So far, working
with audacity has been a positive experience.
I think that having done some work with sound in Final Cut Pro in the
past has helped me to pick up on how to use Audacity more easily. On the other hand, while I worked with
pre-recorded music and sounds in Final Cut Pro, a definite challenge for me
with using Audacity is having to hear and work with the sound of my own voice.
Ahh it’s so strange and feels a little awkward… I can’t stop thinking wait—do I
really sounds like that?! I’m hoping
I’ll just get used to it, and if not, I guess I’ll just have to learn to deal
haha. Another challenge I haven’t had
toooo much trouble with (yet), but know I definitely will in the near future is
finding somewhere quiet enough to do recording.
I live in a house with 11 awesome, amazing, and wonderful yet unbelievably vocal girls whom I
absolutely love… but whom are going to make recording a full five-minute
podcast using Audacity extremely difficult.
I’m thinking I’ll either have to a.) find a way to use Audacity to block
out the background noise… or b.) set an alarm for an obscure time of day/night
(4-5 AM in this house is usually a pretty quite time) and do my recording
then.. sigh… a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.
I believe that
in terms of podcasting, text is tied to audio in the sense that text represents
the first draft of the podcast whereas audio allows you to take that textual,
possibly shitty, first draft script and turn it into a sparkling, unique,
personality ridden, and engaging podcast that people might—wait for it—actually
want to listen to! One way that I think
audio isn’t tied to text in terms of podcasting is when the use of sound
effects comes into play. With text, you
can try to convey an emotion, reaction, or idea using a sound effect by using
random letters or elooooongated words, but it definitely doesn’t have the same
engaging effect that audio allows you to have with the use of actual sound
effects.
Good luck to all
you Bloggin Outt-ers with your podcasts and with using Audacity—see ya tuedsay J
2 comments:
really?? 11 girls!? how's that even possible LOL! There better be 11 restrooms! just kidding... not really.. lol anyway, yes audacity is an awesome program and i also had a fun experience learning this simple program. Like you, i also used a different software for voice recording before but audacity is so much better because you are able to do alot of editting to one vocal track. My recording device was only able to record a voice or pc sound thats it.. so bad...
Wow, I've heard of people who live with 5 or 6 other people, but 11?!! Must been fun though. Audacity is a great recording resource, so glad that we were able to use it in this class. So cool that we are able to do work with text and audio for this class and see the difference and the comparison between the two.
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