Application samples looking for feedback.
Howdy! Truly appreciate this forum.
I just went through round two and did not get approved. I figured I would take to the forum for advice before trying again. Looking for very honest feedback.
On my first round, after a couple of revisions, I received the following message.
1. Your recording does not reflect the age the client requested.
Here is a link.
https://mystuff.bublup.com/ui/landing_page?item_id=001-i-2a6f5789-f3bb-4028-895f-e608c11445d6
After re-listening, I honestly think there are other quality issues with this submission but would appreciate any information on the "does not reflect the age" comment. Maybe I messed up my age profile settings.
On round 2, I received feedback that I had mouth noises. I recorded a revision hydrated but overly processed the re-submission. I received the following feedback.
1) Room Echo - The acoustic conditions in your recording are not ideal. The \'sound\' of your room is audible in your deliverable even at its present amplitude levels.
2) Processing - Audible evidence of noise reduction/suppression is impacting your voice\'s dynamic range and causing digital artifacts. If any processing of the sort was used to reduce the mouth noises noted in the previous revision, this may be the cause.
I have since, done a bit more sound treatment and recorded the following samples. I can hear some mouth clicks in the first link. On the second link, I normalized to -3 and then ran a declicker. Other than editing breaths, no other effects. (would this still be considered overly processed?) Appreciate any feedback.
https://mystuff.bublup.com/ui/landing_page?item_id=001-i-74ada5ea-9b92-454c-84e4-249c43f500ed
https://mystuff.bublup.com/ui/landing_page?item_id=001-i-0eb562f8-cebd-4519-8e5c-7b8ad2a50842
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Hi Christopher!
How are you? Hope your are doing great!
I was checking your submission and listening to your samples and I have the following remarks:
1. On regards your submission being rejected because of age issues, I have to agree that maybe your tone of voice sounds more like a 'Middle Age' person rather than a senior. That's why your application was rejected.
2. I was listening to your samples and they actually sound good. The only thing that I noticed is that there are some nasal noises in you recording. The best way to prevent this issue is experimenting with different distances from the mouth to the mic and making 100% sure that the mic's capsule is pointing directly to your mouth and not your nose.
Other than that I didn't notice any more issues to be improved. As long as you edit your audios as you did, without any noticeable editing issues or over-processing ( this normally occurs when applying a noise cancellation plug-in, desser o declicker, causing your voice to have an inconsistent volume and sounding as if the last parts of each word were slightly faded out) you should be good to go applying to the correct category.
Please let me know if you need anything else, I'm happy to help :).
Thanks for being part of our community. Hope you have an excellent week.
Gabriel
Gabriel, Thanks for the quick response and advice! I will certainly make some positioning adjustments.
Follow-up question..... I am middle aged and consider myself to have a middle age sound. If I marked Senior in my profile, is there a way to change it to middle aged so I don't encounter a similar application rejection in the future?
Hi Christopher!
My pleasure! On regards your follow up question, if it is okay with you, we can reset your account so you can start your application from scratch so you can apply with the correct age.
Let me know if this is okay with you.
Kind regards,
Gabriel
Gabriel, Thanks again for the swift response. It would probably be easier to reset my account than it would be to wait until I'm a senior to work for Bunny Studios. Ha!
I sure appreciate the support and yes...It is okay with me. I imagine I will be able to use my same email account.
Thank you again for reviewing my samples and for the help getting my age profile reset.
Chris
Hello Chris!
No problem at all . Totally agree with you, much better that way ;)!
I'll transfer this to the team and in the couple of days your account should be good to go. Yes, you will be able to use the same data for this account.
Thanks a lot for reaching out,
Hope you have an excellent week!
Gabriel
Howdy Gabriel, Following up here to see where we stand on an account reset so I may amend my profile to middle age.
Thank you, Cody Mullins
Probably disregard. I was still signed in. I signed out and am now recreating my profile.
-Cody
Hey Chris!
Thanks for reaching out. Yes, the reset of your account was made some days ago!
Please let me know if your encounter any issues.
Hope you are having a great day,
Gabriel
Thank you. I was able to get back in.
Would you mind giving this a listen to see if I have resolved my issues?
https://mystuff.bublup.com/ui/landing_page?item_id=001-i-856e6d38-0990-4563-9100-fd6c4e2e468f
Hey Chris!
Hope everything is going good :).
I accessed the link you sent but the page is showing me the following message:
'Sorry, the content you're looking for isn't available. It may have been deleted'.
Please submit the correct link or let me know when this one is fixed :).
Hope you have a great weekend!
Gabriel
Howdy Gabriel. Thanks for writing back. I submitted the audition and received this feedback.
Hi,
Thank you for your submission; we greatly appreciate your effort. Unfortunately, we have found the following issue(s) in your recording:
At 0:28 and 0:35 there are audible clicks, please check if they are caused by an editing mistake or by sometthing in the recording stage.
Please revise and resubmit.
I'm struggling to hear whether the click is a mouth click in the word or a click caused by a splice after 28 and 35. I feel like I am really close here but this will probably be my last opportunity to revise. If you wouldnt mind taking a listen that would be great. I did, however post this to the community under a different string...Incase you stumble on that one as well.
Here is another link.
https://mystuff.bublup.com/ui/landing_page?item_id=001-i-46da3c36-853b-4bb7-8659-18fd366e50d8
Thanks Gabriel!
-Cody
Hello Chris!
This last audio is sounding good! You should be good submitting this one :).
Let me know if you have any more doubts!
Gabriel