semester: 2023/fall
software: audacity
Originally I wanted to record Manhattan and just appreciate the city life but I decided to do a person instead of a place. This is a conversation between my best friend and I. I decided to make it more podcast-driven. We didn’t talk about much because of the time limit, we let the conversation flow because we didn’t have a specific topic or anything, and eventually, I decided to use this part for our 25-minute recording. At this part, we were talking about being human, writing in cursive, and just generally setting up. It feels unofficial which I like and it’s overall just a chill conversation. We are both huge cat people so I put a cat-inspired track in the back as music and bleeped out any curse words with the sounds of meows. I also chopped up and combined different parts of the audio to make for a smooth-sounding conversation. I used a reverb effect to end the record because I thought it needed something, and I used various fade-ins/outs to emphasize dramatics or make for smoother transitions. I think the most challenging part of this project was the editing, but I solved It by looking back at the demos and refreshing my memory.
Credits: “cat purring and meow” by skymary, Creative Commons 0 License, November 28th, 2017, freesounds.org
“Pawsome Vibes: Get Your Groove On with ‘Meow Meow” by kjartan_abel, Attribution 4.0 License, March 19th, 2023, freesounds.org
“Bell, Candle Damper” by InspectorJ, Attribution 4.0 License, November 17th, 2017, freesounds.org
