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🦋 Trimmed and Burning: Overdubbing

I'm starting to use my new mixing program, Audacity. In the spirit of audacity, I'll post a working version of "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning". Not satisfied with much of this but I think some individual bits work very well. My laptop's microphone captures my fiddle surprisingly well; I think for further vocal work I am going to need to get a microphone. And a better sense of rhythm -- it's surprisingly difficult to figure out where to come in when you are listening to a track you laid down previously.

posted evening of Friday, December 21st, 2007
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Nice. Audacity is a PITA...it is, however, free. Violins produce very clear sound and I suppose that makes them both popular and easy to record. On the other hand, that's also why it's so hard to play well--every mistake is crystal clear. As far as I can tell, fiddlers used to named their tunes after any damn thing; sometimes they don't even name them. Hey, if numbering was good enough for Corelli...

posted morning of December 22nd, 2007 by Randolph Fritz

Audacity is a PITA

Considering that I was using Windows™ Sound Recorder before, and then ITunes to convert .WAV to .MP3, Audacity seems like the very model of a user-friendly application. Though I'm trying to figure out how to use its labeling track, without much luck.

posted morning of December 22nd, 2007 by Jeremy

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