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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Starting your own recording studio with $25.00 ...courtesy Dr. Mersham

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STEP ONE ....GET THE SOFTWARE, ROBIN'S BACKING TRACK AND THE HARDWARE


Download Audacity :-http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

Download the Switch File Converter:- http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

The backing track is attached in the Tex Bluebonnet's library in the next post above:- Save to file on your computer ( I have a Shed Recordings File)

Buy the little digital headphone and speaker that Gazza has (Probably $25.00 at Dick Smith)


STEP TWO ...IMPORT ROBIN'S BACKING TRACK TO AUDACITY

In Audacity toolbar "File' click 'Import Audio File" ...select your saved file of Robin's backing track

That will now be a separate track on Audacity for you to hear and create as many tracks of your own to as you want



STEP THREE ...RECORD TO AUDACITY


Open Audacity and click the red button for record ..then the " button to pause.

You should now have a stereo audio track open and paused, ready to record whatever the little microphone/earphones from Dick hears.

Hit the pause button again when you're ready and go for it ....singing into the mic. .....or playing guitar through the guitar amplifier with the mic. right in front of it.


STEP FOUR ...SAVE AUDACITY RECORDING AND
CONVERT WAV FILE TO MP3 FILE

In 'File' select 'Export as Wav file" ...direct where you want the file saved (your Shed recordings file)

Open Switch File Converter and click the green cross to 'Add File"

Direct it to where you've saved the wav file

Select your Wav file from the Shed Recordings file you've created by now I hope.

In the bottom left hand corner of Switch there's a 'Output Format' ...select .mp3

In the right hand corner tick the option box for 'Output to same folder as source file

Click 'Convert' orange arrow at the bottom
right

VOILA ...YOU'VE OVERDUBBED A SHED TUNE AND SAVED IT AS AN MP3 THAT YOU CAN SHARE WITH YOUR SHEDMATES!!

5 comments:

Tex Bluebonnet said...

I have posted a guide to 'Setting up your own international recording studio for $25.00 if anybody's interested

El'Musto said...

And when you have saved the MP3 file, load it to the 4shared site and let us all know that it is there to download.

robdaknob said...

farking simple hey...now we just gotta sort out the timing...

robdaknob said...

Well, the computer techie picked up my Host computer from the studio today and took it away with him. Always a bad sign when they can't fix the problem on the spot. He was last heard mumbling about audio file overloading and insufficient deleting on such an old machine whilst he disappeared down the driveway.

Tex Bluebonnet said...

El'Mus,

I think it might help if you post that set of 4shared instructions in the Shed .....I've realised that folks don't read every line one writes (even if there's just 3 lines) and have short memories