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audio what kind of "good" mic? i have plenty of advice in this department but if u are just doing this as a hobby i doubt you'll want to spend the $$ to get all crazy with pro-ish recording gear right away. u need a pop-filter. the old panty-hose + coat hanger will work fine. software u'll need some recording/editing software. audacity should work. to get some certain stylized sounds -- not just far out special effects, but even a convincing, strong basic voice -- there is definitely some processing involved. performance and if u can't find a modder to work with you, you could start by just making a demo. write your own scripts: make up some characters, make up a premise, act it out, and put the recordings up on a website. and for god's sake whatever you're going to read, make sure you grasp the context. nothing more irritating than some hired gun VO person reading a sci-fi / fantasy script and it's clear they have no idea what they're talking about and what the presentation should be like. completely wrong diction/pacing/inflection etc. don't do this! :wink: (a good example ... of bad ... is: the main character in the game Hard Reset -- guy reads cuss words like he is doing shakespeare. completely out of place and not convincing whatsoever. annoying actually.) on the other hand, a programmer/designer/writer with no voice acting talent who tries to just step in to the role cuz "hey, anybody can do this!" is equally annoying. just thoughts off the top of my head. GL :smile:

i have a lot of "pet peeve" issues to point out, below, but let's start off on a 100% inarguably practical note: my downloads keep failling. I have typical commoditized USA cable modem service, more than adequate for similar activities on other sites. my DLs on this site either crap out multiple times along the way, and I have to "pause"/"resume" to complete them, or they just fail outright with "source file could not be read". can't use a DL manager. would this help to reduce failures? IDRK, but I wouldn't feel so powerless if I at least had the option. had to register to DL in the first place. (with the minorly redeeming side-effect that I can come here and complain without registering yet again. which of course I would not even bother to do.) ...for measly 25-125kbps DL speeds. . . :\ apparently there's an upload size limit requiring makers of gigantic mods to split their files, making the particular mod I want to DL basically 10x as difficult. the whole "premium" thing. of course all the rage (5 years ago) was for sites to try and monetize their content any way possible -- or better yet, other ppls' content -- but anymore, when i see this kind of money-grubbing, especially on sites that cater to such "niche" interests -- it's just distasteful and ghetto. especially when it's of the hard-sell "look at all the stuff you can't do because you're not premium" variety. (ORLY I can still set my time zone in user preferences? r u sure you don't want to lock that down for "premium users only", too?) "drop-down" UI for boilerplate controls that should just be simple text boxes -- "search", "login", etc. functions. why? site keeps logging me out. DHTML design of various information categories ("Desc", "files", etc.) for a given item. "breaks back button" (http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback - and please no pedantic responses about how that article only concerns redirects. breaking back button is bad design, period.) browser pop-up when downloading file. the only pop-up I want to see is my OS/browser asking me where I want to save the file. (just because your pop-up is not "pop-up advertising", does not make it a good design. this forum looks nice, and I was fully prepared to point this out as a "see? it ain't all bad" sort of concession; then I clicked "Preview Post" and it put me in the rich text editor (instead of HTML/BB code which I was using originally). *@#$ing nightmarish things, those are. not to mention: you don't just change your UI tech on the user without even asking. btw: sry for the quadruple spacing but your RT editor put that in by itself and I can't seem to (cleanly, consistently) change it; so I'm just going to leave it. nexus mod manager. yeah, cuz I would totally install an executable made by ppl who designed a web site half of whose features seem intended to hamper my access to content, and overall is pushing my "usability fail" buttons like there's no tomorrow. I don't mean to sound ungrateful. "Improve your modding experience"? ... As if! It's been a 95% unproductive nightmare, tbph. I give it 9 out of 10 "Bah!"s.