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• 1 2020-09-10T08:07:51-07:00 Getting Started 77 plain 2020-10-22T16:00:27-07:00 For this exercise and exercise four, you are going to need to record yourself reading a text, the idea being that it is something you can record yourself saying more than once. I recommend a poem, a paragraph from a novel, part of a speech, song lyrics, whatever you want. For example, I chose Wallace Stevens' poem “The Snowman” when designing the exercise and it took me about forty seconds to read out loud.

  Exercise One:

  Now you are going to do a quick recording of you reading the text you have chosen. The following video will take you through the recording process. (Also, see technical notes below.) 

   

  Technical Notes
  
  Mono vs Stereo: In the Recording Channel dropdown menu, choose mono unless you know you are using a stereo mic (read more). 
  
  MS Windows: Audacity suggest the following for setting up the inputs and outputs: Where on a Mac it says, "Core Audio," select "MME." If using a built-in mic, select "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Input" and "Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output" for the mic input and playback output (read more).
  
  Microphone: If, when setting up Audacity, you have plugged in a mic that does not appear, restart the application. Mics that are plugged in after the app is launched won’t show in the dropdown menu.
  
  
  For now, put your recording aside. We’ll get back to that later. Let’s think more about sound...