Hi Andrew,
That went way over my head. Hahaha. Wish I knew more about advanced audio
techniques like that. Never played around with a mixer much except for
following instructions in parrot fashion. Thought I was learning loads but now
I gather I learned naff all. Grin.
Again though. Great recording.
Cheers.
Damien.
From: Andrew Downie
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2017 9:59 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity v GoldWave
Hi Sameer
To make the recording, I did the following. Opened Audacity and opened Reaper.
I think I could have set up two instances of Audacity, but this approach was
quick and easy.
I have an Allen & Heath ZED-10 mixer (which I love). One of its really nice
features is its switchable recording bus on each channel. I sent the output of
both Audacity and NVDA through the internal computer sound card into a line in
on the ZED-10. By pressing or releasing a button, I could have those outputs
recorded or not. When I wanted the screen reader to be recorded, I depress the
button and when I just wanted to hear it myself I released the button.
I have an AKG headset with attached microphone. While not a brilliant mike, it
is convenient.
Some parts of the recording had variations in levels, which I corrected
somewhat. I used Peak Compressor, for which I paid the princely sum of around
$20 several years ago, to further improve levels. I also added a little reverb
with one of the Reaper effects.
For your amusement, when I was going through the Audacity settings output was
announced as the USB codec. It was at that time and when I listened to the
recording nothing I recorded in Audacity came through. I then switched input
to the internal sound card and did that part of the recording again.
Andrew
On 22/07/2017 6:53 PM, Sameer Vasta wrote:
Hi Andrew
Do you mind telling us what setup you have which provides such wonderful
audio recording quality?
Sameer
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From: Andrew Downie
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 12:09 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Audacity v GoldWave
Damien, Christina, Sameer and anyone else who is interested in a 15 minute
intro to Audacity. I have cobbled together this recording. It is about a 22mb
download. I have inadvertently left out a couple of things that could have
been included, such as x (version 2.1.3) and shift-a (previous versions) to
stop playing and put the cursor at that position. Undoubtedly the other
resources already mentioned will be far more comprehensive (and more polished).
My hope is, though, that my effort may help people who are having trouble
getting started.
I have not included anything on multi-track recording. If people are
positive about this attempt, I would be happy to do that, along with useful
facilities such as labels.
Andrew
On 21/07/2017 8:02 AM, Andrew Downie wrote:
Hi Damien
I can’t do it right now, but perhaps later today (Sydney time) I will try
putting together a quick audio demo of navigating and editing in Audacity. It
is certainly a different beast to Goldwave. Once you get your head around how
to beat it into submission though, it is a very obedient beast.
Andrew
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Damien Sykes-Lindley
Sent: Friday, 21 July 2017 12:47 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Audacity v GoldWave
Hi there,
As you all know, I’ve been following and, where possible, contributing to
some of the threads of this list for a good while now. Practically, I’ve read
the majority of the Audacity manual and tried some basic effects processing.
However I’m still struggling with Audacity’s concept of editing (I.E. making
selections). I see references in the manual to the playback cursor and editing
cursor but I haven’t yet found out how to work these. I may be missing
something but the manual, to me, seems a little erroneous and contradictory –
the editing section states that the way to select regions with the keyboard is
through the toolbar, but under the accessibility section it states that
toolbars aren’t accessible with screen readers. Yet seems to me that it is
possible – otherwise this list probably wouldn’t even exist. Having said that,
as far as I am aware I have never used a toolbar before, so I was of the
impression that they would never be accessible. Or maybe I’ve used one and just
not known it for what it is. That’s the problem with screen readers.
Also, I feel I would benefit from either some audio demonstrations or
transition guides – Previously my knowledge has been confined to toys like
Sound Recorder and tape decks like GoldWave (whose effects processing is, in my
opinion, at best suspect, and rather limited), so I’m trying to learn as many
as possible so that I have the best possible variety of effects and editing
techniques at my disposal.
Having looked at the documentation it seems that Audacity is a multitrack
rather than a single track editor. Though the concept is quite straight forward
(you can edit multiple tracks in one session or in one project), the way this
is done is entirely alien to me. I feel like I’m transition from tape machine
to a mixer. I might go further and say studio, but no. I think I’ll leave that
honour to Reaper. That one went way over my head!
In any case. If any of you have used GoldWave and can give me some kind of
sense of how Audacity is different, both in terms of usage and concepts, that’d
be very helpful.
Also, does anyone know what the status of the NVDA addon is? Even if
Audacity is accessible out of the box (just as GoldWave is), NVDA has an addon
for GoldWave that provides keys for announcing information (selected channels,
markers, lengths, peaks etc). A similar addon for Audacity would be very
useful, in my opinion.
Cheers.
