Audacity

 

Audacity is a program that allows users to record sounds and voices upon input with a microphone. It is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.|

The deciding factor was to use Audacity instead of the regular windows sound recorder or Mac recorder due to its initial advantages.

Audacity allows the users to increase volume levels at particular times as well as fade or fade out voices upon activation. Such background music that is unneeded can be erased in order to create the perfect sole voice. More over, doubling the capacity of the sound at some parts allowed us to create a double echo within the pulse. Using double tracking allowed for elevation within creating the essence of a depressing and dark atmosphere.

It was interesting at first, messing around with the buttons and experimenting on various records. It gave me as an editor a visual insight towards the direction of sounds. After all of the theme songs had chosen by the members, thinning out the

Precise adjustments upon the audios speed while maintaining tempo was one of the many features we used to synchronize the gunshots accordingly to the clip of Nathan Cole’s outbreak within shooting Hao Zheng (first perspective of the gunshot)

Upon filming Nathan Cole’s voice, we decided to install Audacity and let him speak through the microphone.

Double tracking allowed Matthews voice to become more distinctive as it added character within the editing sequence. The echo at the beginning created the right sort of tone that we tried to look for. Although the recording was all done in one take, the lyrical needed rearrangements as well as cutting down due to that we didn’t really realise the actual length once recorded.