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

See below.

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 9:56 PM
Subject: -=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.


Yes.  Record the entire cassette side and then break up the songs into 
individual projects.  Be sure to leave yourself plenty of room before and 
after each song, even if it means you're capturing some of the previous 
song's ending or the next song's beginning.  Having this extra data in each 
file will give you the most room for fade editing at both ends of the tune 
(this is usually the last step just prior to burning).


> 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!


With something like this, experimentation will set you free!  However, you 
will definitely want to experiment on copies of WAV files rather than the 
originals.

As for writing, nothing has changed except our ability to quickly record and 
manipulate things on the computer.  You still have to come up with your own 
chords, melody and lyrics.     :O)


> 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.


That sounds like something I would say.     lol


> 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.


I never suggested recording one song at a time.  I was explaining the next 
to the LAST step you should do before burning them onto a CD (&/or encoding 
them with MP3, Flac, WMA, Ogg, etc.).  The very last step would be adding 
any fading you might want to the live songs so they don't start and stop 
abruptly.  If you REALLY want to get creative, you can crossfade between 
songs (one is fading out while the next is fading in), but that would remove 
your ability to jump to specific songs once they're burned.


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


Not exactly, but you will certainly be able to have some seriously 
meaningful conversations with them.       lol


> Christine 


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