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3 Audacity Tips To Enhance Your Recorded Interviews. Regardless what you intend to do with the interview, one thing that’s for certain is that you want to develop a reputation as a professional interviewer that produces high-quality, interesting conversations with fascinating people.

3 Audacity Tips To Enhance Your Recorded Interviews

Only part of the recipe for this is developing interesting and thoughtful questions for your interviewee to answer, but the other significant part of the equation is how well you’ve edited the audio interview into a high-quality, professional show. Many avid audio enthusiasts may find some of the edits below somewhat simple, but for the blogger or podcaster with little audio editing experience, these tips are critical to know. Make Your Ringtone Awesome With Retro Videogame Sounds. Is your ringtone boring, phone-like and stupid?

Make Your Ringtone Awesome With Retro Videogame Sounds

Don’t be embarrassed – mine was too. Until, that is, I saw the light and changed it to one of the best sounds in the known universe: the Underworld Theme from the original Super Mario Bros. Now every time my phone rings, the people around me gaze in wonder and listen to my awesome ringtone, wishing they thought of that before me. And don’t get me started about my text message ring – it’s the coin sound from that same game. Every time I get a text I feel as though I’m one percent closer to earning an afterlife. Keep reading to find just a few sites where you can download music and sound effects from a few of video gaming’s classics.

If you live in Boulder, Colorado, however, you are forbidden from reading this. Mario Ringtones. How To Create Your Own Vocal-Free Karaoke Tracks. I’m sure you will agree with me that there’s nothing better for the spirit than karaoke.

How To Create Your Own Vocal-Free Karaoke Tracks

Whether you like singing or not, once you get over the initial embarrassment and start picturing yourself standing on stage and singing with a real band, it becomes a truly uplifting experience. Karaoke is not necessarily a group activity – what about karaoke tracks you can listen to in the car, singing along to yourself? Or even while working on your computer? There’s an endless amount of fun to be had with vocal-free tracks. Somehow, though, it’s always hard to find the ones you really want. The songs you create may end up sounding a little bit warped, but hey, no one’s coming to karaoke night for the quality of the music anyway. Do It Yourself With Audacity [Windows, Mac, Linux] I’ve been seeing this method around for quite a while, but never believed it actually worked until I tried it. How To Become A Voice-Over Artist With Your PC. If you’ve ever wanted to lend your voice to an advert, one of those telephony menus that are used when you call your utilities provider or perhaps appear in a video game, the best way of doing this is to become a voice-over artist.

How To Become A Voice-Over Artist With Your PC

This isn’t a job that just anyone can do, but if you feel that you have the required qualities – a good voice, the ability to intone and pronounce words correctly – then you will be in with a good chance. Thanks to the Internet, voice artistry is one of those roles that have taken on a whole new shape, with many thousands of voices now available for use in games, on websites, as voice-overs in corporate videos and much more.

You can start your voice-over career on a very low budget, too! Tools You Will Need. Audacity Wiki. How To Remove Ambient Noise From Your Audio Files Using Audacity. Audacity is a free program available for Mac, Windows and Linux, so most people should be able to download this and use it to clean up their recordings.

How To Remove Ambient Noise From Your Audio Files Using Audacity

Today we’ll take you through a few simple steps you can use on all recordings to remove background noise from audio. Install Audacity When you’ve downloaded Audacity, you’ll notice that it’s able to be used to import or record music and vocal tracks and can be used to mix tracks together for other purposes. This makes it very useful to musicians and podcasters alike, whether you are an amateur or a professional. It’s very easy to isolate sections of each individual track and use the editing features to remove the ambient noise in the background. Import Or Record Audio Either import the audio file you wish to clean up, or use Audacity as the recording tool. Isolate A Quiet Moment After importing, you’ll see the tracks of the audio file as separate lines in Audacity. Step 1 – Get Noise Profile This opens up a dialogue to remove the noise.

A Beginner's Guide To Producing Home Music Recordings With Audacity. For many musicians, the cost of paying a professional sound engineer to record and produce a demo CD or demo tracks for an online talent profile is just too high.

A Beginner's Guide To Producing Home Music Recordings With Audacity

A much more affordable option is to learn a little about music production and recording techniques yourself and use your favorite tools on your computer to record your own music. Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder.