Have you ever had a sound clip of some music, or a dumb little voice memo, and wondered what it would sound like if it was played by a really crappy car radio? No? Well here’s a really tedious explanation to sink your uninspired teeth into.
Ok, so to create a track go to (Track) (New Tracks), or press the little plus sign button above the track list.
When opening up a new project, there will be a little window at the top, then go to audio, and at the bottom of the window, there will be a little place to specify how many tracks you want. Type the number of tracks you want to create, and press enter.
On the tracks in the track list, each of them has a little (R) button, which when pressed flashes red, which shows that it is ready to record sound into that track through your microphone.
After recording a sound, use the top and tailing method to trim the sound clip. To do this, go to the drop-down menu which looks like a crosshair, which is just above the track, next to a white arrow button. Click on it, and select the lasso tool to zoom in to the sound clip. When zoomed in, select the same drop-down menu and click the scissor tool. Hover your mouse over the sound clip, above the amplitude line, and click and drag, or just click (I don’t remember which) to cut the end of the sound off.
Select the numerical area above the sound clip; it should highlight yellow. This makes the sound clip repeat over and over. Then click the (EQ) button to the left of the tracklist, and the EQ Menu should come up; then bring the green slidey button frequency thingy up, to increase the amplitude of that frequency range. Mess around with it until it sounds nice and distorted, like a crappy radio.
Click on the (Channel IQ) button, and when the new window pops up, click on the (Manual) drop down menu and click the (0.9s Small Combo Spring) option.
Find some sound from the inside of a car being driven, and play it at the same time as your edited sound clip, to see how much it sounds like a crappy radio in a car.
To export your new kickass sound clip, click on (File) then (Export) then ((however many audio tracks you have, for example, 5) tracks as audio files). A big ol’ window pops up. Pick a location, then click on the (Format) drop-down menu, and click (AIFF). On the Bit Depth drop-down, select (16-bit), on the pattern bit, select (Region name) and hit (Export). You should now have the same number of sound files as tracks you used in the location you chose to save your sound clips.
As a treat for reading that heap of boredom, here’s a little prize for you, in the form of a neat little snack of information that momentarily cured some of my stupidity; 1234 and the metronome buttons are to keep you in time whilst playing music. Now wasn’t that underwhelmingly splendid! Yay! Here’s a party popper to make you feel good about yourself, and give you the sense that you’ve accomplished something.
Ciaran :3 