[audacity4blind] Re: tracks in 1 project
- From: "Lynn Cox" <lynn.cox1@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 18:58:15 +0100
Thanks Gene
It is so generous of you to share with us beginners!!!!
Love
Lynn
Warmest
Lynn Cox
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ACT Now!!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gene
Sent: 20 May 2013 18:52
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: tracks in 1 project
Evidently, the link is too long to be worked with in some or many e-mail
programs. I'll either have to reupload the file or figure out how to change
the link.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Cox" <lynn.cox1@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 11:34 AM
> Hi Gene
>
>
> I'm finding this discussion great. I'm just learning too and want my
> recordings to sound professional.
>
> I can't download your recording. Do I need to be logged into anything
> first.
>
>
> Love
> Lynn
>
> Warmest
> Lynn Cox
>
> Churchill Fellow 2013
> Project: Diving Into Darkness
> www.WCMT.org.uk
>
> Director
> Arts Coaching Training (ACT)
>
> T: +44 (0) 20 8544 9681
> M: +44 (0) 7818 437 651
> E: lynn.cox1@xxxxxxxxxx
> Skype: Lynn_C_Cox
> Twitter: lynn_c_cox
>
> ACT Now!!!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gene
> Sent: 20 May 2013 18:08
> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: tracks in 1 project
>
> You will probably continue to hear the audio. Make a test recording
> to find out. I am not familiar with certain settings in audacity that
> may affect what you hear but if you are using default Audacity
> settings, you should hear the audio whether Audacity is paused or not.
> If you don't hear the audio, let the list know and people who know
> more about certain audacity settings may discuss what to change. but
> I don't think you will have such a problem.
>
> I don't know how good you are at pausing a recording and resuming at
> the right place. When people recorded using tape recorders, pausing
> the tape is what people usually did and their recordings sounded like
> it, too.
> Pauses would be of different lengths, bits of unwanted material would
> often be included at the point where the recording was paused, in
> other words, the results were sloppy. If you want good clean breaks,
> let the recorder continue to record and edit the recording after you
> finish. I'm not telling you what to do. I'm saying that, unless you
> are both skilled and lucky, breaks you create with pause are often
> going to be sloppy. And if you learn to edit, you don't have to worry
> about starting a recording early and letting it run late. You will be
> able to edit out the unwanted material before and after the program.
> If you are pausing the recording and making recordings just for your
> own listening, you may not want to edit them.
> You
> may want to use pause as we have been discussing. but if you are
> concerned about making a higher quality recording with clean breaks,
> then pause is not the way to do so.
>
> this presentation, by me, introduces the listener to information about
> using audacity, including basic editing. At this point, it sounds as
> though you are learning in a disorganized manner, picking up bits of
> information here and there. You need some sort of organized way of
> learning, at least for a time when you start to learn about Audacity.
> You can download the presentation at:
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25812011/Audacity%20And%20Mp3%20Di
> rect%2
> 0Cut.zip
> the first part deals with Audacity. The second part deals with Mp3
> Direct Cut, another recording program you may or may not be interested in.
>
> Gene
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron" <facup1927@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:21 AM
>> I'm not recording a record, rather a continuous broadcast from the
>> radio.
>> Sometimes I stop the recording because I don't want to record certain
>> parts of the broadcast. However, I'm wondering if when you press
>> pause, the sound would stop playing through your computer, to show
>> you were not recording.
>>
>> Ron
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 5:14 PM
>> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: tracks in 1 project
>>
>>
>>> I'm not sure what sound you are asking about. the recording will be
>>> paused. Whether the recorder is paused or not has nothing to do
>>> with whether you hear audio in general such as your screen-reader.
>>>
>>> I don't see how you are going to forget if you pause a recording.
>>> You are recording something, for example, you pause the recording to
>>> turn over the record, then you start recording again by once again
>>> pressing p. How are you going to forget whether you paused the
>>> recording or not during the time you turn the record over.
>>>
>>> Gene
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ron" <facup1927@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 9:50 AM
>>>> I get it I think. So, moving on from that, if you press p for
>>>> pause will the sound stop working? I ask this because you may have
>>>> forgotten whether you have paused or not.
>>>>
>>>> Another question I have is concerning amplification.
>>>>
>>>> I recently recorded something where the sound seems too quiet for
>>>> comfortable listening. Having tried the Amplify effect nothing
>>>> seems to happen.
>>>>
>>>> Having read in the forums previously about peek amptitudes etc, it
>>>> said something about zooming in to the loudest part to check the
>>>> levels.
>>>> Can
>>>> someone please explain how I might do this?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Gene" <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:28 PM
>>>> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: tracks in 1 project
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> That is not what a track is. You are, evidently, stopping the
>>>>> program from recording and then starting to record again. Unless
>>>>> you know how to do this correctly, every time you stop and start
>>>>> recordding again, you will be adding a track. Adding tracks would
>>>>> be used in situations where, for example, you want to record an
>>>>> instrument playing, then later, add a track with you singing. For
>>>>> just straight recording of an album, either just let the recorder
>>>>> record until the end or, if you want to stop and resume recording,
>>>>> use the pause command, the letter p. You will pause the
>>>>> recording, for example, to turn the record over, and then p
>>>>> resumes recording and no additional tracks will be added.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gene
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Ron" <facup1927@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:22 AM
>>>>>> Hi all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm struggling with the idea of having more than one track in a
>>>>>> project.
>>>>>> I can't qquite grasp the concept.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One project is open and as you cursor key down it says, "table
>>>>>> track one select on". Go down and its 2, 3 4 etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I go to track one with the cursor and press space for play, it
>>>>>> plays the same on each track which ever one I press the space bar
>>>>>> on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I understand tracks to be songs, 7 one side of an lp for example.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Therefore, if track one is selected you should be able to hear
>>>>>> and work on that track alone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But this doesn't seem to be the case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone shed more light on this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>
>>>>>
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