Telepathy vs. spoken dialogue
Hey podficcers! This community is a godsend--as a brand-new-newbie, I've already used a lot of the info I've found here.
My question is this: I'm recording some of my own fic in which the characters talk both out loud and telepathically (denoted in the text by italics without speech marks), depending on the situation. In the one I'm working on now, it's not CRITICAL that you can tell the difference--I mean, it has meaning in the text, but the fic still makes sense even if you assume the entire conversation is out loud. But it becomes more important in some of the other parts of the series.
I tried whispering the telepathic parts, but it just sounds creepy, and also like the characters are whispering for no good reason. I also tried messing with echo/reverb, but it still didn't seem clear in context that it was telepathy.
Any ideas? The good thing is, this being my own fic, I can change around the actual text if sound effects don't do the trick (though I'd rather not have to throw in "he said telepathically" after every line if I can help it)
I use Audacity, if it's relevant!
My question is this: I'm recording some of my own fic in which the characters talk both out loud and telepathically (denoted in the text by italics without speech marks), depending on the situation. In the one I'm working on now, it's not CRITICAL that you can tell the difference--I mean, it has meaning in the text, but the fic still makes sense even if you assume the entire conversation is out loud. But it becomes more important in some of the other parts of the series.
I tried whispering the telepathic parts, but it just sounds creepy, and also like the characters are whispering for no good reason. I also tried messing with echo/reverb, but it still didn't seem clear in context that it was telepathy.
Any ideas? The good thing is, this being my own fic, I can change around the actual text if sound effects don't do the trick (though I'd rather not have to throw in "he said telepathically" after every line if I can help it)
I use Audacity, if it's relevant!