Audacity

Audacity was so hard to learn for me! As I mentioned in my previous blog, I had to miss three classes due to medical reasons. This made me get so behind and it gave me anxiety about the project. I downloaded it and started messing around with some of the tools that I saw. I didn't have access to internet down in Mexico so I couldn't watch the tutorials until I got back.

Once I was back professor Dean helped me with some of the basic tools. He helped me with recording and with using the envelope tool. I found that the envelope tool was a little difficult to use. I'm not sure if it was just me because I know nothing about these softwares, but I found that using the tool with the Mac keypad was a little difficult. I wasn't able make it entirely even. I think this process would have been easier if I had a mouse to make it more precise.

Getting my song from the Creative Commons- Soundcloud link to Audacity was also a little challenging. When I finally got the New Girl theme song into my podcast, I was excited! I feel it went perfectly with what I was speaking about and emphasized my liking for the show and the "quirkyness" that is involved in it. Once I figured all the audio out, I started recording.

Luckily, my roommate was gone for the night so recording wasn't extremely awkward. I started recording, trying to show enthusiasm, and then listened to myself. I sounded so funny and weird! I had never done something like this so hearing my own voice over and over again was something that I'm not used to.

I had to record myself multiple times because I found myself sounding monotone. After a while, I did finish. I was proud of my final project, especially considering the amount of time I had to do it.