Thinking Out Loud

Special Interest Groups Recording Techniques
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Good day/night where ever in the world you may be

I’ve just joined and I’ve been using Audacity for quite some time now, but there is always something new to learn. I hope you don’t mind if I pick your brains a bit. Here is what I am trying to achieve. I’m not very good at explaining things so please bare with me. I am working on a point and click free adventure game called Incident At ROANOKE. In a few scenes my main character has a few moments where he is talking to himself inside his own head, I guess sort of thinking out loud in a thought bubble where his voice sort of sounds faint and far away. Someone on another site mentioned a hefty reverb and then someone else said no. Could someone tell me how I can achieve this sound. Thank you in advance, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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If he’s talking to himself, but you can see that his lips are not moving, then that gives a good clue that he’s thinking the words.
Work on the script. With a well written script it should be obvious. Read some Raymond Chandler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler

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Hey Steve, thank you for the reply, but it’s not the look I need it’s the sound. I need to know how to adjust the sound in Audacity to make the sound of thinking to himself. Sorry if I didn’t make it clear, I’m not very good at explaining things.

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Have a listen: http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Philip_Marlowe_Singles