When I heard the voice of Spooksy and learned a little bit about his backstory, I thought he was hilarious. When I saw host-host interaction, I knew I had to use Spooksy as one of them. I had also had my eye on this particular audio assignment for quite some time, since it was an opportunity to be hilarious. I just was unable to come up with a really good premise until now. Time to do some dual channel, ctrl-c ctrl-v action in Audacity.

My biggest problem with doing this is that I cannot very well imitate Spooksy’s voice. I am quite happy with the story, Spooksy’s character has the perfect habit and attitude to get into this situation. My big problem when brainstorming earlier was keeping the 911 operator at least partially serious, but the fact that this needs two characters made me realize I can have Morlium in the telephone. This gives a great contrast between the “straightforwardness” of Spooksy and the formal but sometimes irritable character of Morlium.

Oh, and one final thing. The phone tone was taken from a free sound effects website: soundbible

For 4.5 stars this week, I completed the Please! Someone Call the Police! assignment.  This was a fun assignment, because I was able to create a scenario with any topic I wanted and was able to make it my own.  First I created a short script of what I was going to say.  Then I recorded all of the vocals using Audacity.  I then changed the pitch of both tracks, so the caller was in a deeper voice, and the operator had a slightly higher voice than what I recorded it at.  There wasn’t much heavy editing involved in this assignment.  I mostly had to delete small snippets of silence between speaking. Enjoy!

911Emergency

This is an audio Assignment and its worth 4 and 1/2 stars. For this assignment I had the task of making a 911 call as if I was both sides of the conversation. I started out by using my host character The Death Whisperer as the person who called the 911 operator. So for that I recorded my self with both sides of the dialogue. I went back and put the effects of audacity to the test as I put an echo effect for the host character and gave the operator a higher pitch. I also added a lingering wind sound to have some settling background noise for the audio. Then I put in a unusual ghostly noise in random spots that just made the call even more fear to the call. The last thing that I put in the audio was a hanging up phone call audio to make it sound even more realistic. This overall was a fun assignment to allow one to really get to dabble in audacity and bring a creativity element to the ultimate task. I think if I could do anything to improve this assignment I think to have my voice for the operator to be more urgent and hysterical to the point of insanity. All of the sound effects were used from my favorite site freesound.org

Well I am not as happy with this assignment project.  I did create it in a format consistent with the radio show we will air next week, but I am happy it is not actually a piece intended to be used for the show.  This week was all about audio assignments and this one is a phone call being made to the 911 operator where I had to make it seem like two people speaking.  I used Audacity to create the audio and then inserted a phone ringing and some keyboard sounds from the freesound.org website.  All of this is cool and I am feeling much more comfortable creating layers of sound for the audio using Audacity.

For this assignment I tried to make the call sound like two people by editing certain pieces of the audio in an attempt for it to sound like a male for one part of the call and female for the other.  I modified the pitch, tempo, bass and using the fade out and amplify effects; but I still couldn’t quite make the one voice sound like a male.  It seems like this kind of editing of my own voice is much easier when I am distorting it to sound like a monster type creature rather than trying to make it a human male voice.  Even though the second voice doesn’t sound male, it does sound like two different people which was the assignment.  So checking this one off the list and moving on now!

Most people don’t get to call 911, and you never get to call 911 unless it’s a true emergency. Well here’s your chance to “Call 911” and have some fun! Create a recording of how you think a 911 call would play out. It doesn’t have to be a real emergency at all! Operator: “What’s […]