Monday 23 November 2009

Sound Clip

I decided to edit together the voice recordings using the software Magix: audio cleaning lab.


I found that the original recording had background noise and editing this out did reduce the clarity of the audio.

(Original)


The initial idea was to edit the voice so that it would appear deeper. But this idea has been scrapped after it was found trying to present my voice deeper would further reduce the clarity of what information was being discussed.



A version of the audio has been edited with the pitch of the voice being made higher. This produced a better quality sound and produced clearer dialect throughout the recording.

To produce the higher pitch I used Cakewalk Sonar 6. This is because I could not find a feature that would be suitable to do this within Magix.



A pitch shift editor was added to the clip which would allow me to set how high or how low the audio should be.



The next editor added was Graphic Dynamics, this would allw me to select individual parts of the track and choose whether the voice should be high or low. This didn't add much to the clip so it was decided to remove as the more editors added the bigger the file size would be.



The final editor added to the audio was the FxEq. This allowed me to set how loud specfic points of the audio should be. It worked in the same way as the Graphic Dynamics. This worked well as the start of the recording has a lower velocity than the middle and ending.



The problem here with using these effects is the fact that alot of audio disturbance has been added.



For this reason this copy cannot be used. The background noise has been added due to the quality of the initial recordings. If a sound recording device had been used then much of the initial background noise would not have been recorded and quality would not have deteriated in such a way.

At present the audio will be edited until a satisfactory result has been identified.

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