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Thursday, November 6, 2008
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I had a great time, it must be the ham in me, I read a children's poem and put music in the background. I did rerecord it several times until I was happy with the result, but I did get happy. I even am thinking about doing it again and being able to post it and provide links to folks makes it easy to send to friends and family. Maybe I will do a Christmas poem and pass it around.
I used Garage Band (Apple software) to edit the audio, it was a bit more complicated than Goldwave, and did I mention that it came with my operating system. It was good to use Garage Band first because it was only collecting dust on my hard drive and second because now that I have used it, I see some potential application on other projects.
It is a tedious process and one must have an acute sensory for hearing: It is useful and enjoyable once I gotten the hang of it. Practice is the key. I can imagine the possibility with this: now if I can get the time to do more:
I had some problems trying mix the music and audio in Audacity so I used WavePad. It was fairly simple once I figured out how to do it.
using Goldwave was a little tedious. I had a lot of fun editing my voice. I will have to practice to perfect this for sure.
I recorded a portion of my script and mixed it with other audio files using Audacity (audio editor), Jamendo (royalty free music - Life's Path by Mindthings), and BooMP3 (free audio hosting). The final product was sufficient but could probably use improvement. My frustration is mostly focused on the microphone at this point. As Dr. Robin and Anne have both pointed out many times, getting the audio right is probably the hardest part.
Couple of notes:
1. The beginning has a fade in, and the ending has a fade out.
2. Though it may sound like I've smoked a pack of cigarettes (I don't smoke), it's only the sound of me fighting allergies.
My only experience with audio files had been to record and edit voice, and/or add music to videos. I had never mixed voice and music before and am so glad to have learned how. Being able to reduce the volume makes production so much better. That capability can certainly make narration heard! I'm anxious to work more with this in the future.
Okay, I did not have the same results as Mark. For me it was so hard to try to get the music and the audio to fit in together. I really dont know if I did correctly. I am sure after it is listened to, many can see the difference of how inexperienced I am. The more I tried to play around with the different features, the more frustrated I got.
Link to my assignment
I recorded everyone who speaks a language other than English at my work and had them say "My name is ...." in their own language. Afterwards I combined them in Goldwave and added a background music. For a project that is less than a minute, I spent around 3 hours. I had the hardest time adjusting everyone's sound to the same level. After that adding music was not hard at all. Learning how to edit sounds definetely takes time and I am sure practice makes perfect.
I had fun using my new USB microphone to record the narration. I used one of my favourite pieces of music for this assignment.
I used Goldwave to mix the pieces. The most frustrating thing about this software is that there was no "rewind" button that I could find. Thus, the mixing process took longer than expected because I had trouble rewinding to certain places in the music and narration.
Nonetheless, I was pleased with the overall final project, and, next time, I will try Audacity for future projects that require audio software.
I had trouble trying to mix the narration and music together. But, once I went back and read the instructions again, everything fell into place. The editing process was fairly easy and very interesting.
Editing audio was trickier than I thought. I eventually got what I wanted, but I had to refer to the steps a few times. I think it's because the terminology and features are not as familiar as, say photo manipulation. I've been messing around with contrast, cropping, and image effects for years, audio never!
I used Goldwave to mix my files. First I downloaded Goldwave and a file that contains a speech of president Kennedy and the civil rights. For the background music I used American Anthem song that I have in my music files. I imported both files to Goldwave and trimmed the speech sound to around 1 minute since it was 9 minutes long. Also I have to increase the volume in a short area of this file, I followed directions given to mix two files and reduced the music volume so it will not overpowered the speech. The site where we uploaded the file gives several options to post it to our blog, I chose the url to download it and the embedded audio player.
I have mixed audio and music before and it usually works out fine. I have worked with mixing audio and music for quite sometime with my students and other programs.
I did a very rough cut of my final project. I did not realize that it would take as many times to get a version that I liked.
I used a digitial recorder then I opened Gold Wave and worked on the various aspects of fixing it and editing the voices and music of it.
I had a difficult time using the GoldWave program. It was not as user friendly as I had hoped it would be.
Using GoldWave, I took the three audio sound files from Dr. Robin's page, loaded them up and edited them separately. I found GoldWave not so user friendly.
I took the audio file of Hal and added an echo effect. I took the music file, trimmed it and added the effect of reverse play to give it a creepy sound effect. The creepy sound effect is a bit difficult to hear.
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I used Goldwave and found it fairly easy to use. I agree with several others that practice is the key. I talked and added music to the file. I played around later and sang a song and then altered my voice and sent my wife and great version where I sounded like Theodore the chipmunk.
I downloaded gold wave once I got home, and was able to work with the program fairly easily. I have a cheap microphone at home, and editing with gold wave really did seem to improve the final version of the audio clip I posted to my personal blog. I think with more practice gold wave will be helpful in the editing process, but right now I have to keep referring to the course web site for instructions, so I am not deleting the wrong parts, and mixing the audio correctly. I do need to look into how to combine two audio clips smoothly so they do not seem disconnected.
I did not have any problems uploading my audio file to the website Dr. Robin recommended in class, and was able to post a nice link on my blog when people try to listen to the file.
Goldwave has been a staple for me here at sitelab, and i've gotten so comfortable with it that i darest say i'll probably never use anything else. I feel that the learning curve can be so big with sound editors, that once you have one you're comfortable with it's way too hard to give that up. after all, they all seem to have the same basic functionality.
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