For this assignment, I used Youtube Doubler as suggested in the assignment page to mash up to cover song from 2 different artists. The song I chose was the popular summer ear-worm Despacito.

Click on this link for the full effect: http://youtubedoubler.com/m0wk

For this assignment, I tried recreating the T-Rex breakout scene from Jurassic Park. I downloaded the sound effect online and used Audacity for this assignment. It starts out in a rainy weather, you can hear the stomping and growling. Then the T-Rex breaks out from the enclosure, smashes a car, and gives out its iconic roar.

I did “Sound Effects Story” Audio assignment.

I downloaded some sound effects and edited them to make it a story…somewhat.

What do you think it is?

If you want to try it yourself and do way better than I did, you can find it here, http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/sound-effects-story/

So, audio editing is a work in progress for me. I spent a lot of time working on each assignment, only to finally realize I wasn’t going to modern, electronic Mozart on my first try. My pieces aren’t going to sound like what I hear on the radio or at DJ event, if they did, I would already have very lucrative career in those fields. I accepted these were decent first drafts for someone who has zero experience with the medium. So, please enjoy! 

Song mashup 

Rookie mistake number one – after uploaded this to SoundCloud, it was taken down for copyright reasons. Truth is, I don;t know how other people did this assignment without breaching copyrights, other than it appears to can mix audio within the SoundCloud site? And I already spend a plethora of time learning a fraction of Audacity this week – no way this was getting redone by the end of the week. I’ve loaded it here as a file and apologize for that. 

Rookie mistake number two – pretty much everything else. I was able to learn to overlay, to fade in and out, to adjust amplification, tempo, and speed, but the tracks still didn’t blend together as seamlessly as I wanted. Adding to to the frustration, I could only reverse editing decisions one at a time, so if I decided that I didn’t like the way it sound because of a change I made three steps previous, they only way I knew to correct it was undo the last three steps and redo the two I wanted to keep. 

For your (somewhat) listening pleasure. I choose two contemporary songs from different genres with the same theme and almost identical names.  “Strip That Down” by Liam Payne and “Strip It Down” by Luke Bryan. 

Strip That Down

Sound Effect Story

This one, I;m actually quite proud of. I used ten different sound effects to create the story and was careful to include as much detail as I could. For instance, adding a high heel step or two between the bathroom stall closing and the sink turning on. the end result, in my opinion accurate depicts a panic attack in public.

So I finally started getting a hang of Audacity, I’m not gonna lie, I’ve watched plenty of tutorials. I’ve never done any mixing/mashing whatever you want to call it before.

So I did the Sound Effects Story, which was harder than I anticipated but ended okay. If I didn’t have another 30 things on my to do list for school this week I would play with it more.