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Title: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on June 17, 2006, 07:58:48 pm
Hi.

I've got a four-mission FS1-era micro-campaign ready for release, but I figured I might as well make use of this forum and get it fully voice-acted.

So.

Three big parts, spanning the entire campaign. A handful of smaller parts which I'm going to combine into three additional parts. That's six voice-actors. I'd contribute myself, but I don't have a microphone on me here at uni and I won't have access to one for another couple of weeks, so it's all up to you guys.

BIG PARTS

Player's Commander - briefings and debriefings for entire campaign - Darkblade

Alpha 2 - player's wingman - neoterran

GTD Minnow - GTA Command - freespacegundam

SMALLER LESS INTENSIVE PARTS

GTC Tybalt - Getter Robo G

Theta Freighter (http://www.sectorgame.com/blaise/echogate/theta.txt) & PVFr Iskot (http://www.sectorgame.com/blaise/echogate/iskot.txt) - Cobra

GTC Pearce & GTC Stratata - Blaise Russel

GTSC Bowman & GTC Coldwolf - Nix

I don't have a particularly strong idea of how any of the characters actually are, so I'm gonna let you define them with your voices for me.

OGG mono format will be fine. I'll do all the post-production stuff, no problem.

Just stick your name down below with the part you'd like to do if you're interested.

Thanks in advance.



EDIT: slightly modified eg3_db2.ogg for the Player's Commander part.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: freespacegundam on June 17, 2006, 11:40:58 pm
freespacegundam-GTD Minnow.

Pending your approval of course.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Goober5000 on June 18, 2006, 01:41:29 am
Cool. :)

Though we may have to do some juggling with ST:R if we want to continue to keep it compatible with your campaigns. :p

I may be interested in voicing something.  I'll give it a shot once I have some free time this week.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Darkblade on June 18, 2006, 03:00:53 am
Darkblade - Player's Commander , that is if you don't mind him having a slight Finnish accent. ;)
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on June 18, 2006, 10:35:18 am
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freespacegundam-GTD Minnow.

Pending your approval of course.

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Darkblade - Player's Commander , that is if you don't mind him having a slight Finnish accent.

Excellent. Glad to have you both on board.

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Though we may have to do some juggling with ST:R if we want to continue to keep it compatible with your campaigns. :P

Erk. Can't be that extreme... can it?

Regardless, looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: neoterran on June 18, 2006, 10:58:21 am
Neoterran - Alpha 2. I have an american accent. 30 yr old male.

I sent you an email with a sample ogg so you can decide.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Nix on June 18, 2006, 01:53:08 pm
Need a voice for some part?  I'll be willing to help.  Ya already know my voice, so yeah, if you want, let me know.  Any part will be fine for me, if you're planning on giving Alpha 2 to Neoterran, that's all cool, but that's the part I'd like to do.  If not, any of the other bit parts would be cool for me. 

Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Goober5000 on June 18, 2006, 08:07:56 pm
Erk. Can't be that extreme... can it?

Well, there are no explicit contradictions, at least from what I read of the supplied scripts. :) But the fleet movements (of both the Shivans and the GTA) would seem a bit muddled if both campaigns were taking place simultaneously, and the Eumenides project would be confused even further (although considering the character of the GTI, this might not be unusual).  If you want, I could go into more detail over PM or ICQ.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on June 19, 2006, 03:10:46 pm
Neoterran - Alpha 2. I have an american accent. 30 yr old male.

I sent you an email with a sample ogg so you can decide.

Glad to have you on board. Don't worry about the volume of the recording, I can sort that out just fine.

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Need a voice for some part?  I'll be willing to help.  Ya already know my voice, so yeah, if you want, let me know.  Any part will be fine for me, if you're planning on giving Alpha 2 to Neoterran, that's all cool, but that's the part I'd like to do.  If not, any of the other bit parts would be cool for me.

