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Audacity Final Review
Audacity was the program that I used to do the final audio project. I
used this program because it was already downloaded onto my computer. I also
used it because the other websites that I found were not all that great.
To start my project I first opened up Audacity on my laptop. After I
realized that I had no clue how to work the system at all, I went to Youtube to
find some tutorials to watch. I tried to start my project but I could not find
out how to get my Itunes songs onto Audacity. When I got back to class the next
day, the people in my class and my teacher helped me figure out that I had to
change my songs to a different format. They told me that Audacity would only
work with MP3 and WAV files. To
convert my music, which were MP4 files, to files that would work with Audacity I
had to use an online converter website. The website I used was
audio.online-convert.com. On this website I uploaded the songs that I wanted to
use on my project and clicked convert. The website then converted them one by
one to an MP3 file. I saved each one to my desktop and opened them up on Audacity.
I used the songs Check it Out by will.i.am. and Nikki Minaj, Cinema feat.
Benny Benassi by Skrillex, and Sexy and I Know It by LMFAO. I cut down each one
to the size that I wanted. I pieced the parts that I wanted. I made sure that
the endings that I wanted faded in and out. I duplicated a piece from Cinema and
changed the speed slower and dropped the pitch. After I got that part perfect, I
wanted to change something in the last part of the song. I selected parts in
Sexy and I Know It by using the wahwah effect at the bottom of the effect
column. This effect made the song get louder and softer at a regulated intervals
throughout the selected area. After I changed that the way I wanted to, I went
onto recording my voice. I wrote out what I had to say for the video to be sure
I said things write. I recorded a couple times until I finally got a good one. I
made sure my voice louder than all the other music by changing the gain. I cut
off my music from the other track right where my recording ended.
I then moved it down to the track with my recording on it to make it
louder when I was done talking. After that I was done with my project and saved it.
The problems I had with this application was learning how to edit the
music in the first place. I didn’t know that I had to stop the music to make
changes to it. I also had problems with the file converting some times. Other
than those couple problems, I found out that Audacity is a great audio editing
tool. I would use this tool again because I know now how to use it and it is
actually not that hard to use once you know how. I will definitely use this for
our basketball warm-ups next year and teach Courtney how to do use it as well.