A Thought or Two on Sound Editing

Posted on July 21, 2007 in Podcasting Self Publishing

My recent foray into podcasting has put me in a spot of confusion. When I open Audacity and view a file, I behold a landscape of ridges and sharp gulches which I am told is language or music, which the computer reads as language or music, but remains beyond my enunciating by means of the signs.

The diagrams make me shy of working with sounds. This kind of cut and paste job includes more than words and I have not learned a method by which I can discern one word from another or recite/hum what is before me. The visual cues deceive, blind.

Work on photos using my paint shop program can be undertaken silently and quickly. This podcasting work requires an empty room because I must speak aloud and play sounds. I don’t want to be pestered with “what was that?” and “Who are you talking to?” The explanations only distract me. I don’t want to force myself to provide them while I work.

Wanting to work on a snippet of scratches puts me in a mood where I resent the tapping of my wife’s fingers on her keys. This requires a closed door, a pair of headphones, and no questions.

So good it is to be able to wipe away the traces of a quavering voice.

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