Sorry, Nix. :( I liked your voiceacting in Derelict, but it's just that Neoterran asked for Alpha 2 first. You can have any of the other parts if you want.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: pecenipicek on June 19, 2006, 07:29:37 pm
offering myself for voice acting... whatever you give i guess. just gimme something and i'll send over a sample...
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: neoterran on June 19, 2006, 08:24:54 pm
Okay Blaise,

I'm psyched to have the part of Alpha 2. If the quality and volume of the sample I gave you is okay, I'm going to go ahead and act it. I guess you'll be able to clean it up and everything. Looking forward to actually playing the campaign as well.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Nix on June 21, 2006, 10:54:34 am
Ey, no problem man, I'd like to do the parts of the Bowman and Coldwolf then.  looks like I should get these out in a day or so easily. 
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: J.P. on June 21, 2006, 12:03:05 pm
I'm thinking maybe I can do the PVFr Iskot, GTC pearce and GTC Stratata.

-J.P.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on June 21, 2006, 02:03:31 pm
I'm thinking maybe I can do the PVFr Iskot, GTC pearce and GTC Stratata.

-J.P.

Did you mean the Iskot, Tybalt and Theta part? Because the Iskot and the Pearce end up talking to one another, and having both played by the same actor probably wouldn't be a good idea.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: J.P. on June 21, 2006, 02:08:49 pm
Well, I have a few different tones I can do. The kind of gritty voice you hear in my thread showing off that voice. And then I can just talk without that grittyness. The vasudan would have that mechanized translator sound making them totally unique of each other.

-J.P.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Darkblade on June 21, 2006, 02:16:12 pm
Hey Blaise, where do you want these voices to be sent? I have almost finished up my recording session.

Also J.P., don't know if you have improved on your recording style but you talked way too close to the mic, at least on your samples.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: J.P. on June 21, 2006, 02:20:31 pm
No I didn't. I always check for that. I always turn the volume up as loud as I can without risking cut off. But in the case of fighter pilot voices I always add a little bit of gain onto to it to sound more realistic. I watch for "POOFS!" and "POPS!" all the time to. If it has any I re-record it.

-J.P.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on June 21, 2006, 02:24:54 pm
Hey Blaise, where do you want these voices to be sent? I have almost finished up my recording session.

blaise_russel at hotmail.com will be fine. Did you see the revised version of that debrief? Sorry to be a pain, but something had come up and I needed to change a minor detail.

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Well, I have a few different tones I can do. The kind of gritty voice you hear in my thread showing off that voice. And then I can just talk without that grittyness. The vasudan would have that mechanized translator sound making them totally unique of each other.

I'd prefer to leave the parts as I arranged them. Taking the Iskot as well as the Pearce and Stratata would leave the Tybalt/Theta part with only seven lines, only two of which potentially may be heard in a single playthrough, which would be a bit harsh on the last voiceactor.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Darkblade on June 21, 2006, 02:26:12 pm
Guess it is just my ear then... or then Black Sheep has just taught me to be too careful for too high volume recordings.

Otherwise your samples sounded good.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Goober5000 on June 21, 2006, 03:31:30 pm
Sorry to be a pain, but something had come up and I needed to change a minor detail.

Sorry to be a pain, but... er... the Seraphim isn't a strike bomber. :nervous: It's actually identical to the Nephilim aside from bomb capacity, so it would be a heavy bomber like the Ursa.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on June 21, 2006, 03:49:00 pm
You are actually quite right. Don't know where that came from.

Script has been fixed.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Darkblade on June 21, 2006, 04:02:22 pm
Blaise, I sent you my samples to your e-mail account but since I don't know what is filesize limit on Hotmail these days, I decided to upload 'em also to SendSpace.

Here is the download link for my samples. http://www.sendspace.com/file/d8uo01

Everyone else who are interested, feel free to give your opinions.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: pecenipicek on June 21, 2006, 05:24:30 pm
uummmm, blaise, if you dont mind, i'll take the pearce and stratata, i'm recording em right now and i'll send you a PM with the links to the voices
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: neoterran on June 23, 2006, 06:46:18 pm
Blaise, if there is any part left, or you want to get another actor in, i know a girl who will do one of the parts and that might be nice to have a female voice out of all these guy voices.

Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Goober5000 on June 25, 2006, 12:54:25 am
Ooh.  BR, don't forget about the Debriefing Persona Index option. :nod: You'd need Darkblade to record additional lines for rank.tbl and traitor.tbl though.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on June 25, 2006, 07:15:54 pm
Blaise, if there is any part left, or you want to get another actor in, i know a girl who will do one of the parts and that might be nice to have a female voice out of all these guy voices.

That would be quite cool, actually. She can have either part remaining, though the Pearce/Stratata part may be better as less attention will be drawn to her being the only female voice in the campaign.

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Ooh.  BR, don't forget about the Debriefing Persona Index option.  You'd need Darkblade to record additional lines for rank.tbl and traitor.tbl though.

Tempting, though I wouldn't want to impose further on Darkblade's time. It's a possibility.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: pecenipicek on June 25, 2006, 08:36:12 pm
BR, did you get my PM's with the voices?
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Goober5000 on June 26, 2006, 01:33:15 am
Tempting, though I wouldn't want to impose further on Darkblade's time. It's a possibility.

Well, I checked.  It's 14 additional files, which is significant, but not excessively so.  I guess it's up to him.

http://www.hard-light.net/staff/goober5000/debrief_special.txt
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Darkblade on June 26, 2006, 01:47:37 pm
Well, I'm going to record voices for Casualties of War 2 tomorrow so I could record those additional personas lines as well. It's really no trouble. :)

Blaise, I sent you eg_des.ogg to your e-mail address. Hope you received it. :)
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Getter Robo G on July 10, 2006, 01:00:17 pm
Hey Blaise,

   If you think you got a spot for me let me know (was Tom Faulkner) and I'll send you what ever lines you post as an audition.

l8tr!
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: freespacegundam on July 16, 2006, 02:18:45 pm
My apologies for taking so long, but here's my first go at the voices for the Minnow.  Unfortunately they're in .wav, pending minor changes you may want to make.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/stkoly (http://www.sendspace.com/file/stkoly)
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Goober5000 on July 16, 2006, 03:14:11 pm
People ought to just bite the bullet and claim a character that's left.  BR listed them all on the front page.

I was going to do a part, but after becoming thoroughly embarrassed at my attempts to voice different characters, I figured discretion was the better part of valor. ;)
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Getter Robo G on July 17, 2006, 03:40:27 am
OK I checked post 1 and chose GTC Tybalt.
Lines recorded in .ogg format and sent (alternate line for msg1 included if you like it).

Let me know if there are any probs...

Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: highfive on August 01, 2006, 12:37:22 pm
If you need another American guy, then I'd lend my booming voice for your cause.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on August 02, 2006, 10:59:36 am
Would you like to do the PVFr Iskot and Theta 1? Only four lines, so it shouldn't take too much time.

If you want something more substantial, you can always pop on over to the Phantoms thread, where lots of parts are available.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Nix on September 06, 2006, 08:10:47 pm
Hey Blaise, I hope you got my voices for Echo Gate.  I'm still working on Phantoms, but I did get Echo's done.  If you need me to redo them let me know.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on September 09, 2006, 08:27:14 am
Hey Blaise, I hope you got my voices for Echo Gate.  I'm still working on Phantoms, but I did get Echo's done.  If you need me to redo them let me know.


I've just processed them and they're absolutely fine. Looking forward to the voices for Phantoms.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Cobra on September 09, 2006, 11:11:25 pm
as you requested, i'll take the Theta Freighter and Iskot lines. :)
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Blaise Russel on September 10, 2006, 07:23:25 am
Excellent.
Title: Re: Voiceacting for Echo Gate
Post by: Cobra on October 17, 2006, 05:35:11 pm
Muh. I hate it whenever I get a sore throat like this. I was going to do the lines on Saturday, but as fate would have it my throat decided to konk out on me, taking my voice with it. My voice is better now, though. I wonder how it would sound if I did it now. :)