I’d certainly like to give a collaboration a go. I don’t have any sound effects CDs, and I have a pretty crappy microphone, but we can see what can be done. I, too, can’t do multiplie voices for crap — especially female ones, since my voice (and yours and Reaper’s too, for that matter) is too deep to vocalize a convincing female voice; I can only really do a screechy falsetto that’s not very convincing.

And I’d definitely like to hear an MP3 of the “Space Stories 2005″; email me a link or something so I can download and listen to it.

Ha, the Genia crew. They’d be good guest stars as well, if that would make any kind of sense. Speaking of them, last year I made a modern-day Genia recording, mostly as a proof of concept for sound effect insertion in post-production. In the ’80s we obviously didn’t have fancy digital audio editing on our home computers (and analog mixing gear cost megabucks), so I’d have to cue up all my sound effects, music and ambience in real-time, usually by stacking record players, CD players and tape decks knee-deep in my room. It was like the proverbial plate spinning act, making sure everything was cued up and ready to go when I needed it. Most of the time it was, but occasionally I’d miss and you’d hear a record needle SKRRAAATTCHH or me jockeying with the transport controls on a tape deck trying to get to the right spot on the accursed thing, ha.

By contrast, “Genia 17 Space Stories 2005″ was originally nothing but dialog recorded with a minidisc recorder. I then imported the spoken-word stuff and added everything else — ambient sounds, hard effects, foley and even dynamics processing to simulate rooms, corridors and large spaces. The actual “show” is about absolutely nothing and is mostly just a running string of gags and dumb stuff, but IMHO it sounds so damn cool. Particularly the fight scene in sickbay, hee hee. As usual I have no talent for doing multiple distinct voices, but it’s funny anyway.

I can send you an MP3 of it if you’re interested in hearing it, although I make no guarantees as to the quality of the humor or anything else.

Edit: Wow, there is something really wrong with the comment editing functionality all of a sudden. That’s very odd. Edit 2: Nevermind, fixed it. The Wordpress people introduced a bug in the latest version…jeeze.

For me, the most fun part of audio recording is making fake commercials and the like — like the stuff I wrote for “The French Revolution” History project in high school and that aborted attempt at making a radio station for GTAIII (or was it Vice City?).

Of course, with your massive library of sound effects, it’s all the better.

Hehehehe, maybe I’ll invite the Knight Enforcers on as guest stars. That should be fun…

Knight Enforcers.

KNIGHT ENFORCERS!!!