, Todd, glad you liked my book, even loud and obnoxious as it is (and thanks for the great plug). Greg

    There are probably a variety of doodads you can hook together to regulate volume as it is being recorded, like in a studio. You know, a bunch of boxes with flashing lights, sliders, knobs, guages, gimcrackery… Man, Sigler sounds so good I imagine him as recording from the Captain’s chair in the Starship Enterprise.

    Me, I’m perched on a beat up bar stool, with a fifty-dollar mic, a five dollar mic stand found at a yard sale, a bottle of Captain Morgan in a tub of ice, and an Imac. I get excited and being naturally loud, my crap just enters the upper-reaches of the ‘Loud Zone’. The Levelator is sort of a generic EQ/Peak Limiter thingamabob, and it reduces some of the boisterousness of the recording, but more importantly, it stops the incessant listener whining. I mean, geez, put a tourniquet on yer ear and walk it off.

    Just joking, don’t start flamin’ me; I’m a writer, I’ll suck you into the vortex of verbal humiliation. That said, it takes me six-eight weeks to write 70,000 words. It takes the reader 6-8 hours to read those words, so if I want to maintain my four-book-a-year output, I gotta allocate my time efficiently. I can’t devote an inordinate amount of hours to becoming a sound tech. At best, I can aspire to the level of rank-amateur (emphasis on the rank) Currently I don’t even rate amateur status, so it’s continued OJT until some knowledge rubs off. Plus, I sound like a loud maniac on a rampage and that little light on the computer that indicates ‘clipping’ or whatever it’s called, well, it goes off before I get done with the intro.

    So I’m gonna back away from this recording stuff for a while. See if there is some kinda prescription I can get to calm all that verbal exuberance. Maybe valium? Har!

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