Working with Sound

Welcome

 
Welcome to Working with Sound: Introduction to Audio Recording and Editing an asynchronous Boston College Libraries workshop that will help you gain sound skills or improve them. The main focus will be on voice recording, be it for voiceover/narration or podcasting, and the editing of such recordings. This workshop has been designed to provide you with a range of possibilities on how to produce quality sound with the understanding that many of you will be recording in your homes and offices and will be doing so with minimal equipment.
During this workshop, you will conduct exercises that will:

As you move through this workshop and think of questions or run into technical problems, please do not hesitate to ask for help.

-Melanie Hubbard, Digital Scholarship Library, O'Neill Library, Boston College

Contents of this path:

  1. Getting Started
  2. Learning to Listen
  3. Acoustics
  4. Ambient Noise
  5. Microphones
  6. Recording Space
  7. Putting it Together
  8. Editing in Audacity
  9. Other Tools: iMovie
  10. Other Tools: GarageBand

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