Recording Software

            Hello, back for another blog post. Talking about recording software this week. I guess to start off with, I have chosen to use Audacity for my recording, which seems to be the popular choice among others in the class. I went to download the program but I’m guessing I choose a different one or something because next thing I know I’ve got all these extra programs and add-on’s and I ended up having to uninstall it. Score one for technical failure and incompetence. So I texted my friend, she told me where to go and bam! Finally got it downloaded properly. Now my first reaction to the screen of the program was, this looks ridiculously hard. All the buttons everywhere, and I had no idea what to do. The answer? Youtube! I found many tutorials and learned that the 6 basic buttons (Pause, play, stop, skip to beginning, skip to end, and record) do exactly what they are named as. I learned the difference between the pause and stop button which I’m sure will come in handy when I need to take a drink of water during the podcast. Now I’m not sure how well things will go when I try to input music, might be easier to just get my brother to play a little guitar riff that I can record using the software and mash it all together. We will have to see if I can manage it. I recorded myself and it sounded alright, though my voice sounds way different then what it does when I talk. Thank you science for explaining how sound bounces and returns to your ears. Other then my weird sounding self everything turned out alright. Overall I think it’ll be easier than I thought it was going to be. I’m kinda excited to record this podcast now. Not sure if this is the last blog post or not, guess we will find out next week. Wishing everyone luck on their recordings, I’m signing off.