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[Poll] I need your thoughts! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-01-20 03:44:20
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2026-06
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[Poll] I need your thoughts!

  • I like background music throughout 10
  • I like background music only during transitions and important scenes 1
  • I like sound effects that accompany the story or piece being read 16
  • I like listening to voice-only narrations 5
  • I like having just the voice to listen to so I can add ambiences myself (rain, fireplace, music, etc) 5
  • I like a variety of added ambiences 11
  • I like added ambiences (rain) 6
  • I like added ambiences (rain & thunder) 5
  • I like added ambiences (rain ONLY) 2
  • I like added ambiences (fire crackling) 6
  • I like added ambiences (ocean waves) 4
  • I like added ambiences (forest/woods) 7
  • I like added ambiences (white noise/brown noise/pink noise/green noise/etc) 2
  • 2025-01-20
  • multiple choice
  • 80 votes
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Content

Context: I am scheduling many readings (of poems, letters, book excerpts, historical excerpts, articles, etc.) for Patreon uploads and was wondering, as I continue to record these, just how I should approach creating a variety, or if I should vary at all.

How often do you prefer any sound effects or ambiences or background music mixed in with your audiobook narrations?

Do you prefer to be able to mix them on your end and just have the raw/ narration to listen to?

Or do you prefer to listen to the raw voice of narration alone and nothing else?

Feel free to interact with the poll, or leave a comment to elaborate your preferences, or both!

(The poll is set to where you can select multiple choices on purpose.)

Let me know! :)

Comments

Mark

That is a lot of options! 1st: sounds that add or relate to the story being told. 2nd: sounds to add ambiance like rain or a thunderstorm. 3rd: crackling fire. Also night/forest sounds, crickets, frogs, owl, wolf.

Monster Reeder

If there is rain, a light rain in the background is preferred. IMO, vocalizations ought to be front and foremost, unblurred by background effects.

OffWorld97

Like Mark said, sounds that fit the story are important. But I'll bet you already thought of that your self. You can't really go wrong with ambiance and effects. You only can get better doing it more often, and take feed back along the way. Music on the other hand is a whole other thing, I like Music in the back ground. But I might prefer a vastly different track or music style, as let's say Conor, or Zack. And the same goes for the volume strength of the track. I hope I gave you enough to work with here Lav, i can't wait to see the first reading being posted.

Spookie Pookie

To be perfectly honest, the sound effects will have to be on a story to story basis. Just because something will sound good with one story doesn’t mean that it’ll sound good on another story. For example, if you were to read something that focuses on the ocean, or other bodies of water, then having water based sound effects will be great to have in the audio itself. However, if you have a story based in a city or a home, then those same ocean sound effects just won’t work out because it’ll be too distracting to the listener. Conversely, if you were to just yap at us about random things, then you can put whatever sound effects you want into the Yapathon, and it really shouldn’t matter if it fits, because you’re just doing whatever you want to do

Christian Kaleopaa

I do prefer sound or music in addition to the narration as I feel it ads a bit of depth to the story. Though each sound should compliment the story. I don't absolutely need an audio to have extra sounds in there. Sometimes just listening to a narration is more than enough. It's just nice to hear that extra bit in there. ^_^

lavendher
>>161850549

Thank you Nick! Tbh the readings that are already done are just raw, voice-only, but embellishments is something I want to do, so I really appreciate the feedback. It will certainly help me going forward, as well as any added feedback along the way, like you said! :D

Brycen Lanager

It's hard to decide because it depends on the story being told, the intended purpose of the audio, and a bunch of other smaller things. Each of these options could be good depending on what you're going for. Sorry I couldn't give you a solid answer.