More on Interviews

So, last night I finally finished my final editing of my peer audio interview about our most embarrassing moments. Yeah, was not fun. Audacity is a pretty interesting editing software, but I still need some work on how to create a piece that I actually like.

For instance, while editing my piece, I quickly learned that I could not add any of my music files because they were no longer working links on my computer. Instead, when I tried to add them in audacity, all I got was some really loud static screeching noises blaring through my headphones. Yeah, not pleasant. Then, to put in breaks, I had to use music sounds I recorded using my computer's internal mic while playing the music on my computer from YouTube! It worked, but was not as pure a sound as I would've liked. Also, I felt that I had limited options for adding sound breaks because of a lack of stored file sounds in Audacity itself. I could "Generate Silence" or some obnoxious monotones, but nothing like a sampling of ring tones type of thing. That would be very helpful to have.

For the editing itself, I got the hang of things fairly quickly and was able to cut and move things, amplify the main voice to minimize the background noise, and found out how to change the speed of the music clips I was adding because at first they were all super speed compared to the rest of my audio. I really need to figure out the best way to record music and my own voice onto Audacity.

So, now that I have finished, I have to say, I hate my piece. I don't think I did very well at all. And also, my own recorded voice at the time of the interview was completely unusable so I'll have to work on that for next time. Unfortunately, it is not exactly the first thing I would have liked to have created for this class, but it's done and due, so I guess it'll just have to do for now. I promise to do better next time.

Now let's just see if I can upload it here for you to listen to....

Nope. Didn't work. I'll have to figure that out I guess....