That was great. Love the ending!!

Projection is great! Tone is clear. Energy felt warm and friendly.

Nice work! I could tell you were working on projection. Well done!

0:37 Kind of tripped up or the audio skipped or something. When you misread or have a little stumble (happens to everyone and it’s okay!), it’s highly encouraged to start again at the beginning of the sentence or paragraph or a good pause point that would make it easy to remove and replace the mistake during editing. If you just keep going and don’t return to a solid point that makes it easy to edit out the mistake, you may need to come back later and re-record as a pick-up, and it becomes challenging to make it sound the same as the original recording. So, a good rule of thumb is to record so that it’s easy to edit later. When the mistakes are then edited out, it will sound like you read everything perfectly. 

1:41 Read “gardening” instead of “garden”.

Generally a good distance between the microphone and your mouth as you are recording, as a rule of thumb, is the space between your pinky and thumb when they are extended apart from each other. Try to have waveform peaks for yelling/loud projection land between -9 dB and -3 dB. For normal talking, try to have the waveform peaks between -12 and -6 dB. Shoot for -3dB of headroom. You may need to adjust your gain for louder and quieter parts; if so, it helps to know where to turn the gain to in order to achieve optimal levels during recording. Having the microphone input pointed at your mouth but offset to one side maybe 20-30 degrees can help reduce plosives.

To take the read to the next level, don’t be afraid to slow down a little and include change-ups. Emphasize a section here or there, and picture the audience you’re speaking to and how they are reacting. This helps keep it interesting. Try to lift the words off the page and bring it to life - go beyond the read and make it more like you are talking to someone or telling them a story or having a conversation. 

Keep up the great work!