Third assignment I chose was 10 second song mashup. I obviously chose it because of my love for music! This was tricky because I used 5 songs but only 2-3 second clips of each.I don’t want to tell you too much from the process because it might give away the songs I used and the whole point is to guess them!

I used Audio cutter to cut and save the clips I made and I used Audio Assistant to merge them all together. See if you can guess which songs were used, it was even trickier because I did not include the titles of the songs in the clips, like I originally wanted to!

This assignment seemed interesting right off the bat. It was worth 3 stars and we were to make a mashup of 4 or 5 different songs and take 3 second clips from each song. And of course they were to be some of our favorite songs and that made the assignment even better. Though it did get distracting because all I wanted to do was listen to the songs instead of doing the assignment.

I made this mashup using audacity, I had my songs already downloaded on my computer so I did not have too find them on youtube or another site. Once I finished the mashup the shortest I could get it was 12 seconds and I then uploaded it to soundcloud with the title mashup  and that is down below.

Mashup Link: https://soundcloud.com/rjonesss/mashupfinal

I was looking through Mashup Assignments and saw the 10 Second Song Mashup. I thought this would be great. Unfortunately my laptop has been running very poorly since we did all the work with video assignments so I had to use my sister’s laptop to download audacity and give this assignment a whirl. My sister’s speakers were very poor so I had to do recordings through my phone which made things pretty annoying but I was able to get a mashup of some of my favorite Killswitch songs into one place.

I have been listening to Killswitch Engage since at least middle school and they have been one of my favorite bands for a long time. The songs that I decided to use for this were:

The Arms of Sorrow

Rose of Sharyn

Always

My Curse

At this point I feel pretty used to Audacity and feel much more comfortable using it than I am video software. I know the quality was not amazing here but it also was not the equipment that I normally work so I had to improvise. I am hoping that my laptop is running at tip top shape soon so I can go back to doing assignments in a place I am more used to.

I put some of my favorite songs into this mashup. It was hard to figure out what parts of the song that I should play since each song was only really getting a 2 or 3 second preview. It is just about impossible to judge a song from that short of a time period. I hope that everyone does enjoy this mashup and gives Killswitch Engage a listen since they are a good band and I have enjoyed listening to them for quite some time.