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  • Recording Audio with Your Phone

    Recording Audio with Your Phone

    If you have a smartphone then you will be able to record audio on it. It’s a bit different for Android and iOS phones so I will link to guides below.

    For both phones the process is similar:

    1. Open an app that allows you to record sound
    2. Record your sound. If it’s just your voice then try to be in a quiet room without a lot of echo and keep close to the microphone.
    3. Get the file of the recording to your computer
      1. If you have Dropbox or OneDrive app on your phone you can it to your cloud storage folder for the project.
        1. Then you would go to the cloud storage in the browser computer and download the file
      2. email the file to yourself
        1. Then you will need to check your email on the computer and save the file
      3. There may also be an option to transfer the file directly to your computer.

    Phone specific instructions

    A NOTE on Recording. When recording people, record some silence at the beginning. Audacity has a feature that can analyze the room noise and then remove it from your recording. It needs some empty time when nobody is talking to do this.

    Also make sure the person is close to the mic (but not touching it). Remember that the further away they are, the quieter their sound is and the lower quality the recording is.

  • Recording with Audacity

    Recording with Audacity

    This post covers recording in Audacity and a little bit of editing voice as well.

    Recording with a Microphone

    woman in dress sitting at a desk with computer screen and ball shaped mic with pop filter on the desktop.
    Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash

    Most laptops have microphones built in. If your computer doesn’t have a microphone, try Recording and Editing Audio with a phone and then transfer the sound into Audacity

    A NOTE on Recording with a Microphone. When recording using a microphone, record some silence at the beginning. Audacity has a feature that can analyze the room noise and then remove it from your recording. It needs some empty time when nobody is talking to do this.

    Also make sure the person is close to the mic (but not touching it). Remember that the further away they are, the quieter their sound is and the lower quality the recording is.

    Audacity Official Instructions

    You can go through their instructions in the support: Recording your voice with a microphone | Audacity Support (audacityteam.org)

     Video Instructions

    We are going to go over this YouTube video in class. It shows how to record and edit and save the .aup3 file.

    view on YouTube

    This video covers the basics of :

    • Setting up Audacity
    • Checking that the microphone is working
    • Recording settings
    • Recording
    • Editing the recorded audio so it sounds better including removing room noise.

    We will walk through the video in class so that you can get help with it. We will also be able to get more insight into some of the audio terms and concepts we started in class previously.