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I practiced using effects with my cover of Dream Of Butterfly from a game series called Persona! I added reverb, some eq filters to make my mic sound better, and echo through out the song. It was fun playing around with the effects in Audacity and I never realized how versatile it could actually be.

Credit: Shoji Meguro – Dream Of Butterfly, Persona PSP 2010

“My favorite place”

Spring 2025

Audacity

This time, I added some fade-ins and fade-outs at the beginning and end. I also experimented with the reverb presets to clear the voice a little more, used the graphic equalizer, and sped up the guitar with a tempo change to make the intro shorter.

https://openverse.org/audio/51a9ea21-dbc0-4f43-991e-3b8b6ce52c26?q=tuning+guitar&p=28

https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/sounds/612951

https://freesound.org/people/carroll27/sounds/151891

https://freesound.org/people/Didi0508/sounds/542095

https://freesound.org/people/_lourii/sounds/491741

https://freesound.org/people/27ace/sounds/722918

https://freesound.org/people/djfroyd/sounds/262867

https://freesound.org/people/Sky_Motion/sounds/612745

https://freesound.org/people/RavenWolfProds/sounds/653550

I added ambiance reverbs to the music and the owl, I changed some volumes, and I added fading in and out to the beginning and end of the music, birds, rain, fire, and owl.

I modified the first printing sound to be longer, and added an extra fax ringing and printing sound towards the end. The ending sounds were modified using the delay, pitch, and speed effects to make it sound unique compared to the ones played in the beginning. I added the extra sounds to make the entire audio clip more “full”.

I added some effects to my audio such as reverb, a change to the pitch and speed of the audio and a slight tempo change in both sound samples.

I added a noise gate along for my voice and cut out the awkward pauses. Also, I added a fade out for my intro music.

I added and adjusted to the positions of some of the audio samples. Added some fade in/out. Generally, the same premise as before. Not entirely sure what you mean by complicate it? So now there’s a snoring man, you’re not alone… it’s complicated?

Sources:
“Fire Crackles.WAV” by ID_23 CC0
Freesound.org. March 27th, 2023
https://freesound.org/people/ID_23/sounds/680634/

“Cicada 2.aif” by le_abbaye_Noirlac CC BY 3.0
Freesound.org. September 27th, 2011
https://freesound.org/people/le_abbaye_Noirlac/sounds/129474/

“Frog Croaking.wav” by Benboncan CC BY 4.0
Freesound.org. February 13th, 2009
https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/67261/

“Lighting Matches.wave” by GM180259 CC BY 3.0
Freesound.org. November 4th, 2019
https://freesound.org/people/GM180259/sounds/491254/

“snore_okm2_t3.flac” by ermine CC CC BY NC
Freesound.org. December 19th, 2006
https://freesound.org/people/ermine/sounds/27405/

For filters I adjusted the clipping on the beginning song section and changed the pitch as well. I did a recording of the alarm that I hear every morning. I also got two sounds from freesound: coffee brewing and someone walking down stairs. There are a few things I want to record on my commute to work today as well as at work so I’ll have those in for next week. I’m trying to find a balance between using pre-existing samples and recording my own.

“Brewing coffee” by Ccj125. Attribution NonCommercial 4.0. Freesound.org January 26, 2017. https://freesound.org/people/Ccj125/sounds/378078/?

“walking down stairs.m4a” by sonic7832. CC0. Freesound.org. October 17, 2019. https://freesound.org/people/sonic7832/sounds/488687/