Hi Sameer
To make the recording, I did the following. Opened Audacity and opened
Reaper. I think I could have set up two instances of Audacity, but this
approach was quick and easy.
I have an Allen & Heath ZED-10 mixer (which I love). One of its really
nice features is its switchable recording bus on each channel. I sent
the output of both Audacity and NVDA through the internal computer sound
card into a line in on the ZED-10. By pressing or releasing a button, I
could have those outputs recorded or not. When I wanted the screen
reader to be recorded, I depress the button and when I just wanted to
hear it myself I released the button.
I have an AKG headset with attached microphone. While not a brilliant
mike, it is convenient.
Some parts of the recording had variations in levels, which I corrected
somewhat. I used Peak Compressor, for which I paid the princely sum of
around $20 several years ago, to further improve levels. I also added a
little reverb with one of the Reaper effects.
For your amusement, when I was going through the Audacity settings
output was announced as the USB codec. It was at that time and when I
listened to the recording nothing I recorded in Audacity came through.
I then switched input to the internal sound card and did that part of
the recording again.
Andrew
On 22/07/2017 6:53 PM, Sameer Vasta wrote:
Hi Andrew
Do you mind telling us what setup you have which provides such wonderful audio recording quality?
Sameer
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Damien, Christina, Sameer and anyone else who is interested in a 15 minute intro to Audacity. I have cobbled together this recording <https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/v56cn4>. It is about a 22mb download. I have inadvertently left out a couple of things that could have been included, such as x (version 2.1.3) and shift-a (previous versions) to stop playing and put the cursor at that position. Undoubtedly the other resources already mentioned will be far more comprehensive (and more polished). My hope is, though, that my effort may help people who are having trouble getting started.
I have not included anything on multi-track recording. If people are positive about this attempt, I would be happy to do that, along with useful facilities such as labels.
Andrew
On 21/07/2017 8:02 AM, Andrew Downie wrote:
Hi Damien
I can’t do it right now, but perhaps later today (Sydney time) I
will try putting together a quick audio demo of navigating and
editing in Audacity. It is certainly a different beast to
Goldwave. Once you get your head around how to beat it into
submission though, it is a very obedient beast.
Andrew
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Hi there,
As you all know, I’ve been following and, where possible,
contributing to some of the threads of this list for a good while
now. Practically, I’ve read the majority of the Audacity manual
and tried some basic effects processing. However I’m still
struggling with Audacity’s concept of editing (I.E. making
selections). I see references in the manual to the playback cursor
and editing cursor but I haven’t yet found out how to work these.
I may be missing something but the manual, to me, seems a little
erroneous and contradictory – the editing section states that the
way to select regions with the keyboard is through the toolbar,
but under the accessibility section it states that toolbars aren’t
accessible with screen readers. Yet seems to me that it is
possible – otherwise this list probably wouldn’t even exist.
Having said that, as far as I am aware I have never used a toolbar
before, so I was of the impression that they would never be
accessible. Or maybe I’ve used one and just not known it for what
it is. That’s the problem with screen readers.
Also, I feel I would benefit from either some audio demonstrations
or transition guides – Previously my knowledge has been confined
to toys like Sound Recorder and tape decks like GoldWave (whose
effects processing is, in my opinion, at best suspect, and rather
limited), so I’m trying to learn as many as possible so that I
have the best possible variety of effects and editing techniques
at my disposal.
Having looked at the documentation it seems that Audacity is a
multitrack rather than a single track editor. Though the concept
is quite straight forward (you can edit multiple tracks in one
session or in one project), the way this is done is entirely alien
to me. I feel like I’m transition from tape machine to a mixer. I
might go further and say studio, but no. I think I’ll leave that
honour to Reaper. That one went way over my head!
In any case. If any of you have used GoldWave and can give me some
kind of sense of how Audacity is different, both in terms of usage
and concepts, that’d be very helpful.
Also, does anyone know what the status of the NVDA addon is? Even
if Audacity is accessible out of the box (just as GoldWave is),
NVDA has an addon for GoldWave that provides keys for announcing
information (selected channels, markers, lengths, peaks etc). A
similar addon for Audacity would be very useful, in my opinion.
Cheers.
