Audacity was a project that I was unfamiliar with but it was something I always wanted to do was mix music. For this assignment we were ask to take make a commercial well at least I did. My commercial was a commericial about my own mixing studio. I thought this would be fun to do but when I was doing the work I realized it wasn’t so easy to do. For instance, I wanted to use music that was on my computer to make me feel like I was actually mixing some music. I tried one my songs on my computer but soon realized it would not allow me to put in to audacity because it was not an mp3 format. Being new to this I didn’t know how to convert my files to mp3 so it would be allowed to use in audacity. I played with it and played with it, still no luck. I got frustrated until I start searching for converter web sites. I downloaded one but it still didn’t recognize it in audacity so I had to do the best I could do. One of the things I found interesting was that it had all types of neat things you could like the sounds and effects. I think this made audacity a little bit easier. I finally thought of a way I could use the music I had and it came out pretty good. As you can see at bottom I have a link to the music or commercial I created and mix using my voice and music and sound effects. Take a listen to it. It was alright quality because I was unaware how it made me sound but I think I did good for the most part. In essence, audacity gave me a little trouble but I think I managed to do well on it. This lesson also taught me that a lot of time and effort goes along with it. Maybe mixing music might not be for me after all. Even though this is for mixing music, I found it useful to use as a way to do other things such as PSAs. I had to do a PSA for another class and it was so much easier to use. Overall Audacity is a good tool to use, I guess it just takes time and patience to use it to the best of its ability.
http://www.screencast.com/users/chriskells/folders/Default/media/8ee70338-094c-4035-a5dd-a48e12dfbda1
http://www.screencast.com/users/chriskells/folders/Default/media/8ee70338-094c-4035-a5dd-a48e12dfbda1
Sorry you had trouble using Audacity. You audio came out very good even with you difficulties. I agree with you, this tool is very cool and useful. It does take time and patience to get it right but it seems to me you found the way to do that.
ReplyDeleteInteresting idea. I like how you presented your project, gave it a nice spin. Demonstrating your mixing was a pretty good way of showing off your ability to use the tool as well.
ReplyDeleteSince you've said you had some trouble working with Audacity, I would suggest playing around with your own recordings more. Your voice was rather hard to make out, and you can probably find way so tampering with it and clearing it up. Your use of effects was pretty well done, though you might shorten that use of white noise at the beginning.
Good work.
Sorry you had some trouble with this assignment. I had trouble myself. It is hard working with a program that you are unfamiliar with. I enjoyed your project though. Audacity takes some time to get used too, and I hope that if you continue to use Audacity that you become familiar with it and that it gets easier for you :)
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