Audacity Capacity
Over the past few days, the idea of creating a podcast has absoluetly enthralled me. As a writer, a person must realize that her/his words will not always be read in exactly the way they were written, so it is quite empowering to broadcast words - sounds and intonations - rather than leaving them to the reader’s imagination.
I thought that my first podcast would be some sort of poetic rant, a passionate speech, or a slam poem. But when Aaron, the teacher of my web publishing class, introduced the audio editing program Audacity to the class last week, I found myself immediately recording music onto my computer with a low quality Labtec headset.
Though badly mixed and increadibly poor quality, I would like to share the product of my first experimentation with Audacity as a music editing program - a remix of song I wrote recently called Losing Face.
I recorded six different tracks for this song - the first two are the basic guitar and vocals, and the other four are small vocal tracks added throughout various parts of the song. I took the opportunity to play around with the program and try out the echo, wah wah, and fade effects.
Though I’m not so happy with the end quality, it was an interesting experience, and I look forward to working more with this program - hopefully with a better quality microphone in the future.
[…] EAC students, Marielle Riesgo, offers up a raw remix of a song she wrote called, Losing Face Remix. About the experience, she writes: I recorded six different tracks for this song - the first two are the basic guitar and vocals, and the other four are small vocal tracks added throughout various parts of the song. I took the opportunity to play around with the program and try out the echo, wah wah, and fade effects. […]
Pingback by Friends World Podcasts » Blog Archive » Losing Face Remix — February 2, 2006 @ 3:43 pm
Hey, not a bad result for a first run of the software! I’m sure you’ll get more adept at using its features over the next few weeks.
Comment by Aaron — February 6, 2006 @ 9:35 pm
I like it very inspiring, I think I will give it a shot.
Audacity music, the wave of the future.
Comment by ayme frye — March 18, 2006 @ 7:31 pm
This post is very informative. I have a question a bit off the subjects. Having your links displayed like you have, really helps to bring the reader into what you have written. I do not know why but for some reason I am stuck on how to do this. It could be due my lack of time. Can you give me some pointers on how to insert links in a blog？ Also I would love to have all the friends world people linked as you have done on the left hand side (minus my blog which is just fine) . About the blogrole link, when I have tried to do this as you have done on the left hand side, I see, I always get told to back up my files. What does this mean. How can I link to things in a successful manner like you have done of the right hand side here of your blog.
Thanks so much for your help. I have a request. Could you visit my blog quickly and notice what I mean, I know must be very busy, but just 5 min. of your time, would be a giant help I think.
Thanks
Comment by kimberly — March 19, 2006 @ 7:05 am
Oh and to add more to my comment above. Although the quality of sound of your musical piece is not relayed perfectly through my computer, just being able to hear your recording was cool. I really enjoyed listening to your song, so thanks for posting it!!!! : )
Comment by kimberly — March 19, 2006 @ 8:40 am