BTS.talk: Podcasting 101?, page 1

I love your PODcasts! I love your DH, too!

From another thread:

I have a folder in my PODcast Folder called Sound Effects. That's where I will store them.
www.stonewashed.net...
On the page linked above, click on "Amazing Sounds".
There's a list of categories.
Pick "Human Sounds".
Go down to "Applause" and right click on applause.wav.
Select Save (file or link) As
Locate your Sound Effects folder and save it there.
Open Audacity
Select Project / Import Audio
Locate and click on applause.wav.
Click File/Export as mp3 and save it in your Sound Effects folder.

Then you have it!
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In my experience so far (which isn't much) you just have to play around in Audacity to learn it. There's also the on-line help.

You can import a track of music, (Project, Import Audio) select it, choose amplify, pick a number like -4 or -5 to bring the volume down. Then add your voice on another track and then export the whole thing. Make sure to listen to it first.

lol @ SO, do I really sound like that!!!!!!!!!?

I know that was my first thought when I heard my own voice recording...

like I said I'm not the best teacher for anything hehehe, but yeah thats how i learned pretty much everything I know is through trial and error, too bad there is no CTRL Z in real life...


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ps: once I used a mac at school, I felt... like my hand had become retarded on me! with its goofy little circular mouse!!!!

I'm such a logitech tracball whore anyways :p

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An interesting link I thought I would share:

Howto: Create Your Own Podcasting Show On Windows

The basics of using a microphone and Audacity to create a podcast. I fugured it might help some people because it does talk about settings and shows some screen shots.