For this assignment I had to make a 15-30 second bumper for the ds106 radio station. At first I didn’t know what a bumper was but thought if I listened to ds106 radio on Monday I could get a hang of it. I heard some on ds106 radio on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and knew exactly what I wanted to do for mine.

I found the background audio from Mutual Attractions – Valley of Despair on SoundCloud. I cut it off at 30 seconds and added my voice in. I negatively amplified the background audio so you could hear my voice better, but still thought something was missing. So I decided to add in an evil witch laughing at the end to cap it off. I enjoyed making this bumper and hope everyone who hears it enjoys it too.

We were asked to create a Radio Bumper, mine was about 10 seconds longer than asked. But I love the song that was playing, took me about 5 trys to find a decent clip that I liked. And like usual didn’t really like the final product, but it was my first try so I can […]

Radio Bumper for our DS106 radio station!

Here is my audio assignments #2 called Radio Bumper worth 3 stars. I had to create a short recording that identifies a radio station with signature music or an expression that makes sure the listeners know what they are tuned into.

My audacity decided it didn’t want to work anymore so I had to use my friends audio program called Studio One Personus. The new steps I took for this assignment were:

1. Go into the program Studio One Personus.
2. I hooked a microphone up to the computer, so the program would pick up sounds
3. Hit the record button to record my friend playing his guitar
4. Repeated step 3 to add my voice into the recording.
5. Converted the file to an MP3 file and downloaded it onto soundcloud

This assignment was extremely stressful so the fun was taken away from making it.I tried several different assignments on audacity before this one, but my audacity kept freezing up. In the end though I got to learn about another audio program,but I do appreciate getting to learn something new from the stress audacity cause me.

This post is for the Radio Bumper assignment. I had to create a short radio bumper for DS106 radio. Here’s a link to the assignment page:

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/creat-a-ds106-radio-bumper/

First, the work itself. Here’s the short radio bumper I created.

I used Audacity to create this audio clip. I uploaded the song “You’ve Got a Killer Scene There, Man”  by Queens of the Stone Age from my external hard drive and recorded my voice using my iPhone. I had to use http://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-wav to convert the clip from my iPhone from mp4 to WAV so that it could be uploaded into Audacity. I cut the song down to the first thirty seconds and then shifted it to the right a bit so it wouldn’t drown out my voice. I lined it up so the count leading into the song layers with the last few words that I speak. I cut down the song a bit more so that the bumper would end before the song lyrics started.

Creating this assignment was creatively daunting for me. I have never made a radio bumper before and had some trouble getting my head around it at first. Although I probably listen to these all the time and dismiss them it does take quite a bit of skill to get it right. I chose to use Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” song for the background music. I had some trouble loading this one to Soundcloud and had to repeat the process a few times. In the process of creating and submitting this work I stumbled across a resource for digital rights.

Please enjoy and let me know what you think in the comments below.

For the first audio assignment I created my own ds106 radio bumper.

The process was fairly simple. I downloaded Audacity onto my computer and through that I made my sound clip. I first recorded what I wanted to say for this short assignment then I went back through and edited out the long chunks of silence and muted the loud background noises. This was easy to do and it didn’t take a lot of time to do it!

I listened to DS106 radio for a bit, and heard some of the intros on there, and most seemed to have just regular songs playing in the background.  I thought that worked, but I would rather play the song myself, so that it didn’t have words (I know you can get masters, separated by tracks, but that’s a lot of trouble to go through).  I chose Jewel’s “You Were Meant for Me,” because I envisioned the promo as an NPR opener, with some rustic guitar in the background, and I thought that riff fit the bill nicely.  I wanted to go full NPR, so I talked low, quiet, and right into the Mic.

Here we have the rookie radio broadcaster, Bosco, entertaining his audience with some pop music while hosting a one million dollar giveaway. Pretty cool, right? Honestly, I’ve always wanted to try to being a radio broadcaster or doing something with radio when I was younger. When I was creating this bumper, I started reminiscing about my days in middle school where I would wait for the bus in my grandfather’s car and listen to the radio together with him. It was nothing but early morning radio talk shows for the next 3 school years and it was a lot of fun. You could say that this rookie radio broadcaster is doing broadcasting because he knew his grandfather would love it.

To create this assignment, I used the program Audacity as seen below. I began first by recording my voice for the radio bumper by using my own microphone and proceeding to click the record button.

I next added in an instrumental to replicate other radio broadcasters. I didn’t do too much editing to the sound files, but I did increase the decibels of my voice and decreased the decibels of the instrumental to make my voice sound a bit louder than it actually was.

As you can see below, I used the split function to stop a portion of the instrumental where my voice ended, so that I could raise the decibels back up to make it seem like that song was about to start up and to confirm to the audience that I was finished speaking for that moment.