-=PCTechTalk=- Re: audacity help pls, adding a new sound track

ok, I think I got what you are saying here.  So rather than creating a new 
track for my second song, I am basically creating a new project and saving 
it as a song or wav file which will be one of six or so songs on a CD.

I did a bit of experimenting, I duplicated part of a track to a new track. 
I added special effect (echo) to the new track and a fade out, I then played 
with splitting an instrumental part out of the original track but did not 
add any effects to that, I was trying to see how to adjust the volume on the 
new tracks on the duplicate one also which I think I saw to the left of the 
screen on the gain?  I think selected "quick mix" and mixed the tracks to 
see what would happen it seemed to turn out ok and saved it as a wav file. 
But this is a much bigger learning curve than I thought but something I have 
needed to start to learn for quite a while and I also soon want to learn the 
Sibelius program I have at work better too for working with music 
notes/sheet music and other things like creating quizes, some day before I 
go LOL...writing my own music down in it.  Back in my day, I just wrote 
lyrics on paper and a few chords and I had an original!

What you want to do for CD use is to give each song its very own
starting point and that means breaking up the single track into individual
songs.  In other words, you'll select all of the wave that makes up a single
tune, plus a few seconds before and after (which can be cleaned up, faded
in/out, etc. later).  Then, you'll Copy it from the original, select New
from the menu and then Paste that section into its own file (name the file
after the song title).  When you've done this to all of the songs in the
original file, you'll end up with each song saved as individual files.  When
you eventually burn these individual files to a CD, each one will show up as
a separate 'track' so you'll easily be able to jump ahead to the 6th song if
you wish.

Don't you think it is easier to record an entire cassette and then create 
separate project files/song files instead of recording one song at a time? I 
guess it depends on how you look at it.

Oh yea, forgot to ask, will I be a bonified/certified sound engineer 
technician after all of this? ;0

Christine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 9:32 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: audacity help pls, adding a new sound track


> Cristy,
>    Put those hairs back where you found them.  The idea is great, but the
> approach you've been taking won't give you what you're after.  Different
> tracks on a CD is not the same thing as different tracks on a mixer, and
> you're working within a type of mixer.  With a mixer full of different
> tracks, all of them will play at the same time (think of live music with
> drums, bass, guitar, keys, vocals all routed through a single mixer and
> coming through the speakers at the same time to make the songs that the
> audience hears).
>
>    What you want to do for CD use is to give each song its very own
> starting point and that means breaking up the single track into individual
> songs.  In other words, you'll select all of the wave that makes up a 
> single
> tune, plus a few seconds before and after (which can be cleaned up, faded
> in/out, etc. later).  Then, you'll Copy it from the original, select New
> from the menu and then Paste that section into its own file (name the file
> after the song title).  When you've done this to all of the songs in the
> original file, you'll end up with each song saved as individual files. 
> When
> you eventually burn these individual files to a CD, each one will show up 
> as
> a separate 'track' so you'll easily be able to jump ahead to the 6th song 
> if
> you wish.
>
>    As long as that all made sense, here's an important point to consider.
> Since the entire tape suffers from the same warble, distortion and
> background noise, do all of your cleaning up while it's still one large
> file.  Only break it up into separate tunes after you are happy with the
> results of your noise reduction efforts.  It will save you from having to
> repeat the same steps on all of those individual files.

This answers my question above and reinforces that I should continue to 
record a whole cassette and then clean it up and then break it into separate 
song files.
>
> Peace,
> G
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked"
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 8:06 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- audacity help pls, adding a new sound track
>
>
>> Hi Gman,
>>
>> I am playing with audacity and pulling some hairs out of my head!..What I
>> want to do if I can is to create several tracks like a different song on
>> each track so when my CD is played, you can select track 1, track 2, and
>> so
>> on, each with a new song.
>>
>> 


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